Over The Fence By Emily Nye

In the short story “Both Sides of the fence”, written by Teresa Bateman, the author expresses the idea that there are two sides to every argument. In the story, Alberto attempts to prevent people in his pueblo from benefitting from his tree that was left for him by his family. As the story progresses, he suspects his neighbor from purloining his apples, but then realizes his wrongdoings and foolishness. This theme is revealed through the main character’s transformation, a significant passage, and the title of the story.

Dogeaters is Jessica Hagedorn’s first novel. The author returned to her native Philippines in 1988 to write the work, and it was published in 1990 when it received the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. The novel reflects the eclectic life of its author whose experiences have included acting, singing, songwriting, and writing poetry, drama, and fiction. For the most part, Dogeaters has been well received by critics and scholars who commend its experimental nature and innovative writing style. Jessica Hagedorn is a well-respected post-colonial author whose works present gender, social, and cultural themes. Dogeaters is considered one of the most widely studied novels about the Philippines and is an important example of

Through this examination of the differences between past and present, wrong and right, and North and South, by Ray West Jr., the different viewpoints and conflicts that appear throughout “A Rose for Emily” are deeply analyzed. West’s critical assessment divides the characters based on who represents the old ways and who represents the changing times. However, the story shows the South’s fervent desire to keep their lifestyle the same. Emily attempted to hold her love for Homer like the South attempted to hold its love for gentile days before the Civil War. West’s asserts that Emily’s fall from grace symbolizes the South’s fall. The deterioration of Emily and the South during reconstruction parallels the slow deterioration of Emily’s house.

From reading this poem call “Where There`s a Wall”, by Joy Kogawa. I get this feeling that the wall Kogawa is talking about in this poem, is a symbol that is used to represent a problem. This is based on the facts that in the begin lines of the poem. Kogawa suggest many different options by using literal imagery to try to overcome this obstacle in front of him. Kogawa evens mentions in the beginning lines of the poem that “where there is a wall there is a way around, over, through” it too.

In a Perfect World by Trish Doller takes place in Cairo, Egypt. Caroline looked forward to spending the summer with her best friend in her boyfriend before senior year. Plans quickly changed though when her mom got offered her dream job in Cairo at a One Vision clinic. She moves to Cairo with her mother while her dad stays in Ohio to work. Caroline expects to spend her senior year trying to navigate a new city and being homesick. What she wasn't expecting was a thrilling new culture, a few new friends, a beautiful city, and a new love who challenges her in many ways. In a Perfect World mainly focuses on how love will always find its way.

In Emily Yoffe’s essay entitled “Seeking”, she explores how the World Wide Web has provoked human’s brains to constantly seek information and knowledge. Yoffe opens the essay by stating her thesis, “Sometimes it feels as if the basic drives for food, sex, and sleep have been overridden by a new need for endless nuggets of electronic information, we are so insatiably curious we gather data that could get us in trouble, or we do not need to know” (“Seeking” 572). In the beginning, of the essay she highlights the research of Psychologist James Olds, who is believed to have found the brain’s pleasure center through various studies. She then moves on to explain the findings of neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp, who tries to account the reason for humans incessant need to seek information. Yoffe draws from Panksepp’s findings, “For humans, this desire to search is not just about fulfilling our physical needs, but our abstract ones as well, and in doing so we find a drug like satisfaction” (“Seeking” 573). Yoffe then explains how Psychology professor Kent Berridge tries to understand how the brain experiences pleasure. She speaks of how in Berridge’s work he has been able to distinguish how wanting is equivalent to Panksepp’s seeking system, and the liking system is believed to be linked to the brain’s reward center (Yoffe “Seeking” 574). Yoffe also explains how in Berridge’s work he has come to find that our minds are stimulated rather than satisfied, which

With the passage at hand, Dr. Ella Shohat discusses about the case of being an Arab Jew, a historical paradox, as one of many social elisions. Unlike the idea of intersectionality, binarism leaves “little place for complex identities” (Shohat, 2). As an American, Jew, and Arab, she speaks of the disparities amidst a war involving all three cultural topographies. Albeit she speaks from a subjective standpoint, she does not mention the issue of racial hygiene, class, geographic divisions, and gender. Passages from Guenter Lewy, Melissa Wright, and Philippe Bourgois will be used to discuss the way in which different positionalities might affect the analysis of “Dislocated Identities.”

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult is related to what we have studied in AP Biology because the book explored the issue of genetics. In AP Biology, we discussed the different kinds of genetic diseases, such as sickle cell anemia, down syndrome, and cystic fibrosis. We learned about each disease’s inheritance pattern, either recessive or dominant. In the book, Anna’s older sister, Kate was diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia, which she has many immature white blood cells in her body. Inevitably, this led to a deficiency of healthy blood cells to fight off foreign pathogens or diseases. Other than the fact that the book is related to the genetics unit, it is also relevant to the discussion we had in class about a person who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat his cancer. Similarly, Kate eventually received a bone marrow from her sister.

