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How Public Education is Failing Us: A Former Students Perspective
The American public education system is not based off of any one individual teaching theory, yet the basis of the current educational system is much accredited to John Dewey, as his philosophy and belief was learning should take a ‘hands on’ approach, where students learn through experience which suggest interaction with said individuals environment and…
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Faction Speech
Imagined suffrage speech based on the emergence of the Modern US.I come here tonight with an urgent message, the fate of our country will be full of nothing but peril if we don’t take action now. Suffrage must be addressed if we ever wish to truly progress as a nation in which we can consider…
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Humanity
My skin is forever forgetfulAnd while its a virtuous cycle, The scrubbing and choking on Soot and SinewMy tender epidermis rapidly decaying to regenerateFor the cells to then wither once more. I drag my nails along the residueThe experience flaking away en masseAll evidence fades as I shed and shed again.
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Eventide
On a bare pathwayThe sun is dipping and energy is dissipatingNearly ceasing to exist.Innocence remains in play, the silence holding it sacred. Kinetics and potentialitycreates//enablesfalse actions and indifference.Soon we wereBlanketed beneath the lustrous nightpins passing by our unprotected cheeks.Then came this cretinous ambitionTo undo all of it,To make things as if they never happened in…
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Weighty stones set on sore hipsCompaction — InevitabilitySat directly on the corePushing spirits from hollow mouths.The gaping ‘O’ flatlines whileFist over teeth attempt to pulverize The unforeseen phantom atop her.Gaunt limbs attached to flat feetSink into decimated leaves andBeneath the soles give way to passive waters. The current crawlsKissing well admired dirty toesBegging for an…
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Baptism in the Mountains
My severed head, Processing all that is a delicate touch from changing, Strung out lightning bugs pinging on the bleached walls of my bare skull. slick droplets slather my skinViolent in their reproach but still, my body dances.Betrothed to me by me,A lover once belted a lowly tune Carrying notes of uncertainty.Bloated and bathing in…
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Stained Petals/Dear Darling
I.To be seven years old and unafraid I was crying to stop it all. The sensation The falling The cold, round, blue-black space And the turning world. I was born to eat flowers. I said to myself, Some flowers bloom and die in your mouth. I did not like it. I don’t want to talk.…
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The Complexities of Freedom: A Discussion with Descartes and Locke
Rene Descartes and John Locke attend a social event in a large mansion. As the men socialize, the host recommends the two have a look in the home’s library. Escorting them in, the men turn their backs to the door, studying the shelves of books. There is a great selection, among them being the works…
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Lesson from Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke and translated by Stephen Mitchell, has easily found its place amongst my top three favorite books, joined by Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson and a pending place for Catcher in the Rye (due for a redemption re-read but rivaled by Every Man by Phillip…
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Yeama H. Bangura is a writer and cultural essayist interested in the strange relationship between the self and the world around it. Her work draws from philosophy and personal experience to question the ways language, relationships, technology, and social structures shape the realities we inhabit. Her writing has been published in perediza.
