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How much brotherhood can be found in America?
In the modern America, people are more open to other cultures and have a wider view of the world. Most people have learned that we as humans have the same rights and should not be judged by the colour of our skin, but by the content of our character (Martin Luther King Jr, 1963). The educational system is now structured to teach new generations the social diversity and how wrong discrimination is, by giving examples of the past that their own country wen through. One example of this is the racial discrimination against black people of 1960's, in which a long fight against the laws of the U.S. made the first step to the society in which we are living nowadays.
In America, brotherhood can be seen mostly in the younger generations, given that they were raised in a society that accepted other cultures. However there are still some old people that are against racial acceptance and their integration to the society, but that is because they were raised in this idea. It's expected that in the next thirty years, people would have forgotten about racial discrimination and most of the society will be living as a community and as brothers. This is the community that Martin Luther King Jr would have loved to see by his own eyes and that is why we should continue his ideals of brotherhood and not let his dream be forgotten.
In this news I selected, school kids see Martin Luther King Jr as a candidate for president because they see all his ideals and appreciate his thoughts. This is because they were taught that racial discrimination is not correct and MLK is the best example for this.
News: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/school-kids-imagine-martin-luther-king-jr-presidential-36355507
Sources: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-people-really-judged-todays-society-alan-j-cousin-jr
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Blow Bugle Blow
Blow Bugle Blow is a poem composed by Alfred Tennyson, and narrates a story full of nostalgic feelings and strong sounds. Using something so simple as nature itself as a backdrop for the real intention of the poet.
The poem starts us with an alliteration of the "b" sound. The bugle, is commonly used at war, during the medieval times.
This title is already introducing us to the era of war. the era that Alfred Tennyson wrote poems about. His era.
This poem is about a landscape full of nature's wonders, light falling on the lakes and snow. However this scenery is mixed with the sounds of the bugle and the echoes that end up dying in the sky. A beautiful scenery , and the strong bugle.
When the lyrical speaker starts mentioning the strong bugle, after speaking about a warm, calm scenery, we know there's a meaning beyond just a beautiful landscape. The bugle stands for a war and for a calling. The echoes are voices that end up dying and getting lost. Maybe the speaker remembers the ones who died, when he looks at this calm place. Remembering the ones who he has lost. The nature is a simple backdrop used to reflect about the deaths that the speaker has suffered.
The speaker uses a nostalgic tone in which he dresses to the memory of those who died. He remembers all these when he observes the scenery. He even refers to his "love" to which he laments all this deaths in "yon rich sky". He isn't sad though, but he is reflexive about what he feels.
This poem consists of two shifts in my opinion. The first one goes from line 1 to line 4. It tells us about the nature in the scenery, as we can see here:
This introduce us to the background of what is about to be said.
The second shift goes from line 5 to 18, which is all the rest. This shift is the one who goes beyond the nature and maeks us tremble. The bugle that blows and breaks the tranquility, setting the wild echoes flying. This shift is more dinamic and tells us about the echoes of the people that the lyrical speaker mentions. All this lines consist of the sound of the bugle and the echoes going around, just to end up dying in the same place.
Now we know that the title stands for setting wild echoes flying, which will go along with us since the fifth line. Even telling us alittle about what the poem is gonng to be.
The theme of the poem is the remembering of this echoes that are called by the bugle. The echoes of people that probably died in battle or personal deaths of friends of the speaker who died as well.
The metre in this poem changes throughout it. The first four lines of each stanza follows an iambic tetrameter style, but on the last two lines of each stanzas there is a repetition that changes the structure. The poet uses this to emphasize this lines, from which he tells us about the remainance of the bugle and the echoes. Reminding us that they are there.
This poem consist of a sestet by each stanza. The first four lines of each stanza consist of a rhyme "abcb". For example,
And this verses are usually actions that are natural and usually happen. However, the last two lines of each stanza have a different pattern. They rhyme with each other. Also this verses consist of actions that are happening right now. For example,
Actions that are important and emphasized in the poem.
There are many rethorical devices in this poem, for example, the title itself, "Blow Bugle Blow",
which is an alliteration of the "b" sound. As we know, Tennyson was known for his use of sounds in his poems, probably to make for a more dinamic and interesting poem. There is also a repetition in every last line of each stanza. The words "dying, dying, dying" create a sense of importance in this words and restates the fact that these are echoes that are getting lost, so the repetition is the same as an echo fading away.
