...College Essay Cancer is something you don’t really take seriously until it hits close to home. You might hear stories of cancer here and there but what can you really do about it? Nothing, nothing until you or one of your loved one has it. When that’s the case you want to search the world for all the unanswered questions you have. Cancer might be a common disease among the population but it isn’t common once your loved one has it. My story begins with my birthday, however, this specific birthday was not the day happiness. On this typical school day, I couldn’t wait to get home and wait for all the wishes my family was going to give me. My fifteen-year-old self on the side curb waiting to be picked up by my father to take me home. As I get...
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...Sea Story - Analytical essay The short story, ”Sea Story”, is written in 2012 by Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, better knows as A.S. Byatt. A.S. Byatt is an English writer, who mostly writes novels and poems. She has won several prizes for her work, and was on the top 50 list of the greatest British writers since 1945. She is now 79 years old and lives in Sheffield, England. In the short story, “Sea Story”, the main character is called Harold. Harold is a poet who studies eels in the Caribbean. The story is roughly about him trying to win the love of his life, Laura. Harold has always lived close to the seas and was also born near it. His parents loved the seas and everything about it, so that is why Harold loves the sea so much. His grandfather also loved the sea, so that is where Harold’s father got his love for the sea from. Harold’s mother “wrote fierce little poems about waves and weather” (P. 1, L. 7-8). Laura, who is another character in the story, chose life on the sea. Harold chose life on land studying English, because of his mother’s interest in English literature. Both of them carries the sea in their heart, but in two different ways. That is the difference between them Laura and Harold. Harold has a big love for Laura. He sends letters and e-mails to her trying to get in touch with her, but with no luck. After trying these ways, he tries to get in touch with her by throwing a bottle in the ocean, containing one of his letters. This almost succeed as...
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...Assignment A - Analytical essay The short story “Sea Story” is written by A.S Byatt in 2013. A tale of one man’s lost love, a comment on today’s carelessness concerning our nature and the adventure of one single bottle’s contribute towards environmental disaster. In the very first sentence of the story, the reader is introduced to the main character, a man born by the sea. The writer makes it obvious from the very start that nature – or more specific, water, is an important theme throughout the story. The first part of the story gives a brief summery of this man’s life and character, a characterization defined by the ocean to such degree that the man almost becomes the body of water himself “his mother’s birth pangs began when she was walking by the shoreline […] He was born in […] a fishing town […] His father was an oceanographer […] His mother […] wrote poems about water and weather…”. Momentarily, the reader might get an impression of the man being in love with the ocean, but many things would argue against that. Rather than loving the ocean as something tangible, he is more concerned with the abstract aspect of it. An aspect that especially comes across through literature and poetry, why he followed “his mother to study English literature, and to teach.” The main character creates a distance between himself and the ocean by making it intangible, making the water something dangerous and “inhuman”. When he falls in love he is immediately shocked, making the reader certain...
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...The danger of single story when it comes to judging people or made any perspective towards others we generally very quick on it. Whenever any story, news or information about something comes to us, we generally believe in this story and make respective about it in the same way. People make their perspective towards other and judge them before even they actually meet them. In this TED talk, Adichie talks about how she become a victim of a single story of others and how others were a victim of her single story. Throughout ted talk, she explained it in very well-mannered fashion by giving the examples from her personal life experiences. I choose this topic because this topic is related...
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...Essay about the short story: Pool by Corey Campbell The short story “Pool” is about the couple Darla and Jon. The overarching theme in the story is: unhappiness in relationships, and failing marriages which both are very relevant to the society in which we live in. The author (Cory Campbell) is trying to shed some light on how it is being in an unhappy relationship. The main character Darla is a young woman, and even though we aren’t told her age, based on the quotes: “Darla herself, just older than the couple” and “now they were in year four”, I would conclude that the other couple are in their mid-twenties which I take to mean that she is in her late twenties. Darla doesn’t want kids, which is one of the minor themes in the short story. She isn’t very confident in her looks which we can conclude from this snippet of the text: “she hated others seeing her in her swimsuit”. Darla is in an unhappy relationship with Jon, which after their condom split is tenser than before. They have been a couple for just under a year, and Darla has recently realized that she isn’t happy in their relationship which we can see in this quote from the text: “what she liked best about him, Darla realized earlier in the car, was that it wasn’t going to last”. He is also pressuring her to do things she doesn’t want to do throughout the entire short story, for example when he is trying to get her to drink alcohol even though she isn’t allowed to drink, because of the morning-after pill that she...
