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Purple Hibiscus is a book that gives an amazing perspective that changes the reader’s views when they start to read it. I think this book is very important to read as a young adult and especially in this school because many kids will not encounter such perspectives. This book shows what it is like to live in a violent and silent household, a colonized community, and a government that acts in violent ways. The pieces on the more intense scenes like when the woman was getting whipped in the market and when the mother was getting carried away leaving blood behind were never thought into. Kambili and Jaja never questioned these events, I think this will change throughout the book. I like reading from Kambili’s perspective a lot though she is naive and I often just want to help her. Kambili, Jaja, and her mother seem so helpless against her brother and honestly versus the rest of life. Kambili always seems to choke up when trying to communicate to others. My main focuses were gender a

We march. We march with blisters on our feet and Chant with harsh voices. We march For this, to make sure it is the last time. To make sure this is it. Because We should not have to fear to go to school But as each of us say, This is Just the world we live in. Well not to us. This is why we march: for Our lives.

grace marionneaux - song  evan j's - poem (the race)

As usual tonight I was listening to my music for hours and paying a little more attention to it than usual in order to find a song with a major technique that I easily noticed. I heard Billie Jean  by EDEN and it hit me. I heard the assonance, the euphonious words, the tone by just listening to the first few seconds. The assonance shows immediately: "But she was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene I said, "oh mama, what do you mean"" the assonance shows with the e sound in queen, scene, and mean. This pattern continues later in the stanza with the introduction of the subject, Billie Jean - again with the e sound. Euphonious words were also very present through this song. This is present with the words "my lover", "smelled of sweet perfume", "eyes like mine." The tone in the song changes through the song. He claims throughout the song that her kid is not hers, she is not his lover, and she just thinks hes the one. He says this wi

What does it feel like to be in love? It's not the rusty, rattles of the rough patches and getting through them. It's not the ineffable feeling of when your eyes meet. And it's not the hireath post break up or the feeling of adornment. Love feels makes you feel like warm sand is in between your toes, but in your soul of course. And when you can feel the sun staring to shine it's rays upon you. That is the feeling love will give you. But when love waves goodbye, that's what we have to fine out. How will love treat us when she's gone? Will she be rotten and refusing? Or will she leave with silent tears and soft farewells. I used euphony, cacophony, and personification to show how quick things can turn with love.

Grace - free post Seryn - LAUNCH

I tell myself that I do not like yearbook. Though when I find myself running around with a camera in my hand trying to capture people's smiles, I remember why I signed up for the class. Granted, I do not like missing practices or always being busy, but when i take a really good picture or see my picture in a yearbook spread I get the best feeling. This feeling of great reward is worth all of the looks I get and being the odd one out. Yearbook is also pretty hard. The class is really laid back all year but as the end comes we get more and more stressed out. The yearbook crew works over all breaks and the grind actually starts in the summer. That is when the editors, Ms. Madden, and all the people willing to, work their hardest to make the yearbook aesthetic and easy on the eyes. As we make things look okay and presentable, in reality everyone is all over the place. The editors, Ngan especially, are always stressed. The underclassmen are never doing their work. Merritt is never n

I really enjoyed LAUNCH unlike some of my other friends. I had a lot of fun and was very interested in what these seniors had come up with. I especially liked Lundyn Herring’s presentation. After seeing her’s, Mary Brandon Harrell’s, and Marjie William’s launch presentations I could not understand why people don’t like launch day and even skip it. Lundyn’s presentation was about tortured artists. I found it even more interesting that she featured her own art and talked about her depression. I thought this was very strong of her and courageous. She presented a lot about famous artists and their influence through their art. Through books art and music tortured artists have been contributing to the art community.