The Last Chapter of Saints (like a sequel to Boxers) reveal both Bao and Vibiana’s...
Harvest Collegiate High School offers a rich and challenging intellectual education that engages students in the natural process of experience, questioning, the pursuit of precision, and reflection-how people really learn. We believe in cultivating students’ power to produce and reflect, rather than simply consume, as a fundamental way of being in the world. We aspire to being, and contributing creatively to, a ‘sane society,’ one of peace, growth, and joy.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: an analysis and review
, , , Books or Plays, Fall 2019, Showcase, Writing, 2
✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* my review of a tale full of magic and mystery *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ World-renowned author C.S. Lewis once stated...
Foundation is one part of a long series containing seven separate books about the fall and rebuilding of the...
War: What’s it for?
, , , Books or Plays, Fall 2019, Showcase, 5
All Quiet on The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque has made me think differently ever since I finished...
THE BARRIO KINGS
, , , Fall 2019, Showcase, 1
THE BARRIO KINGS by William and Kowalski might leave a reader feeling interested Because it shows you how a...
Macbeth: a Tale of Madness
, , , Fall 2019, Showcase, 0
✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* my review of Macbeth’s tragic protagonist *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ I’m going to write about Macbeth’s descent into madness, and the...
For my monologue project, I selected lines from one of the most engaging scenes from Shakespeare’s play, “Macbeth.” I...
We Control Macbeth
, , , Fall 2019, Shakespeare, Showcase, 0
Act 4, Scene 1, Lines 22 – 34 I picked this passage because is more intriguing because the Macbeth...
I picked Act 2, Scene 1, Lines 44-66 & 75-77 from Macbeth because it shows off Macbeth’s hysteria. The...
Macbeth Fears Nothing
, , , Fall 2019, Shakespeare, Showcase, 0
For my monologue project, I selected lines from one of the most thought-provoking scenes from Shakespeare’s play, “Macbeth.” I...
I picked Act 1, Scene #5 Lines 16-33 first off because I find Lady Macbeth to be a complex...
Macbeth’s Vulnerability
, , , Fall 2019, Shakespeare, Showcase, 3
For my monologue project, I selected lines from a monologue that shows Macbeth at his most vulnerable from Shakespeare’s...
I can’t kill the king
, , , Fall 2019, Shakespeare, Showcase, 0
I picked this Act 1 Scene 7 because it seem interesting. I liked the actor because the way she...
The sorrow of Macbeth
, , , Fall 2019, Shakespeare, Showcase, 0
Act 5, Scene 5, Lines 20-31 For my monologue project, I selected lines from one of the saddest scenes...
Macbeth’s Dilemma
, , , Fall 2019, Shakespeare, Showcase, 1
The passage I chose was Act 1 Scene 3 Lines 143-164, and it was the soliloquy he had after...
I picked lines 44 through 55 of Act 2 Scene 1 because I thought the flow of Macbeth’s speech...
Hecate’s monologue in act three in which she scolds the three Witches shows us much more about her character...
Macbeth: A Tale of Guilt
, , , Fall 2019, Showcase, 2
✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* monologue analysis! *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ For my monologue project, I selected lines from one of the most insightful scenes...
Small Analysis of Dostoevsky’s Classic, Crime And Punishment
, , , Clean Water and Sanitation, Fall 2019, Showcase, 0
✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* my review of a timeless tale *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ Recently, I read Crime And Punishment; by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. I...
The Death Epidemic
, , , Art, Books or Plays, Fall 2019, Showcase, 5
The first 20% of Darkness Before Dawn by Sharon M. Draper might leave a reader feeling disheartened because this...
I was born in New York City and have lived there ever since. I moved once when I was...
I am the child of my father, Roland, and my mother, Heidi. My dad is from Texas and my...
Fresh Earth
, , , Art, Fall 2019, Places We Love: Photos, Showcase, Summer 2019, 2
My favorite place in New York City is Prospect Park. It is where I have grown up. It’s a...
A Place I’ll never forget
, , , Art, Clean Water and Sanitation, Fall 2019, Places We Love: Photos, Showcase, Summer 2019, 2
Booker T. Washington Middle School at 108th between Amsterdam & Columbus is a place I grew up, from the...
Sights and Smells of a Mall
, , , Art, Beauty, Fall 2019, Places We Love: Photos, Responsible Consumption and Production, Showcase, Summer 2019, 0
I love to go to Bay Plaza Mall. It’s my favorite place in the Bronx. The mall has good stores...
What Is Sex Without Love?
, , , Art, Fall 2019, Love, Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, Writing & Communication, 1
I wonder if I am the only person who disagrees with people having sexual intercourse with no strings attached. Sharon Olds’ poem...