On the other hand, the other culture was her native culture, Spanish Chicano. The Spanish Chicano culture has been her culture since she was at a tender age and throughout her life. In this culture, Anzaldua believes “Chicano Spanish is not incorrect; it is living language” (2). Therefore, one could be viewed as a cultural traitor because one ruins the Spanish Language if he/she speaks another language such as English. This paper, therefore, sheds light to the challenging and conflicting cultural ideas exhibiting from the dual culture. Arab culture and American Culture.

In the Next Room is a play by Sarah Ruhl. The play contains the early history of the sexual device which is a vibrator. Dr. Givings used the vibrator as a clinical treatment to give women orgasm to cure hysteria. Dr. and Mrs. Givings always have unsatisfactory sexual relationship. Mrs. Givings was not able to breast feed her baby that Dr. Givings’ patient Mrs. Daldry introduce a wet nurse Elizabeth. Elizabeth visits Mrs. Givings and wet nurse the baby. One time Leonard Living an artist visits Dr. Givings’ clinic and request Elizabeth to draw her wet nursing a baby. Elizabeth once told Mrs. Givings and Mrs. Daldry that she can orgasm during the sex with her husband. Later on, with jealousy Mrs. Givings strongly demand love from her husband and they seek a true love by having sex. They finally recovered their relationship.

In his poem, “anyone lived in a pretty how town,” E. E. Cummings describes the life lived by the average joe, symbolized by protagonist “anyone,” in the average “pretty how town” setting. Cummings asserts that children will be born and raised to all be the “same,” with no individuality, then grow into “busy” adults who “cared for anyone not at all,” and perhaps one day get married, live their lives, and die, still with “nevers,” or an unfulfilled bucket list. It is through the use of repetition, foreshadowing, and figurative language that Cummings conveys a mood of sad inevitability as he explains how this lifestyle repeats itself in cycles and how death will come to everyone, all while they live their lives in a society that might be “pretty,” but which lacks any real sense of community and individuality. Cummings uses repetition to point out how life goes on, and how each generation repeats a cycle.

Have you ever wondered if we need nature more than nature needs us? Anthony Brandt, the author of “When Nature Comes too Close,” writes that nature causes many problems. He shows this by stating only negative things about nature and not the positive things in nature. Humans and nature affect each other equally because humans spray harmful pesticides to protect their food supply, animals spread diseases that can be harmful to humans and humans and nature are able to exist together while benefiting each other. Humans spray harmful pesticides, which is both necessary and unnecessary.

“The Country Just Over the Fence,” written by Paul Theroux, starts off on the U.S. side of the American-Mexican border in Nogales, Arizona. While on his way to the crossing checkpoint after parking his car at a parking lot near the border, Theroux becomes fascinated by the large fence separating the two countries, he calls it an “unintentional masterpiece.” After crossing the border Theroux then feels the tension between the two countries. While most Americans are aware that the relationship we have with Mexico has taken a turn for the worst due to immigration, cartels, and 9/11, Theroux captures both sides of the complicated events. Theroux describes Nogales as once being a border town for anyone and

“Anyone lived in a pretty how town” is best analyzed as an allegorical reference to the hidden value of the natural and everyday processes of life. In the first stanza, Cumming’s lists the four seasons “spring summer autumn winter” (l. 3). As the poem develops, the reader realizes that this is a reference to four different stages in human’s lives. The most important stages are spring, which is childhood, and winter, which is the later elder years that lead to death. Anyone is the main character who falls in love with noone. Together they go through life supporting one another, when the “women and men (both little and small) cared for anyone not at all” (ll. 5-6). The “someones married their everyones” and had children that grew up to be just like their parents, not having to do with anyone but themselves (l. 17). Anyone and noone

Sad novels have never really appealed to me. I’ve never been drawn by their sombre and depressing tone, often leaving me in a state of wondering, what now? This novel didn’t excite me at first. The storyline of ‘My Sister’s Keeper’ by Jodi Picoult, follows Anna Fitzgerald as she takes her parents to court so that she could be emancipated from medically supporting here leukaemia ridden sister, Kate. But as I read through, there were ideas and morals weaved throughout it that excited me. The way Picoult told the story from 6 of the main characters perspectives provided me with the thoughts of each, each holding different views and values about what was right and what wasn’t. It really had me thinking about my morals and gave me a chance to explore what I believe to be right. As the story went on, I not only got to see how things played out, but I also got a chance to maybe learn a little bit about myself, and how I would go about the situation if I was in any of the main characters shoes. I find it very sad that Anna felt, and also was conceived specifically for medical purposes only. The author managed to highlight the consequences of deliberately conceiving a child genetically compatible with a mortally ill sibling. It made me think about how parents can force one of their children to undergo countless surgeries, all too only benefit the other child. Because I got to view both parents side to the story, it