... Harvard. Harvard. Harvard. Everyday the name of the college still prances around in my mind like a rabbit. The thought of going to one of the highest ranked school in the nation always excites me. My parents would be so proud of me. Pursuing my dream and becoming an astronomer -- or even better, an astronaut--is the best thing I could ever achieve for myself. It can only happen, however, if you have near perfect grades, and that’s exactly what I’m shooting for. Though in my younger years, I could care less about school. As a young child, school was simple, bland, and somewhat repetitive. I wasn’t too concerned about my grades. Why would I be? All you had to do was color and do times tables. It was as easy as cutting a cake! Now you need to know how to composite functions, or remember that the lithosphere comes before the asthenosphere. We might as well study brain surgery next! Back in my early elementary days, I remember always getting A’s and B’s, and I was proud of that! I was the queen in my own eyes. My first day of middle school came along, and I was truly excited! I thought, “Wow, I’m a big kid now!” Despite my temporary pride, I was put in a resource math class, and even then I was struggling. Though that’s the year I started to care about my education. I finished the first quarter with A’s, B’s, and a D. I was very proud of myself! From there, I began slowly progressing into only A’s and B’s. I was still struggling a bit, but I started to actually try. I finally...
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...Leonard,1923-. p. 299-304 (PS9991.C375). New writing from the Philippines: a critique and anthology by Casper, Leonard,1923-. p. 280 (PS9991.C375). New writing from the Philippines: a critique and anthology by Casper, Leonard,1923-. p. 297 (PS9991.C375). New writing from the Philippines: a critique and anthology by Casper, Leonard,1923-. p. 295-296 (PS9991.C375). New writing from the Philippines: a critique and anthology by Casper, Leonard,1923-. p. 293-294 (PS9991.C375). New writing from the Philippines: a critique and anthology by Casper, Leonard,1923-. p. 157-164 (PS9991.C375). New writing from the Philippines: a critique and anthology by Casper, Leonard,1923-. p. 281-281 (PS9991.C375). From book to stage :adaptation of classic Filipino stories by Florentino, Alberto S.. p. 28-37 (PS9992.3.F45). New writing from the Philippines: a critique and anthology by Casper, Leonard,1923-. p. 285 (PS9991.C375). New writing from the Philippines: a critique and anthology by Casper, Leonard,1923-. p. 288 (PS9991.C375). New writing from the Philippines: a critique and anthology by Casper, Leonard,1923-. p. 286 (PS9991.C375). New writing from the Philippines: a critique and anthology by Casper,...
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...War Has No Boundaries The short story “The Sniper” was written by Liam O’Flaherty. The Sniper was published on January 12, 1923. Liam O’Flaherty was born on August 28, 1898. Liam grew up in a poverty-stricken village on Irishmore Island in County Galway on the western coast of Ireland (Cummings,2007). O’Flaherty joined the British Army during the First World War in 1915. He wrote the sniper on his findings during the Irish Civil War. The main ideas that Liam was trying to represent are war has no boundaries, that war reduces humans into mere objects, and individualism. The Irish Civil War began on June 28, 1922 and ended May 24, 1923. The war claimed more lives than the war of independence did. The conflict broke out between two opposing sides: The Free State, and Republican Opposition. The Anglo-Irish Treaty arose from the Irish War of Independence. The treaty provided for a self-governing Irish state in twenty-six of Ireland’s thirty-two counties. The Free State supported the treaty while the treaty represented the republican side. The split between the two opposing sides was very personal. The leaders on the opposing side were very close friends, and were comrades during the Irish War of Independence. The leader of the republican was...
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...war has a variety of emotions on the soldiers involved. In the short story “The Sniper”, written by Liam O’Flaherty, takes place during the Irish Civil War. The Irish Civil War took place during 1921 and lasted until 1922. The treaty of Anglo-Irish Treaty was the foremost cause that led to the civil war. The treaty provided the Irish Free-State with a tremendous amount of independence and separated the power the IRA had in war. The protagonist’s, an unknown IRA sniper, mission is to take out an enemy Free-State sniper. Throughout the story he is face with war like challenges that he has to embark on. The short story “The Sniper” is about an experienced sniper and the lasting effects that the civil war is having...
