Veeksha's Vibes

The title is bringing back some memories for people who took psych.  So basically, the nature/nurture dilemma is the argument on whether your genes predetermine you, (your actions, personality, skills, everything about you) or the environment, the way you were raised, and the memories you exclusively experienced determines you. This also includes sexuality.  There are many indications that humans are largely based on nature. For example, in a psychology study, identical triplets were separated right at birth, they never got to contact each other after birth and neither did they know they were missing their other two siblings. They later grew up to have almost identical preferences and lives - they all played the same sport in school, they had the same taste in women, and even smoked the same cigarette brand. The documentary trailer of the study if you are interested :) This happened in the 1960s though, when being LGBTQ+ wasn't prominent or great, and all triplets were straigh...

    First, I would like to apologize for posting this late. Second, we need to talk about the flowers     The book starts off with flowers, at first it just looks like Wilde was normally describing flowers, but if you look closely, there is something bad about each flower. "The rich odour of roses …  heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink flowering thorn ."     The definition of "odour" or "odor" (according to google) is " a distinctive smell, especially an unpleasant one. " Even though roses look beautiful, they have something unpleasant or disgusting about them. This also applies for the "heavy scent", the first thing I thought of when I read those words was that one person we all know that walks and smells so heavily of perfume that it makes a whole room smell like the scent days after they've left. Again, not positive. The thorn plant is self explanatory. Wilde almost sends the message that nothing ...

               There are a ton of people who brought me to where I am now and I can't leave this class without mentioning the reason I passed. First, I'll start with my classmates. Elizabeth, who was always willing to talk to me during class when we had to share ideas, and constantly breaking my morning when she reminded me about the in-class essays every week. You showed me how much I was forgetting to consider and made me see the simpler side of language. Because of last year, I thought it was impossible to get ideas across without using complex diction and I was insanely lost. Shambhavi, who set an example with her analysis during our discussions, you made me realize that it’s ok to express ideas that aren’t obvious to everyone else because there is not one right answer all the time.                This is going to sound weird, but watching mov...