Choose only two of the works within your selected theme. •Race / Ethnicity ◦Country Lovers (Gordimer) ◦The Welcome Table (Walker) ◦What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl (Smith) ◦Child of the Americas (Morales) •Gender Roles / Marriage ◦The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Thurber) ◦The Story of an Hour (Chopin) ◦The Necklace (de Mauppassant) ◦The Proposal (Chekhov) ◦Country Lovers (Gordimer) •Creativity / The Creative Process ◦Poetry (Neruda) ◦Constantly Risking Absurdity
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Class discussion: The Moment Before the Gun Went Off 1. How would you interpret the meaning of this story? a. In the story‚ Gordimer connects the two races as victims of the injustices of apartheid. The protagonist‚ Marais Van der Vyver’s shows interest in the “black boy‚” Lucas a victim of freak accident‚ negligence‚ and ultimately apartheid. In the story Gordimer’s shows how apartheid has become more than legislation; it has become a mentality that segregates and prejudges. More than just
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Markus Clancy Evangelism Luke Fetters Blue Like Jazz essay December 9‚ 2010 In the book Blue like Jazz there is a couple of conversion stories I would like to talk about. The first one comes from Chapter 4. It is the conversion of Millers friend Penny. Penny was a person who did not like Christians and Christianity based on the stereotypes that she had seen and the world has given to them. In the chapter it says that Penny wanted nothing to do with Christianity until she met a friend from
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sweetness. My friend Nadine knocked at my house she said‚ “Get your bike.” So I asked my mum if I could take it out‚ terrible decision. Nadine had long blonde hair and her skin was tanned. She had ocean blue eyes. Nadine was usually kind and patient. She didn’t have a tendency to lose track of time‚ but she was willing to help others. She had a peanut allergy‚ and whenever she saw an injured or homeless pet‚ she tried to help it. She loved cats‚ gardening‚ and singing. Nadine wasn’t the closest friend
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Symbolism Nadine Gordiner’s story Once Upon a Time contains lots of symbols. Amongst these symbols‚ the house represents the society she is in and the underground mines and foundation of the house represents the apartheid. This story is built based on fear‚ racial tension‚ and the apartheid. To begin with‚ the house or society is supposed to protect and shelter the people living within it. The house is supposed to be stable‚ but in paragraph 7 of Once Upon a Time‚ Nadine mentioned that
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Girls under pressure The story starts where Ellie and her two best friends‚ Magda and Nadine‚ are Christmas shopping at the Flowerfields Shopping Centre. While they shop‚ they notice a large buzz of an event going on upstairs. Nadine wonders if it is television. Magda replies‚ "Wow‚ I hope so" and steers the other two upstairs. It turns out to be a modelling competition for Spicy magazine‚ which Ellie discovers after seeing a lot of pretty and thin teenage girls getting their photos taken. Ellie
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assurance that reported ticket revenues were fairly stated. Nadine Mercil‚ a new audit manager‚ just received the assignment to be the manager on the 2011 audit. Nadine worked previously on the Bees prior year audits as a staff auditor. When she learned she would be managing the current year engagement‚ she immediately thought back to all the hours of detailed testing of ticket sales she had performed. On some of her other clients‚ Nadine has been successful at redesigning audit plans to make better
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conflict or conflict with others‚ usually having one thematic focus. Short stories generally produce a single‚ focused emotional and intellectual response in the reader. Novels‚ by contrast‚ usually depict conflicts among many characters developed through a variety of episodes‚ stimulating a complexity of responses in the reader. The short story form ranges from “short shorts‚” which run in length from a sentence to four pages‚ to novellas that can easily be 100 pages long and exhibit characteristics
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because his favorite musician‚ Jimmy Buffett‚ has a song called “Delaney Talks to Statues”. My parents had already agreed on the name even before they knew if I was a boy or a girl. My middle name Nadine‚ comes from my mom‚ whose middle name is also Nadine. My grandma gave her the middle name Nadine after the name of the nurse who helped in the birth of the child before my mom. She liked the name and thought the nurse was a sweet lady‚ so she gave the
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family however‚ Grandmother‚ Aunts and cousin. At the same time‚ she battles with racial discrimination while trying to obtain an intimate friendship with another colored female. There are three antagonists; Ellen’s grandmother‚ Aunt Betsy and Aunt Nadine who clearly see Ellen’s suffering‚ however do not do anything to help Ellen out of her
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