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“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
-Albert Einstein
The Madness of the Hatter
Through diary entries, I will tell the story of a character from Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel called Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. I have chosen a character Alice meets during her journey through Wonderland. He is introduced to the reader during Chapter 7, “A Mad Tea-Party”. The character’s name is the Mad Hatter, mentioned throughout the…
Victor Frankenstein’s Unlawful Pursuits and William Godwin’s Stance On War
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein states that “if the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then the study is certainly unlawful” (50). The consequences that arise from Frankenstein’s statement have similarities…
Britain, the Liberator of Slaves
At first glance of William Blake’s painting Glad Day, or The Dance of Albion introduces this light shining from behind the figure, making him seem radiant and astonishing. The light shining from behind creates this feeling of empowerment. The painting conveys a man embracing the world with joy and the nudity symbolizes how the truth…
Herbalism
In my English class, we are reading a memoir by Tara Westover, called Educated. The memoir mentions that the narrator’s family does not believe in pharmaceuticals, so instead uses forged herbs for medicinal purposes. The interest of my research came from how the narrator’s family uses herbs, instead of the pharmaceuticals to help with certain…
Spanish Film Festival
The Spanish Film Festival was a film festival where the Spanish instructor played three movies and we had to choose one film to watch. Each film was related to the Hispanic culture in some way. I chose to watch the film, Selena which is a biographical drama. It’s about a famous singer named Selena Quintanilla,…
The Emotional and Physical Struggles Westover Faces with Shawn
The book Educated is a memoir about Tara’s life as she grows up in the rural mountains to a family of survivalists. She is one of seven children in the family and she is homeschooled by their mother, who is an herbalist and midwife. While her father salvages scraps and metal from his junkyard, who…
The Past and Present Research I Have Done
As far as I can remember, the first time I had to write a type of research paper was either in the 7th or 8h grade. The English teacher asked us to write a paper on a historical figure who was involved or contributed to the American Civil War. This type of research would be…
My Top 5 Binge Worthy Shows
Everyone has a favorite TV show or multiple TV shows that they enjoy to watch. This or these tv shows that you enjoy to watch could be ones that you could binge watch for hours. Some of the TV shows that I enjoy to watch/binge watch on Netflix are: The 100, The Umbrella Academy, Dear…
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