“Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings”.
                            –William Shakespeare
The most valuable part of English this year… was that we learned about the stuctures of poetry, and how sonnets and epics work. We learned about the writer John [...]

A short story, written in place of a school assignment. It’s a shorter version of a long novel I’ve plotted out.
Clockwork.
Humming over the large bridge, a small old car drives slowly through the crammed in traffic. Inside sits a woman and a snoozing teenager. Suddenly, the boy thrusts up and hits his head on the [...]

Motherly Symphony
With frail, scarred-tattered hands.
Feeding, cleaning, the feathery creatures.
Seeds drizzle on the cemented ground.
Long hair, cascading on to her shoulders.
Then pulled back into a simple bun.
Held together with a painted chopstick.
Simple pattern outfits, dusted with age.
Tells about the times when she glided on the runway.
Fractured English, falls from her mouth.
Never fails to muster a smile.
From [...]

Everyone has a person they look up to and whether that person is a celebrity or a close relative, someone admires someone for certain qualities. I myself admire my close friend, Kate, whom’s successful enough to be graduating this year. Although she lives in Massachusetts, we still talk enough for me to notice the admirable [...]

My personal accomplishment hasn’t quite been achieved yet. It’s a simple goal I have in life, and I don’t think it would ever be achieved. My goal is to improve in art; but you can’t stop improving your drawing skills. Though I am truly proud of how much my art has progressed during my middle [...]

In our English class, we were given an assignment that lets you choose what type writing you’d like to do. I picked to write a short story. It’s been a plot that’s been stuck in my head for a while, and I finally figured out how to start this story. It’s of a teenaged boy, moving [...]

Spirited Away is an animated movie by Hayao Miyazaki, dubbed by English voice actors to tell a fantasy of a girl getting lost in the spirit world. This movie is a full-length animated film that sets you into a mystical spirit world, that’s settled by witches, spirits, or just plan creepy creatures, such as No [...]