Admissions prep for seniors
“You influenced me in a way that I did not have the capacity to appreciate as a young boy. Now I do.”
JONATHAN LIM
MOURNING DOVES ARE AWESOME This has been the worst day of my life, because my mate has been killed by a hunter. There were many trees around us that rustled in the wind. The trees bent down because of the wind, but it looked like they were also mourning. The grass waved its long blades Read more…
VINCENT CHANG
The Methods of Silence of Seneca the Younger and William Hazlitt Phillip Lopate, born on November 16, 1943, in Brooklyn, is a film critic, poet, writer, and essayist; he graduated from Columbia University with a BA and Union Institute & University with his doctorate degree in 1979. Over his career, Lopate has written a Read more…
JASON XU
The Peculiar Patient Chapter 1 – The Encountering It seemed to be another regular day at the Lewis Gale Public Hospital; five childbirths and four life saving operations was an average day…. In the sea of drugged patients, nervous families, and stressed doctors, there stood the one man who enjoyed being at the hospital: Read more…
NATHALIE NG
Turning Hardships into Literary Pieces “Like a rocket set off, it began to leap and expand into uneven patterns of beats which showered into his brain… but in scattering and falling it made no noise. It shot up with great power, almost elation, and fell gently, like acrobats into nets… But he could not hear Read more…
JASON XU
Tolkien’s Creative Process in The Lord of the Rings “The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as Read more…
NATASHA NG
DahlLIFECAREERANDSURVIVALFinal2016 Click on above link to download Natasha says: The best part of making this awesome and inspiring ppt/keynote was that process of LEARNING and HISTORY and all the other amazing features you could learn about one’s journey and struggle through life. I really enjoyed Roald Dahl, and he is now (and always was) Read more…
DAVID ZHAO
The fascinating and slippery, gnarly and voracious… EELS! Eels have always fascinated human beings, possibly because they have the strength to operate on land (although in a limited way) and because they are fish-like, but have few fins. In fact, they seem to resemble powerful and strong snakes. Did you know that moray eels Read more…
JONATHAN JU
THE HOBBIT The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien is truly a masterpiece. Tolkien brought in the idea of something new, which would eventually be a hit all over the world. Tolkien worked in and developed the genre we know now as fantasy. In 1937, when the book was published, it was misunderstood and was perceived as “a Read more…
JONATHAN JU
Recycling The man grabbed his soda and guzzled the last drops down. He playfully shot it into the recycling can like a basketball. (Did you know that an aluminum can is able to power a TV for three hours?) Luckily, he didn’t throw it into the garbage. The can landed with a hollow plunk. Flies Read more…