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...Karissa Moyla Prof. Bryant Journal 1 The ideas raised in “Introduction: The Art of the Short Story” can be applied to the short stories “Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and “The Haunted House” by Virginia Woolf because they both followed the three things make it a short story. First, in both stories the actions were condensed, secondly the characters of both stories were compressed into exploring one action, and lastly both use poetic prose. In “Story of an Hour” when Louise hears that her husband has died she cries tears of joy and says “Free! Body and soul free!” meaning she’s now free of him and didn’t have to be held back by anyone anymore. When her husband Brently walks through the door at the end of the story she is shocked only because she was so overwhelmed with his death and being able to live her life and seeing him alive takes away all that. In “The Haunted House” the author Virginia Woolf shows it’s a short story by poetic prose meaning her use of image allows us to see what she is saying without having a picture in front of us. In the short story it says, “The wind falls, the rain slides silver down the grass. Our eyes darken; no hear no steps beside us; we see no lady spread her ghostly cloak”. While reading this part in the story you can imagine it all happening. You can see the three main points of short stories brought up in the stories by Kate Chopin and Virginia...
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...‘’VIEWPOINTS’’ The Story Of The Hour, by Kate Chopin, is about woman who struggles with oppression brought on by her husband and her secret desire for freedom. Mrs. Mallard doesn’t know how truly unhappy she is until she is told that he has died in train accident. The story is limited to a third-person point of view, but is not short on drama thanks to the structure and style of Chopin’s writing. Her theme of oppression is reveled by the irony of the story, in which she discovers a sense of freedom quickly after her husbands death. Chopin uses symbolism to emphasis this newly found feeling. The main character Mrs. Louise Mallard is a very easy to relate to. The structure and style that Chopin uses in The Story Of The Hour, is used to exaggerate the drama of what is taking place. She uses very short paragraphs the majority being only two to or three sentences a piece. The story is about the hour after Louise find out her husband is dead. It bring us quickly from a state of morning to a place where she realizes that she is “free” from the bondage of her husband. The structure of the story is reflects the intensity of emotions she exhibits. The length of the story leaves no room for a drawn out exposition, we shoot quickly from the that to the climax and end just as quickly after that. There is a lot of repetition through out the story, which she uses to emphasize the importance of certain points she makes. The word “open” is repeatedly used through out the story, “open window”(69)...
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...A heart symbolizes love as white symbolizes purity. Without symbolism stories wouldn’t be as deep or interesting as many are today. Along with symbolism, allusions really help when creating a fascinating story. The short stories named “Harrison Bergeron” , ‘2BR02B” , and “The Lottery consists of many symbolism and allusions. To begin with, the short story Harrison Bergeron written by Kurt Vonnegut symbolizes many dark history moments. For example, the handicapper general symbolizes a dictator whom we can allud with Adolf Hitler back in World War 2. Symbolism also occurs when Harrison breaks and tears off the handicaps of the most graceful ballerina along with his. As he breaks off the handicaps he is symbolizing freedom. He is breaking free from their so called perfect utopia. Before the tearing of the ballerina’s handicaps, there is a moment when Harrison asks if there is anyone who'd dance with him or break away. At this moment the ballerina rises to her feet volunteering herself, which could...
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...between the Northern and Southern states began because they had different views of the human rights and the southern states still used blacks as slaves in some areas. This war was called the Civil War. The short story “The Whipping Boy” is about the three slaves Martha, Mikey, and, Tommy, who have lived as slaves during the Civil War. It’s a short story about slavery, freedom and their revenge on Sterling Gage who has tortured the three slaves throughout their lives. The short story is published in 2011 and is written by the author Richard Gibney. The short story shows how harsh and brutal it was to be a slave and how they fight to achieve freedom. It also shows how revengeful the slaves were because they were treated very badly throughout their lives. The short story takes place in the United States in the end of the American Civil War. “It was the day after the boy from the Union had come to the farm to let the slaves know they were freemen” (Page 1 lines 1-2). This is the first quotation in the short story and it already tells us that it takes place in America in the Southern states. The key word “the Union” says that the story takes place in the Southern states because the Union is in the North and the boy came from the Union. The slaves in the Northern states were already free at this moment and they fight for freedom of the slaves in the Southern states. Therefore, we can assume that it takes place in the southern states. There are several opinions about what caused the...
