English Beginner A FACSO, 2020-2

- 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...

  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...

  - 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 ...