...a culture takes certain aspects of another. The interactions between different cultures, the point of view, and the suppression of the inferior culture portrays “Our Time” as a twentieth-century counterpart to the New Chronicle. Multiple cultures interact constantly in “Our Time”. Robby and John represent different cultures. Robby grew up surrounded by crime and violence. He also comes from a lower educational group. John, even though he is Robby’s brother, grew up to be a different culture than Robby. He went to college and people that were vastly different from Robby surrounded him. John describes his struggle with projecting Robby’s voice in the story because of their different cultural backgrounds. They grew to become two separate cultures that interacted with each other throughout the story. 3 1/2 - 4 pgs remove green part show 3 ways it is counterpart from thesis in para 1 Offik 1 One of the more apparent cultural interactions is the racial clash between blacks and whites. John describes multiple times where two cultures interact. When he describes the Homewood community, he points out how it differs when it is the “old Homewood” the way that Robby’s mom describes it to when it changed to...
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...The story of La Llorana, or the crying woman, is a very popular folk tale in the Spanish-American community. It has been passed down from generation to generation as a precautionary tale. Growing up in a predominately Mexican community, La Llorana is the most popular folk tale ever. It has been portrayed in paintings, movies, books, etc. This story has been used to scare children from going out late at night and to prevent them from doing anything they are not supposed to be doing. My first-hand experiences are few to none on this story, but I have been told stories by my parents and grandparents. As a child, I was told the story of La Llorana from a very early age. My mom first told me the story around my teenage years when I began to go out later at night. She always...
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...Tomorrow Is Too Far VATE Inside Stories 2014 This is the other story in the collection, which is told in the second person and it is considered the more powerful one by many reviewers. This story looks back eighteen years to an incident in the narrator’s childhood, one which has had a major impact on her whole life. The narrator reflects on the last summer before everything changed – her parents divorced, she never returned to Nigeria or saw her father’s family again. The memory begins eighteen years earlier in Nigeria at grandmamma’s place where the American-Nigerian narrator, her older brother Nonso and her cousin Dozie were all staying. Grandmamma favoured Nonso as the eldest grandson and the only one to carry the ‘Nnabuisi name’ (p.188) and largely ignored the other two. This was the summer that Nonso died, leaving grandmamma and her American daughter-in-law grief stricken. The narrator felt alienated from them both. The action moves from the memory to the present where the narrator has arrived back in Nigeria, having been called by Dozie for the first time in eighteen years and told about the death of her grandmother. Dozie tells her that he is surprised to see her because he knows how much she hated grandmamma. She recalls Nonso’s funeral and the months later where she told her mother that he died because grandmamma sent him up the avocado tree ‘to show how much of a man he was’ (p.194) and then frightened him by telling him there was a snake there. She also said that...
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...Tomorrow Is Too Far VATE Inside Stories 2014 This is the other story in the collection, which is told in the second person and it is considered the more powerful one by many reviewers. This story looks back eighteen years to an incident in the narrator’s childhood, one which has had a major impact on her whole life. The narrator reflects on the last summer before everything changed – her parents divorced, she never returned to Nigeria or saw her father’s family again. The memory begins eighteen years earlier in Nigeria at grandmamma’s place where the American-Nigerian narrator, her older brother Nonso and her cousin Dozie were all staying. Grandmamma favoured Nonso as the eldest grandson and the only one to carry the ‘Nnabuisi name’ (p.188) and largely ignored the other two. This was the summer that Nonso died, leaving grandmamma and her American daughter-in-law grief stricken. The narrator felt alienated from them both. The action moves from the memory to the present where the narrator has arrived back in Nigeria, having been called by Dozie for the first time in eighteen years and told about the death of her grandmother. Dozie tells her that he is surprised to see her because he knows how much she hated grandmamma. She recalls Nonso’s funeral and the months later where she told her mother that he died because grandmamma sent him up the avocado tree ‘to show how much of a man he was’ (p.194) and then frightened him by telling him there was a snake there. She also said that...