This poem is full of sounds that one should really pay attention to. A work of art that reflects the nostalgic sense of death we as humans suffer for the lost of someone or someones. The beauty of nature is such, that it makes the lyrical speaker experience this feelings when he sees this magnificent scenery. Truly a beautiful example of the classic victorian poetry.
823 words.
The poem starts us with an alliteration of the "b" sound. The bugle, is commonly used at war, during the medieval times.
This title is already introducing us to the era of war. the era that Alfred Tennyson wrote poems about. His era.
This poem is about a landscape full of nature's wonders, light falling on the lakes and snow. However this scenery is mixed with the sounds of the bugle and the echoes that end up dying in the sky. A beautiful scenery , and the strong bugle.
When the lyrical speaker starts mentioning the strong bugle, after speaking about a warm, calm scenery, we know there's a meaning beyond just a beautiful landscape. The bugle stands for a war and for a calling. The echoes are voices that end up dying and getting lost. Maybe the speaker remembers the ones who died, when he looks at this calm place. Remembering the ones who he has lost. The nature is a simple backdrop used to reflect about the deaths that the speaker has suffered.
The speaker uses a nostalgic tone in which he dresses to the memory of those who died. He remembers all these when he observes the scenery. He even refers to his "love" to which he laments all this deaths in "yon rich sky". He isn't sad though, but he is reflexive about what he feels.
This poem consists of two shifts in my opinion. The first one goes from line 1 to line 4. It tells us about the nature in the scenery, as we can see here:
"And snowy summits old in story:
The long light shakes across the lakes,"
This introduce us to the background of what is about to be said.
The second shift goes from line 5 to 18, which is all the rest. This shift is the one who goes beyond the nature and maeks us tremble. The bugle that blows and breaks the tranquility, setting the wild echoes flying. This shift is more dinamic and tells us about the echoes of the people that the lyrical speaker mentions. All this lines consist of the sound of the bugle and the echoes going around, just to end up dying in the same place.
Now we know that the title stands for setting wild echoes flying, which will go along with us since the fifth line. Even telling us alittle about what the poem is gonng to be.
The theme of the poem is the remembering of this echoes that are called by the bugle. The echoes of people that probably died in battle or personal deaths of friends of the speaker who died as well.
The metre in this poem changes throughout it. The first four lines of each stanza follows an iambic tetrameter style, but on the last two lines of each stanzas there is a repetition that changes the structure. The poet uses this to emphasize this lines, from which he tells us about the remainance of the bugle and the echoes. Reminding us that they are there.
This poem consist of a sestet by each stanza. The first four lines of each stanza consist of a rhyme "abcb". For example,
"THE SPLENDOUR falls on castle walls
And snowy summits old in story:
The long light shakes across the lakes,
And the wild cataract leaps in glory."
"Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying."
There are many rethorical devices in this poem, for example, the title itself, "Blow Bugle Blow",
which is an alliteration of the "b" sound. As we know, Tennyson was known for his use of sounds in his poems, probably to make for a more dinamic and interesting poem. There is also a repetition in every last line of each stanza. The words "dying, dying, dying" create a sense of importance in this words and restates the fact that these are echoes that are getting lost, so the repetition is the same as an echo fading away.
This poem is full of sounds that one should really pay attention to. A work of art that reflects the nostalgic sense of death we as humans suffer for the lost of someone or someones. The beauty of nature is such, that it makes the lyrical speaker experience this feelings when he sees this magnificent scenery. Truly a beautiful example of the classic victorian poetry.
823 words.
jueves, 26 de noviembre de 2015
Fatelessness Essay
Literature Over Time
Literature has been a way to express feelings and share our own experiences and points of view. However, as time goes on, some literature is forgotten and some is remembered. My question is, to what extent can the meaning of a literary work change over time?
Depending on the culture, the literary work will take different meanings over time and even if it's forgotten, works such as Fatelessness are useful to remember us about these topics. I'll base my ideas in the novel Fatelessness given that it allows me to express better the topic.
Throughout different cultures, literature has different connotations. For example, a novel like Fatelessness would have a great impact in Germany and even throughout time, people will keep remembering it because it is involved in the history of the country and in its culture. However in a country like Chile, nowadays people will appreciate the novel because its context its not old, but as time goes on, people will start forgetting the second world war because there will be news that take over the old ones. Chilean people will consider the book as something old and not relevant. The novel will probably get lost because it won't be interesting and nobody will care about it anymore. What I want to express is that depending on the country and its culture, a literary work like Fatelessness will have different variations in it's meaning over time.
