poor health‚ she could manage only an A. A. degree from the University of the Philippines. She then became a member of the U. P. writers club and earned and was given the privileged post of National Fellowship in Fiction post at the U. P. Creative Writing Center. She died in the year 1983 at the age of 66. Estrella Alfon was born in Cebu City in 1917. Unlike other writers of her time‚ she did not come from the intelligentsia. Her parents were shopkeepers in Cebu.[1] She attended college‚ and studied
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however this is the one that has been brought to the publics attention over the past few years due to its founders being sent to court and charged millions in costs and left them facing a jail sentence. This site‚ as you all know‚ allowed people to download music for free. Well‚ as a teenager with little spare cash to actually buy albums‚ I just went ahead and downloaded and basically “stole” hundreds of songs for free. Aside from the personal benefits of purchasing music‚ I do it to support the artists
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Everyday people learn how to be a better English writer and it is successful because mostly everyone in the United States speaks English. In my experience‚ I’m learning how to become a better English writer everyday by reading books and writing essays. I’ve taken English 60A‚ English 60B‚ and now I’m taking English 50. Writing essays and reading article’s in English 50 helps me to become a stronger writer. In my portfolio I am going to edit my best essay that I did in class and I am also going to
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Narration. Types of Narration Narration is the way authors relate events to readers. Novelists use different way of telling their stories: they use different characters to tell the stories (narrators) and present the events from different ‘angles’ (different points of view). First – person narrator (the story is told by an ‘I’)‚ who may be the main character in the novel or a minor character in the novel‚ an observer of events that happen to others. Third – person narrator In the novels
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Writing has always been a reluctant process for me. When planning to write a paper I always write down all my ideas I want to talk about and my professor for advice too. I specifically think I did very well on paper one. I usually do not enjoy writing when it turns into an essay about a subject I have to pretend to care about‚ but I really did enjoyed writing paper one. From the six weeks of taking this class‚ I do feel like my writing has improved by becoming more structured‚ defined and straight
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In school‚ we have been required to write many papers on many different subjects‚ some being timed and others not. Writing has never been something that has come easy to me‚ especially when put on the spot and told to write a paper in a certain amount of hours. When I write‚ I like to have time to think and plan my essay. Being able to revise and edit the paper makes it even better than it was before. When I am given the time to plan my essay‚ the writing has more depth than when I am put on the
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Shakespeare: One of the Greatest Writers in the "Western Literary Tradition" William Shakespeare wrote about romance‚ drama‚ and comedy in many of his wonderful works. Shakespeare had a skill for language‚ imagery‚ pun‚ and creative adaptation of myth and history‚ which arguably has made him one of the greatest playwrights of all time. He is also well-known for his poetry‚ especially his sonnets. Some of his best-known plays include Romeo and Juliet‚ Hamlet‚ and Macbeth. Shakespeare’s
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American Writers and Their Works: Hawthorne‚ Poe‚ and Whitman Out of all the great authors and poets we have studied this semester I have chosen the three that I personally enjoyed reading the most; Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Edgar Allen Poe‚ and Walt Whitman. These three Writers stand out above the rest for each has contributed substantially to bringing forth a newly earned respect for American Writers of Literature. Up until this point in time most literature had come from European writers. Hawthorne
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College Prep Writing because I want to be prepared when I go into college I want to be prepared for the teacher who will pick out every error. I want to keep my grades up; it has always been a personal goal of mine. I also just want to be a better writer in general. Writing will be in my life forever. Short-term wise it will help me in high school and also while I’m taking college classes in high school. Long-term wise it will help me in a couple years in college. I plan on having about 8 years of
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Who are the most influential writers of comedy on screen over the last two decades? It would be hard to argue that any genre on TV hasn’t changed‚ followed social trends or broken out into sub-genres in the past twenty years but comedy specifically has changed drastically since the early nineties. Being a genre that relies heavily on social issues and the public perception of what is accepted as funny‚ comedy is constantly evolving and with it so does the writers and the writing behind the sitcoms
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