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...“The Story of an Hour” is a short story, written by Kate Chopin, which conveys the heavy use of irony and symbolism to express the feelings of the main character, Louise Mallard, as she deals with the sudden loss of her husband. Published in 1894, “The Story of an Hour” portrays a young woman who has learned of the death of her husband and is then overcome with a series of different emotions as the story progresses (Chopin). Evident in the story, the symbols portray a wide array of meaning as it describes the feeling of freedom that overcomes Louise as she begins to realize that the death of her husband is more of a blessing than a tragedy. Furthermore, the feelings that Louise begins to feel after she has come to her realization are apparent through the...
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...Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie warn us about the single story in “The Danger of The Single Story”. Everyone has many complex stories in their life. These stories can be about their culture, religion, race, gender, economic background or talents, but people these days are just ruining these incredible stories with stereotypes and view others with a single story. The single story is not a wrong observation about someone but is just an unfinished story that we didn’t know about that person. I still remember the “single story” that I had to deal with when my family moved to America from Vietnam in 2010. I attended a good quality middle school in Oakland, where a lot of middle school students thought an Asian immigrant student like myself was bad at English in learning and communication. Therefore, they made fun of my accent, and the way I pronounced words in English. I was motived to show them that I could get better at communication. There was more to...
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...For years, women have been oppressed by men and have long been considered man’s inferior. Kate Chopin’s short story, “The Story of An Hour”, depicts the life of a woman who feels free and empowered after receiving the news of her husband’s death. Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions” was presented to change the discrimination women were constantly faced with. Women have persistently fought for equality, specifically in education, job status, and voting rights. Kate Chopin’s “The Story of An Hour” is a anecdote about a married woman, Louise Mallard, who discovers her husband has died in a railroad accident. Louise Mallard begins to mourn her husband’s death in the bathroom, then suddenly feels a sense of freedom and empowerment. “‘Free! Body...
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...An Essay on the Short Story P rospect House This English short story, which was published in Harlot Red in 2002 , has been adapted from a short story by Frances Childs . The story deals with the themes of friendship and love. Love is very fundamental, if you want to be happy. Right from our birth our parents love us, which is a love that lasts no matter what happens. Also it is necessary to have a girl- or boyfriends who shows affection and care for you and besides that the love from friends is very important in order to have a good life. The main character called experiences love through her friends, but she doesn’t have a boyfriend or parents, who take care of her. Frances Childs makes use of a first-person narrator and thus the story is told from Kimpoint of view. As readers we soon become aware of Kim’s r background and we learn that she has an unhealthy relationship with love. She doesn’t even remember the name of the boy, with whom she has slept and who transmitted her with Hep B and a venereal disease. This also shows us that she doesn’t take care of herself. The other girls in the Prospect House don’t take care of themselves either. They give birth just because they want somebody to love them and Di gets pregnant just to get out of Prospect house and not because she really wants a child. Probably Kim has gn up without caring parents and this has made her life hard. “ I know that I am that girl, motherless, seething with desire, pushed into a world that...
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...Literary Analysis of The Story of an Hour Oppression is dominant in many traditional styled marriages, suggesting that the woman stay at home to see to the man’s needs and to bore children, only to later end up old and sad and without independence, seeking resolution and finding only anguish and regret in her endeavors. Death in many cultures is looked upon as a sad event, and in others is respectively as a joyous moment, not because the victim was deceased, but because they are thought to have moved on to a new life. What these two concepts have in common may be vague at first glance, but after reading The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin, one can begin to piece together the relationship between these two concepts. The title ultimately has the ability to tell the story before one even has to lay eyes on the first sentence. The Story of an Hour suggests that the woman’s life begin at the very moment that her husband's ended, in other words, this is where her story began. The title goes on to suggest that her new life only lasted for one short hour until she abruptly perished. No other detailed information about how her life was previous to this...
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...While reading Kate Chopin "Story Of An Hour", she gives off a very unique message to everyone that reads it. The story follows a woman named Mrs. Mallard and her 1 hour of freedom that she had after she thinks her husband in dead. In Kate Chopin's "The Story Of An Hour", Chopin portrays situational irony along with an exciting tone to express how little women are understood when it comes to marriage and stereotypes. Chopin's uses a celebratory tone in parts of the story expresses how freeing women felt when finally able to be themselves again after a marriage that was tying them down is broken off. When Mrs. Mallard finally realizes that her husband is "gone for good", Chopin writes,"What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being! 'Free! Body and soul free!' She kept whispering" (101). The...