This novel, independent of the culture, will mostly impact teenagers, given that the novel it's written through a first person protagonist who is a teenager. This way, teenagers will feel more identified with him. The protagonist, Gyuri, is a teenager who lives in a second world war context and lives as a jew who has to go through segregation and even go to a concentration camp in which he narrates his experiences, his hopes and his relations with people. Teenagers can see this reality through someone of the same age and realize the horrible things that happened. The lies that were told to the people who stayed there. Even our protagonist at first liked the work the nazis made him do. "The work itlsef, by the way cannot be said to be particularly strenous, and so as it is, given the gang of us boys, is fairly entertaining". We can appreciate ihs innocence as a tenn and how there were other teens living the same situation. The narrator Gyuri, creates an effect on the readers by narrating in first person. It feels like he is telling us his experiences in such a personal way, that it makes us feel closer to Gyuri. His way of describing is quite detailed so it lets the reader imagine better the situations Guri goes through, to the point he or she feels almost inside the book. He emphasizes situations he considers important, like when he got his first kiss with AnnaMarie. "She started trembling all over. It was really good because in her terror she clung to me, her arms around my neck, her face buried in my shoulder". He is really descriptive in situations he believes important.
Day by day, the world is more globalized. People's ideas spread throughout the world, sharing social attitudes that go against discrimination and seek for a better world. Teens will in the future be teh ones who will control this global ideas, so a concept like the racial discrimination will be known to everyone as a horrible thing, so even if just a group of teens read the book, this conept will spread through people and prevail through time.
Through time some ideas start to get lost because there are some new ones that often are taken to be more important, so that is why we as a society shouldn't forget crimes like this which are provoked by racial discrimintion, The context of a novel like Fatelessness wil change through time and start being less relevant, but doesn´t mean we should forget that what happened was wrong. Forget that the racial discrimination is ont okay. The meaning of a literary work such as Fatelessness is to remind us about all this. As Imre Kertész (the author) said, the concept "continued to worry our souls, and remains in a cabinet" inside ourselves. The novel is the key for us to remember what is locked up inside that cabinet. Even if the society starts forgetting the concept, literature will try to keep remembering us.
The novel it´s an interpretation of Imre's life. It contains experiences and ideas he wanted to express. The novel itself it´s a terstimony for us to learn from. He expresses through metaphor's such as Gyuri liking the camp. This shows the little information people had about what was really going on. While Gyuri was at the concentration camp, he enjoyed being there, independant of all the starvation and hard work people had to go through. His innocence made him see it all as a "trip" to somewhere. His lack of informatino made him believe everything was okay and didn´t thought about the abuse nor the discrimination, ashe says " I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentratino camp".
Even in the future, when the context will be totally different, the meaning of literature will prevail given that if the meaning it expresses is worth keeping, it won´t be forgotten. A meaning that expresses that no race, nor culture should be superior that other. This is a concept people will remember thanks to literature. This way, literature will help avoiding such horrible crimes, like the one that Imre Kertész narrates us through the eyes of the innocent Gyuri.
Literature has been a way to express feelings and share our own experiences and points of view. However, as time goes on, some literature is forgotten and some is remembered. My question is, to what extent can the meaning of a literary work change over time?
Depending on the culture, the literary work will take different meanings over time and even if it's forgotten, works such as Fatelessness are useful to remember us about these topics. I'll base my ideas in the novel Fatelessness given that it allows me to express better the topic.
Throughout different cultures, literature has different connotations. For example, a novel like Fatelessness would have a great impact in Germany and even throughout time, people will keep remembering it because it is involved in the history of the country and in its culture. However in a country like Chile, nowadays people will appreciate the novel because its context its not old, but as time goes on, people will start forgetting the second world war because there will be news that take over the old ones. Chilean people will consider the book as something old and not relevant. The novel will probably get lost because it won't be interesting and nobody will care about it anymore. What I want to express is that depending on the country and its culture, a literary work like Fatelessness will have different variations in it's meaning over time.
