FILOSOFIA‚ LETRAS E CIÊNCIAS HUMANAS UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO Departamento de Letras Modernas - Área de Estudos Linguísticos e Literários em Inglês Curso de Leituras do Cânon 1 – Evening Class Profª Drª Sandra G. T. Vasconcelos A SHORT ANALYSIS OF PERSUASION‚ BY JANE AUSTEN São Paulo 2010 “Anne Elliot‚ with all her claims of birth‚ beauty‚ and mind‚ to throw herself away at nineteen; involve herself at nineteen‚ in an engagement with a young man who had
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“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe The short story “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe is about a psychopath named Montresor who tells the story of how he murdered a man called Fortunato. The use of the murderer’s perspective is very appropriate because this short story is about the emotions and events of Montresor himself and not of any other character. The story begins with Montresor explaining to the readers that he “vowed revenge” (Poe) towards Fortunato who “ventured upon
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Short but Sweet For a Fantasy Epic Kort maar krachtig / Short but sweet is a short film directed by Junaid Chundrigar. It uses classic medieval themes to tell a story‚ but also uses sarcasm and comedy throughout the film to poke fun at these traditional elements of fantasy storytelling. The journey takes place in a short amount of time. So‚ this film is for audiences of both fantasy lovers and those who get exhausted from the crazy length of fantasy films. One of the first moments of comedy
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The Time Sweepers is a short story written by Canadian author Ursula-Wills Jones. The story focuses on a group of invisible people called “time sweepers”. These “time sweepers” are described as blue people wearing overalls if they are men and “old fashioned tweed jackets” if they are women. “Time Sweepers” sweep up wasted time. If Time Sweepers did not exist‚ we would be stuck in a world of infinite time. The Time Sweepers do not like taking holidays as it loses time. The story seems to focus around
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two days to playing ice breaker games. We were then tasked to right a review for each one‚ describing the game itself and how effective or non-effective it was. Listed below are those evaluations. The first game my group played was called Long Story Short. It was a game that consisted of five players‚ each with white boards and dry erase markers. The object of the game was to finish the story that the selected judge had read to us. We had to complete the story using either a text message‚ tweet‚ comic
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In Willa Cather’s short story Paul’s Case we learn of a young man who is fighting what he fears most: to be as common and plain as his world around him. How others perceive Paul only encourages him to fulfill his dream of escaping his monotonous lifestyle. Paul feels he is drowning in his everyday environment and his only breath of air is his savior: the theater. Paul has very little interest in his class studies. This leaves him open to distraction and eventually criticism. Although Paul’s
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10 Mary Street Analysis 10 Mary Street is a poem by Peter Skrzynecki‚ appearing in Migrant Chronicle. The poem discusses family‚ connection to place and the impacts of Peter’s own migrant experience. Skrzynecki details richly impassioned recounts told in snippets of symbolism‚ imagery and throwbacks to the pre-war European environment Skrzynecki’s family belonged in. * The first stanza depicts the habitual routine of Skrzynecki’s family‚ as indicated by the use of the phrase “Each morning” in
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In the short film‚ “Alike‚” I think that the author is trying to portray that society is killing people’s individuality and creativity. Throughout the beginning of the video‚ the author demonstrates what life is like through conformity. The author then goes on to show how important music and arts really is. At the start of the video‚ the author shows how society is killing children’s creativity and individuality. The father ignores his son’s interests and the teacher doesn’t encourage his creativeness
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In the film “The Big Short‚” directed by Adam McKay‚ the audience is explicitly acquainted with the terminology and the events leading up to the economic crisis in 2008. This film concentrates on the stories of several financially skilled individuals who recognized faults in the housing market and used it to their advantage. Differing from other directors in the past‚ McKay uses a rhetorical approach to make tedious financial concepts compelling and entertaining. By using celebrity cameos such as
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“Blackberries in June‚” that title to me means easy picking‚ that Jamie and Matt managed to pick all the sweet blackberries from the bush(that’s my opinion of the title). In this short story everyone thinks that Jamie and Matt have it easy and everything has been handed to them. The reason for this is because their going on the course of being successful in life early instead of later in life. Honestly‚ though they worked hard for everything they have. Both working at minimum wage jobs. Jamie as
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