Feminist Folklore

Recently, I have had to find a new podcast that is unfortunately not allowed to be about murders and crime (Sword and Scale), #IHighlyReccommendIt!. Now, I have to find another podcast. I listened to Lore which is a podcast about the dark side of history, and what we don’t know. However, I chose to not listen to […]

Wanna Read? Choose Yes or No

**Warning: Spoilers Ahead** Black Mirror: “Bandersnatch” Wanna Read? Choose Yes or No Well, even if you didn’t want to read it 1. Welcome Back! 2. That hurts 3. Here you are anyways The Netflix series Black Mirror recently came out with a new interactive episode known as “Bandersnatch”. In this episode, viewers follow the life […]

Profession = Personality

Imagine going to bed at night as a human and waking up the next morning as a gigantic bug. Imagine, like honestly just try to imagine that. Personally, I think bugs are repulsive and I never want to touch them, let alone be one. Fortunately, that cannot ever happen to me, I think… But for […]

Starry Spotlight

Last week in Honors Modern Fiction, we delved into the world of what it means to be modern and postmodern. One of the first things we analyzed was a song called “Vincent” also known as “Starry, Starry Night” initially sung by Don Mclean, however, we listened to the version by Josh Groban. It contained lyrics […]

Tortures of Technology

This week I was on The Atlantic looking for an article to read for my history class when I found one about technology and the effects it has on youth. When I first saw it, I didn’t want to click on it because this topic is overdone. Every other day we hear from our teachers, […]

Gone Gosch

Recently, we have had to listen to podcasts for our independent reading in Honors Modern Fiction. This week, we had to choose a podcast to specialize in as our specific independent reading podcast. The podcast that I have chosen to follow is called Sword and Scale. This episode is Sword and Scale Episode 5 This […]

Pressure of Perfection

In my life, I have experienced moments of needing to be perfect. There are days when I feel like I need to be perfect and presentable all the time. I am not sure where this obsession/need comes from but social media definitely makes it worse. I am constantly posting pictures on Instagram and snapchatting people and […]

Frankenstein Finale

The first novel read in Honors Modern Fiction was Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I was interested in reading this novel because the story of Frankenstein is iconic and throughout my childhood, I would hear so many different versions of the story. By reading this book, it exposed me to the true origins of Frankenstein and showed me […]

Dreaming Big

For the past month, we have been reading Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. At the beginning of the novel, we learn in the Author’s Note that the idea for Frankenstein came to her in a dream. In AP Psychology, we started Unit 3, which is about unconscious behavior. One type of unconscious behavior is dreaming. We watched a documentary on the […]

Mother Mayhem

In both the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and the short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, there is a mother figure who tries to influence and control the actions of their children. “A Good Man is Hard To Find” by Flannery O’Connor is about a family who is going down south, meanwhile, […]