This novel, independent of the culture, will mostly impact teenagers, given that the novel it's written through a first person protagonist who is a teenager. This way, teenagers will feel more identified with him. The protagonist, Gyuri, is a teenager who lives in a second world war context and lives as a jew who has to go through segregation and even go to a concentration camp in which he narrates his experiences, his hopes and his relations with people. Teenagers can see this reality through someone of the same age and realize the horrible things that happened. The lies that were told to the people who stayed there. Even our protagonist at first liked the work the nazis made him do. "The work itlsef, by the way cannot be said to be particularly strenous, and so as it is, given the gang of us boys, is fairly entertaining". We can appreciate ihs innocence as a tenn and how there were other teens living the same situation. The narrator Gyuri, creates an effect on the readers by narrating in first person. It feels like he is telling us his experiences in such a personal way, that it makes us feel closer to Gyuri. His way of describing is quite detailed so it lets the reader imagine better the situations Guri goes through, to the point he or she feels almost inside the book. He emphasizes situations he considers important, like when he got his first kiss with AnnaMarie. "She started trembling all over. It was really good because in her terror she clung to me, her arms around my neck, her face buried in my shoulder". He is really descriptive in situations he believes important.
Day by day, the world is more globalized. People's ideas spread throughout the world, sharing social attitudes that go against discrimination and seek for a better world. Teens will in the future be teh ones who will control this global ideas, so a concept like the racial discrimination will be known to everyone as a horrible thing, so even if just a group of teens read the book, this conept will spread through people and prevail through time.
Through time some ideas start to get lost because there are some new ones that often are taken to be more important, so that is why we as a society shouldn't forget crimes like this which are provoked by racial discrimintion, The context of a novel like Fatelessness wil change through time and start being less relevant, but doesn´t mean we should forget that what happened was wrong. Forget that the racial discrimination is ont okay. The meaning of a literary work such as Fatelessness is to remind us about all this. As Imre Kertész (the author) said, the concept "continued to worry our souls, and remains in a cabinet" inside ourselves. The novel is the key for us to remember what is locked up inside that cabinet. Even if the society starts forgetting the concept, literature will try to keep remembering us.
The novel it´s an interpretation of Imre's life. It contains experiences and ideas he wanted to express. The novel itself it´s a terstimony for us to learn from. He expresses through metaphor's such as Gyuri liking the camp. This shows the little information people had about what was really going on. While Gyuri was at the concentration camp, he enjoyed being there, independant of all the starvation and hard work people had to go through. His innocence made him see it all as a "trip" to somewhere. His lack of informatino made him believe everything was okay and didn´t thought about the abuse nor the discrimination, ashe says " I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentratino camp".
Even in the future, when the context will be totally different, the meaning of literature will prevail given that if the meaning it expresses is worth keeping, it won´t be forgotten. A meaning that expresses that no race, nor culture should be superior that other. This is a concept people will remember thanks to literature. This way, literature will help avoiding such horrible crimes, like the one that Imre Kertész narrates us through the eyes of the innocent Gyuri.
viernes, 2 de octubre de 2015
Written Task TKaM
January 13th, 1930
Maycomb's School
Malders Street
Monroeville
Dear Director,
I am writing to you, to inform you about my daughter Jean Louise's entering to school, and ask you some concerns she has, so she is more confident when she goes to school the first day. She doesn't know how to write well yet, so I will express her ideas throughout the letter.
First of all, she wants to learn. She wants to know about how much she will learn. She is excited about it. I always call her to come to read the newspaper with me. I teach her to read while we read together, so now that she will go to school, she feels ready and has some confidence. Also, our housekeeper Calpurnia teaches her how to write a little. They don't really get along very well, but she does learn independent of the fights they have. At this age, she would be considered incredibly smart, given that kids her age barely know how to read.
The thing is that she may know too much. This concern is mine. I feel like she may get bored about school and the don't want to come anymore. As a lawyer that was raised here, I know how school is and I know how the children are, which brings me to another point. The Ewells. This kids may be too dangerous and aggressive. They are a family that lives in Maycomb and tend to be sort of mean. From what I know, they have a kid called Burris and he will be attending school with my daughter. Jem, my son, has told me that Burris has failed like three consecutive years, given that they only come the first day of school, and then they never come again. If you could speak with the teachers Jean Louise may have, get together with them, and warn her about this people, that would calm me down a lot.
