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July 2014
A really green tree.

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August 2015

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May 14 2016
I attended my first concert, and I lost my voice.

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February Break 2016

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December 2014
This is a rock.

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December 2015

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July 2014

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December 2015

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February Break 2013

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Summer of 2013

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July 2014

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August 2014

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Summer of 2013

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Senior Reflection - My Cyrano Side (Work)

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Estella Liu Mrs. Fill European Literature, Period 5 23 May 2016 Work Hard, Work Harder 	Cyrano and I are complete opposites: he cares about his appearance and how his nose is too big for anyone’s liking while he has a knack for thinking on his	feet. But for me, I’m insecure about my abilities to...

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May 10 2014

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My Hamlet essay explores the human decision-making process by using the will and the intellect. I argued that Shakespeare's message in the play was to express the unreliability of the will, and how a decision by the will ultimately causes a tragic downfall. While writing the essay, I learned more about my tendencies and took a lesson from my own arguments. My main point was that people who suppress impulsive behavior and try to think rationally with the intellect will reap great rewards while those who act on a whim will suffer dire consequences. People who rationalize using the will usually forget that other people may suffer the consequences that they chose to put up with, like how Hamlet throws Rosencrantz and Guildenstern under the bus. Altogether, the will leads to selfish thinking while the intellect is more rational and considerate of others.
The lesson that I took out of writing the essay is that I should always think before I act, because impulsive decisions are bad decisions (and I tend to make many impulsive decisions). It's always better to stay safe and take more time to think out a plan with the intellect than to do something because you want to.

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Estella Liu Mrs. Fill European Literature, Period 5 23 May 2016 Favorite Piece of Literature 	My favorite piece of literature this year was Frankenstein because I could relate to both Frankenstein and the creature. I’m a procrastinator myself, and like Frankenstein, I like to hold things off beca...

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Estella Liu Mrs. Fill European Literature, Period 5 23 May 2016 What is Happiness? As I sit looking down at my desk while the teacher is passing back last week’s quiz, I tell myself that if I only get three problems wrong, I’ll be happy. Or when I get my college decision back, if I get into this ...

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Estella Liu Mrs. Fill European Literature, Period 5 23 May 2016 Greatest Fear  	After entering high school, I noticed how people like to stay in their own cliques and how they are less accepting of others after they’ve formed their own groups. Even myself, I liked to stay with my own group of fiv...

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"Beauty exists where you least expect to find it." - Gail Tsukiyama, The Samurai's Garden.

This quote is a spark of hope for me because oftentimes to me, life is a glass half empty. I don't like surprises or new environments and seemingly, I expect the worst out of every situation. I feel reassured when I think of this quote because it reminds me that a situation may turn out better than I expected and that everything will be okay.

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1. Twenty One Pilots
2. Panic! at the Disco
3. Fall Out Boy
4. My Chemical Romance
5. Arctic Monkeys
6. AWOLNATION
7. Parachute
8. Imagine Dragons
9. The 1975
10. Kodaline