Do I look at myself the same way Blake looks at his Tyger?
, , , Art, Fall 2019, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, 0
Poetry is a form of expression portrayed through art. This is proven by many, many, many different poems. Every...
Sonnet 129
, , , Art, Fall 2019, Poetry, Shakespeare, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, Writing & Communication, 0
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action; and till action, lust Is perjured,...
Essay on “Changes” by Tupac Shakur
, , , Art, Fall 2019, Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, 0
The poem “Changes” by Tupac Shakur makes me ask myself the same question. Will we ever truly have a...
What makes a good parent?
, , , Art, Fall 2019, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, 2
What makes a good parent? What types of things can hurt a relationship between a father and daughter? These...
Hard worker, when focused
, , , Bio, Fall 2019, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, 2
Hi my name is Sapphire and uhh I am 16 years old in the tenth grade. I lived in...
My Portfolio
, , , Fall 2019, LRNG Portfolios, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, 0
Not giving up!
, , , Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, 0
My name is Kalina and I was 15 years old when I wrote this. I was born in New...
Where I’m From
, , , Fall 2019, Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, 0
Where I am from Spring comes under the skin of trees Opened the veins and filled them with...
The Hustle
, , , Fall 2019, Poetry, Portraits, Showcase, Summer 2019, 2
My first impressions of this poem, “Changes” by Tupac Shakur, which was written in the 1990s, is that I...
I think of Bob Dylan’s “Tangled Up I Blue” as a real-life situation. It makes me feel inquisitive, yet...
Do men go based off of what’s on the outside?
, , , Fall 2019, Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, 0
In the poem “There is a garden in her face” Thomas Campion talk about a lady that he is...
On the surface, Housman’s poem, “To an Athlete Dying Young” is about an athlete dying at a young age....
How do people perceive you? Can you know their perspective on you?
, , , Fall 2019, Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, 0
Clifton introduces the poem, “Lorena” with a headline: “Woman cuts off husband’s penis, later throws it from car window....
My first impressions of the poem “To My Dear and Loving Husband” were how Anne Bradstreet wrote this poem...
Can You Be Active Without Any Strings Attached?
, , , Fall 2019, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, 0
Am I the only person that disagrees with people having sexual intercourse without any strings attached? In her poem,...
Can I Look At Myself The Way Blake Looks At This Tyger?
, , , Fall 2019, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, 0
Poetry is a form of expression portrayed through art. This is proven many, many, many different poems. Every poem...
When is there gonna be change in our society?
, , , Fall 2019, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, 0
When is there gonna be change in our society? Don’t we all wonder that at some point of our...
Do you believe that it’s possible to change poverty and racism?
, , , Fall 2019, Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, 2
Tyler Vivas Spring 2019 Kiran Power Of Poetry “Changes” by Tupac Shakur Is it possible to change poverty and...
Can you abandon everything for a better life?
, , , Decent Work and Economic Growth, Fall 2019, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, 1
The poem “Immigrants In Our Own Land” by Jimmy Santiago Baca is mostly about the struggles and challenges of...
How do People Endure Giving Their Things Up?
, , , Fall 2019, Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, 0
What were these people going through that they had to give up their instruments in order to get money?...
What I know about the situation in “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks is that the people in the...
Why are humans destroying nature instead of honoring it?
, , , Fall 2019, Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, 0
What is so special about nature? What are humans doing to it? This topic of nature has been...
Are people actually going to help you in the bad times?
, , , Civic Engagement & Social Justice, Fall 2019, Poetry, Politics, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, War, 0
Bruce Springsteen’s song, “Born In the USA” makes me ask: Are people actually going to help you in the...
Is the effort of love worth the pain of an inevitable breakup?
, , , Fall 2019, Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, 0
George Gordon Byron, (January 22, 1788 – April 19, 1824), who was known simply as Lord Byron, explored this...
Looking for the real meaning of “A Birthday” by Christina Rossetti
, , , Clean Water and Sanitation, Fall 2019, Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, 1
A reader’s first impression of “A Birthday” by “Christina Rossetti” might be that she is celebrating her birthday with...
Humane and Inhumane: What’s The Difference?
, , , Fall 2019, Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, 0
“The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe What makes someone insane? What does it take to be sane? “The Raven”...
Can people change from violence? Can violence change anything?
, , , Fall 2019, Poetry, Responsible Consumption and Production, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, 2
Can people change from violence? Can violence change anything? “Changes” by Tupac Shakur provokes these questions. On the surface,...
A Deeper Understanding of “To An Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman
, , , Fall 2019, Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, 0
A.E. Housman’s 1896 poem, “To An Athlete Dying Young”, seems to be about an athlete taking on the obstacles...