Jean Louise is really looking forward to going to school. She has never looked forward more to anything in her life. I always see her on the tree house she has, looking over at the school yard, spying on the children at school. She tells me that she likes to just stare and learn their games and to follow her brother Jem's red jacket through the yard, him sharing his misfortunes and secrets with his friends. She is nervous but excited to join all those conversations and games she sees in the yard. She wanted to know if school really is like she has seen when she is at the treehouse. To know if everything is as fun and delightful as she sees. I've told her that school really is fun, but she wants to hear it from someone like you. Someone who has the authority you have. That would calm her a lot.
The last thing we both wanted to ask you is about the teachers. Jem has told us that the teachers are introducing a new way of teaching called the "Dewey Decimal System". WE wanted to know what that is about.
Also, Jean Louise is concerned because of what her brother has told her. The punishment kids get when they behave incorrectly, which is patting the palm of their hands with a ruler. "This aggression should stop, how could kids let themselves get hit by their teacher" she says. But this is not her major concern. Jem has told her that her soon-to-be-proffesor is a tacky mean teacher. That she doesn't like kids that know more than others. She says she has to be the one who teaches and no one else. The Dewey Decimal System, I believe from what I've heard, was her idea. So knowing how she is as a teacher, her system doesn't really give me a sense of confidence.
I don't know anything about other teachers, but maybe you could speak with them about being more sensible with our kids. They are just six years old and just started to grow. This would help us a lot and also if you could explain that new teaching method that would be fantastic.
In conclusion, I want you to take into consideration the school's teaching method, as well as answering Jean Louise's questions about school. But more so, I want you to assure me that my daughter will be completely safe while going to school.
I thank you in advance for listening to us. As a parent I just desire the best for my daughter. Her worries about school are common and related to how much she wants to go, even more now that she got interested in that Boo Radley's story. She wants to learn about that, and about that ramshackle house of theirs. She thinks school all get her the answers she wants.
Well, that's just part of their childhood, right?
I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Sincerely,
Atticus Finch
Rationale TKaM Written Task
This written task relates to my study of the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird". As it also relates to the structure of a formal letter. In this text, I considered the part one of the book and took the position of a character to express a specific tone, the anxiousness.
The anxiousness of a dad and her daughter for the first day at school.
I have learned about african american context in the U.S. at the 1930's. About racism and segregation of black people.
I have written a formal letter because it can express feelings, given that I can take some character's positions and include her and his experiences through the novel.
My letter tries to show and express a character's situation. This way I can show my understanding of the text and vocabulary, while also using what I have learned in this english course.
This written task about Scout and Atticus Finch, explains their concerns and anxiousness that they feel, while intending to look authentically, given the use of context and vocabulary from the time. This makes for a better understanding of the reader. It also appeals to emotions, however it also includes facts form the book, so it makes for a more complete text.
The anxiousness of a dad and her daughter for the first day at school.
I have learned about african american context in the U.S. at the 1930's. About racism and segregation of black people.
I have written a formal letter because it can express feelings, given that I can take some character's positions and include her and his experiences through the novel.
My letter tries to show and express a character's situation. This way I can show my understanding of the text and vocabulary, while also using what I have learned in this english course.
This written task about Scout and Atticus Finch, explains their concerns and anxiousness that they feel, while intending to look authentically, given the use of context and vocabulary from the time. This makes for a better understanding of the reader. It also appeals to emotions, however it also includes facts form the book, so it makes for a more complete text.
miércoles, 19 de agosto de 2015
Question3 Task TKaM
In the book, Atticus tells Scout and Jem, "Don't fool yourselves - it's all adding up and one of these days we're going to pay the bill for it. I hope it's not in your children's time."
The bill that he refers to stands for the consequence white people will have to deal with, given that they discriminated coloured people at the time.
One of the consequences is that a completely equal society is no longer possible. the reason being that the discrimination created hate in between both races. And as the biggest coloured people representant once said: "Hate begets hate." This means that if we keep hating each other it will mean that we'll be stuck in an endless loop of hate. People will keep going against each other because of the hate that remains. The trust between races is a hard bond to recover.
These conflicts drove us apart from each other, to a point where the older generation has no chance to recover their bond. However, our new generation is more open-minded and thinks in a different way. Nowadays teenagers share with each other independently of their races.
In conclusion, the troubles we had in the past, even though it makes it harder for us to be reunited as one , made us visualise how the worst case scenario would be like and also in a way made our bond even stronger between races.
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