This year, I set out to educate myself and others on Gordon Ramsay’s eminence and influence and to battle his reputation as a lunatic chef who’s only talent is weaving colourful insults. I met my goal to understand what Gordon has contributed to our world. He is an incredibly hardworking chef who has acquired a number […]
Read More →Ramsay, Gordon. Roasting in Hell’s Kitchen: Temper Tantrums, F Words, and the Pursuit of Perfection. HarperCollins Entertainment, 2007. This autobiography offered meaningful insight into Gordon’s character, childhood, influences, and motivators. I learned about his miserable history with his father, his unfortunate accident that forced him to quite football (something he may have had a career in […]
Read More →Alrighty. My love for food and cuisine stretches far, far, back, although I may not have realized it at the time. Unlike most children, my first words weren’t mama or baba, they were “片儿 片儿” which roughly translates into “piece piece“ or “flake flake” which is a soup-based Chinese dish with boiled pieces of dough in. (Love […]
Read More →Bonjour. I hear you ask: Who are you and why are you here? Well, this my answer be: My master scheme years and years ago was to fool the cardinal into thinking I was a representative of the queen, and lied that the queen wanted to buy a diamond necklace, but wished no one to […]
Read More →This text has been translated from français to Anglais (excepting a few expressions and terms.) Je m’appelle Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, and I stand by my view that Marie Antoinette may brûle en enfer. Some context: Mon père (father) is the illegitimate (but, legitimate enough, I say!) son of King Henry II – therefore, in my veins trickles […]
Read More →As indicated above, the theme I chose to express from Hamilton was “True good versus evil does not exist.” If that isn’t clear enough, basically my point is that nothing and no one is ever 100% pure or 100% evil. My examples were The conflict between Hamilton and Burr, the conflict between Seabury and […]
Read More →BIG IDEA 1 Emerging Ideas and Ideologies Influence Societies and Events Social Cycle The “Social Evolution Wheel” I created for my second Document of Learning accurately pairs with the first Big Idea. My wheel followed the timeline of black slavery in America. The emerging idea I chose to highlight was that in the past, coloured […]
Read More →Annotated Bibliography – Emily Carr Klee Wyck This is one of the books written by Emily Carr herself. It was incredibly useful because I could see her experiences from a very personal point of view. It’s a series of short stories about the period of her life when she went travelling across the Queen Charlotte […]
Read More →For my interview this year, I jumped on it before we even started discussing it in class, because I knew instantly that it would be something that I would struggle with if I didn’t get started as soon as possible. I’m quite happy I did. The professional that I interviewed for Eminent is Stan […]
Read More →Trips like these make me glad to be in a group like TALONS! I never would have thought of going to MacLeod’s Books or the VPL to study for eminent, or for anything else for that matter. I’d never been to either of those places before, and I’m really happy I went! shout out to […]
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