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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The fable “The Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing” by James Thurber is about two sheep dressed up like wolves to spy out Wolfland and publish a story. The sheep are the journalists and are depicted as avaricious and curious because they only want success with their report. As a result they only report what they saw in the short time they spied out the wolves and don’t look deeper. They are egoistic too because they don’t care about the sheep who’ll read the incomplete information. The other sheep are presented
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An Analysis of Dreams by Timothy Findley "We are such stuff as dreams are made on" (Shakespeare The Tempest) perhaps most accurately sums up the human fascination with their own dreams. Fleeting‚ transitory‚ and possessing their own reason‚ these strange passes of fancy strike attention and draw importance to themselves. In Timothy Findley ’s short story "Dreams"‚ the human obsession with‚ and dependence upon‚ dreams is taken up in detail. The story can be seen as symbolic in its entirety‚ with each
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As You Like It Please see the bottom of the page for extensive explanatory notes and other helpful As You Like It resources. ACT II SCENE I The Forest of Arden. [ Enter DUKE SENIOR‚ AMIENS‚ and two or three Lords‚ like foresters ] DUKE SENIOR Now‚ my co-mates and brothers in exile‚ Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam‚ The seasons’ difference‚
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parents to pursue a life of music. When Dvořák turned 18 he enrolled in the Prague Organ School and once completed thrusted himself into the life of a musician. In 1889‚ Dvořák became a professor of composition at the Prague conservatory. Jeannette Thurber‚ a wealthy American music patron‚ in 1892 offered Dvořák a position as artistic director and composition professor at New York’s National Music Conservatory. Herbert von Karajan was a legendary Austrian conductor and the principle conductor of the
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and he had never drunk anything stronger than ginger ale. I would never have thought he would ever try something daring or anything out if his comfort zone. Because of this‚ I was surprised when he actually drank and smoked in Mrs. Barrows’ house. Thurber gave me quite a shock with that‚ and I liked how he changed Mr. Martin’s character‚ giving his readers a surprise. Just when I thought I had Mr. Martin all figured out‚ the author throws something else in the mix changing my viewpoint on Mr. Martin
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1. Sophistication- Sherwood Anderson 2. Big Two- Hearted River- Ernest Hemingway 3. Winter Dreams- F. Scott Fitzgerald 4. The Bear- William Faulkner 5. The Catbird Seat- James Thurber 6. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall- Katherine Anne Porter 7. The Devil and Daniel Webster- Stephen Vincent Benet 8. Flight- John Steinbeck 9. Winter Night- Kay Boyle 10. Another April- Jesse Stuart 11. A Worn Path- Eudora Welty 12. The Crop- Flannery O’Connor 13. The
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Tales and For Everything a Season. He also hosts a TV show‚ "Porch Talk with Phil Gulley". ‘I Love You‚ Miss Huddleston: And Other Inappropriate Longings of My Indiana Childhood’ is based on Gulley’s diary and was American Humor’s finalist for the Thurber Prize. Gulley with his co-author James Mulholland have written some wonderful books like ‘If God Is Love’ and ‘If Grace Is True’‚ in which they shared progressive spirituality. After those book‚ Gulley himself‚ wrote
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VERY Short Short Story Unit: Read bio. on author (This will not be on the test. I hope there will be information of interest that you can connect to the author.) Read introductory material on story‚ the page before the story You are responsible to know the literary terms Read the story; reread when necessary. Read the footnotes to help you read. Answer questions at the end under "Making Meaning" Use vivid CD and CM for each. Use complete sentences unless it says "list"
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Brand” contradicts my fundamental doctrinal beliefs by positing an unpardonable sin while challenging me to delve into the apparent dichotomy between faith and reason that proves Ethan Brand’s demise. In “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber‚ Mitty is a henpecked‚ insignificant‚ and insecure husband who runs from his reality to a world of fantasy created in his mind. Once there‚ he is superior‚ confident‚ and capable of handling any occasion. In “The House on Mango Street‚” Sandra
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