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Virginia Wolf

During the end of the 1800s in the city of London, in England, there was born a woman that would change the perspective of literature in that time. Her name was Virginia Wolf, who born in a middle class family. From the moment she was a child she felt the difference between man and women as she saw how her brothers went to school and university while she remained at home. This would make her later one of the main feminist in literature on her age.

Virginia was the centre of the modern literature (Bloomsbury), as Eliot describes in his obituary for Virginia. “Without Virginia Woolf at the centre of it, it would have remained formless or marginal…With the death of Virginia Woolf; a whole pattern of culture is broken.” The Bloomsbury Group was the literature circle that Virginia had that started meeting for ‘Thursday Evenings’ at Gordon Square, London in 1906, o later be called as the unofficial “Bloomsbury Group”.

In the literature of Virginia there was a change of the perspective of people. As Virginia said once, people in the Victorian era were different of people nowadays. That is why her stile and character had a new undertone different than the ones in her time. This happened mainly because of the influence of the end of the Victorian era and the catastrophic scenes of the First World War, adding that she had a tough childhood.

Despite these achieves obtained by Virginia Wolf she committed suicide in January of 1941. This happened because she had several mental problems that caused her being unstable mentally. This illness probably occurred because of the traumas of her childhood, the soon death of her parents and her more close brother, and also being raped by her half-brother. A sad end for a revolutionary. 

Task 1

Rationale

I was sitting on my desk in English classes, when my teacher started talking about the mass media and the impact of the media in our life. Then our teacher, to give us an idea of what media is she gave us some examples, between those examples she named blogs. I classmate of mine raised his hand and asked the teacher why blogs are count as mass media if no one uses them, especially young people. I was surprised with the reaction of my partner, but in a certain way I felt he was right. I didn´t know anybody of my age that has the habit of blogging. Intrigued with the blog issue, when I got home that day, I searched about the state of blogs nowadays and what I found an article that was about the decay of blogs in the society. The author of the articles said that blogs had reached their saturated point of popularity and that the main reason of the declination of blogs popularity was that the younger generations moved on to another types of media, like Facebook or Twitter (in the year 2006 a 50% of the younger users of blogs (12 to 25 years old) end up their use and accounts of blogs). Therefore, I am writing this blog entry to motivate the use of blog in young people by explaining to them the benefits, why they are useful and what the things you can do in blogs. I choose a blog entry because it represents the theme I am supporting and I also choose it cause I think a should be an example to follow for the youth, by doing a blog entry.

Blog Entry

Blog may be something odd for young people nowadays, but once it was popular for a big variety of ages. Between the years 2000 and 2006 blogs was the “gold age” for blogs, at that time blogging was something more common for the youth than what it is today. The youth of these days are not in the habit of blogging, this habit of using blogs as something common is lost in the new generation. So, why blogs loosed popularity in young people? This is because people moved on to another types of media like Facebook, Instagram, twitter, in other. One of the reasons people moved to other media was that they didn’t see any benefits by blogging so they stop using them.

There are many benefits and things that you can do in blogs the platform of blogs open you a world of possibilities. Blogs are very useful to start a business, in a blog you can build up a name for your new company. In blogs you can upload advertisements of your company and you can also make blog your company homepage or put links to yours company main page in blogs, so people can know what you company does, the services that you give and the products you have. Blogs are also useful to make insight (is when you build an emotional link between your company and the consumers). Insight is one of the best ways you can get your company known by people, insight is also useful to make people prefer your products than others, not because there are better or cheaper, but because they fell in touch with your company, that’s what insight does. Therefore, if you want to run a company blogs can make you success in easier way.

Blogs are also useful to share your personal vague. If you want to share to the world what is happening to you or what you are thinking blogs are a very viable path. In a blog you can upload whatever you like, you can make blog your personal diary or a trip dairy. If you are young and you feel that no one hears you and understands how you feel with blogs you can get in touch with people that think and feel like you. Your blog can be your way to express yourself the world. You can upload funny things, if you like writing or drawing you can post your work in your blog so people all around the world, and if your blog goes viral you can win money with it, by uploading cap chats of advertisements of companies that would pay you greats amounts of money for each visit your blog has.

If you like journalism you can blog your own news. You can make blog your “newspaper” there you can share whatever kind of news you like; you can upload news of your neighbourhood or bigger news of national or international level. The good thing that a blogs have for the writer is that there is no censorship. In newspapers there is an editor line that controls what is being published in the newspaper; instead in blog you are freer of expression. Apart of writing news you can also comment news or acts. In blogs you are free to give your opinion about the news and acts, your opinion as a common people may be interesting for the reader. Writing new in blog can open you a path into professional journalism, and it gives you a great experience of what is being journalist.

