Monday, January 23, 2012

Introductions

Name: Farah
Location: Kuwait
School: American Creativity Academy
Year: 2
Session: May 2012

Hoping to Study:
(Double Major) English Literature and Anthropology

IB Subjects:
IB English HL
IB History HL
IB Environmental Systems and Societies SL
IB Business and Management HL
IB Arabic SL
IB Math Studies SL

(Humanities all the way!)

Also, of course, Theory of Knowledge (the bane of my existence)

Books Read in IB English:
A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen)
The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
The Outsider (Albert Camus)

A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare)
Poetry (Robert Frost)
Poetry (Emily Dickinson)
Collected Essays (George Orwell)
Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare)

Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams)
Master Harold and the Boys (Athel Fugard)
The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
Pygmalion (Bernard Shaw)

Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Three Sisters (Anton Chekhov)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Favorite Subjects (in Year 1)
IB English
IB History

Favorite Subjects (in Year 2)
IB History
IB Math Studies

The teacher really affects how I perceive the class. The Year 1 and Year 2 were... different. Very different.

Extended Essay Topic:
History
"How are the Trojan War and Iraq War similar, in terms of media coverage and war strategies?"

ToK Presentation Topic:
To What Extent is the Media's Perception of Beauty Changing Our Perception of Female Beauty? (got a 16/20, a B)
Is Genocide, in the Name of Progress, Ever Justified? (got a 17/20, also a B)

ToK Essay Question:
When should we discard explanations that are intuitively appealing?

So, that's me! Care to add anything about yourself? Do so in the comments. You don't have to do exactly what I've done; add some new sections of your own!

Starting This Blog

I am an IB Diploma student who started this blog about 5 minutes in order to avoid studying for the two midterms she has to take tomorrow: IB History of Europe and IB Environmental Systems and Societies.

I got this idea after watching some TED videos with Salman Khan (of KhanAcademy fame) and then looking around my laptop. I realised that I, too, could help people who needed it in with their studies and, viola, this blog came to existence.

If you'd like to be part of this blog, and have any information to share please do so in this blog post. Come and introduce yourself!