...Jonathan Graves World Literature Debra Germany 3 March 2014 Beowulf is a story that interested me for a long time. We read this story in grade school, and now in college it sparks many debates in the minds of college students, including mine. When I read it in grade school, it was a good story about monsters and heroes. Now that my literary mind has somewhat developed there are some controversies that jump out at me. At my first glance of the story in grade school, you really don't understand the depth of the epic. Being in a college level course we learned that the original author is an unknown man from pagan times written between the 600th and the 700th century, which is another debate all on its own.(The History of Beowulf) The epic poem Beowulf has deep roots in Paganism and was translated later in Christian times. Being a story from Anglo-Saxon England one has to wonder about what was going on at the time it was written. "The Christian church had been well-established and it suffered greatly from the invasions.(BBC) When the Angles and the Saxons invaded Roman Britain it was believed that the story of Beowulf came with them and the story was later translated by an unknown Christian author. It is also believed that this story was and oral poem that was spoke and passed down from generation. Most of the mystery cannot be proven with fact. It has been debated on by scholars for the past few centuries. Some authors consider it part of the Christianization...
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...Starting a book means having a solid setting to give the audience a sense of tone, moods, and the plot while also incorporating interests for that reader to want to read. Although the setting is usually considered to be the beginning of the story, Fracture by Megan Miranda actually starts on the back cover. Using the back cover as the start, it helps explain the depth and mystery related to the ominous quote, ” A lot can happen in eleven minutes”. Furthering this by comparing eleven minutes to personal events and medical information gives the reader a clear indication that the story is based on the impossible, making it more desirable to possibly learn. The setting of any story is very important, like this one, it helps interpret the subject,...
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...He accurately explains that a short story such as this one much be questioned and analyzed to fully understand all the abundant motifs, themes, and symbolic ideas which it holds. In addition to enhancing the readers' current thoughts, Dilworth's ideological explanation invalidates any misconceptions and assumptions. He states, "Most readers have mistakenly seen the narrator as a basically objective observer." He then continues on to explain why the reader is incorrect. Thus, Dilworth is not only ridding the readers of their mistaken idea, but he is also elucidating why they are incorrect and...
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...Fatoumatta Jaiteh ENGL 1312: Section 2 Dr. West-Fort October 1, 2013 A Response to "BARBIE Q" by Sandra Cisneros "Barbie Q!" I did not understand the title of the story at first but to my understanding, i thought the writer wanted to use the word "Barbie" instead of "Barbeque" to make it look "posh" and feminine. As we read the story in class, i got a better and deeper undstanding of the whole moral of the story and why she used the word "Barbie". When i saw "Titties" pg (339) i was like "wow," the writer is bold and no wonder they banned it. It seemed like two girls were playing with the dolls and making remarks about their dresses and comparing how glamorous they look. We were all kids at some point so i get that. These barbie dolls send negative messages to the children of today. When kids play with them, they tend to know about make up, boyfriend, the glitz and the glam etc at an early stage. Yes i understand it's good for a female to look good but not at age 3. You can look good for yourself. Some females are more secure when they wear make up some are not. I won't call myself a "feminist" but i stand and support womens rights. These kids might want to look like barbie at some point. Well, it's already happening e.g "Toodlers & Tiara's" is a perfect example of how mothers of today teach their kids to believe that if you do not wear tons of hair, jewelry, exposing dresses, heels & make up, you are not beautiful enough and society will not appreciate your natural...
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... HUM 105 University of Phoenix April 11, 2011 Introduction Sacred places are critical elements in the mythic traditions that Team C has been studying and the stories surrounding the world’s myths are important as well. The stories surrounding the sacred places are important as the mythic breaks into today’s present high technological world, with the boundary crossings from the past to the present world today. The stories can come from a sacred sight, a secular organization, or some site with supernatural revelation that can link the past to the present with the myths (stories) told about an ancient people, or an ancient civilization through the myths. Stories about sacred places allow today’s humanity to see past versus present, realistic versus mythological, or spiritual versus materialistic (University of Phoenix, 2011). Team C ran across an article that showed a new sacred site in today’s world that will seem ancient to the future generations, but not for today’s generation. The article was called “America’s New Sacred Site”, which is about September 11, 2001 or 9-11 when the World Trade Center was devastated due to America’s home view of...
