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World Lit #11 The Finale pt.2, Shadow

What I hate about ICS.

MayMay

World Lit #10 Damage of Ignorance

Ignorance is a damaging problem we have to fight.

AprilApril

Damage Project – Emotional Orphans

There’s another type of orphan that everyone almost always overlooks: emotional orphans. Children who only have parents by name or blood connection, they’re left abandoned and unrecognized. Trauma and negligence form a wedge in the relationship between children and parents, but it’s not as simple as a rebellious phase or a relationship problem. There either …

April

World Lit #9 My Future

My future’s got a new focus: to help the people I want to help, not doing the tasks I want to do that I think will help.

MarchApril

World Lit #8 Grand Canyon

Traveling is hard and irresponsible if we’re stubborn to new things.

MarchMarch

World Lit #7.5 Westminster

Westminster is my home of a year and a half, a small city that is actually large, in the county named Orange.

FebruaryMarch

World Lit #7 The Hill of Hope

The Hill of Hope determines the amount of hope we have in situations, so maybe hope isn’t as much in our control as we think.

JanuaryJanuary

World Lit #6.5 For the Bombed Cities

An analysis of “For the Bombed Cities” by Margaret Stanley-Wrench.

NovemberJanuary

World Lit #6 Nationalism

I don’t have a concrete opinion on Nationalism, but I don know it’s pros and cons.

NovemberJanuary

World Lit #5 Ideas at a Clash

Fundamentalism is at a war, but aren’t our modern ideals at war too?

NovemberJanuary

World Lit #4 My Cat’s More Rebellious Than Me

My cat, Ash, seems to be more rebellious than me on the outside, but are we actually different?

OctoberJanuary

Comfort of the Bee

An original Rumi-inspired poem.

SeptemberDecember

World Lit #3.5 Poems of Rumi

Rumi creatively uses literary devices to express love and the beauty of God.

SeptemberNovember

World Lit #3 The Control of Culture

Culture has more influence on our morals than we would like to admit, so the debate of cultural diversity or morality crumbles.

SeptemberJanuary

World Lit #2 Expressions and Education

It seems unlikely that all the universal human rights will ever all be accomplished, however, education and freedom of expression should be focused on first.

SeptemberJanuary

Words at the End

An original Chinese Jueju poem.

AugustSeptember

World Lit #1.5 Writing of My Sorrow

书哀 holds a unique complexity only found in other East Asian poems.

AugustJanuary

World Lit #1 Betta Year

This year, while I will care about the memories I made and the experiences I shared, I want to correct myself. Fix the things I believed were true that actually weren’t. I hope to be able to write something about it in the end.

AugustJanuary

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