This is a Metaphorical Mirror

       It's not just some story. It's not just some legend that never really happened. None of it was made up. Other aspects of it were true, so this one aspect MUST be true as well.        Reading White Tigers, the thing that blew my mind most was this fact- the lady jumped over a house. A house. Think about it a second longer. She jumped over a HOUSE. So while I’m sitting on my bum writing this post, she’s jumping over freaking houses. Sure, the fighting was cool and the point of the whole passage was important and impactful, but nothing was as jaw dropping, eye opening, mind blowing, [insert other idioms], as being bequeathed the knowledge that it is possible for a human to jump 20 feet in the air from a standing position. Sure, physics may say otherwise, but those experiments and math equations probably lacked the belief. While scientists were experimenting, they were probably thinking, “Oh, this will never happen but I’m going to...

      Writing a blog for AP English needs to follow guidelines: 200 words in length, relevant to a topic of discussion in class, and a quote from one of these topics, just to prove the blog really is relevant. Well, guess what- I will take advice from my good dead friend, Henry Thoreau, and be disobedient! My blog will be 199 words in length, on the topic of bears, and I'll use a quote from a BEAR article! Ha ha, take that, Education System!       Bears.        Bears bears bears.        To be honest, I don't know anything about bears except that they run 40 miles per hour and are really cool. Maybe this was a bad idea. Maybe I should talk about sharks instead.       Sharks are also pretty cool. They swim in the ocean. I think I read somewhere that they simultaneously sleep and swim. Or maybe it was that they didn't sleep. I don't quite remember. Quick PSA: only 4 out of the hundreds of ...

  Dear Future Personal Architect,        A memorial in my name shall be built once my regretful death occurs. Before proceeding with the construction of this great edifice, you must be extremely educated on each aspect, and on each detail of each aspect, of this future landmark. The following instructions, written by yours truly, must be read repeatedly until not only are the words and meanings engraved into the walls of your brain, but it reaches a point where your lover, or whoever sleeps by you at night, wakes you up midway between dusk and dawn by reciting these very lines (the ones you have been chanting incessantly), in her sleep.        The first order of business is location. It must be located in Kauai, Hawaii, preferably on a vast beach. I really must have you build it to take up a large square portion of land; however, do not mistake this desire to be out of pure wantonness (despite having no other explanation to provide), ...