The first time I saw this poem by William Carlos Williams was in Grade 9 LA class, and it still remains one of the most strange poems in my memory. This is it: so much dependsupon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside the whitechickens Ambivalent ideas organized in an even more ambiguous structure —…
“Three days before I toss your raggedy behind on the streets!” A slam of the creaky front door punctuated the end of the landlord’s cry. When his footsteps faded down the staircase, she lifted the blanket of scribbles from her desk, revealing an intricate web of yarn attached to pictures and silhouettes. Opening the drawer…
Undoubtedly, Netflix makes some great shows, like Stranger Things and the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, however Netflix isn’t without some questionable ideas. One of those being their new TV show, Riverdale, which is a cesspool of cringey cliches. Like an athlete who is torn between sports and his passion for music, and a rich girl who…
Source We Were Liars is a 2014 young-adult novel by E. Lockhart. Centred around a rich family that owns their own private island and visits it each summer, this book follows the story of protagonist Cadence Sinclair and her extended family and friends. The story explores self-acceptance, family morals and the consequences of mistakes. At…
{original image} My umbrella drops into a puddle of mucky rain water as I stand in the middle of a crosswalk. The loud and strong rainstorm takes over the clear sky. Rain falls on and around me. My once super perfect hair becomes frizzy as the wind whips it around. My once new white dress…
Rocks… because they take forever until they begin to break down. Names… because they belong to you, and only you. Some like to write names on a padlock and lock it onto the Pont des Arts, me included. However, there’s always a less expensive yet meaningful way: rocks. We can carve a part of ourselves…
No matter how old we grow to be, cartoons will always bring a smile to our faces, and send the rush of nostalgia through us every single time we watch them. Although I spoke about annoying cartoons in one of my previous blogs, there are many cartoons that will always have a special place in…
Halloween is filled with times nobody can forget, full of scares, screams, and sugar-rushes, a time to put on a mask and a hood and become someone entirely different. Halloween is the one evening of the year that nobody can really explain, or ever match the festive spirit it brings. We’re often so wrapped up…
Chupacabra is Spanish for “goat eater,” a creature only found in Latin America and known for its vampire-like fangs which are able to kill and suck the blood out of livestock. According to several biologists, the creature referred to as the Chupacabra does not exist. Yet, the Chupacabra has been blamed for a coupe of…
Yes I know it has been airing for two weeks and I finally had the opportunity to catch up! To all PLL fans out there isn’t this show amazing?! And for all who have no clue on what the storyline is about here is a quick synopsis of what you are missing out on! Pretty…
A few weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to go on a boat tour of Maligne Lake, located in Jasper National Park. On this boat trip, I visited the world famous Spirit Island, debatably one of most photographed islands in the world. The day we went happened to be extremely cold and foggy. We experienced everything from…
-A Vertigo Mystery Theatre Production- Here’s a question: what if you had more than one personality? I will let you ponder that question for a moment, and while you are doing that, I’d like to carefully describe what happened on a recent Thursday night. -BACKGROUND- When I heard that I was able to attend a…
You are what you read. Stuff yourself with poetry, short stories, comic strips, novels, and scripts, and you leave yourself always full of wonderful literature and you’re never hungry. That is why I am trying to ingrain the habit of reading good literature right before I go to bed, and I had the great pleasure…
I was a little late on a watching the most anticipated movie of the year, Inception. I am usually a tough critic on movies and I can usually spot the cliché and corny movies left, right and centre, however unlike many other anticipated movies this one was not a letdown. It surprisingly lived up to…