...Honor’s English 10 Modern/Contemporary Author Research Project I. Presentation Requirements A. Choose a modern/contemporary American author and selection (not poetry) by that author to develop and present in class to a small group. Provide the website or make one copy of the story if it is not in our textbook so I can make copies available for the class. B. Critically read your story (more than once) and the background information from the text. Take notes over important information. Include information about plot, character, setting, theme, any other literary technique that your author uses as well as historical and literary information from the time period. C. Research information about your author. Use the Biography sections of the textbook and appropriate resources from the Internet and library such as American Writers, Current Biography, Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Who’s Who in America, Readers Guide to Biography and Criticism, Readers Encyclopedia of American Literature, Cambridge History of American Literature, Black Women Writers at Work, etc. Use a variety of reputable sources. Limit general encyclopedia references to one. Keep track of resource information. You will need to show evidence of research and include parenthetical citations in your work. You will also need a complete, correct annotated bibliography. D. Prepare a 40-minute presentation for a group of other students...
Words: 976 - Pages: 4
...UNIVERSITY OF NORTHEASTERN PHILIPPINES City of Iriga COLLEGE OF EDUCATION ------------------------------------------------- PHILIPPINE LITERATURE Reviewer (Midterm Examination) LITERARY WORKS IN DIFFERENT PERIODS | AMERICAN REGIME (1898-1941) | 1. EL NUEVO DIA (The New Day) - newspaper | Sergio Osmeña (1900) | 2. EL GRITO DEL PUEBLO (The Call of the Nation) – newspaper | Pascual Poblete (1900) | 3. EL RENACIMIENTO (The Rebirth) – newspaper | Rafael Palma (1901) | 4. KAHAPON, NGAYON, AT BUKAS – play 5. NAPON, NGENI, AT BUKAS (Kapampangan) - play 6. LUHANG TAGALOG - play | Aurelio Tolentino | 7. TANIKALANG GINTO – play | Juan Abad | 8. MALAYA – play | Tomas Remigio | 9. WALANG SUGAT – play | Severino Reyes | 10. A RIZAL (To Rizal) – poem | Cecilio Apostol | 11. CRISALIDAS – book of poems 12.1. INVOCACION A RIZAL (Call to Rizal) – poem | Fernando Ma. Guerrero | 12. REMEMBRANCE AND FORGETFULNESS – debate | Jesus Balmori (Batikuling) | 13. OLVIDO (Forgetfulness) – debate | Manuel Bernabe | 14. BAJO LOS COCOTEROS (Under the Coconut Trees) – book of poems 15.2. ANTE EL MARTIR (Before the Martyr) – poem | Claro M. Recto | 15. EL NIDO (The Nest) – song | Adelina Guerrea | 16. AROMAS DE ENSUEÑO (Scents of Dreams) – book | Isidro Marpori | 17. LA PUNTA DE SALTO (The Place of Origin) – legend | Macario Adriatico | 18. DECALOGO DE PROTECCIONISMO | Pedro Aunario | 19. FLORANTE AT LAURA | Francisco Balagtas...
Words: 1218 - Pages: 5
...one of their eight children. Hurston and her family were originally from Notasulga, Alabama. However, they moved to Florida, when she was just a toddler and Hurston, had little, if no memory, of Notasulga. Many of her writings, reflect the culture and happenings of Eatonville, Florida. Hurston, was anything but a usual African-American woman. She defied numerous odds against her, to complete college, travel past the borders of her home town, and become something more than a poor housewife. Despite all difficulties, Hurston received her associate degree from Howard University, in the year of 1920. A few years later, she would begin working on her bachelors, at Barnard College, were she studied anthropology....
Words: 1082 - Pages: 5
...poetry, essays, and articles, as well as his well known, iconic novels (“Biography” 6). He created a fantasy realm called Middle Earth. His timeless works have inspired such cinematic masterpieces as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Tolkien had a difficult childhood. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3 in the year 1892 of Mabel Suffield and Arthur Tolkien in Bleomfontein, South Africa (“Timeline” 1). He grew up with few memories of his birthplace, though the ones he did have were thought to influence his later writings...
