Prompt: What do these texts suggest to you about the forces that inhibit or encourage an individual’s actions? The American Dream is a driving factor in creating success out of the efforts of one’s life.[…]
The Illusory World of Willy Loman
Prompt: What do these texts suggest about the ways in which individuals respond to the conflict between illusion and reality? Through the character Willy Loman, author Arthur Miller suggests that individuals will immerse themselves in[…]
Priorities-CARL to DOAS
Prompt: What do these texts suggest to you about the forces that inhibit or encourage an individual’s actions? The most common goal in life is to be successful. Everyone wants success, to be content, and[…]
The Final Illusion of Bob Ewell
Prompt: What do these texts suggest about the ways in which individuals respond to the conflict between illusion and reality? Often, illusion stems from an erroneous interpretation of reality. An individual’s perception of[…]
Right and Wrong in Anthem
The book Anthem, by Ayn Rand, developed a theme of the forbidden and explored the way a citizen’s views were changed. Equality’s society viewed actions that were not shared by or promoted by the collective[…]
Damaged Goods
Prompt: the impact of memory on one’s identity. Text: Remember When by Shane Koyczan Pain doesn’t last forever, but the scars from it do. The innocence and the love that once consumed[…]
𝓼𝓹𝓪𝓻𝓴 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”- Martin Luther King Jr. Unpopular opinion: Genuine rioting and looting can be justified (to an extent). No, I am not[…]
Somewhat Back to Normal – June Free Choice
Life and the world itself, more or less, is getting back to its normal state. Playgrounds have been reopened. That pesky, bright yellow caution tape had been finally removed. Stores all over the city have[…]
Free Choice for June – A Letter to My Motherland
With the Black Lives Matter movement going on, I have been thinking a lot about the subject of racism. I have been noticing that a lot of people close to me have fallen prey to[…]
Let Ambiguity Surround You (Where does truth reside?)
My world is, or was, in its glamorous ways, perfect; magic within desire, desire within magic. Neither life nor death could rob me of this magic, of this pompous veil of secrecy-I did not know-I[…]