When my dog was dying I had to take care to her because she started to get sick. She was a dark chocolate Labrador and we bought her when I was 3 years old when she came home. She was my first dog and she died last year. She was the most amazing dog ever. We showed her how to fake her death by supposedly shooting at her with our hands making a form like a gun. She was so funny. One time she ate 12 living chickens that my grandmother won on a bingo. She was full of energy but as the time passed she became old and a little lazy. Last year she got sick and we had to treat her like a human, we had to give her incaparina drinks because it was the only thing she could swallow. The hardest thing of all was the day we all made the saddest decision I have ever made in my life. We had to get her to sleep. It was so sad to all of us because we had so many memories of her that we incinerated her and we placed her ashes in Rio Dulce. She was such a good dog to me. My favorite memory of her was back in 2006 I was on drama club and we presented Madeline. I played Madeline´s roll and cocoa acted next to me as Sandy. It was so cool to act with my dog because she only listens to me and she followed me everywhere I walked at the theatre. It was so hard to forget her because she made me feel happy and I gave her all the love I had. Since she died we were not sure if we wanted another dog and suddenly I got 2 great Danes that changed my life. One of them is deaf, she cannot hear and the other one became a little retard (dumb) because his father hit him for a piece of chicken and so he got back problems and he became stupid. They are a big change in my life.
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Holden
Is Holden a typical teenager?
I don´t think he is a typical teenager. I mean that he is a teen he has 16 years old and goes to a normal high school and that. But he is not like the others. He smokes like a chimney, he is way to independent. He critizes everyone and he is not so easy going. He is weird and he gets annoyed by his teacher. He is ore like a rebel in the way he acts and his way of being. He is serious and he is growing to become an adult. He doesn´t cares about others thoughts and opinions he just critizises and talks about others. He doesn´t care about anithing. He got kicked out from school. He is a little bit crazy to me in the way of how he shows himself, how he shows his way of being, his attitude is not so positive at all but he is not a negative person he just doesn´t cares how people see him. He can be a typical teenager in the physical way like the changes in his body and that stuff but he doesn´t thinks like a normal 16 year old teenager. He is to mature he thinks way to mature for his age but he doesn´t likes adults he just don´t like anybody at all he doesn´t act or think like a teen and he doesn´t like adults. He acts like a child but he is more intelligent than that. He is weird to me.
Ernest Hemingway Background.
1) Publish 10 interesting facts about him and his work.
1. His mom was quite stubborn. Many believe his mother wanted another girl, and so until Ernest was four his mother dressed him up like a girl. Ernest’s hair was as long as his sisters’ hair.
2. He wanted to fight in World War I, but was denied due to his wretched eye sight.
3. There’s a popular tale circulating about Hemingway betting fellow writers that he could write a short story in just six words. 4. Ernest once examined F. Scott Fitzgerald’s… gentleman parts in a cafe bathroom and informed him it was “of normal size.”
5. On the topic of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Scott wrote Hemingway a ten-page letter where he advised that he should end A Farewell to Arms with the passage: “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.” Hemingway wrote him three words back: “Kiss my ass.”
6. Ernest stole a urinal from his favorite bar claiming that he had “pissed away” enough money into it that, as a result, he should own it. He ended up sticking the urinal in his house.
7. Ernest Hemingway once published a recipe for apple pie in his column.
8. In the 1940′s, Hemingway worked closely with the Soviet KGB. He went under the cover name “Argo.” Edgar Hoover and many FBI officials spied on him for much of his later life.
9. After World War II, he was accused of War Crimes by Geneva surrounding an event where Ernest lead a group of French Militia against the Nazis. He was not convicted.
10.He had a six-toed cat named Key West.
A Movable Feast-The Lost Generation
1) What is the “Lost Generation”? Was the generation that came throughout the time of the World War 1.
2) What role did Hemingway play in popularizing this term? He used it as one of two contrasting epigraphs for his novel, “The Sun Also Rises.” In that volume Hemingway credits the phrase to Gertrude Stein, who was then his mentor and patron.
3) Why was Gertrude Stein so important in the art world? Gertrude Stein was an American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and literature. Her life was marked by two primary relationships, the first with her brother Leo Stein, from 1874-1914, and the second with Alice B.
4) Describe Stein´s salón at 27 rue de Fleurus. (include an image) Toklas, from 1907 until Stein’s death in 1946. Stein shared her salon at 27 rue de Fleurus, Paris, first with Leo and then with Alice. Throughout her lifetime, Stein cultivated significant tertiary relationships with well-known members of the avant garde artistic and literary world.
5) Define expatriate: A person who lives outside their native country.
The Great Gatsby Background
1)Post 10 interesting facts about F. Scott Fitzgerald
1. He started his education in a Catholic school in 1903. 2. He died of a massive heart attack on December 21st. 3. 1920’s was the most influential decade for him. 4. He left the university in 1917 to join the army in WW1. 5. He went to Princeton University. 6. He wrote a lot of short stories for Princeton Tiger, a humored magazine from Princeton University. 7. He moved to New York City after his discharge in the army. 8. His first publication The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage was a detective story issued in school’s newspaper at the age of 13. 9. Ernest Hemingway was a really close friend of Scott. 10. The sore point of this friendship was that Hemingway never approved selling of Scott’s stories and novels to Hollywood studios.
2) In your own words define the “American Dream.” The life that everyone want in America. They want perfect equality, democracy, and material prosperity. Social ideas that all people want to their lives.