The Obsession of Her
, , , Fall 2019, Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, 1
What does it mean to talk about a lover as an anonymous person? Does it mean being afraid of...
What is heartbreak?
, , , Fall 2019, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, 0
In the poem “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed” by Edna St. Vincent Millay, written in 1920, it speaks...
My first impression of this poem was that it was eye opening, and inspiring. Everything the poem “Changes” says...
In the 15th line of the last stanza, Olds in this line was basically just comparing how people love...
Two questions that this poem raises for me are: Do I look at myself as bright as this Tyger?...
First Analysis of “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop
, , , Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, Writing & Communication, 0
One of the first things I noticed in this poem was of the phrase, “The art of losing isn’t...
Can time heal an abortion?
, , , Abortion, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, Writing & Communication, 0
The poem “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks on the outside is about an abortion but when you look deeper...
Questions about the poem “So We’ll Go No More A-roving” by Lord Byron
, , , Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, 1
One most intriguing comment out of six above was” Why does he need to pause to breathe? Why do...
Negative Familial Relationships in “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath
, , , Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, Writing & Communication, 0
What does it mean to have a bad family relationship? How does such hatred originate? This topic is addressed...
When is there gonna be change in our society? In the poem changes by Tupac Shakur, it demonstrates with...
My Questions About “There is a garden in her face” by Thomas Campion
, , , Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, Writing & Communication, 0
Do men go based off of what’s on the outside? To answer this question from what I’ve read in...
My Questions About “Lorena” by Lucille Clifton
, , , Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, Writing & Communication, 0
Clifton introduces the poem with a headline: “Woman cuts off husband’s penis, later throws it from car window. —News...
A Close Reading of “She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron
, , , Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, Writing & Communication, 0
My first impression of Byron’s poem was that it had a very sweet and calm tone to it and...
Close Reading of “You Fit into Me” by Margaret Atwood
, , , Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, Writing & Communication, 0
My first impression of this poem was that it was really interesting. The poem intrigued me, yet, at the...
A Close Reading of “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed” By Edna St. Vincent Millay
, , , Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, Writing & Communication, 0
My first impression of this poem was that it was a well-written poem with lots of imagery. It makes...
The poem “Changes” by Tupac Shakur makes me ask myself the same question. Will we ever truly have a...
In the 1st line of the first stanza, Byron starts off his poem by repeating his title and then...
“like a hook into an eye”, “you fit into me” comes before it and “a fish hook” comes after...
My Questions About “What lips my lips have kissed” by Edna St Vincent Millay
, , , Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, 1
How do you describe heartbreak? Edna St. Vincent Millay answers this question in her poem, “What lips my lips...
A Close Reading on “To An Athlete Dying Young” by A.E Housman
, , , Showcase, Sports, Spring 2019, 0
My first impression of this poem was that is was confusing. It makes me feel interested, yet, at the...
I think that The poem “So We’ll Go No More A-roving” is all about love. More specifically, it is...
How do you express your love for someone? This song shows how Dylan expresses his love for this person...
In the four lines of the first stanza, Bradstreet writes: If ever two were one, then surely we.If ever...
My questions on “Changes” by Tupac Shakur
, , , No Poverty (Economy), Poetry, Race Relations, Showcase, Spring 2019, 2
My main question for this poem is Do you believe that it’s possible to change poverty and racism? .The...
Trivium
, , , Photography, Showcase, Spring 2019, 0
In my neighborhood, there’s this place called “The Trivium”. It is also referred to as “the triangle”, “the paterno”...
The big question is why is there police brutality? The poem answers this question by saying, “pull a trigger...
What does love really mean? This poem of W. H. Auden’s answers this question with a deep explanation from...
One of the most interesting lines in Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “The Raven” is in stanza 15, line 1....
Born In the USA
, , , Music, Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, 0
Bruce Springsteen’s song, “Born In the USA” makes me ask: Are people actually going to help you in the...
In the seventh line, Tupac describes a cop being called a hero even though the cop just killed someone...
Questions about the poem “Latin Night at the Pawnshop” by Martin Espada
, , , Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, 1
What were these people going through that they had to give up their instruments in order to get money?...
In line one, paragraph one, Sylvia Plath repeats the phrase “you do not do” twice. She does this to...
In the third line of the fourth stanza, Housman Basically saying that when it comes to a sport or...
The first lines that I’m choosing to comment on are the first stanza of the poem: “Because I could...
A close reading of “To an Athlete Dying Young “
, , , Arts & Entertainment, Poetry, Showcase, Sports, Spring 2019, War, 0
My first impressions of this poem were of confused. It makes me feel sad, yet, at the same time,...
In the first four lines of the first stanza, Auden introduces the poem by repeating it’s title and goes...
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