Words: 858 - Pages: 4
...misfortune; but great minds rise above them.” Washington Irving, a well-known short story author in the nineteenth century, spoke these words of wisdom. Washington Irving became famous in America for his fine works from The Specter Bridegroom to Rip Van Winkle to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. These satirical sketches are all based on the local areas in New York where Irving resided. His adventures through life spread the word of his writings and he became one of the first renowned short story writers in Europe. Washington Irving was born in New York, New York on April 3, 1783. His mother, Sarah, and father, William Irving, Sr., had eleven children including Washington. He was named after the United States first president, George Washington who was sought to be the greatest hero of all time to his parents. “… He attended the first presidential inauguration of his namesake in 1789” (Biography Channel). Irving was privately schooled and later went to study law in New York after his return from travelling Europe. In 1804 he travelled to France and Italy, while writing journals and letters. When he returned in 1805, Irving continued law school but did poorly for he barely passed the bar exam. (Biography Channel). After Irving finished his studies, he went on to write humorous essay with his older brother William Irving, Jr., and James Kirke Paulding. The Salamagundi papers published the essays in 1807 to 1808. Irving would often use pseudonyms or aliases such as Geoffry...
Words: 2583 - Pages: 11
...James Thurber By Rahul Patel/10 [pic] Rahul Patel Mr. Hurdle Composition 11 May, 2012 James Thurber Part I: “Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish for stomach bitters, they drive their cars into the prize tulip beds of haughty neighbors, they playfully slap gangsters, mistaking them for old school friends” (James Thurber). James Thurber was a cartoonist and an author. He was born on December 8th 1984 to his parents, Charles and Mary Thurber. Thurber’s father was a clerk and a minor politician, while his mother was a practical joker and very strong-minded. For example his mother would tell visiting guests that she was in love the post man and she had to be kept in the attic because of it. She would also tell people that she was a cripple and then she would suddenly stand up and tell everyone she had miraculously healed(James Thurber 1 of 5). James Thurber also had two brothers, William and Robert. When Thurber and William were little, they were playing with a bow and arrow, and William shot James in the eye. This led James to be partially blind and because of this injury he couldn’t participate in any sports or activities, but this injury developed a very creative imagination in Thurber’s mind. A neurologist at the time had a theory that he might have Charles Bonnet Syndrome, which is a condition that...
Words: 3160 - Pages: 13
...Since the evolution of mankind, the battle for the control of resources, fame and power has always been at the center of every society. Globalization and the discovery of new race and culture, the notion of fear and ignorance about other people has been the most predominant issue of the modern society. In my opinion the combination of these two issues (fear and ignorance) has created what is a scourge called racism. James Baldwin was a wise and prominent writer who fought against these issues through communication by either writing books or speaking at memorable events. Born in 1924 in New York and died in France in 1987, James Baldwin occupies a unique place in American letters. He is the epitome of the writer that links art to commitment, and can be found alongside Martin Luther King, Marlon Brando, Harry Belafonte and Charlton Heston at the civil rights march in 1963 at Washington. The analysis of James Baldwin was somewhat aporetic, because on one hand we could quote him saying “Every white person in this country-and I do not care what he or she says-knows one thing. They may not know, as they put, "what I want”, but they know they would not like to be black here. If they know that, then they know everything they need to know, and whatever else they say is a lie.” , which is categorical and brutal in tone. Yet on the other hand, Baldwin always tried to put himself in the place of others by attempting to understand their behavior and their motivation. In the end, we...
Words: 1100 - Pages: 5
...work-related accident when Ellison was only three years old. His mother Ida then raised Ralph and younger brother Herbert by herself, working a variety of jobs to make ends meet. In his future book of essays Shadow and Act, Ellison described himself and several of his friends growing up as young Renaissance Men, people who looked to culture and intellectualism as a source of identity. A budding instrumentalist, Ellison took up the cornet at the age of 8 and years later, as a trumpeter, attended Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, where he studied music with his eye on becoming a symphony composer. In 1936, Ellison went to New York over the summer with the intent of earning enough money to pay for his college expenses, but ended up relocating. He started to work as a researcher and writer for the New York Federal Writers Program, and was befriended by writers Richard Wright, Langston Hughes and Alan Locke, who all mentored the fledgling scribe. During this period, Ellison began to publish some of his essays and short stories, and worked as managing editor for The Negro Quarterly. Writing `Invisible` Man` Ellison started writing what would become “The invisible Man” while at a friend’s farm in Vermont. The existential novel, published in1952, focused on an African- American civil rights worker from the south who, upon his move to New York, becomes increasingly alienated due to the racism he encounters. Upon its release, Invisible Man became a runway hit, remaining on bestseller...