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...DiGualo ENG125: Introduction to Literature (ADI1303A) Reader-response approach was the best way to look at The Story of an Hour. I connected on different levels with the story of a woman who fell out of love with her husband. The short story is written with two tones one of somber and one of joy. The writer goes between the two and shows how one event can span different emotions. The Story of an Hour is a wonderfully written short story that spoke to me. The two completely different tones of the piece drew me in. The story begins with a somber mood as the lady of the home is being told about the death of her husband. “She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance.” The tone in this sentence can be seen as somber, but it my also have a happy undertone. The loss of your soul mate should be a sad event, but perhaps that may not always be the case. As the story goes on the tone changes to one of elation as Mrs. Mallard begins to realize she is free from her husband. She begins to imagine her life without the burden of pretending to be in love with him. She makes her way down the stairs only to find her husband waiting at the end. Her heart condition gets the best of her and she dies on the spot. The last sentence brings the tone full circle and back to somber. The drama in this short story grabbed my attention, the tones changed fast. Reader-response approach looks at how a reader will connect...
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...novelist and short stories author in the later years of her life. She grew up in the mid 1800's, which was during the time of the Civil War. Kate Chopin was not your ordinary, obedient woman in the time of her existence. Women were taught to be submissive and quiet while Kate was taught by her widowed role models to be independent and outspoken. One of Kate's most famous works was "The Story of an Hour" which is centered on a woman named Louise Mallard who is diagnosed with heart disease. Her husband died in a railroad accident and her sister Josephine informs her as delicately as possible because of her condition. At first, Louise Mallard is heartbroken and mourns her husband's death, then as she looks ahead to what her future holds, she realizes that she is...
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...Essay about the short story A Gap of Sky By Anne Hope, 2008 The short story A Gab of Sky reflects on the topic of youth. It deals with the problems and possibilities of being young while living in central London. It is in the youth a person is able to create his or hers own personality and figure out how they want to spend their lives. It is also during the youth a person can truly be free to do, feel and think about whatever they wish, without having to deal with the obligations and responsibilities that follows being an adult just yet. The short story was written with a third person narrator, but the reader follows Ellie throughout the story, and we hear about her thoughts and actions. Being able to know how she thinks, gives the reader an insight in how she sees and experiences the world that surrounds her. Also the story is given an extra edge because the tone of the short story is influenced by Ellie’s vocabulary, which isn’t exactly a nice one: “Fuuuuuuck (…) Oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit” (l. 12-13). This also gives a presentation of who Ellie is as a person, and what the area, she lives in, is like. The main character in the short story is Ellie. She is nineteen years old, and lives in something like a student hall in London. She is studying, but not because she really wants to. She stays up late to party and skips school in the mornings. Her last change for staying on the “bloody course” (l. 66), as she calls it, is to turn in the essay due to the...
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...Analysis Essay on “A Sorrowful Woman” Gail Godwin signifies that not all women want to be a full time wife and mother in her short story, “A Sorrowful Woman.” This idea of feminism helps the audience understand the poignant character and her actions. Gail Godwin incorporates this epigraph, “There once was a wife and mother one too many times.”(1st Sent.) This quote at the beginning of her short story implies that the woman should not have been a wife or mother. Her unhappiness in (Para. 1) is based on how she was so sad and it made her sick to see her husband and son. She did not want to be a wife or mother so she tried new things. “She tried these personalities on like costumes, then discarded them.”(Para. 20) This shows how she could not pin-point her true identity; therefore, she tried new personalities, but none of them worked. (Critical Analysis of “A Sorrowful Woman”) When she picked up the pen and pad and attempted to write a poem (Para. 20). She failed to succeed. Because she wanted to be free, all the freedom she did have seemed overwhelming. The sorrowful woman sought to be independent. She moved into her little room and slowly but surely disconnects from her son and husband by not seeing them anymore. (“Critical Analysis of “A Sorrowful Woman”) Because the sorrowful woman could not identify herself, her husband had to fulfill her roles. “I don’t know what to do, it’s all my fault, I’m such a burden.” (Para. 15) The husband, always understanding her feelings, hires...
