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POV What a difference

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One observation I had in class this week about point of view is that it creates more than just a simple angle, but it shapes the entire way we experience and view a story. This seed has stuck with me all week, whether I was reading The Stranger ,  Roselily , or even watching my current TV show, The Boys . When something gets “conveniently” left out or overemphasized from a certain perspective, it doesn’t feel random, but completely reshapes how we see and think about each character. That’s really what I kept noticing, where POV isn’t just a storytelling choice, but it’s the thing that quietly shifts our opinions, our judgments, and even our sense of who’s right or wrong. That’s what stayed with me more than anything this week. To begin, when I watched my show, The Boys, throughout the week on Amazon Prime, I saw firsthand how POV can impact my viewing experience, as we, as viewers, see the same world differently from each person. For example, for Butcher, we see his POV of viewing ...
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Laughter, whats that?

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The other day, I caught myself scrolling through my camera roll, looking at old videos and pictures to simply pass the time. Out of nowhere, I stumbled across a video from my 8th-grade DC trip where my friends and I were exploring one of the museums. Suddenly, I burst into laughter. Not because anything shocking happened, as I've seen the video before, heck, I took the video, but because somehow my brain still doesn't expect things to go the way they do. That's when I realized almost everything that has made me laugh has the same main ingredient: the unexpected. The funniest moments in my life are never the planned ones, but they're the ones completely unhinged and off-script. It's the "this was NOT supposed to happen" moments that always get me. For example, the other day I was playing Fortnite. I was in a normal box fight, something I have done hundreds, if not thousands of times. I was in the perfect position, ready to blast my friend in our battle, but...
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Three Timelines, One Story: The Structure of Dunkirk

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       One of my favorite all-time films is Dunkirk by Christopher Nolan. Although the film seems nothing more than another war movie, the structure makes it feel like something completely new. I was immediately drawn in by how there were multiple elements used to tell the story being land, air, and finally sea. Each move at a different pace, and with the lack of dialogue during the movie, it was complicated to follow at first, but as the story continues, each element is used together to build up to the final climax.  To set up the rising action, we are first introduced to the land element, where thousands of soldiers are trapped at Dunkirk, hoping for an escape back to the UK. Nolan uses this perspective to make time feel slow and gurgling, showing close and intimate danger while also creating a sense of desperation. Then we move to the sea, where we see a group of civilians trying to sail from the UK to Dunkirk to hopefully save at least some soldiers. This jo...
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2 Week Only Up Phase - Fortnite Edition

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Smashing my keyboard, about to break my monitor, I had just fallen down for the 50th time. This time from the skyscraper of floating buses, instead of the pool of giant purple cubes named Kevin. It was this cursed Fortnite creative map that basically ruled over my life like a videogame dictator. It decided when I slept, ate, and even when I dared to "touch grass." Every jump felt like a dopamine hit but every fall felt like personal attack to my soul. I would swear, "I'll quit after this try." I don't think I've ever openly lied to myself that much. One day I reached the top. VICTORY!! Then I fell. Game turned off. Never opened again.
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Avi's Adventures: Just Drink it

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The word Nike doesn't represent just a simple shoe brand. That word encompasses more. A battle cry. The simple three words of  Nike's slogan: "Just Do It" are echoed around the world day and night. It has jolted people to finish that workout, make that final shot, or even get up at that 5 A.M. alarm. But in the end, the phrase, "Just Do It" is energy pushing you to get moving even when you don't want to. For decades Nike has bottled that feeling within that simple slogan, but why should they stop at just sneakers and clothes? Why not make that "Just Do It" energy into something real. Enter my bizarre idea of Nike Surge. Picture a energy drink embodying that iconic swoosh in a sleek matte black finish. No crazy colors on the bottle, or any crazy graphics. Just a clean and simple energy drink. One that energizes athletes with clean caffeine, vitamins, and electrolytes. Picture it almost as the Air Jordan of energy drinks. Not built just for ...
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Living fully

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There’s something deeply human about wanting answers. We crave certainty, a clear path, a guarantee, a sense that things will work out as they should. But life hardly offers that. Instead, we live in the space between knowing and not knowing, between the comfort of routine and the wild unknown of what comes next. Life doesn’t come with many guarantees. And honestly, that’s kind of the point. We live in this weird space between certainty and doubt where we know death is inevitable, but we don’t know when or how. Is it scary, sure. But it’s also what gives life meaning. If everything were predictable, would we even care as much about what we do each day? Probably not. Think about it, even the tiny moth from Virginia Woolf's piece, fluttering at the window, fights to survive. It doesn’t know it’s losing. It just keeps going. Not because it thinks it’ll win, but because that’s what life does. It tries. And maybe that’s the lesson. We don’t have anyway to see how much time we have le...
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Creativity is everywhere: Why do we want to kill it?

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Creativity isn’t just for artists or musicians. It’s not limited to drawing, painting, or writing poetry. It’s literally in everything. Every invention, every business idea, every joke, every new way to solve a problem: those are all examples of creativity. It’s the reason we’ve come so far as humans. Without it we would not be able to innovate and build new things (so say goodbye to your iPhone) and overall not progress as much as a society.  But somewhere along the way, we stopped valuing it. Or at least, we started prioritizing things that slowly suppress it such as standardized testing. Think about it, we spend years bubbling in answers, memorizing formulas, and writing essays with rigid formats. It teaches you how to follow rules, not how to think differently. And the worst part about all this? We start to associate “right answers” with being smart, and forget that asking questions is just as important. And it’s not just tests. Dress codes that tell students to “fit in,” sch...
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