Two Worlds: A Cultural Dissonance Within Writing

My first attempt at writing in English was horrible. I had no idea what I was doing. All the strange symbols and rules only catalyzed confusion. Therefore, at the age of five I had made up my mind that English was just not for me. Eventually I would rethink that judgement, but at that point in my...

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Yertle The Turtle: How Does Man Exercise Power?

Power, in whichever form that it may be in, is an entity that most human beings want to posses. This is a primitive urge, for if you have power it is more likely that you will survive in order to spread your genes. In modern time,  “power” has ceased to be so simple, and has become more of...

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Origami Tales

My current boyfriend is really sweet and gave me this as a present. The origami is really neat and pretty and after I was done admiring it, I remembered how terrible I am at origami. And how terrible I am at...any 3D art in general! Ever since I was young I never grasped the art of making pretty...

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An Appropriation of Culture

Here's a neat little essay on Etruscan and Greek Pottery that I did for Art History. Maybe someone will enjoy it out there Krater of Antaeus by Euphronios. Athens, c. 515–510 BC Clay             Due to most of the Etruscan cities being in ruins, not much is known...

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Getting Dumped 9 Hours Before Your Labs Are Due:How I Spent My Frst Week of Senior Year

Ah senior year, cherished by so many ,as the final victory of lap of four years of awful institutional indoctrination; the first week should be the  delightful bridge between the summer time madness and the vast adventure laying ahead.That was not the case.---The clock reads 1:30 am, I have...

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Karen Page's Page of Komics: "The Anime Club"

I'm going to use this space to recommend one of my favorite comics of all time, KC Green's The Anime Club. I will warn you now that this comic relies on the reader's ability to relate to it. If you have no prior history with anime and/or had friends who really enjoyed anime, a lot of this...

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Senior Year: The Long Expeted Journey

    As the sun sets on yet another summer evening, it becomes harder and harder to ignore the inevitable: senior year is upon us. While most of my classmates anxiously await the start of the final year of high school, I’m petrified. Suddenly the need for my relatives to know...

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Two Years: A Look Back

August 2, 2012. This is the date in which everything began... Well in this blog for the most part. This writing experiment has now officially been ongoing for two years, a milestone that is noteworthy because I sincerely did not see it getting here. A year maybe, but two I mean come on lets pat...

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Karen x 7: Name Changes And Why People Need To Chill

I always had a huge fascination with how people named their children. Why, out of all the sounds you can throw onto a child, did you choose this? So, naturally, I would ask my mom why they chose Karen for me. She told me, "Te pusimos el nombre Karen, porque cuando tu papá estaba joven, se enamoró...

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Thoughts That Arise in The Last Minutes of August 1st 2k14

       With only roughly less than  ninety minutes left of August 1st, and "Good For Great" by Matt and Kim playing softly in the background, I can't help but feel emotionally overwhelmed by the situation that I have found my self in. Life is happening too fast.  ...

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Gadflies: Philosophy Versus Ideology

This was my very first paper written in college. Not my very best work, but I think I did an adequate job for my initial attempt at a university-level final paper assignment. I did this at the very last minute and I remember the night before it was due very well. I was extremely stressed and panicking...

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Hume's Argument Against Reason in Conclusions of Cause & Effect

           In the Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume sets out to show that all knowledge can be derived from experience. Hume takes a particular look at the experience of cause and effect and our knowledge of the relation between the two. It...

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Blast From The Past: Bully Research Paper

This is a paper I wrote in the 10th grade. Looking at this work, retrospectively, makes me realize that my writing has come a long way. I'm by far not a great writer, but I'm glad that I can notice improvement in my ability to compose a prose. ...

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Assertion of One’s Own Importance: Comparing and Contrasting

It is very common for people to feel the need to impress their families and their friends through different means. From expensive clothing to boasting about one’s own abilities, society is known to give more importance to certain things than others. But could our own want for validation serve a higher...

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IB Historiagraphy: Jim Morrison and William Blake's Poem

To what extent can Jim Morrison’s ideals be seen as parallel to those presented in William Blake’s “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” ? (Word count: 1868) ...

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