Words: 567 - Pages: 3
...William Thompson Professor Tatum ENGL 200 26 May, 2013 Dear Professor Tatum: For my final essay I am writing a revision of an earlier essay that I wrote. The previous essay that I am choosing to rewrite is What You Pawn I Will Redeem written by Sherman Alexie. I chose to use the first topic choice because the first thing that came to mind when I read the topics choice was my first essay. I feel that I barely scratched the surface when I wrote my first essay when the topic was over relationships within the story. Now that I am revisiting the original essay my thoughts have changed but only in that I have grown more intrigued into the life of Alexie and his character Jackson Jackson from the story What You Pawn I Will Redeem. The thing that I found to be hardest about the rewriting of the essay was to substantially change the essay, and expand on it but to stay focused enough to give clear and concise subject matter for the topic at hand. The strengths of my new essay are that I was able to expand and elaborate on my previous work while the weakness may be that I was not as focused on the main subject topic as I would have like to have been. I did try to incorporate as much information that I could from the new resources that I found from JSTOR, EBSCO, ProQuest, and Google Scholar. I do think that I did pick great resources to gain insight into the mind of Mr. Sherman Alexie. I would like to know if the research that I chose to write about piqued more interest...
Words: 1922 - Pages: 8
...Running head: ESSAY 6.1: THE STORY OF AN HOUR Essay 6.1: The Story of an Hour Jeremy Todd Macy ITT Technical Institute Essay 6.1: The Story of an Hour Freedom!!! Liberation!!! The idea of living your life for yourself, not others; it is something that we all dream of at some point in our lives, but how many of us actually achieve that? Whether we feel trapped in a job that we hate, a bad friendship, or a bad marriage, there is something inside us that yearns to be free. We long for that weight to be taken off of our shoulders. Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour takes us through these emotions, only to find out at the end that these emotions are fleeting, and then reality sets in. What will be discussed in this paper is the plot of the story and those feelings that are experienced, Kate Chopin’s life experiences and how that experience influenced this story, as well as my reaction to the story. The story starts off with Mrs. Mallard( we don’t know her first name) being told some distressing news. Josephine, her sister, is trying to relay this horrible news in the most delicate matter. Mrs. Mallard has severe heart problems, although she is young. Brentley, her husband, was killed in a train accident. She weeps, with “sudden, wild abandonment”, at the news (Woodlief, Study Text). She then sinks into an armchair, and begins to ponder the future. The sky opens up, showing the calming blue. Her horizons seem to broaden, she gets a feeling of starting over, fresh. She is still...
Words: 1310 - Pages: 6
...NORTH AMERICAN FICTION BRIEF INTRODUCTION: Before starting our study of American Fiction we must understand what American Literature is in itself and which pieces of writing we can include within this label. It is believed that when a piece is written in North America, more precisely in the USA, it would automatically be given this epithet. But it should be taken into account that this idea is quite broad and doesn’t reflect the real essence of the term. However, there is also another definition that gathers this essence: American Literature is the one that represents the Americanism, the singularity of the USA philosophy and culture. This way, instead of focusing on who the author is, it is focused on the content of the writing. In that which concerns Fiction, the following documents are the ones considered as narrative: Speeches Letters Short Stories Essays Political Documents Sermons Novels Diaries 1 FIRST LITERARY EXPRESSIONS The first documents in which the idea of Americanism is very present are the Sermons. They respond to the strict Protestantism settled in the New Continent after the arrival of the Pilgrim Fathers and Puritans in the Mayflower (1620) and the Arabella (1630). They established a theocratic community whose main and only point of reference was the Bible. That is why the idea of the ‘city upon a hill’ is still very present in American mentality. As we all know...
