Junior Writing assignment

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The touch of evil (Chain writing, Second person narrative )

The touch of evil disrupting you, and you never get over it. It always tickles you but you never catch it. When you woke up, you instinctively feel that this touch of evil is right behind you, it would try hard to knock you off during the whole day. Can you get a glimpse of what it is? You spill a cup of coffee on your comfy pajamas, missed the bus, and late for school. Not because you woke up late nor getting prepared late. It is because of the touch of evil : in other words, the murphy's law has been applied on you. You know, it feels really awful when you recognized yourself in an abysmal situation. The evil surrounds you, it corrupts you slowly but steadily. First the bitterness. things you love lose their appeal. People seem to repulse you. Why are these things happening to me? Your heart turns sour, and a black screen covers up life until you are but a speck of light sputtering to stay alight. The blackness starts to change. It is not the enemy, but your friend. It makes ...
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How I noticed difference of interpretations in cultures by The Great Gatsby

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1. The Great Gatsby More than the novel itself, The Great Gatsby left me with a huge impact in its wake – it was an after-class discussion which made me stunned the most. When I was in middle-school, I discussed whether Gatsby is great after reading the novel with my peers. However, nine out of ten students evaluated that the word ‘great’ in the title is merely used as a satire – that Gatsby, is closer to ‘obssessive fool’ than a great character. Even my teacher interpreted in this way. Shockingly, some of the famous Korean critics was also in favor of this interpretation. To them, Gatsby was not truly "great" at all. Below are the comments made by famous Korean critics.  “[Gatsby’s life] is not great …. Greatness is no more than a satire of Gatsby’s foolish act and his death.” ( 강준만 , 미국은 세계를 어떻게 훔쳤는가 (How America Stole the world), translation made by writer) “This novel is not about how great Gatsby is. The irony of the word ‘great’ is merely a sarcastic ...
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The plane is still flying

What is the most resilient parasite? A bacterium? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea. Resilient, highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it’s almost impossible to eradicate. An idea that is fully formed, fully understood. That sticks, right in there somewhere. Well, I hope I had some creative idea that can contaminate the world, I thought. The ones who changed the world - Steve Jobs, Hitler, or Einstein - these all had an idea that changed the paradigm of the world. Maybe you had some chance to just daydream “ What if I had that mind-blowing idea?” For the ones who have thought of that even once, I would like to share my little story, which changed my view of ideas. Before starting off, I would like to throw a question: what makes a plane fly? Well, we all know that there’s a fundamental law called Newton’s law. There’s a tug of war of forces, and when these forces make a balance, the plane files. I was smart enough to know that when I first rode a plane. I ...
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