The Trade Publication, “The Gift Storytelling,” by Shiela M. Keaise. Storytelling deals with five important benefits for children. She uses subtitles to comment on the benefits of storytelling: Inspires creative imagination, flexibility, passion, human expression, thinking ability and visualize different ideas. She believes storytelling is a great way for children to tell who they are, to share their values, cultural origins and their thoughts. Storytelling can be fun and informative. Although, this is not a research report on storytelling, but I can relate to the writer. I have shared my life experiences with other people and they found it encouraging and exciting.…
The essay I choose to write about was Maya Angelou’s “Sister Flowers”. I believe that the purpose of this essay was to describe an important part of this person’s life that helped them to become a better writer/poet/reader and also describe what I think to be this persons mentor. This essay talks about how Mrs. Bertha Flowers decides to take Marguerite Henderson home with her to give her good books to read and to read her an excerpt form a book. I think it is a very well written and extremely descriptive essay, it makes you feel like you are there with them listening to the pages turning and almost taste the tea cookie or smell the vanilla from Mrs. Flower’s home.…
When the novel, My Sister's Keeper was made into a movie different characters are the focus and the ending and its plot twist is changed. Jodi Picoult wrote this novel in a special format. All her chapters were divided by each character in the novel and they would narrate their feelings upon central problem which was Kate’s Sickness. Jodi Picoult worked at several of different jobs throughout her life. One of her major goals was becoming a writer. For Picoult, My Sister's Keeper was a big accomplishment. Jodi Picoult made Kate’s sickness and Anna's lawsuit a central issue which allowed the main character's to share their stories and feelings about it.She also received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Dartmouth College in 2010 and another…
Annelies Marie Frank born June 12, 1929 in Germany is known though the world for her diary, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. A Young Jewish girl who wrote about how her family was hiding for two years during the German occupation of the Netherlands which was ended published by her father.…
When we look at this piece, we tend to see the differences in ways a subject can be organized and displayed. This assemblage by Betye Saar shows us how using different pieces of medium can bring about the wholeness of the point of view in which the artist is trying to portray. So in part, this piece speaks about stereotyping and how it is seen through the eyes of an artist.…
When the inherent dualistic nature of man can no longer be extinguished or suppressed, the parallels between separate identities, the id and superego, become blurred. This notion is explored in Audrey Niffeneger’s ‘Her Fearful Symmetry’, through the characters of Elspeth and Edie, as well as their perception of one another; both of which become a pastiche to Robert Louis Stevenson’s original gothic novella, ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’. Although the initial outlook for the other is hatred, their inextricable connection compels for an acceptance; which is elucidated when Elspeth remarks “But I never hated Edie; that would be like hating myself”. This coincides with the gothic concept presented in Stevenson’s novella; Jekyll is…
Screams of excruciating pain interrupted my slumber. Springing up from my sleeping bag, I looked in the direction where I heard the continued sounds of agony, broken bones, and ripping flesh. Quickly scanning the gym with my eyes, I saw that five of Kristine’s survivors became runners. In the bleachers, three of runners dugged their teeths into the survivor’s necks, faces, shoulders, who were lying peacefully and unexpected in their sleeping bags. In the middle of the gym’s basketball court, two more runners’ yanked meat and muscles from survivor’s faces, as the survivors attempted to fight back, however their attempts were useless, the runner’s strength over powered theirs. As one runner, in the middle of the gym, swallowed a survivor’s nose,…
The Diary of Anne Frank shows many stereotypes, such as Jews, adults, parents, and teenagers. Stereotypes are a standardized mental picture or belief held in common by members of a group. The Diary of Anne Frank identifies that the stereotype of a teenafer is moody, argumentative, and self-absorbed. The three teenagers, Anne, Margot, and Peter commonly show these traits in the play, The Diary of Anne Frank.…
Rose and her sisters Ignacia, Misty and Marina never had normal lives. They were witches, just like everyone else in Artimia, but they lived alone. Their parents left them when they were young. They’ve always wanted to know what really happened to their parents. They lived on their own since Ignacia was 6. Soon enough, they will find out what really happened to their parents.…
anybody. He witnesses a young girl getting shot by a SS officer for running around, he witness a lady getting whipped for trying to pick something up, and he was whipped because he was hiding. Tadek knew that if he did not continue to follow the orders of cleaning out the trains, then he would have been punish because of not following the orders.…
The use of literary elements, such as theme and conflict, helps to further demonstrate the idea of Edna attempting to seek independence and find her inner self throughout this novel. The theme, which is the main idea which the author weaves throughout a work and wants the reader to remember, is to first find yourself before involved with others. In almost all stories the theme is very important and teaches the reader a lesson. In this novel, The Awakening, the theme plays a crucial part to the overall story. Because Edna struggles so much and eventually leaves her family to take some time for herself, it reinforces the concept of the necessity of realizing the importance of knowing who you are and your values. It makes Ednas suicide in the end of the story much more important and effective. Without this particular theme, the main point of the story, which is to develop feminism and bring it to the readers attention.…
Have you ever stopped and thought about how the views and roles of women have changed throughout several generations? I certainly have. Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour is very powerful short story about a woman, Louise Mallard, who becomes very independent and calmed when she hears some terrible news about her husband, Brently.…
The character I have chosen from Alice Walker's novel, 'Everyday Use,' is Mama. Mama is a single parent raising two daughters. Mama describes herself as a “large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands. She proudly tells of her ability to kill and clean hogs as “mercilessly” as any man. I believe these skills were acquired out of sheer survival and necessity. Mama starts the story recalling the dreams she often has in which she and Dee reunite on a television talk show. In this dream she has described herself almost as if it is the woman that she wished she was for example she states she is “a hundred pounds lighter, her skin like an uncooked barley pancake.” Although she says the way she looks in the dream is the way her daughter would want her to be, I think she longs for that as well.…
Merida from the Disney Movie Brave is a very unique princess, and she is different than the other Disney princesses in many ways. Her roles are different than the traditional roles used in other Disney movies since she likes weapons and archery, does not want to become a princess, has a strong bond with her family and mother, and emotionally changes throughout the movie. Many Disney princesses do not change or like weapons, nor do they have a strong family bond or do not want to be a princess, yet this makes Merida different from the rest.…
_I am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities (Audre Lorde)_ - A Critical Reflection Paper - Personal Review…