As I Lay Dying: “My Mother is a Fish”

Originally Posted on readinglikerory.weebly.com 4/23/2013 by Kaitlyn Hawkins *Notes: I found some plots in As I Lay Dying really confusing, for example, when Vardaman saids that his mum is fish, when he drills into his mother’s face in the coffin and when Darl saids that Jewel’s mother is a horse. This article really explains a lot about […]

A Letter to KJ Dell’ Antonia

673 Highland Court Torrance CA 90505 17th November 2018 54 Walnutwood Ave.PortlandME 04103 Dear KJ Dell’ Antonia: I am writing to you to express my opinion towards the points in your article. I strongly agree that choosing a career path is a serious problem for students nowadays. In your article, you mentioned the main question […]

Deaths on the Everest

The title sounds a lot like Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile, but it is actually the topic of our last English assessment in the school year of 2018 – 2019. The unit was about how to identify bias from an article or other media effectively. The article we did the assessment was a recent post […]

Tubby the Tub Experiment

The result we got from the experiment is that as the total mass of the tub increases, the shorter the distance that it slides along the floor. Why is this so? Let’s assume that there are two tubs with different weights in them and find out the reason why the heavier tub travels a shorter […]

The Rationale for the Acts of the Khmer Rouge

During their four years in power, the Khmer Rouge executed selected groups of people (like bankers, lawyers, teachers, doctors, etc.) who they believed to be enemies of the state or revolution. People who they perceived to be intellectuals or even those that had stereotypical signs of learning, such as wearing glasses, were killed. The official […]

A Letter to Jenny McCartney

9 Brooklands DriveAshtonWiganLancashireWN4 7RJ17th November 2018 The Wigan ObserverWiganLancashireWN1 8XY Dear Jenny McCartney, I am writing to you to express my total agreement towards your views to violence in movies. I think it is wrong to include the element of violence in realistic movies. In your article, you wrote that some popular movies have a […]

School Strike for Climate Change

Hi UWC students, teachers, and parents, As you may know, we, a group of Grade 8 students (Leon Hunte, Hugo Hannigan, Jessica Morgan, and David Walton), are organising a school strike this Friday (24th). We are protesting against climate change, inspired by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and the Fridays For Future movement that followed. More […]