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...CHAPTER 4 Promoting Children’s School-Readiness Growth with Academic, Persistence, Social and Emotion Coaching I n the first chapters we have talked about the importance of teachers nurturing their students’ social and emotional growth by promoting positive relationships with their students and their families and by scaffolding a safe classroom learning environment by setting up predictable routines, clear rules, and effective limit setting. These are core teaching strategies that provide the foundation of the teaching pyramid described in Chapter One that supports early school age children’s learning growth and eventual academic achievement. Incredible Teachers: Nurturing Children's Social, Emotional, and Academic Competence. (Excerpt.) ©Carolyn Webster-Stratton 134 Incredible Teachers In this chapter we will discuss another foundational teaching tool; that is, scaffolding children’s learning interactions with peers and teachers with coaching methods that support their school readiness growth, academic success, and social emotional development. This coaching involves using descriptive comments to highlight specific learning skills such as persistence with learning something new, focused activity, cooperation, emotion regulation, and patience. This approach addresses the social, cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and academic elements of children’s school readiness. School readiness implies that students have made significant progress toward...
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...O Supremo dos Sem Nome foi convocado. Invocado em sacrifícios de sangue, aguarda-se o retorno daqueles que caminham sem andar. Fustigado pela chuva, noite de inverno , os braços em cruz de uma figura masculina estendem-se no limiar do precipício. Trinta metros abaixo massas de água imensas estoiram, com fúria, nas escarpas. O ser vira o olhar para a sua direita e um esgar dos seus caninos aguçados fixa-se na poucas luzes acesas na povoação. Ele fechará o círculo, sete sangues de sete mulheres escorrerão para o Atlântico e Eles voltarão . Fome , o desejo de agradar aos seus Deuses faz com que os olhos vermelhos lacrimejem de luxúria carnívora. Parte , como os da sua raça , uma brisa ainda mais fria que a nortada que abana as persianas fechadas ; lá em baixo, algumas luzes , poucas. Guia-se pelo cheiro, precisa de uma fêmea, apetecível aos gostos de seus exigentes Senhores. A pequena aldeia das Azenhas do Mar está vazia de iguarias. Inverte o voo e pousa no telhado da antiga escola primária que ainda se ergue junto às falésias. Inclinando a cabeça para trás aspira o aliseu que traz o odor de desodorizantes juvenis e a batida , perto , ali mesmo ao lado ,na Praia das Maças. O Mal alado parte para lá. Evita os locais mais movimentados. A sua arte faz-se nas vielas mais escuras onde ecoam passos de gente só . Percorrendo os telhados ,numa corrida feita de silêncios rápidos, os seus ouvidos sensíveis captam um “Boa noite ” de uma voz doce , o som provêm de perto. Assume a forma...
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...all marriages have happy endings, not all marriages last forever and moving on can be difficult. That is what the short story Reconciliation, written by Polly Clark, is trying to tell us. The story is written in 1st person because we are able to read what she is thinking and feeling – even when she doesn’t know it: “It’s my first day, I cycled here” etc. It all starts “in medias res”, where the reader is thrown into the events and quickly forced to understand everything that is happening. The fact that it’s the narrator who tells the story gives a very good insight into her world and what she is thinking and that is very important when you have to characterize her. The story takes place in an office and we follow the narrator and main character, Laura, as she has her first day at her new job. Not just any job, it’s also where her husband works. Her husband is called Vernon Pringle and Laura describes him as a turtle: “..His name is Vernon. He looks like a turtle. More specifically he looks like a turtle without a carapace which gives him a rather exposed and nervous air.” He is also described in a more bad way: “His arms in his shiny blue shirt are curved protectively around his papers, as if all of us, being human, are prone to cheating”. That shows how little he trusts people and is always trying to protect what is his from all others.” When the story starts and Laura describes her clothing and appearance she seems very normal and not really too interesting. Laura has been...
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...Appealing Many of us will never be homeless, and not everyone understands the benefit of having a wife, but after reading the essays’, Homeless (Quindlen, A. n.d.) and I Want a Wife (Brady, J. 1971), one can gain a better understanding of both. I am a wife. Therefore, I can certainly connect with the narrator’s story of I Want a Wife. This is a narrative essay, in which the narrator reflects on why she too would like to have a wife after a visit with a recently divorced male friend, who is looking for a new wife. The narrator gives a list of duties and activities she will and will not do if she had a wife, and she can visualize the benefits a wife could afford her with less responsibilities and more time for school or friends. My other essay of choice is quite different in theme, but it is still relatable. Anne Quindlen’s essay, Homeless (n.d.) is a short descriptive essay with the narrator retelling of an account when she met a woman, who she believes is homeless, at the bus terminal. It is during the encounter that the narrator reflects on homeless people in general, the homeless individual and about herself. Both of these essays’ are well written, however, I feel that Homeless (Quindlen, A. n.d.), is a more appealing essay than I Want a Wife (Brady, J. 1971), as it allows the reader to become more engaged in the descriptions and reflect on the details of the story. Whenever I first start reading any type of literature, the first thing I notice is the writing style of the author...
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