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...Night You Were Born II Kings 17:6-14 and Luke 15:17-24 Rev. Dr. Zina Jacque August 29, 2010 Beloved of God, do you know, have you ever wondered what happened on the night you were born. My family story holds that somewhere around the end of August in 1956 Dr. E.L.C. Broomes told my Mother not to get her hopes too high. After all, this was her fifth pregnancy, and though she had finally moved beyond the 30 week mark, she still had many weeks to go and she should not get her hopes too high. There was no guarantee this baby would make it. But then, on the evening of October 30th, sometime after dinner, something within my mother moved, something within her said, it is time and all the world stood still for my parents, all of the world held its breath. I do not know what thoughts ran through my mother’s mind or my father’s heart in those hours before I was born; but I know once I had arrived, once they held me in their arms, they began to rejoice. Nancy Tillman, in her book On the Night You Were Born, gives voice to the rhythm of words that might have been spoken on night you and I were born:1 On the night you were born the moon smiled with wonder. The stars peeked in to see you, all safe and tucked under And the night wind whispered and called you by name And said with a sigh, life will never be the same So enchanted with you were the wind and the rain They too whispered the sound of your wonderful name. Your name sailed past houses, high on the breeze Over oceans and mountains and...
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...A Rose for Emily is a short story that basically is broken up into 5 parts that tells of Emily Grierson’s death and the stories leading up to and surrounding it. The first section of the story talks about the death of Emily and how everyone had come to her home for her funeral. The inside of her home had not been seen in over a decade. When she was alive she was told by the town mayor, Colonel Sartoris that she would not have to pay taxes due to the large sum her father had lent to the town at one time. When new leaders of the town came along, they tried, though unsuccessfully, to make her pay taxes. She told them that she was not required to pay taxes and that they need to take it up with Colonel Sartoris. However he had been dead at that point for almost a decade. The second part goes on about Emily’s father’s death and how she was still single by the time she turned 30. Everyone in the town thought that the Griersons believed that they were better than everyone and that her dad chased away all potential suitors because no one was good enough for her. This...
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...Pol Pot. It’s filled with stories from survivors who retell their story, and survival of the genocide. All stories were told by adults who went through the regime as children. All were survivors in a part of history. Now the children’s voices of Cambodia’s killing fields can be heard. The book was written to retell a piece of history, and to make sure the history is never lost. The survivors wanted people to be aware of what they had gone through. Sarom Prak wanted people notified what happened to the people of Cambodia (71). They wanted their stories to be heard throughout the world. They don’t want another genocide to happen again in Cambodia, or anywhere around the world. The children are making their stories examples of the pain that can be caused by genocide. They want make sure nobody ever has to go through the pain they had gone through. These children were survivors during a dark time in history in Cambodia. But their stories were not solely to retell their own, but also the ones who couldn’t. The people who died during the regime were never able to let their stories be heard. These stories were also made to honor everyone who died during the Khmer Rouges ruling whether from malnutrition, malaria, getting beat or getting shot. Three different survivors added at the end of their story that they dedicated it to family and others who died in Cambodia (65,91,81). The spirit of the people killed lives on through these stories. They deserve to be recognized...
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...REALITY 1. How do you think Nea feels about her sister Sourdi based on this information? How does what s at the beginning of the story foreshadow what happen. later? In May-Lee Chia story “Saving Sourdi “tells the story of two sisters who were very close and the youngest (Nea) felt she had to save her sister (Sourdi). Nea is the narrator of the story and it is told from her perspective, so it follows her emotions, thoughts, and ideas and it all transcend time. Nea is very spontaneous character and she holds on to the memories of her and Sourdi and she do not won’t to let go of her sister. Through the beginning of the story Nea being the protagonist stated that she was eleven years old of age, someone was dissing her sister and she felt the need to save her sister. Sourdi wanted to change the way Nea was thinking but it never happen. Nea still felt hat Sourdi need saving eve after she got married. 2. This story is told from Nea’s point of view. How do you think the story would change if it were told from Sourdi’s point of view? Do you feel closer to the character than you would if this story were told in third person? If the story was told by Sourdi it would sound totally different because she is a dynamic character that seems to have changed several times throughout story. Sourdi did not want anything to happen to her sister and she told her so. Then she changed when Duke kissed her and she began a romantic relationship and wanted to spend more time with Duke than...