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...Villa’s A Footnote to Youth 9 THE MAKING OF JOSE GARCIA VILLA’S FOOTNOTE TO YOUTH Jonathan Chua Ateneo de Manila University jchua@ateneo.edu This article recounts the story behind the publication of Villa’s stories and his book Footnote to Youth: Tales of the Philippines and Others (1933) in the United States. First, the conditions of the American literary marketplace are briefly described. Second, documents pertaining to the realization in print of Villa’s stories and his book are analyzed as sites of negotiations between colonial subject (Villa) and the colonial master (his American editors and publishers). Finally, an account of how Villa was made to circulate in the Philippines after the publication of his stories and his book in the United States is given. From these discussions the article hopes to show that Villa’s self-fashioning by publication was both subject to and critical of the colonial condition, alternately reinforcing it and challenging it. Abstract Philippine literature in English, book history, postcolonialism, exotic, author Keywords Jonathan Chua teaches at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of the Ateneo de Manila University. He is the editor of The Critical Villa: Essays in Literary Criticism by Jose Garcia Villa (2002). His edition of the collected short stories of Jose Garcia Villa is forthcoming from the Ateneo de Manila University Press. About the Author Kritika Kultura 21/22 (2013/2014): –039 © Ateneo de Manila University ...
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...browse our large digital warehouse of free sample ... Kerima Polotan Tuvera's The Virgin: The Feminist Approach ... ezinearticles.com › Book Reviews › Short Stories Mar 31, 2014 - Kerima Polotan Tuvera was a renowned Filipino author. ... and discovery of the story or any kind of literary piece using character analysis. lit102: philippine literature: The Virgin by Kerima Polotan lit102.blogspot.com/2007/08/virgin-by-kerima-polotan.html 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 ... The Virgin By Kerima Polotan Tuvera Story Analysis Free ... www.studymode.com/.../the-virgin-by-kerima-polotan-tuvera-story-anal... The Virgin by Kerima Polotan-Tuvera Kerima Polotan-Tuvera's “The Virgin” is a short story that is centered on two characters namely Miss Mijares and The ... Analysis Of The Short Story Th Virgin By Kerima Polotan ... www.studymode.com/.../analysis-of-the-short-story-th-virgin-by-kerima-... The Virgin by Kerima Polotan-Tuvera Kerima Polotan-Tuvera's “The Virgin” is a short story that is centered on two characters namely Miss Mijares and The ... The Virgin by Irish Mozo on Prezi https://prezi.com/xtxfob03vdy4/the-virgin/ Nov 13, 2012 - The Virgin by Kerima Polotan Tuvera Kerima Polotan Tuvera Characters Theme PLOT •Her 1952 short story, The Virgin, won two first prizes: of ...
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...The Sniper ”The Sniper” is a short story written by Liam O’Flaherty in 1923. The story is about The Irish Civil War taking place in Dublin in 1922. The war was between the Free Staters and the Republicans, who strongly disagreed about the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921. Long story short the Free Staters were Irishmen who supported the treaty contrary to the Republicans who fanatically opposed. The Sniper is the main character and is on the Republicans’ side. The author is very detailed in his description of the sniper: ” a man who is used to looking at death”. Especially this phrase is very effective because it instantly gives the impression that he may have very cold looking eyes, thus he seems cold, careless and cynical. Also the quotations: “He had been too excited to eat.” and ”…but his eyes had the cold gleam of the fanatic” support this. The word excited’ suggests that he enjoys having the chance to fight. He seems very determined and devoted, which shows how personal this battle is. I think he sees himself as a true freedom-fighter and maybe even a hero. He is the one who doesn’t compromise. However deeper into the story, it is clear that that is not entirely the case: “The sniper looked at his enemy falling and he shuddered.” This shows that he is able to kill, although he does not enjoy doing it. The phrase: He began to gibber to himself, cursing himself, cursing everybody,” Here one gets the feeling that he starts to realize the bitter irony of Irish...
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