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**G12**
This is my essay analyzing why the book Tess of the d'Urbervilles is considered a tragedy, and why Tess is a tragic figure in the book. The novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles as a whole also serves as a way for Thomas Hardy to express his unsatisfactory with the Victorian Age. 
 * Mishap of the Victorian Age **

This is my essay analyzing the garden in the final chapter of Candide by Voltaire and what the famous line"to cultivate one's garden" represent. I further discussed about how this line relates to the book Candide's and Voltaire's central idea.
 * The Pursuit of Happiness**

Meliorism
This is my presentation on Meliorism

Consciousness Enlightened People
This is the response and further analysis based on Immanuel Kant's essay "What is Enlightenment?" published in 1784. It is my belief that only if people become conscious of their situations and the society as a whole could they be enlightened. 

The Commiseration of a Bullhead
In the essay "The Commiseration of a Bullhead", I analyzed why I believe Creon in the play Antigone became a sympathetic character in the end; yet he did not become the play's protagonist. 

The Sphinx of Fate and Tragedy
In this essay "The Sphinx of Fate and Tragedy”, I discussed about who I think is responsible for Oedipus' tragedy. In my perspective, Laius' mistakes contribute to Oedipus and the whole family's misfortune.

Choral Analysis- Ode of Entry
In this essay i analyzed the Ode of Entry in the play Oedipus the King, including the literary devices and a brief summery of what the Ode of Entry is about.

Citizenship Essay
This is the essay analyzing the article //Themes of W.H. Auden's "The Unknown Citizen"// by Julie Moore, I also compared it to the citizens in the book //1984// and how conformity contribute to the government control.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1984 Book 2 essay response(Brainwashing)
I response to how government attempt to brainwash people and how I feel when Julia told Winston that even though the party can torture a person and make him say anything, they cannot make him believe it from the book 1984.

My persuasive essay
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This is a persuasive essay about overpopulation, and I provided three solutions to overpopulation, which is family planning, sex education, and improving the economy.

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This essay is about my grade ninth's life, how I have been through it and how the life was like. In spite that there's a lot of tests, but there are always friends there for me. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">

**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Ain't I a woman research project **
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This is an research project, the topic is about a speech "Ain't I a Woman" by Sojourner Truth. She delivered this speech which is about African-American women's right. She was born to be a African-American, and by delivering the speech, she expressed how African-American women was mistreated.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Cause-effect essay**
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">My cause and effect essay is about Michael Jackson and how he effected the society and the music industry.

**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">literature analysis essay: The Lost Kidney **
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult is a story about a 13-year-old girl called Anna who sued her parents for rights of her own body because she was forced by her parents to donate her organs to her sister, Kate, who had leukemia. This story has two main idea that we can see through the whole story which are bonds of sisterhood and the choice between right and wrong. I choose this novel as my analyzing literature essay because it makes me understand that the importance of sisterhood and the struggle people had when they are facing choices.

**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Historical Narrative Essay: Declaration of Independence **
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This essay written by me is about Declaration of Independence by the perspective of Thomas Jefferson, the person who wrote the Declaration of Independence, how he faced the struggles while he was drafting the Declaration of Independence and how people's eagerness to be independent in 1776- the year when they separated from the British. I choose this historical event because I'm always interested in the American Revolutionary War and the processes of it. The declaration of independence is undoubtedly one of the main reason why the American Revolutionary War began. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Expository Essay: The Very Essence of Human Beings- Creativity
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This is my defining concept about the word creativity. I defined the word creativity and provided two examples of creativity- Plabo Picasso, the great painter who represented and founded the Cubism, and James Watt, who invented the steaming machine and caused the Industrial Revolution. Creativity is the innovation of our thoughts.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Pursuit of Darkness—Gothic Literature
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">In this essay I'm analyzed the Gothic elements in the story The Birthmark and the story Ligeia. And I am also going to compare and contrast about the two famous Gothic work and the gothic elements in it, which is the setting and the psychological overlay influenced the two Gothic stories.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">In this essay, I discussed about the opinion that I held about students should be able to choose their own classes like many countries do. Schools mandating students schedule not only cut off the opportunity that students can learn to manage their own time, but also occupies students' time so that they aren't able to participate in extracurricular activities. I provided examples to backup the ideas I held that school mandating students' schedules is harmful for students.
 * Educational Mandate**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Editorial Response
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This is my response to the editorial "Opinions and Positions"(with the link). In the article, the author claims that in Taiwan, parents are the group that is making the schools policies, and schools should prevent this from happening because this usually ignores other students' rights. However, in my belief, schools should never be overly stubborn and unwilling to adopt advices from different sides.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Short story
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This is the short story that I wrote. The main character, Nathan Weisez, had a fantasy since he was little which was to stop politicians from committing corruption. However, as he grow up, learned and perceived more about the society, he had a internal conflict of whether to maintain and insist his long ago dream or to just give up and let it be.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Application** essay #01
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This is the essay that I explore how a particular quote by Mark Twain has affected who I am since I was little, and has changed how I preserved ideas and changed my perceptive towards things.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Application essay #02
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">In this essay I recalled the failure I had when I first got into a private high school in Taipei, Taiwan and how thing failure had changed my perspective towards my attitude.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Application essay #03
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">In this essay I introduced about the challenge I confronted when having a job in a drink shop, and what I've learned through this disobedient.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Application essay #04
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">In this essay I described a place where I am perfectly content, which is a random day strolling along the Venice Beach in Los Angeles. The people there triggered me to rethought about myself and the ethnic I belonged to.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Application essay #05
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">In this essay i recounted my experience of traveling alone to the US, which made me more mature and became more independent. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">


 * HW:**

TOEFL model test based on reading and listening < homework for 5/29 >