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...War Story Told I decided to choose the “A Soldiers Home” by Ernest Hemingway and “How to tell a War story” by Tim Obrien. I will explain each story and how the story are very similar in theme. “How to Tell a True War Story” examines the complex relationship between the war experience and storytelling. It is told half from O’Brien’s role as a soldier, as a reprise of several old Vietnam stories, and half from his role as a storyteller, as a discourse on the art of storytelling. In Tim O'Brien's short story, "How to Tell a True War Story", Rat Kiley's friend is killed. He writes to his friend's sister and when no response is given, he becomes frustrated. Due to this frustration he calls her a "dumb cooze." Following this O'Brien argues that this is a true war story because it is not moral, never to believe a war story if it seems moral. Next the story jumps to a forest where men need to be quiet for weeks. After a period of time goes by they are no longer sane. They begin to hear noises that scare them, and when they cannot take the silence and the creepiness of the forest they return to camp. When question about their return, the men do not respond, their story is in their eyes and that is enough for anyone who knows that a true war story "never seems to end," it is continuous even after it is done being told. A true war story is also never moral and does not generalize. The truth is so hard to reach. A person can go looking for the moral of the story, but will never truly...
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...today. They repeat their stories so that others can learn from their mistakes or they can be motivated to become better. Also good and bad decisions are a factor in a person’s success. Bumps in the road, poor decisions, regrets, something bad happening, road’s you take to success all align with how people in poverty relate to the world. When a situation is seemingly hopeless one minute and within the next that poor decision may have set someone on the correct path to success. Believe it or not, one of the most recognized speeches, that has touched...
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...Ken Luppold My story goes something like this, back on March 24, 2002 my beautiful wife Robin went into to labor with our second set of twin boys. The story behind the story is that was our oldest set of twins fourth birthday. You want to talk about a stage of mass confusion and chaos, but I will get to that a little bit later. Why is it that my wife is never wrong, I guess this story really began back in the fall of 1993, when I met my amazing bride to be. I knew right away that she was the one. In the first 2 years we never spent a night apart from each other. We got engaged on, Valentine’s day of the following year, and we got married in June of 1995. Through all the times, no matter if it was an argument or disagreement or even just a normal conversation she seemed never to be wrong, nothing pissed me off more. Time after time it seemed like I was never right and even if I was on the right track, she was still not wrong. So getting back to the story I would like to tell, we found out through an ultrasound eight weeks in to the pregnancy that she was going to be having twins. She told me on the way to the appointment that she believed that it was going to be twins, and again for the thousandth time told her “she was crazy”. She was once again was right, this was starting to get old with me. As they are doing the ultrasound and confirmed that there were at least two babies they kept searching despite my asking them to stop before I had a heart attack. On the way out...
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...John Hammond History 2010 Dr. Keith Krawczynski November 14, 2012 During the 19th century America was becoming a rapidly fast growing country, industrially and economically. It seemed as though things were on the right track, but there was a growing concern, regarding slavery, that had people questioning the southern region’s integrity and moral values. After all the years of slavery propaganda from the large planters more people started to realize that slavery was not a good thing after all. The planters argued that slavery was good for the African Americans because it gave them a chance to become more civilized, but people were beginning to think differently. Many people did not know what was actually happening on slave plantations. Novelists began publishing articles and books that described what they were seeing so that other people could get a sense of how the African Americans were really being treated. After slavery ended former slaves began telling their stories, and evidence was collected to validate what actually happened. The slaves wanted to let people know that their lives were not as simple as some people perceived it to be because being physically punished, abused, and owned by another human is far short of living a trouble free life. Some of the slaves did not mind being punished as long as they were given food, but others would have rather been poor than to be abused by their owners. Owners and non-slave owners wanted to instill fear in the eyes...
