– Their Eyes Were Watching God – By Zora Neale Hurston “The significance of an individual’s attempt to live unconstrained by convention or circumstance…” Convention can be defined as the traditional way something is usually[…]
Tag: responsibility
A Wrong Dream: Polished Critical
…significance of an individual’s attempts to live unconstrained by convention or circumstance One of the most fraudulent conventional beliefs from history which continues to pervade time – The American Dream. A dream built off[…]
Regret as a result of passion vs responsibility
Everyone has passions. Desires to fulfill. Dreams to reach. Goals. Oftentimes our passions are formed to motivate ourselves to get us to where we want to be. Yet, in an individual’s lifetime, there will be[…]
For Every Lost Soldier
PROMPT: A recurring theme is the classic war between a passion and responsibility. For instance, a personal cause, a love, a desire for revenge, a determination to redress a wrong, or some other emotion or[…]
Death, Dreams, and Daisies: Another Polished Critical
Discuss the ideas developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the ways in which individuals take responsibility for themselves and others. Death, Dreams, and Daisies When thinking of the American Dream, often[…]
Wealth, Prosperity, Love, and Responsibility… and Several Other Terrible Things from The Great Gatsby: Polished Critical
Discuss the ideas developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the ways in which individuals take responsibility for themselves or others. The Great Gatsby; F Scott Fitzgerald One[…]
Greyscale
What do these texts suggest about the ways in which individuals take responsibility for themselves or others? (Polished Personal) Responding to William Klein’s 1955 photograph with connections based on creating a story for the child[…]
POLISHED PERSONAL – Parental Instinct
The following is a polished personal response to the excerpt from Snow Falling on Cedars by Daniel Guterman. The excerpt takes place in an American relocation camp after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in[…]
A German Girl and Her… – Polished Personal
[. . .] the ways in which individuals take responsibility for themselves or others The following is set during WWII Germany during the purging of Jews. Because of their forbidden love, Liesel and Werner[…]
Of Ranchers and Salesmen
PROMPT: Discuss the ideas developed by the text in your chosen text about the ways in which individuals take responsibility for themselves or others. Despite having grown accustomed to having their dreams and personal[…]