...write an essay in English – Some good advice Reading and preparing for writing the essay 1. Make a cursory reading (= at skanne) of the text to in order to find out what the text is about. 2. Read the text more carefully (remember a dictionary). Use a marker to underline what you think is important. Also; write a lot of marginal notes. 3. While reading you should pay attention to some of the following elements: - What is the setting of the short story? (Where, when, the environment) - Who are the main characters, and how can you characterize them? (Age, looks, mentality, etc.) - Do any of the main characters change or develop during the story? This is often the case, and is almost always significant. - What are the main conflicts of the story? In all stories the main character(s) has a problem, or a number of problems, which he/she has to solve. Find out what the problems are in your story. The passages where the conflicts are clear are often important in short stories, and can be used when you quote from the text. - What is the theme(s) of the short story? All short stories are focused on an important theme. This theme must be found and discussed. The Writing Process 1. Make a plan (disposition), before writing your essay! The elements of an English essay will often be: 1. An introduction. In the introduction you give a general introduction to the main theme of the story, and relate it to the story. 2. The analysis of the story. English essays...
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...about “Reunion” Write an essay in approximately 700 words in which you analyze and interpret John Cheever’s “Reunion”. In your essay you must include the following points: * A characterization of the boy * A characterization of the father * The relationship between the boy and his father * The ending Tips about writing analytical essays: * An essay in English is not the same as in Danish. In English it is a broader term referring to an analysis of a given text - and a structure with an introduction, an analysis and a conclusion. * Start off by writing an introduction where you introduce: * The overall theme(s) of the essay * Make a short presentation of the short story you are going to write about. The introduction may sound like this: “In this essay, I am going to analyze the short story “Reunion” by John Cheever in which the main themes are… and … My main focus will be on the characters and their relationship as well as the ending”. (You may use this introduction or a variation of it in your essay) * Avoid a summary (your reader knows the story!!!). * Do not use headlines in the middle of the essay. * Handle one aspect/point at a time. * Analyzing means reading between the lines to find the author’s message. * When you characterize a character make sure you focus on what lies beneath the surface, fx how he relates to others, his behavior and needs and how he develops in the story. * Write a conclusion...
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...school there. At that time, I really liked to write journals, poetries, short stories and even novels. However, when I moved to America for four and half year ago. I started to hate writing. I don’t feel confident to write anymore. It’s probably because of the language. I tried to learn how to write in English when I move to America, but it was so hard for me at that time. I remember the first time when I wrote an essay in English, it took me two days to write a short paragraph. The big problem is I didn’t have enough words to write, and my huge mistake is that I always thought in my own language, then tried to translate to English, which was the slowest way to learn in writing. That habit changed when my professors kept telling me to think in English during writing time instead of thinking about Vietnamese, and that helped me a lot in writing. I’m a narrative writing person. I love creating different characters and telling stories about my characters. When I was in middle school, I used to write a lot of actions...
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...ENC 1102 March 20, 2014 Amy Tan's, “Mother Tongue” and Alice Walker's “Everyday Use” both share similar traits in their writings of these two short stories. “Mother Tongue” revolves around the experiences Tan and her mother had due to her mother's English speaking limitations, she also revolves her story around the relationship of a mother and daughter. Alice walker on the other hand writes a story narrated by “Mama” the mother of two daughters Maggie and Dee and explains the conflicting relationship she has with Dee, both writers similarly emphasize on the relationships these mother and daughter characters had and they unravel both short stories based on these relationships. Although both short stories share this one similar characteristic it is clear that both writers have opposite point of views of their described mother daughter relationships. To begin comparing, both Tan and Walker use the characters of mother and daughter to evoke the importance the relationship plays in the telling of the story. There are similarities that both these characters share. One of these similarities are shown through the use of words that describe a similar feeling of shame or embarrassment both Dee and Tan have towards there mothers at some point in the stories. In one part of the story Tan describes feeling “ashamed” of her mother's broken English (Tan 345). Walker also shows the character Dee having some sense of shame of her mother and sister Maggie by saying “Its really a new day for us...
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...consists of those written within the common flow of conversation in sentences and paragraphs, while poetry refers to those expressions in verse, with measure and rhyme, line and stanza and has a more melodious tone. I. Prose There are many types of prose. These include novels, biographies, short stories, contemporary dramas, legends, fables, essays, anecdotes, news and speeches. 1. Novel. This is a long narrative divided into chapters. The events are taken from true-to-life stories and spans a long period of time. There are many characters involved. 2. Short Story. This is a narrative involving one or more characters, one plot, and one single impression. 3. Plays. This is presented in a stage. It is divided into acts and each act has many scenes. 4. Legends. These are fictitious narratives, usually about origins. 5. Fables. These are fictitious and they deal with animals and inanimate things who speak and act like people and their purpose is to enlighten the minds of children to events that can mold their ways and attitudes. 6. Anecdotes. These are merely products of the writer’s imagination and the main aim is to bring out lessons to the reader. 7. Essay. This expresses the viewpoint or opinion of the writer about a particular problem or event. 8. Biography. This deals with the life of a person which may be about himself, his autobiography or that of others. 9. News. This is a report of everyday events in society, government, science and...
