For this collection of various pieces, I chose to focus my studies in the areas of stress and expectations, as it is a large part of teenagers lives in today’s society. In Canada, improperly handled stress and expectations are destroying the future’s of teens. This issue was worth exploring and researching in my opinion because stress and high expectations have heavily influenced my life and continue to shape who I am as a person. In my collection, I decided to include a freeform poem, journal entry, blog post, and collage as components. I chose these forms of writing because they are not extremely common and I was intrigued to try these methods while I had the opportunity. The four compositions that I created covered many different perspectives and specific topics. For the journal entry, I went into depth on the effects of stress in everyday school life. This was captured from my perspective during one of my lowest emotional points of my life, which occurred at a time in my life when it was least expected. My blog post revolved around the most common symptoms and coping methods for anxiety, a disorder I continue to struggle with. My fictional poem follows the life of a teen struggling with depression, who reflects back upon multiple misjudgments made in the past about what being a high school student would be like. Finally, the photo collage I created displayed feelings a person may experience while facing the pressures of stress, anxiety, and high expectations, positive encouragement to work through those tough times, something that makes me extremely happy, and an image of something that caused me to go through a large amount of stress. Overall, I believe that the various perspectives and genres used throughout the collection greatly enhanced the understanding for readers and made it much more appealing to teens and young adults. As you navigate through this collection, you will notice that I selected a particular phrase to be included as the repetend. I chose the general statement of “discovering an effective method to repair these broken links inside my head” as the repetend in my collection and slightly altered the phrase depending on the placing in the piece and the situation. This quote is supposed to reference the feeling that many teens face of feeling extremely lost in their own lives with what they are supposed to do next. As well, the repetend reflects the feelings of many people facing anxiety and similar disorders, who often feel as though their lives are slowly disintegrating, although they are contributing their best efforts.