3) Do you think the American Dream is still valid? Yes
4) Post 1 image of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Harlem Renaissance
1. Langston Hughes, poet and novelist, he made an impact in the Harlem Renaissance.
2. It made lots of changes specialy in african americans. Since there was a lot of slavery and discrimination in the north part of America. The Worl War1 began and made a big social and cultural changes in the USA. The industrialization was attracting people to cities from rural areas and gave rise to a new mass culture. There were also a great amount of people who lost their Jobs and became homeless, so they began to go to California because they had dreams and a better feauture and health there. The Great Depression began and a lot of natural disasters started to affect the people. The Harlem Renaissance were the Great Migration of African Americans to northern cities, which concentrated ambitious people in places where they could encourage each other, and the First World War, which had created new industrial work opportunities for tens of thousands of people.Langston Hughes contributed a tremendous influence on black culture throughout, he considered to be one of the most-recognized black poets of the Harlem Renaissance. He broke through barriers that very few black artists had in that period of time and so he helped to make a change. At that time poetry and literature were dominated by white people until the 1920´s there was an revolution of black literatura that changed the world. And he was one of the most famous poets who helped to make a change and show their talent not the skin color.
SONGS I CHOSED FROM THE 2ND QUOTE OF Henry David
I chosed the second quote because I know how to relate it with a famous song by Cat Stevens.
2) I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not live.
For me this quotes means to live at the time. Like to not do things that you were suposed to do in the future and live the present as it should be. These quote for me is similar for the meaning that gives Cat Stevens in his famous song father and son. This song talks about a father that is telling his son to take things slowly and do it at the time. Cat Stevens is showing to live the life at its time and dont rush things and make it at a time. This song actually talks about YOLO. Im going to show it to you on some parts of the lyrics of the song father and song. FATHER AND SON: CAT STEVENS ( LYRICS)
It’s not time to make a change,
Just relax, take it easy.
You’re still young, that’s your fault,
There’s so much you have to know.
Find a girl, settle down,
If you want you can marry.
Look at me, I am old, but I’m happy.
The second song I chosed was midnight memories by one direction. This song is fun and full of happines and life. The meaning is that you have to live your life fully to have the best memories while they are young. It also shows how to make the best memories so they can remember how much good times they made with theire friends while they were doing crazy stuff and having fun. They want to make the best memories so they can tell it to theire kids in the future and remember how fun were their times they were young and crazy. They are showing how to Yolo while they can do crazy stuff and laugh about it later. Im going to show you some parts of the lyrics that show the meanig of life. MIDNIGHT MEMORIES: ONE DIRECTION ( LYRICS )
Straight off the plane to a new hotel
Just touched down, you could never tell
Big house party with a crowded kitchen
People talk shh but we don’t listen
Tell me that I’m wrong but I do what I please
Way too many people in the Addison Lee
Now I’m at the age when I know what I need, oohh
[Chorus]
Midnight memories, oh oh oh
Baby you and me
Stumbling in the street
Singing, singing, singing, singing
Midnight memories, oh oh oh
Everywhere we go
Never say no
Just do it, do it, do it, do it
Walt Whitman
1) Choose 10 interesting facts about Whitman and post them on your blog.
1. Whitman’s novel Franklin Evans sold more copies during his lifetime than any of his other books.
2. In 1847, Whitman reviewed Omoo, an early novel by a young writer named Herman Melville, who later wrote Moby Dick.
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson thought Leaves of Grass was genius; however, for later editions he told Whitman to cut out parts he thought were too sexy, Whitman refused.
4. The writer Henry James wrote a scathing review of Drum-Taps, Whitman’s 1865 collection of Civil War poems.
5. Whitman wrote several shamelessly glowing reviews of his own work.
6. An English fan of Whitman’s, named Anne Gilchrist, sailed to America with the intention of marrying Walt Whitman and having his baby.
7. As rumors circulated of Whitman’s failing health in 1889, a local cemetery owner in New Jersey contacted the dying poet and asked him to write a poem about the cemetery that they could use in their advertisements.
8. He was bisexual
9. Father: Walter Whitman Sr. (1789-1855)
Mother: Louisa Van Velsor Whitman (1795-1873)
10. He had 5 brothers and 2 sisters.
2 ) Name a contemporary writer or artist influenced by Whitman.
-Emily Dickenson , The Civil War, The Assassination of Lincoln , and Whitman’s work as a nurse.
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my favorite song by elena bartolome
I like a lot of music artists like the beatles, vampire weekend, christal fighters, lilly allen, bob marley, mgmt, but specially my favorite music band Noah and the whale. My favorite song is is 5 years time by noah and the whale.
It has some rhymes like:
- Oh well in five years time we could be walking round a zoo
With the sun shining down over me and you
- And there’ll be love in the bodies of the elephants too
And I’ll put my hands over your eyes, but you’ll peep through
- ‘cause i’ll be laughing around your silly little jokes
- And we’ll be laughing about how we use to smoke.
They repeat some alot of words in the corus like fun, love, and sun. like for example:
And there’ll be sun, sun, sun
- All over our bodys.
And sun, sun, sun
I’ll die in next
There’ll be sun, sun, sun
All over our faces
And sun, sun, sun
So, what the hell
To me this song means a lot like I could sing it to my friens or sister or someone else and it has a meaning for everyone. Its about how im going to be with a person that right now could be my best friend or someone else in the future and maybe we could be remembering these time or things we did together and more. And also how we might be maybe still being best friend, or only friends, or just stay out of touche or even become strangers to each other. These could describe happiness between friends and good memories. I love how they can tell how fun was when they were that close and happy friends.
For last the rhymes and repetition of these song makes some meaning remembering how the singer fell in love for the one that is with him in the song. In which he tells her how in love he is with her and that maybe in 5 years time they could be something
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