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a beatles fall
yesterday as I was driving home from school a favorite song of mine began to play on my car radio: norwegian wood by the beatles. I love this song so very much because of the nostalgia it gives me, reminding me of when I would listen to beatles on loop when I was younger. the…
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concert for the biocene
after the covid-19 lockdown was lifted in Spain, artist Eugenio Ampudia’s Concert For the Biocene was displayed in the Gran Teatro del Liceu. the exhibit occurred on June 22nd and, as can be seen through the provided images and video above, consisted of a beautiful string quartet performance to an audience made entirely up of…
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in rainbows
album by: radiohead release date: october 10, 2007 on the day of this album’s release Radiohead decided to market it in a way that was widely unpopular: pay what you want (PWYW). essentially, in order to buy/download the album, the customer would input their own price as to what they saw fit for the its…
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my favorite paintings
art is an interest I think I will always find myself pursuing, here are some of my favorite paintings: poppies usually sprout as a result of heavy concentration of gunpowder in a certain area, which implies that this woman and her child are walking through a battlefield. the fact that something so gruesome and purely…
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puerto deseado poem archive
this was the second part of my final experience for my HO English II class. the assignment combined my HO Engineering II, HO Chemistry, AP World History, HO Theology II and HO French IV courses. each student contributed to the creation of a fictional city (Puerto Deseado, Argentina): in engineering we built the physical model…
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puerto deseado manifesto
this assignment is from my honors English II course from my sophomore year. it was a part of my final experience (this is what my school calls final projects because we’re modern and cool and different). the assignment was to create a manifesto for a fictional city we were simultaneously designing throughout each of our…
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special relativity
this research was initially inspired by my governor’s school application for which the question was: “Discovery is the hallmark of science. Attach an essay describing one discovery in science or mathematics and the impact it has had on its field.” not only am I glad this prompted me to look into some of the most…
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top tracks this month
every month Spotify curates your “top tracks this month”, which are songs you have listened to the most out of everything (they do this too with artists, but honestly I don’t think it’s as important to me as my top tracks). I find that each month I look with absolute anticipation to find what has…
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change and how it defines me
this is an essay I wrote for my very first assignment in my sophomore HO English II class. the prompt was simply to describe yourself currently and who you would like to be in the future (a topic which, in my opinion, is way too vague and existential to ask a class full of freshly…
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