Louise

Guiding question: How do people react to the unknown or abnormal?

Philosophy statement: Life is full of ups and downs; changes that can bring on unwanted emotions and actions in any person. I want to be a person that anticipates what is yet to come rather than one that fears it, a person that is excited and curious about the unknown. I have learned by example that change makes people uncomfortable causing a harmful reaction. I want to be the reverse of this stereotype.

I want to be the person that makes the best out of any situation. No matter how alarming or disconcerting, I want to look at it with a smile and a pleasant disposition. I strive to be the picture of optimism.

I’m on my way from misery to happiness Yes, I have risked I resist any thing better than my own destiny So what's the problem? Just go and leave this all behind This world will never hold the great tomb of man media type="youtube" key="1AIJRXivhOw" height="344" width="425" Men can be imposed upon by an unfaltering trust Ever regardful of others No earthly sensation could more properly show the vivid force of thy destiny To believe your own thought The freedom to believe that it is noble but it is not right That's what's beautiful about this place.

[|Lucius Hunt was a free mind. He was virtually the only one in the society that questioned his way of life.]

We’re different people in the middle of a sea full of faces And if I don't belong Don’t let anybody try to change me [|The Salem Witch Trials were a time when change was virtually forbidden].

We half express ourselves No muse, no invention, no hope He has to put his heart into his work Do not feel worried I'm certain it will all end soon There will come a faith in life, in the ultimate justice of things

[|Faith in a greater good helps faith in yourself.]

When the power is in the hands of the people Where have all the good men gone? Here’s your chance to take it back and start again See the sun go down There is nothing to fear Just let the fire fall [|Light often provides the way].

Regardless of others, ever regardful of others  It's the only thing ever seen in darkness If it ends, it ends, we can move towards hope

[|Ivy and Lucius found hope and happiness in each other].

I work to write my own destiny I celebrate myself, and sing myself In hopes that the events tomorrow brings An eloquence of beauty, a voice of gladness, and a smile

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