The Hug by Tess Gallagher: A woman is reading a poem on the street and another woman stops to listen. We stop too, with our arms around each other. The poem is being read and listened to out here in the open. Behind us no one is entering or leaving the houses. Suddenly a hug […]
“Accepting Knowledge Claims Always Involves an Element of Trust.” // ToK
“Accepting knowledge claims always involves an element of trust.” Discuss this claim with reference to two areas of knowledge. Trust is a concept that is crucial to effective global development and advancements, and pieces of knowledge are also imperative in leading to advancements and growth. When trust is lost, or nonexistent, knowledge claims may […]
Censorship in Fun Home // English
Fun Home is generally a very graphic and expletive graphic novel, at least in the traditional sense. It can be quite jarring for more conservative readers to read this graphic novel, but I think that for a lot of us, at least teenagers/younger adults, this style of work can be quite engaging and entertaining. I […]
Smiles, Energy, and Distancing // Yearbook
On the 20th of January, I got the opportunity to cover Kahaani 2021, a dance celebration event for Kolkata GC, for the HS Yearbook Team. The photos below are some of my favorites from all my, what is it 650, edited and posted photos. Here are all my photos, and here is the rest of […]
Meditation Mornings // CAS
LO2: Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the process I will admit that I struggle occasionally to stay quiet and stay in a meditative state. This meditation morning experience is run by Mr. Martin, who is also my IB Physics teacher. I think that this experience has been a little bit of […]
Sports Ethics // CAS Creativity and Activity
This CAS experience, HS Sports Ethics, has been very informative. While I was a little reluctant to the relevance of this activity to me, I feel as though I have learned so much over the last two seasons. While we started off initially by discussing the current events and ethical aspects of both sports and […]
Medea, Euripides 431 BCE // English
Medea, daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, an enchantress with magical capabilities, and possibly one of the most controversial women, and story, of Greek Mythology. Many consider Medea to be a representation of women, however, it may be that Medea is a representation of the way Greek people used to perceive women, not how they […]
Mid Year Reflection // PSE
What are you most proud of this year? There are quite a few things I am proud of this year, however, I would like to think that the most important part so far has been my leadership skills and capacity. I am working on many projects and with many teams which have been both a […]
Unit 1/2 – On The Rainy River, The Things They Carried // English
Discuss how Tim O’Brien presents power, politics, and justice in the passage from On The Rainy River (850 words) In The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien develops and explores stories set in the Second Indochina War, 1968 Vietnam, alongside stories set in his hometown. O’Brien appears as a protagonist in many of the stories, who […]