Words: 12691 - Pages: 51
...Obama's First Year and a Half as POTUS" Introduction Barrack Obama became the 44th President of the United States of America on January 20th, 2009. He is the first African American to take office and with his presidency he promised to make changes to America that would liberate the American people from crisis into a bright new beginning. In his Inauguration speech, he claimed to mend the financial crisis by stimulating jobs and laying a “new foundation for growth” (Naughton, “Inauguration speech”). He promised to rebuild the Nation’s foundations such as roads, bridges, electric grids, and digital lines, to revive the prosperity and importance of science, to increase the care and lower the cost of health care, to mend the threat of global warming, to enact peace with Afghanistan, to withdraw from Iraq, and to transform the educational system to meet the conditions of a new era (Naughton, “Inauguration speech”). Throughout his first year as president Obama has enacted many policies and regulations such as the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and Health Care Bill. However, has Obama stayed true to his original promises stated throughout his campaigns, in his Inauguration speech, as well as his first State of Union speech. Has Obamba’s first year been a success or a failure? This essay will explore the history of Obama’s ascend to presidency, his success and failures, and an overall evaluation of Obama’s first year in office. The Rise of Barrack Obama ...
Words: 4009 - Pages: 17
...PASIG CATHOLIC COLLEGE College Department Course Syllabus Course No: History 1 Course Title: Philippine History Credit Units: 3 I. COURSE DESCRIPTION This course deals with the history of the Philippines from the ancient past to the present scene to the pro-Filipino point of view. It aims to enrich the students’ knowledge of our history and character as a people thus, instilling in them the spirit of Filipinism. The students’ learning of the history of our country will be facilitated thru the use of the interpretative method because in history interpretation is more important. Similarly, it aims to give the students the knowledge, values and skills with the integration of PCC core values and religion as the core of the curriculum to effectively deal with the reconsideration of the facts of our history as a people. II. OBJECTIVES At the end of the course, the students should be able to: a. Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the facts of our history as a people from the point of view of the Filipinos for excellence thru classroom participation and academic achievements; b. Apply knowledge of Philippine History interpreted from a Filipino standpoint in their daily life toward efficient and effective respect for human dignity, Christian discipleship and responsible stewardship thru life witnessing; and c. Express gratitude and appreciation of the heroic deeds of the great men and women of the Philippine History as...
Words: 1463 - Pages: 6
...Patryk Dolega UIN: 650912424 Site #1: www.catt.org/ccvist.html - Carrie Chapman Catt/Girlhood Home/ The National Nineteenth Amendment Society Site #2: www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/peopleevents/p_catt.html - Very short, too general summary of Carrie Chapman Catt biography By analyzing first website we can tell that it is created by “Carrie Chapman Catt’s Girlhood Home Museum located near Charles City, Iowa. Carrie Chapman Catt Girlhood Home, was constructed in 1866. In 1995 structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in recognition of its unique place in architectural and social history. The home today is maintained by the National 19th Amendment Society which is non-for-profit organization. It tells story of the women suffrage. Purpose of the online site is to reach audience that is interested or devoted to the study of women suffrage movement and its leaders. Website is very reliable since it offers a good starting point for research of Carrie Ch. Catt and her work in the women suffrage movement. Site provides biographical essay of Catt, short introductory essay about the house which help make smooth transition to material about Catt’s suffrage movement. Site also contains information about Carrie Ch. Catt FBI files written by archivist David McCartney. Bibliographies provide books, movies, televisions documentaries about suffrage and, speeches, articles, books written by Catt. In addition it lists more than 90 archival sites. Also society...
Words: 561 - Pages: 3
...Lauryn Waddle Selected research topic: Bacon’s Rebellion. Research question: How did the ruthless attacks, known as Bacon’s Rebellion, originate? Thesis statement: During this era, English settlers could not seem to get along; Bacon’s Rebellion is one example of the many squabbles between the races, the poor, and the wealthy. The poorest Virginians were at an extreme disadvantage in 1676. They were struggling to survive while the “English gentlemen” had the finest of living. The land the poor had was far inland and pushing into the Indian territory. They found it unfair that they had to live the way that they did, competing for land while the wealthy did not have to do the same. Nathaniel Bacon was among the many who were not happy with the...
Words: 438 - Pages: 2