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...The Virgin by Kerima Polotan The title of Kerima Polotan's "The Virgin" gives us the subject-virginity, female virginity, a cherished value of Filipino Male culture. By presenting its protagonist as "victim" rather than heroine of this value system, the text subverts it. Reflecting on her virginal state, Miss Mijares does so "with a mixture of shame and bitterness and guilt" The story's eroticism is heightened by the lyrical, almost cadenced language. (The eroticism is quite explicit for it's time, and the foregrounding of a woman's sexulity is also rather in advance of its time.) But the use of symbolism is a bit too obvious--the paperweight, the dream of being lost, the jeepney's detour, the storm. Miss Mijares is a dutiful daughter, sacrificing herself, in this case, for a sick mother, and becoming a spinster, a pathetic figure, her sternness of manner and abruptness of speech, disguise for an aching loneliness. Referring to her as "Miss Mijares" underlines her primmness, as well as her distance from the carpenter. She is slim and frail-looking, which contrasts with the carpenter's physical streghth and size. The carpenter has a certain grace, poise, confidence "walking with an economy of movement, graveful and light, a man who knew his body and used it well", which comes from being easy in his skin, which Miss Mijares, decidedly, is not. Miss Mijares' over reaction to the discovery that the carpenter has fathered a child by a woman he is not married to reveals...
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...development when the Philippines were again conquered by another foreign country, Japan. Philippine literature in English came to a halt. Except for the TRIBUNE and the PHILIPPINE REVIEW, almost all newspapers in English were stopped by the Japanese. This had an advantageous effect on Filipino Literature, which experienced renewed attention because writers in English turned to writing in Filipino. Juan Laya, who uses to write in English, turned to Filipino because of the strict prohibitions of the Japanese regarding any writing in English. The weekly LIWAYWAY was placed under strict surveillance until it was managed by Japanese named Ishiwara. In other words, Filipino literature was given a break during this period. Many wrote plays, poems, short stories, etc. Topics and themes were often about life in the provinces. A. FILIPINO POETRY DURING THIS PERIOD The common theme of most poems during the Japanese occupation was nationalism, country, love, and life in the barrios, faith, religion and the arts. Three types of poems emerged during this period. They were: 1. Haiku –a poem of free verse that the Japanese like. It was made up of 17 syllables divided into three lines. The first line had 5 syllables, the second, 7 syllables, and the third, five. The Haiku is allegorical in meaning, is short and covers a wide scope in meaning. 2. Tanaga –like the Haiku, is short but it had measure and rhyme. Each line had 17 syllables and it’s also allegorical in meaning. 3. Karaniwang...
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...An essay is usually a short piece of writing. It is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can be literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition of an essay is vague, overlapping with those of an article and a short story. Almost all modern essays are written in prose, but works in verse have been dubbed essays (e.g. Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism and An Essay on Man). While brevity usually defines an essay, voluminous works like John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Thomas Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population provide counterexamples. It is very difficult to define the genre into which essays fall. Aldous Huxley, a leading essayist, gives guidance on the subject: Like the novel, the essay is a literary Abstract This article will examine the reasons why it is important both linguistically and psychologically to build a vocabulary quickly when learning a foreign language. The article asserts that very little can be achieved or learned in a foreign language with a small vocabulary and that by building a sizable vocabulary quite quickly one can soon be able to function adequately. You may also wish to look at http://www.jalt-publications.org/tlt/files/95/feb/meara.html Introduction It is obvious that in order to learn a foreign language one needs to learn many many words. But how many? Educated...
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...like it. I liked reading short stories, poems, and nonfiction books but I didn’t like historical stories, research, or long books. I’ve never a finished a book until high school because I never found a book I liked considering I never tried since I didn’t have an interest in reading. Although, now I can say I like to read if I find the right book when i use to say that i hated reading. The youngest I remember writing was in 6th grade when I would write letters to my dad. I wrote letters to my dad after my parents got divorced since I didn’t get to see my dad from it. My letters would be about how much I missed him, how school was going, and how things were different. I wrote...