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...historian recently put it, "invent" the country and the political issues at stake there. The Vietnam War was in many ways a wild and terrible work of fiction written by some dangerous and frightening story tellers. First the United States decided what constituted good and evil, right and wrong, civilized and uncivilized, freedom and oppression for Vietnam, according to American standards; then it traveled the long physical distance to Vietnam and attempted to make its own notions about these things clear to the Vietnamese people—ultimately by brute, technological force. For the U.S. military and government, the Vietnam that they had in effect invented became fact. For the soldiers that the government then sent there, however, the facts that their government had created about who was the enemy, what were the issues, and how the war was to be won were quickly overshadowed by a world of uncertainty. Ultimately, trying to stay alive long enough to return home in one piece was the only thing that made any sense to them. As David Halberstam puts it in his novel, One Very Hot Day, the only fact of which an American soldier in Vietnam could be certain was that "yes was no longer yes, no was no longer no, maybe was more certainly maybe." Almost all of the literature on the war, both fictional and nonfictional, makes clear that the only certain thing during the Vietnam War was that nothing was certain. Philip Beidler has pointed out in an impressive study of the literature of that war that "most...
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... PHI-105-2 (040613) 4:30pm-5:45pm Question 1 Several times Edward Bloom told the story about the birth of his son Will and how he retrieved his golden wedding ring from the big fish on the day that his son was born. We find out later in the movie from Dr. Bennet, their family doctor, that he had a normal birth and that his father was out of town on business the day he was born. Ed’s story about the witch with a glass eye, which reveals the eventual death of anyone who looks into it. According to Ed, he and his friends all saw how their lives would end. These stories were not true. Will discovered, when he and his wife had rushed home from Paris after getting word his father was ill, there was a poetic truth behind many of his father’s stories. The giant Carl was a very tall man, but not a giant animal killer. The Siamese twins, Ping and Jing, were indeed twins but not conjoined. Sandra Templeton, his mother, who he first saw at the circus where he met his eventual lifelong friends, the ringmaster Amos Calloway, and the clown/attorney, Mr. Soggybottom, really did exist. The town of Spectre was a real town. Norther Winslow, the famous poet from his hometown of Ashton, really did exist and was a friend of Ed’s. When he was going through his father’s belongings he found a deed of a home his dad bought from Jenny in the town of Spectre. These characters and places in Ed’s life all came...
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...tragedies, and the permanent scars this war left. Students are told about the number of deaths that occurred, but they are not told about the lives that were affected, or how disturbing the war really was to the soldiers that fought in it. Much can be interpreted by what people write. The great thing about interpretations is that each writing can be interpreted differently. Just like Tim O'Brien's book titled "The Things They Carried." It is a very deep and touching collection of stories about the Vietnam War and many people’s experiences in this destructive war. One story that is a touching and very intriguing is titled, "The Man I Killed." A reader can look at this story and relate it back to things they learned in school, but the point of the story is not this but rather things that cannot be taught in public schools. This specific story goes inside a soldier's mind and shows the reader what they are thinking when they kill someone. The way that O'Brien starts this story is with great description that helps the reader visualize what is going on. He describes a mangled body that someone had recently killed; again not part of teachings in public schools. The story goes on to tell what the victims background may have been in the eyes of the soldier. How maybe he was a scholar and his parent’s farmers, or maybe why this young man was in the army, and why he was fighting. O'Brien states that the man may have joined because he was struggling for independence, just like all the people...
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