AP LANGUAGE

Slavery has been around for as long as anyone can remember. For those who have experienced slavery, you realize you really have one thing; family. But sometimes you don’t happen to get as lucky as others to stay with your family due to separation or death. 121 year old Sarah Gudger insists the stars don’t shine bright as they used to. There’s certain events in ones life that can impact on their behavior and aspect of life or simply anything in general. Whether it’s losing someone or something important, one can move past it. Like others say, patience is key. For one to live, one must experience and feel. For example, failing at achieving something can bring down your hopes due to embarrassment and lack of ambition. But others don’t understand that in order for one to grow, one must fail. How else do you expect to learn from your mistakes? Whatever mistake or error one occurs or any complication that stands in the way, it’s merely a step closer to success. Losing a loved one or suff...

During the mid 20th century, being one of the most important African-American activists and co-founding the NAACP, and supporting Pan-Africanism, W.E.B DuBois had many philosophies. One of the many, happened to be the manifestation of being humble, especially when one is put in a fatal situation and lastly remaining true to oneself.  As humans, people go through many phases of emotion like frustration for situations that can be quite irritating and exhausting. For instance, other individuals think you did something bad when in reality you didn’t, yet no one believes you. Sometimes things don’t go the way things are supposed to go or be handled. There will be situations where certain people are allowed to get away with things, you don’t always win and most absolutely don’t get to be heard. But really the main themselves principal to follow is knowing and believing in one’s true self when no one else does. For example, teenagers can be very obdurate and difficult going through the...

George Eliot, an English Victorian novelist from the 19th century once said, "The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men." With more clarification, Eliot asserts that flawed leadership is to be expected and should not stop progress. I support her assertion because we are not perfect human beings nor do we have to pretend to be. Some individuals think its necessary for us to be the best versions of ourselves, some don't. With the recent events going on in society, it’s evident that even with flawed leadership, justice can quite progress. Although generation Z has been quite mad, the worst events of them all happened to be the triumph of Donald Trump’s presidential election. However, with him being the dreadful president he is, he has established some progress. Despite his xenophobia and sexist comments he’s made whether it was in his speeches or over social media, society responded by protesting, creating hashtags on the intern...

When you think of transcendentalism, you immediately think of famous poets such as Ralph Waldo Emerson or Henry David Thoreau, although she doesn’t exactly fell into the category of transcendentalism, she was well-reguarded of Emerson. Some of Dickinson’s poems seemed to be transcendental, yet not quite. She followed and pursued dark romanticism trusting that the mentally angst of agony happens to be more terrifying rather than any physical distress one can experience. Dickinson believes that one’s anguishing physical happenings can conduct to mental suffering. As any typical human being, we all have emotions even though at times we don’t want to admit it. We go through the happy emotions as well as the sad, raging, haunting ones. For example, heartbreaks. Those are the worst whether you have lost a loved one or your significant other who has decided to leave you. Heartbreaks can have an individual experience it both mentally and physically whether it leads to depression, low-self ...

Famous American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson is best known for leading the transcendentalist movement in the 19th century. Within time, transcendentalism spread and people began embracing it amidst to Emerson influencing people to speak their minds as he did himself. He trusted and kept faith in that people should speak their minds although it contradicts what one said the day before. People should be able to speak their minds but only to certain boundaries. One is given a voice to speak their minds out, not to be petrified nor hold back and let individuals step all over you. Though, not everyone always have something pleasant to say. There will be people that one come across in which they either contradict or oppose to what one says. But then again that’s why there’s freedom of both speech and writing. Everyone should have the right to speak out their mind and believe as they please. But one must be considerate of other people’s feelings. We all have feelings, one cannot deny that. ...

       In his statement, Dalai Lama says to his audience that if you’re discontent you perpetually will not be satisfied in life. I disagree with Lama’s idea of being content. For some, it’s distinguished as an opposing objective. For some, it’s not. For someone who isn’t satisfied, they can strive for justification for not only their lives but others as well. There are many people who want to strive for the better such as immigrants. Their determination on moving to a whole different country to ameliorate not only their lives but their families as well is a reason. If one was content with what they already have, they wouldn’t go way out of their way to move to a dissimilar, contemporary country. By being discontent, one might have something they want to achieve before they’re content within themselves. Even those who live in modern countries still struggle. Those who live off of poor and low pay strive and endeavor to finish school whether it’s high school or coll...