End of the Year Reflection My second year of high school has certainly been an enlightening and eventful experience. Throughout the school year, I have learned many lessons that I believe will affect me for the rest of my school years, and possibly my life. One important lesson that I take away from this school Read more…
John Donne John Donne was an English metaphysical poet who lived from January, 1572 to March, 1631. As a poet, he was widely known for his use of parody, irony, and wit. As a priest, Donne was widely known for his meditations and sermons on love and death, and his inner conflict with both. Donne Read more…
Utopias Utopia: based on Greek: ou ‘not’ + topos ‘place.’ The definition of the word utopia is: ‘An ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects.’ We all dream of the perfect world, but each person has different ideals so our ideas of perfection may all be different. Two examples of Read more…
First Day of High School My alarm clock went off at 6 o’ clock in the morning, the sky still pitch dark. While I got ready for school, the just-woke-up-drowsiness, like fog, faded away. The worries I had built up in my mind about entering a new school came back to me. For the past few Read more…
Once there was a whale named Spot. After a huge hurricane, he got washed up on the shore and couldn’t get back into the water. A few minutes later, a poor fisherman came to the beach that Spot was washed up upon and saw a huge whale laying there on the sand. Read more…
HELEN (HANYU) LIU 8TH GRADE Helen just moved from Connecticut to Boston, MA. Just the consideration of starting a fresh school year in a new school can leave the body in abeyance and drown the mind in many hopes and doubts. Not knowing what to anticipate, the mind then constructs expectations and desires Read more…
BP OIL SPILL AND ACCOUNTABILITY On the eve of BP’s catastrophe, its man-made disaster that killed eleven of its workers and numerous innocent animals, bankrupting thousands of businesses on the Gulf of Mexico, the Minerals Management Service, the agency that supposedly regulates and manages oil companies’ leases of our natural resources, was sitting on its Read more…
A Concert in Tenafly I was second on the program for the Schubert trio and last for the Mozart Quartet on the program. Having to enter stage so quickly, I felt like I was just dumped into sizzling water, grabbed out of it, and then stuck into icy water! I’ve Read more…
JESSICA CHENG 8TH GRADE Phillip Lopate’s “The Art of the Personal Essay” is a collection of assorted personal essays from amazing and celebrated writers, for example, Wendell Berry and Wole Soyinka. Two great essays from Lopate’s book would have to be Wendell Berry’s “An Entrance to the Woods”, which is a stellar essay Read more…
Lizzy has been reading “The Art of the Personal Essay” edited by Philip Lopate, for some time now. It is a lengthy collection of the best personal essays from the past four hundred years. When she read Edward Hoagland’s “The Courage of Turtles”, Lizzy was inspired to respond to the essay with one of Read more…
