Mrs. Ho's AP Lang - 2021/2022

 Why do we Dream?     Since the dawn of time, humankind has been fascinated with dreams. Mesopotamian kings would have their servants record the happenings of their dreams on wax tablets to interpret them. In ancient Egypt, people wrote a dream book that listed hundreds of meanings behind common dreams. Ever since then, humans have continued the quest of understanding why we dream. Even with the technology and understanding of the sciences, we still do not have definite answers on the reasons behind why we dream, but there are a few very interesting theories. We dream to fulfill our wishes, to remember, to forget, to keep our brains working, to rehearse, to heal, to solve problems,       We dream in order for our wishes to be fulfilled. While all of our dreams, including nightmares, are a compilation of imagery from our everyday conscious life, Sigmund Freud hypothesized in the early 1900s that they also contain symbolic meanings that connect to the fu...

My Opinion on the World's Present Issues      For some reason, I've been thinking a lot about human nature and the problems and conflicts that the world faces today. Climate change, wars, COVID-19, hunger, persecution, racism, sexism, pollution, anti-semitism, poverty, inequality, unemployment, corruption, terrorism, animal extinctions, water scarcity, the decline of human rights, etc. Would there ever be a world where all of these issues are solved? What would that world look like? How would people act, speak, feel? Is that world one that we actually would like to live in or is it purely an ignorant desire?     Thinking of these issues, I came to a pretty broad conclusion that most if not all of them stem from the fact that most people today either care too little or too much.       When we think of cases like racism, antisemitism, terrorism, sexism, homophobia, etc., we have the rather disheveled flower which stems from soil of people that ...