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...Unfortunately, these standard of care treatments only work in a very small percentage of patients and are very toxic with terrible side effects. Thomas learned of a new Phase 3 clinical research trial sponsored by Roche with an unapproved yet promising drug. His doctor explained that in earlier trials, a majority of volunteer patients who took the wonder drug had seen a drastic reduction in the size of their tumors with very few side effects. The only way ill patients can get the drug is by participating in this trial. The trial is a randomized controlled trial (RCT) which means half of the volunteers will get the experimental drug while the other half will be treated with another standard of care treatment. The purpose of the standard or control arm is to allow researchers to compare the long term effects of the new drug to that of the current standard treatment and determine whether it actually shrinks tumors and prolong remissions. Participants have a 50/50 chance of being placed in either arm of the study. Arm assignments are random and cannot be changed. With limited options, Thomas signed up for the trial. He was randomized to the wonder drug arm and after 2 months saw his tumors shrink. Thrilled with these results, he urged Brandon to sign up for the trial as well which he did. By luck of the draw, Brandon is assigned to the standard of care treatment arm. During treatment, Brandon’s tumors continued to grow and he was in excruciating of pain. Tragically, he...
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...regarding the American Dream. The American Dream is based off of the ideals of freedom, equality, and opportunity traditionally held to be available to every American, at least that’s what I believe in my eyes is the intended goal. There are many characters within the story of The Great Gatsby that have their own personalities, as well as their own goal. My favorite character of the book is Nick Carraway. As he is the narrator of the story, it follows his tale in West Egg, New York becoming a stockbroker when he comes along a man of the name Jay Gatsby. The story follows events that take place in that time of drama and romance, and well being. Nick Carraway is not only special because he is the “main” character, but special from what he tries to achieve. It’s all a matter of opinion of what characters are said goals in the book are. I find myself believing that Nick Carraway doesn't find his until the end of the book. Spoilers for if you haven’t read the book or saw one of the movies, which would be ridiculous, Gatsby dies in the end. This is when Nick realizes his American Dream. Is that we learn from the past. On Nick’s last night in the East, he walks over to Gatsby’s mansion. Nick looks out along the beach and wonders what this land was like long ago, when it was a new and unspoiled world. Nick sees the green light which represents the dream. The pure dream that Gatsby had of the American Dream is something that is in our...
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...audience's’ liking. Yet, in many cases, these modifications stray away from the author’s intentions for the story. “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell is a popular short story that has a 1932 film adaptation directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack, Irving Pichel. This 1932 rendition, is the first film adaptation of the short story from 1924. There are several obvious differences, as characters have been added and certain scenes that deviate from the original plot of the short story....
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...Movie Michael vs. The Text Tobit These two stories have many similarities and differences. The writer of the movie Michael obviously decided in which ways these two stories compare since he read the story of Tobit and then wrote the screenplay for Michael. In this paper I shall first go over all the ways these stories are similar to each other. Then I will go over the differences between them. There are many similarities between the two stories and I will split them up into two categories; first I will give examples of all the obvious similarities between them, then I shall explain some similarities that have to be explained more deeply. Some of the more obvious similarities have to do with the general plot of these stories. They both include similar main characters, a younger man, a young woman, and a dog. In both stories the man must travel far. There is an angel in them. The angel is sent to help the man and woman with their problems, and the angel succeeds in heping them. The angel is with them for the whole journey. Also the angel gives good advice and leads the characters to doing the right thing in the story. Those were some simple similarites between the stories, now I will look a little deeper into them to find some more similarites. In both stories the angel does not tell the characters that he was sent by god to help them. In the movie Michael the angel loves to battle whenever he can, and in the story of Tobit the angel fights the demon Asmodeus....
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...necessary to discover and develop a gift. 4. Ask questions. Help your child open up to he wonders of the world by asking intriguing questions: Why is the sky blue? Find the answers together. 5. Plan special family projects. Shared creativity can awaken and develop new talents. 6. Don't pressure your child to learn. If children are sent to special lessons every day in the hope of developing their gifts, they may become too stressed or exhausted to shine. Encourage, but don't push. 7. Have high expectations. But make them realistic. 8. Share your work life. Expose your child to images of success by taking him to work. Let him see you engaged in meaningful activities and allow him to become involved. 9. Provide a sensory-rich environment. Have materials around the home that will stimulate the senses: finger paints, percussion instruments, and puppets. 10. Keep your own passion for learning alive. Your child will be influenced by your example. 11. Don't limit your child with labels. They may saddle her with a reputation that doesn't match her inner gifts. 12. Play games together as a family. 13. Have a regular family time for reading, listening to music, talking. 14. Have reference materials available to give your child access to the world. 15. Allow your child to participate in community activities that interest her. 16. Use humor, jokes, silly stories to encourage creativity. 17. Don't criticize or...