Blogs is a place where you can share your knowledge to the world. In a blog you can upload information about a scientific area. You can blog scientific articles, essays, investigations, etc. In a blog you can make a discussion of scientifically important issues. You can make your blog your personal Encyclopaedia by posting what you have been learning in classes or by yourself and then share it with your public.

Young people thing that blogs are not important in the media, but they are important. Blog is a way where the news and info are not controlled or censored, in blogs you have a free speech, so you can say thing in there without fear. Blog help “desmonopolizate” the media, so that people don´t have only one perspective of the whole story. Blogs, I think, are like the media that the people control, there is full transparency and there are no political and social differences, blogs are for everyone they are free to be used.

In conclusion there are benefits that you can get by blogging, and blog can be very useful for the youth to win money, start a company, and share your opinion or life. And that it is important for the society that the new generations are open to integrate blog to their life style, so that this important media doesn´t lose against the others media.

Activity 3.7

Make it plausible: The author writes a letter about Irish English, and he says he wrote a letter to make it more real and therefore more interesting to read.

Be knowledgeable:  The uses of names such as "James Joyce" and "J.M. Synge" shows that the author knows about the topic, also how he refers to articles of the Constitution represents his knowledge of the theme.

Keep it Relevant to Anglophone Culture: The letter and rationale are clearly referring to topic relative with the United Kingdom.

Know the right conventions for the text type: the author knows how to write a letter properly.

The Catcher in the Rye

The kite runner analysis

Panel 1

In the picture I can see the Amir spying his father and Rahim Kahn, in left size of the panel there is a staircase. Rahim Kahn, that is looking at Amir, and Baba are sitting in a blue and a green couch and they are having tea. At the back of the panel there is a golden lamp and a carpet that seems to be expensive. The light of the panel can give us the idea that it is the afternoon.

The image uses the lights to express feelings like the dark that’s surrounding Amir express sadness. Baba in the panel seems to be meditating something and he haven´t notice the presence of Amir, while Rahim Khan is surprise looking at Amir, Rahim Khan seems to be worried and at the same time sorry of what Amir had heart in the conversation that he and Baba were having.

Panel 2

There is Baba with a pipe in the hand finally noticing Amir, Amir is supported in the staircase looking at Baba, behind Amir there are some furniture like a closet and a curtain. In the picture I can see that Baba is surprised about Amir´s presence while Amir is in the back of the room surrounded by darkness his face reflects deception and sadness, he seems to be touched by something. He probably was hurt by something Baba had said.

Panel 3

Amir is running out of the house and crying at the same time, Rahim Khan stood up to follow Amir while Baba is comfortably sited in the couch. For me Amir seems to be very sad, and he can’t hold his tears and he runs because he is embarrassed. Rahim Khan seems to understand Amir feeling and he wants to comfort him. Baba seems to not care about the situation.

Panel 4

In this panel I can see Hassan and his father, which are wearing poor clothes, staring at Amir while they are working cleaning the entrance of the house. Amir is running outside of the house in what it seems to be the front garden. It is a sunny day and the entrance of the house has neat grass. The house is big, of a wealthy family. Amir is very sad and lost in his thought he has barely saw Hasan and his father looking at him.

Panel 5

The panel show us Hasan and his father. They are both holding his brooms, and at the same time Hassan´s father is holding Hassan. Hassan is worried about Amir, he wanted to go to comfort Amir but his father stopped him, in his father his expression I think what he is thinking is let him solved on his own.

Panel 6

Amir is running and Rahim is following him he tries to stop him to leave. There is just one step behind the front gate. Rahim  says that what Amir heard was no what his father meant, Rahim wants to solve this thing with Amir, but Amir things his father hates him because of his mom dying when he born. I think Rahim appreciates Amir and he take care of him and want him to be happy.

Panel 7

In this panel we can see Amir and Rahim, Rahim kneads Amir’s head. Rahim is surprised about what Amir had says he doesn’t understands that. I think Rahim is more a father to Amir than Baba because he is more close to him than what Baba is, and Baba is too rude to Amir, he demands him too much.

Link

http://voice.adobe.com/v/Sjg8rJ4r2M-

Universal Theme: Family


Holden learned that his sister was more matured than what he thought, and that his brother was coming to Christmas this year, for his surprise. He at first don't accept his family and says he hates his family and he says that there all phonies except phoebe, but then when he realize D.B is coming home for christmas he kind of change his mind. Also when Holden arrives to his home, he found the place so familiar and he liked that and he starts to miss his home.