Podcast Choice #2

I started to listen to the podcast “Skimm’d From The Couch” which was founded and hosted by Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg. This podcast series takes a look at the realities of women’s work lives and the successes and failures of their lives. Each episode, a different woman is invited on the show for an […]

Did You Enjoy Watching Bandersnatch? YES OR NO

WARNING: IF YOU HAVE NOT YET SEEN BANDERSNATCH, DO NOT CONTINUE! People ultimately don’t get to pick their future. Although it may seem like we have many options, we only have a few. Destiny puts us on a path that we are suppose to follow. If we go down the wrong one, bad things can […]

The Metamorphosis: Family Life and Modern Elements

Today in class we had a class discussion about part 2 of The Metamorphosis. We focused greatly on the family members and how they contributed to the family before and after Gregor’s transformation. Gregor is the breadwinner of the family. On page 38 it says, “Now his father was sill hale enough but an old […]

CAUTION: House Explodes in Hardyston, NJ Just a Few Days Ago

Today in bio, my teacher was discussing courses we could take next year. She began describing a forensics class and what is covered in the class. She then asked us if we had heard about the house that exploded in Hardyston, New Jersey just a few days ago. She asked us this because an investigation […]

Appreciation of an Artist

In class we listened to the song “Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)” by Don McLean. The introduction to the song was wavy. After listening to the song we looked at some of Van Gogh’s painting, and they had a wavy feel to them as well. In the song there was a lot of imagery. He describes […]

A New World Of Science

In english class the other day I read an article called “Doctor’s Plan for Full-Body Transplants Raised Doubts Even in Daring China” by Didi Kirsten Tatlow. This article is about future plan to perform full body transplant in China in 2016. Wang Huanming volunteering for the full body transplant. He was paralyzed from the neck […]

Emotions Evoked by The Creature

In the story Frankenstein by Mary Shelley the creature says, “‘This was then the reward of my benevolence! I had saved a human being from destruction, and a recompense I now writhed under the miserable pain of wound which shattered the flesh and bone. The feeling of kindness and gentleness, which I had entertained by […]

Nature vs. Nurture and the Good vs. the Evil

A major theme in this book is the argument of nature vs. nurture and born good vs. born bad. The creature is not monstrous to begin with. He was humanized by feelings and is a good person. He collects wood for Felix so he wouldn’t have to do it. Furthermore, he says, “for a long […]

The Beauty of Friendship

In the story Frankenstein by Mary Shelley uses many beautiful sentences and passages in order to make the reader sympathize or feel for the character. One beautiful passage that stood out to me says, “Study had before secluded me from the intercourse of my fellow-creatures, and rendered me unsocial, but Clerval called forth the better […]

Connection To a Character

When I was younger I was terrified of getting shots. Every time I would have to go to the doctors I would fight about going, because I thought I was going to have to get a shot. I remember my mom telling me a story about when I was about four and had to go […]