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...Charlotte Perkins Gilman Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story that describes a young woman who is believed to be suffering from mental problems. John, her husband, decides to take a vacation with her during summer for what he believes will cure his wife. The man rents a big old house, and he decides that they should stay in the upstairs. The couple is also in the company of the husband’s sister who acts as a housekeeper. After a few weeks, she manages to spend time with her family that she had not seen in a long time. She takes quite some time with them, but her condition worsens, and her husband threatens to take her away from there. She begs him not to, and this leaves the only solution of being confined in her room. In her room she discovers yellow wallpaper that is able to reflect the current situation she is going through. Her thoughts and imaginations make her to arrive to a point where she is broken angry about her life. In either way she does not get the answers to whatever she is looking for and this worsens her illness. The thoughts behind the yellow paper reveal the main purpose for the author of the story. The paper also generates the main themes for the story that differ from different written stories (Mays). Theme of Self-expression The main theme in the story would be the lack of self-expression. It refers to revealing of one's thoughts and personality at free will. Gilman wrote the story at the time when women faced oppression the society and denied the...
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...The Red Line, Charles Higson 1993 Find and discuss the aspects of prejudice highlighted in the story. There’re many aspects of prejudice in the story. The three characters Berto, Denise and the nameless man are drawing conclusions just like they know each other, which they don’t. Berto believes that when he tries to express himself on English, the other person will laugh or shook his head. He believes that old people are no help for him, because they’re all deaf, but drunken people are still the worst. He thinks women are more understanding and sympathetic than men. He thinks that the nameless man looks friendly and his face looks like a cherub, so he considers him as an option for help. The nameless man hates drunken people, drug addicts and girls with dirty hair. He doesn’t hate them because of their personalities, because he obviously doesn’t know them. He just hates the way they look. When he sees Berto, who is dark-skinned, at the train, he claims he’s the type that ruins London – the type that goes to discos and clubs, a drug taker and a hooligan, and he believes Berto is listening to black music. Denise immediately thinks that Berto is a rapist, when he eyes her up in the train. According to her every man could be a rapist. She considers getting a car instead of riding with the train, but then there are car thieves, crashes, men in vans swearing at you and those horrible hyenas in the TV ads. She smiles to the nameless man to see, if he was any help in case Berto...
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...The Tell-Tale Heart Q. Choose a novel or a short story in which the author creates a fascinating character. By referring to appropriate techniques, show how the author has created this character and why you found him/her so interesting. Among the many strange and complex short stories by Edgar Allen Poe, ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ has come to be known as one of the most mysterious and psychologically intriguing. The story contains a fascinating character in form of the narrator, which is explored through Poe’s use of word choice, irony, and alliteration, as well as many other thought provoking techniques. The story as a whole explores the themes of perception versus reality, and the question of whether the evil within is worse than the evil without, and Poe delves into these themes using the character he has created to narrate the story. The story follows the murder of an old man and its aftermath, the story told with what seems like dazzling clarity on behalf of the narrator, obscuring the meaning of the act and calling the emotional stability of the unnamed, assumed male, narrator into question. In the very first sentence of the story, Poe introduces irony to draw in the reader, and leaves the beginning purposefully ambiguous to cause intrigue towards the narrator. “TRUE! – nervous – very, very dreadfully nervous I had been, and am; but why will you say that I am mad?” By starting the sentence with the word ‘true’, Poe leads us to believe what we read next will be some sort...
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...Scrappin’ with poetry By: Poetic Device: Alliteration Definition: The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of organized or closely connected words. Example: Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. Poetic Device: Analogy Definition: a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification. Example: Obeying is to a servant, like ordering is to a master. Poetic Device: Allusion Definition: an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference Example: When she lost her job, she acted like a Scrooge, and refused to buy anything that wasn’t necessary. Poetic Device: Diction Definion: the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing Example: Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on Poetic Device: Metaphor Definition: a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable Example: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day Poetic Device: Simile Definition: a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid Example: as black as coal Poetic Device: Hyperbole Definition: exaggerated...
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...Chapter One Journal “Dark chasms!” I scream from the cliff-edge, “seize me! Seize me to your foul black bowels and crush my bones!” I am terrified at the sound of my own huge voice in the darkness. I stand there shaking from head to foot, moved to the deep-sea depths of my being, like a creature thrown into audience with thunder.At the same time, I am secretly unfooled. The uproar is only my own shriek, and chasms are, like all things vast, inanimate. They will not snatch me in a thousand years, unless, in a lunatic fit of religion, I jump. (10) | Critical Response The words used are informal, giving us a feeling that the character is trying to relate to use. Most of the words are denotative, giving us a specific meaning to hold onto, while some are less clear which gives more mystery to the passage. The diction is mostly concrete, speaking of the chasm and his voice, not of other abstract ideas mentioned previously in the chapter. The words are also cacophonous, not sounding pleasant together and further expressing the distress Grendel seems to be experiencing as the monster he is. The words are mostly monosyllabic, making it easier for us to understand. The diction used clearly expresses the idea that Grendel pretends to be intrigued by the idea of the dark chasm seizing him, he also understands that this would only be possible if he gave in and jumped. | Personal Response I think this quote relates to me because I too, often talk to inanimate things...
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