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!