Being hopeful for the future is now occupying my mind. I am very eager to get my exams done and over with! I am so excited to see Slumdog Millionaire. I heard a lot of positive feedback about the film from critics, and the Hollywood/Bollywood media. My friends who have seen it have also said it that they truly enjoyed the film. My parents also ( Read more... )

 
My favorite thing that we covered this semester in English was Stranger Than Fiction. That movie has so much raw literature in it that people our age in college can relate to because it is set in a modern tense time period. I also like when we viewed Hamlet in the modern version because it is easier to relate to, and people can understand ( Read more... )

 Antigone was also an interesting play to read about. The sphincts answer the riddle and are tricky. The creatures leave thiebes alone if they answer the riddle. Creon was the uncle of Antigone and he thinks that her brother is a traitor. His power and ruling was over thiebes. This conflict was the church and religion versus state. Mans lawas mean ( Read more... )

 
 A Doll’s House was a great story that we read about in English this semester. I really enjoyed this story because we got to watch a video on it in class, and it helped to see a visual representation of what we read in our book. This story was great because we got to analyze the characters more because of their distinct traits. We found ( Read more... )

I was so relieved to finally finish my research paper last week. While writing my paper, I discovered that not only was this just a research paper, it was a paper that taught me a moral lesson in life. I wrote about the novel Pride and Prejudice, and I learned that in life sometimes you just have to go with something no matter what is ( Read more... )

 
I’m happy that we read Hamlet this week in class. Learning about Shakespeare better through the discussion of Hamlet was thoroughly interesting and entertaining. Hamlet was a truly bittersweet playwright written by Shakespeare. In the climax, we learned that the play would have gone a whole different direction if Hamlet chose not to kill ( Read more... )

 
This week I’ve really began to edit my third paper. I decided to write about A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner. This story was important to me to write about because it showed how being isolated can stall any human’s social development processes. Emily Rose’s life started spiraling outward because of her Dad. He tried to take out ( Read more... )

 “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a complex short story that represents the awareness of the psych spirit, and how attachment is simple but complex. The character that narrates the story is in love with John her physician. They live together and he always makes sure that she is healthy. She views different things on the yellow ( Read more... )

 Last week we had a great discussion about “Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood. This discussion really made us ponder the effects of life’s events and stories. Life genuinely takes us through a series of “ups and downs” but it is the essence of how we deal with those “ups and downs” that make us who we are as people. “Happy Endings” was a wonderful ( Read more... )

 This week in class we discussed the essence of the poem The Story of an Hour. This poem focused on the universal meaning in literature of accepting what life gives us. The theme of this poem was that we must accept bad things that happen to us, because they make us better people in the end. Kate Chopin, the author of the story uses symbolism and ( Read more... )