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...TermPaperWarehouse.com - Free Term Papers, Essays and Research Documents The Research Paper Factory JoinSearchBrowseSaved Papers Home Page » English and Literature Short Story Review - "There's Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella" by Fernando Sorrentino In: English and Literature Short Story Review - "There's Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella" by Fernando Sorrentino Have you ever read the short story titled ‘There’s a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella’ (by Fernando Sorrentino) ? http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/TherMan.shtml What do you think of the story? As I read this short story in the beginning, the gist of what I have captured the narrator writing is whether the man with a strange habit does really exist or not. Or, if he did exist who was the man that was hitting the narrator in the story on the head without stopping. It sticks in my mind wondering who the strange man was to the narrator. Somehow, despite the agony of trying to understand the motive underlies the story; I was at first wondering what was the strange man had gone through actually and somehow I could feel the strange man’s plight humorous. Was it a medical condition that was driving him crazy? It’s rather hard for me to really understand the whole point of the story until it came to the end and after repeating reading it a number of times. Based on the description the narrator...
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...In all three essays, there is the common issue of the fact that there are different problems in the school’s systems. This is an interesting topic because the common school system is supposed to prepare us for life but there are so many corruptions about what is supposed to be learned that there the students are the ones that are short changed. Such as “Project Classroom Makeover” by Cathy Davidson was about children with disabilities getting over looked just because they are different. Davidson is the Professor of English at Ruth F. DeVarney, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University and Cofounder of Duke’s Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology (Scenters-Zapico 195). The article “I Just Want to be Average” by Mike Rose also gave a very...
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...Professor Nancy Fraser English EAC150 17/10/2012 MLA Documentation Essay The author Roslyn Foy explains the deeper emotions that resides in Armand the protagonist of the story Desiree’s baby by Kate Chopin. Armand’s cruel actions towards the people around him do not only suggest racism in the nineteenth century; he is man that must comply and live up to his great reputation. Foy brings up the subject of his mother, suggesting that even though she died when Armand was only eight years old, he must have remember her physical appearance but somehow he has suppressed that fact. This questions that whether Armand’s cruel actions came from a social point of view or does it deprive from his suppression of his mother and his past. This eventually led him to abandon his wife and son, the author suggest that his hatred towards them is the hatred towards himself and his origins. Armand is a character that is confused and angry with his past and finally realizes at the end that he is the very thing that he hates the most. In this critical essay, the author Leon Lewis illustrates an overview of Langston Hughes overall work and what he represents as a literary writer. Hughes is known as the “Laureate of Black America”, he has the desire to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America. His work usually consists of rhymes and poems, and the language of the black community. Even though some of his work is appeal more towards young adult readers, his work is...
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...Undervisningsbeskrivelse Stamoplysninger til brug ved prøver til gymnasiale uddannelser |Termin |December 2012 | |Institution |VUC Vestsjælland Nord | |Uddannelse |hfe | |Fag og niveau |Engelsk B | |Lærer(e) |Kirsten Bridgwood, Tine Tang Lystbæk | |Hold |E-læring engelsk B11 jan og E-læring engelsk B21 jan | Oversigt over gennemførte undervisningsforløb |Titel 1 |Growing Up | |Titel 2 |Social Networking | |Titel 3 |Violence | |Titel 4 ...
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...Downloadet fra Opgaver.com Josefine Grossmann 3.m Delprøve 2 English Essay Espergærde Gymnasium No Angel Grief is individual because everyone handles his or her sorrows differently. No one wants to be alone and therefore to loose someone you love can be tremendously painful and difficult to overcome. On the one hand you want to get liberated from the pain and loss. You try to compensate from it by forgetting. Others want to keep the memory of the ones they have lost, because they fear the loneliness, and thereby find it challenging letting them go because death is so hard to accept. That is the reason why people find other ways to keep the memory of a lost person, like pretending they see the dead as ghosts or angels. This paradox and theme is presented in the short story ‘’No Angel,’’ written by Bernie McGill in 2010, where our main character deals with the loneliness and grief. The short story is told in first person narrative in a limited point of view. We see the events through our main characters eyes, who’s name we are not told, which gives us a specific and circumstantial information about her thoughts. The disadvantage of this kind of narration is that we only get one point of view and thereby the main character can be essentially unreliable, and important information and happenings can be omitted from the story, but in this case it has no influence on the plot because of the composition in this short story. The composition is jumping in time with flashbacks and flash-forwards...
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...Purpose: Myriam’s purpose is to tell the audience that in America even if your first language is not english, there is a time and place where you can speak it. and to show how the public reacts on these situation. Audience: The audience are the people whose first language is not English, and ,in general, for anyone who speaks a foreign language in a place where all present are english speaker. Thesis: Myriam’s thesis was placed on the fourth paragraph on her essay when she said that "For me and most of the bilingual people I know, it's a matter of respect for our parents and comfort in our cultural roots." Tone: her essay was written in an informal way, and she pose herself at the same level of her audience, when she start with a short...
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