Author: Dalton Ma
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The Buzzword Breakdown: How Social Media Keeps Us Coming Back For More
Spending an hour (or twenty) doing absolutely nothing has never been easier. I routinely find myself “doomscrolling” on social media for hours on end without any care in the world. It turns out that TikTok is Gen Z’s version of alcohol, letting us drown all our worries in the never-ending dopamine-inducing brain-numbing consumerism of short-form…
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The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern: A Journey Through What Makes a Story
There are few truly original works in fantasy anymore. The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern is one of the rare original ones. Morgenstern’s more esoteric writing style nicely complements the development of the plot, keeping me hooked at every turn. Far beneath the surface of the earth, hidden from the sun and the moon, upon…
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The Bazaar
This is a practice descriptive piece for CIE 9093 English Language – Paper 2. The prompt is:Write a descriptive piece about a crowded market or bazaar. In your writing, create a sense of atmosphere, and focus on smell, sound, and movement. The silence before the sun crested the horizon was a fragile thing, broken only…
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The Forest
This is a text I wrote for English class, with the prompt:Write a descriptive piece about a forest. In your writing, create a sense of atmosphere. As I step into Walden Forest, the world exhales around me. The light shifts — softer now, dappled, filtering through a thousand leaves like melted gold. A breeze carries…
