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Beginner A, Post 6, 'Themed Free Post 2'

- Number of words: 160 - Students have to leave comments on at least 3 of their mates' posts and on the teacher’s post. As usual, I will leave you with a sample. This time, the introduction of an essay on English Literature that I wrote some time ago, "The Scarlet Letter as a biformous narrative: Characterization. Hawthorne’s novel, ‘The Scarlet Letter’ can be said, inhabits ‘biformity’, a term which has been coined by Michael Kammen in his essay ‘Biformity: A Frame of Reference’. More particularly, the novel’s ‘biformity’ can be found in the construction of one of its main characters, Hester Prynne. As a starting point, ‘Biformity’ can be shaped as an ambivalent state of two opposing philosophical and moral forces that, “Subject people to more extreme contrasts and abrupt changes during a lifetime or a generation than is normally the case with other great nations” (Kammen, 101) Moreover, ‘biformity’, is said to develop “a tension between newer and older human ways of acting a...
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Beginner A, Post 5, 'A photograph you like'

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  Write about a photograph you like. Say: Who took it What it shows When it was taken Why you like it Upload it too Include any other information you'd like to mention. Write at least 150 words. Add comments to your teacher + 3 partners   As usual, I leave you with a sample entry, This is the photo I chose that I really like. If you ask me I really do not know who took it, it probably was taken from a professional photographer, since it is promotional image for the Japanese trio “Shonen Knife”. The photo basically shows the band image, which consisted of Naoko Yamano (vocalist, center), Atsuko Yamano (Drummer, left) and Michie Nakatani (bassist, right) I do not know when the photo was taken, but, by judging the band appearance, it seems to be it was taken sometime around 1990.  I really like this photo as I already told you, because this band is a blast, a really cool rock and roll band. It derives from the punk movement in the US, particularly, from the “Ramones”. By the...
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Beginner A, Post 4, 'Themed Free Post'

  - Comments: Leave a comment on your post + 3 of your classmates' posts - Word Count: 150 words As usual, I will leave you a sample, Mobilizing the object of study, Hemingway’s “The Sun also rises” The following work attempts to look for an intertextual dialogue to occur between TS Eliot’s “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”, Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” and Hemingway’s “The Sun also rises”. For this to be achieved, several passages from both the poem and the novels have been selected in order to find a point of convergence concerning one paramount topic, the one of the ‘solitude in the quotidian’. As a mode of beginning, the topic that may follow up: ‘the solitude in the quotidian’, portrayed in Fitzgerald’s and Eliot’s passages it is now reversed to the coming across of ‘company in the quotidian’. It is in the following lines of Hemingway’s novel that one may find such development of such topic “We stayed five days at Burguete and had good fishing. The nights were cold ...
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Beginner A, Post 3, 'Your Favourite piece of technology'

  Write about your favourite piece of technology Say:  What it is. When you got it. How you use it. How often you use it. Why you like it. What life would be like without it. - 140 words minimum. As usual, I leave my sample entry for you to take it as a writing model -if you want to, of course- My favourite piece of technology is paper. No, I am not crazy, and I do not want to pull your leg. It is for real. Paper has almost always been there for us, I mean, ‘us’ as humanity. So, concerning my lifetime, I have been dealing with paper my whole life. Paper has multiple functionalities, so there would be a little difficult for me to name them all. For some reason I still do not understand, paper is a wonderful piece of edible material – meaning that you can eat it – at least when I was a little boy. To a certain extent, paper also serves as a beautiful media to put your thoughts on. Also, you can make sculptures out of paper, and that would be called ‘origami’, the art of making t...
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Beginner A, Post 2, 'Why did you choose this study program?'

  Warm Salutations, Earthlings from FACSO In this week, you are expected to write about,   - your dream jobs when you were a child   - other career options that you had at the moment of applying to university   - what made you decide in the end   - your experience at the university until now   - the kind of job you would like to have    > word count: 130 words    > don't forget to leave comments on  3 of your classmates' posts  and on  your teacher's post as well.     As usual, I leave a sample post for you to make fun of or to take it as a starting point for your own written work,   Since I was a  child,  I did not think about getting a job or dreaming –daydreaming, perhaps- about getting a job. I did not contemplate the idea of an ideal job because it simply did not exist in my childish world. I was really into video games, soccer, and cycling. Now, that I think of it, I never imagined myse...
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Beginner A, Post 1, 'My Auto Biography'

  Warm Salutations, Earthlings from FACSO This is the very first post activity, and you will have to write about your own biography,  that is to say, your autobiography .  You will be asked  to do the following  classwork  that should include:     -  Birth info   -  Studies info  ( E lementary/ H igh school/ U niv ersity )   -  Family   Info   -  Hobbies   -  Others ...  ( pics   for   example )       >  Number   of   words :  120 ( minimum )   >  Make comments on three of your  classmates'  posts + a comment on your teacher post as well.       I am  leaving   here   my   sample  post  for   you   to   read ,       "Hello to you all prospective Psychologists , Sociologists, Anthropologists, Early Childhood Educators.       Since h...
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