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    A supernatural event is an event which‚ according to the laws of nature‚ cannot happen. In the two works that I have studied “Like water for chocolate” by Laura esquivel and “The house of the spirits” by Isabel allende‚ magic realism has been used as a common literary device to give the book a fantasy-like twist‚ making it very interesting and engaging. Magic realism stretches the boundaries of realism in order to stretch or widen the definition of reality. In Like Water for Chocolate‚ magic becomes

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    Bakhtin proposed that ’carnival’ in comedy ‘marks the suspension of all hierarchical rank‚ privileges‚ norms and prohibitions’. To what extent is the carnival spirit prevalent in Act One of Twelfth Night? Para 1 Viola becoming a man servant- trying to advance her rank ‘he was a bachelor then’ trying to save status and wealth through marriage to earn privileges ‘I have heard my father name him’ – shows approval‚ foreshadowing relationship ‘conceal me what I am’ different identity is hidden

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    1. The traditional Hmong birth practices are so different from the birth practices we use here in the United States. Foua’s previous child births before Lia were very different. She gave birth inside her home‚ with completely no help. She also cut and tied the umbilical cord with a string. Afterwards they buried the placentas as a tradition to their beliefs. Now‚ with Lia’s birth she was in a public hospital where she was attended by doctors and given medicine. It was also sanitary there‚ unlike

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    moment ’s reading the work of twenty years‚ that one approve or condemn the book as a whole and not some few sentences. If one wants to seek the design of the author‚ one can find it only in the design of the work. ’ (Montesquieu 1989: preface) The Spirit of the Laws took Montesquieu twenty years to write and was first published in Geneva in 1748. It was distributed freely‚ without the hindrance of censorship and deemed and instant success‚ despite negative feedback from friends to whom the manuscript

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    The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down tells the story of Lia Lee‚ a Hmong child with epilepsy‚ whose tragic downfall reveals the dangers of a lack of cross-cultural communication in the medical profession. At the age of three months‚ Lia had her first seizure caused by the sound of a door being slammed shut‚ by her older sister Yer. Their parents‚ Foua and Nao Kao believed that the sound of the door had caused Lia’s soul to flee‚ they called her illness “qaug dab peg”‚ which means “the spirit catches

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    In Jeffrey Klassen’s essay‚ “He Looked Into the Grim Reaper’s Eyes and Nervously Laughed‚” he describes Henri Bergson’s theory on comedy and applies it to the movie Office Space. Bergson’s take on humor presents three key ideas. The first of these is that comedy is purely intellectual and not emotional. When we laugh at something that happens to someone else or anything we see on screen‚ we are able to take emotion out of the equation just for a moment and only focus on what is funny about what we

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    In Chapter 1 of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down‚ Fadiman demonstrates cultural relativism towards the Hmong culture by including very detailed history‚ facts and procedures found in Hmong culture. When explaining the long process of pregnancy and birth in Hmong culture‚ she does not make and claims for or against these rituals. She does not compare the cultures rituals to another culture. Fadiman simply states facts and explains the steps it takes for a woman to give birth to a child. She

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    For the second reflection paper I chose to write about the book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. When I started reading this book‚ I had no idea what I was going to read about. I learned many new concepts on the culture of Hmong and their views. A brief section of the book also was about how they came to America and the experiences they had while doing so. I learned that there was a secret war in Laos that caused a tragedy among the Hmong people leaving them to abandon their homes in the

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    relates to many of the political and social confrontation in the time period in which the story was written. In “A White Heron” Sarah Orne Jewett expands on peculiar relationships‚ influence of nature‚ and romance to describe conflicts between flesh and spirit. Nine-year-old Sylvia has come from the city to live in the Maine woods with her grandmother‚ Mrs. Tilley. As the story begins‚ Sylvia has been living with her grandmother for nearly a year‚ learning to adapt to country ways. She helps the old woman

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    My Findings: Dara Culhane designates the thesis in her article Their Spirits Live within Us‚ to how Aboriginal women are seen as invisible to the public on the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. Culhane then continues on to establish the basis of the annual Valentine’s Day Women’s Memorial March as a way for Aboriginal women to stand up for themselves and have a chance to be noticed and heard. As anyone who has been to Vancouver’s downtown east side can say Aboriginals near main and Hastings are

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