Answer the following short answer questions in approximately 200 words. We recommend using a word processing program to edit your response and cutting and pasting it into the answer box. Tell us about a concept or subject that intellectually excites you. Why does it interest you? There are an abundant amount of subjects that peak my interests, but mathematics will always be the one subject that intellectually excites me. At times, it is able to both challenge me to the point of frustration, but it later gives me excessive excitement and happiness for overcoming the challenge. Similarly, it is like a wave flooding in shore because it is at first harsh and difficult, but it gradually smoothes and simplifies. It is a subject that I can fully interact and manipulate it to the best possible way of understanding it, which I fondly love because I learn better hands-on. However, it was truly benevolent instructors, who increased my love in math and enlighten a new way of …show more content…
She overcame rape, molestation, and kidnapping from Esteban Gracía, a man who has molested and tortured her every since she was a young child. Yet, she still managed to take it upon herself to bear everyone's pain and suffering to help fugitives and others escape across the borders and feed the poor during a period of utter chaos. She also never once gave up the location or information of her lover after endless grueling torture, proving love is stronger than anything. She never once gave into her captor and continue pressing forward and eventually she was able to escape with the help of her grandfather, Esteban Trueba. However, there is one question I wish for her to answer, how did she not give up hope, after everything that has happened to her and still continue to love, even love the very person, who is at fault for her
1. Tell us about a concept, theory, or topic you have explored simply because it sparked your intellectual curiosity. Why do you find it intriguing? How do you want to further explore it?
The Shining house the author illustrates the idea of rivalry between old and the new and the human backlash to everyday change. Both sides of the story have very substantial perception of what they hope to be done which leads to an intense and dubious conflict between the two groups The main character, Mary, is caught in an argument drives her into making a forced opinion that everyone will have to confront at some point of their life. In the short story “The Shining Houses” by Alice Munro the author demonstrates how a person is facing with making a agreement in a complex and conforming situation, the choice made helps reveal his or her individuality with ignorant judgment.
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January 8, 1981, Allende begin writing a goodbye letter to her 99-year-old grandfather who was dying, she narrates in her biography, Paula, “I wanted to tell him not to worry, that nothing would be lost of the treasury of anecdotes he had told me through the years of our comradeship; I had forgotten nothing” (Levine). Once she started she could not stop, it quickly turned into her family story titled, The House of the Spirits. This book was a way to connect to her family she left behind so many years ago. Even though the country in which this book is written is never named, it is assumed this takes place in Allende’s native country, Chile. In this novel,
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Randy, a resident at BBH, especially enjoys the videos presented at the weekly Faith Flicks group.
Much of The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende revolves around the life of one of its main characters Esteban Trueba. Esteban Trueba is an aggressive, violent character whose only goals throughout the novel are to achieve success and power. The reader sees his brutal nature through the way he deals with people around him, whom in his eyes are all significantly inferior. However, one minor character in The House of the Spirits seems to change Trueba’s aggressive nature. When Esteban first meets Transito Soto, she is a prostitute in a brother nearby to his farm in Tres Marias. However, she soon proves much more worthy. What may seem like an insignificant meeting at first turns out to affect his life over and
Sisters of the Spirit is a collection of the personal narratives of three black women preachers of the 19th century: Jarena Lee, Zilpha Elaw, and Julia Foote. Each woman describes their progress of the soul from damnation to salvation and saw Christ's purpose in the events of their daily lives.
Having always excelled in math and math related content in class, this often left me feeling board and unchallenged, however after being reintroduced to a challenge and having to work for something, my love for math was reignited. Now there was someone who was going to ensure I would learn, sitting in class just waiting for the assignment
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The poem, "The Night House" by Billy Collins, is very symbolic and meaningful, and most people can relate to because everyone has something they are not content with in life. Collins is a great, straightforward writer that people can depict with in his poems because he is practical and uses simple things or everyday experiences in an easy way. This poem in particular is very symbolic and effortless to analyze because it is the everyday life--- going to work, coming home, and then going to sleep--- the cycle then repeats over and over. He talks about "the body works" at the beginning (which sets the tone for the rest of the poem), which symbolizes that our hearts and minds are not always into what we are doing. He talks and illustrates figurative parts of the body: the heart, mind, conscience, and soul. When he talks about the woman sleeping, all these figurative body parts are restless and come out at night to do what they really want to do.
Isabel Allende's “The House of the Spirits” is ambitious in its personal and political choice, and in its sheer beauty. Her elegant style laces easily between the two different points of view in the book: the masculine grandfather clinging to the past, and his forward-thinking, softhearted granddaughter. All of Allende's characters are complex and beautifully recognized. This marvelous novel is a great literary achievement on every level, as it perfectly interlaces the characters' personal and political passions and the important events of their times.
As a mathematics major, the concept that most people overlook is that I did not choose to study mathematics because I do well at it; I chose to study mathematics because it makes me smarter. In fact, all throughout junior high and high school I was in remedial mathematics classes and worse, I did not even place into a freshman year mathematics class in high school. I had to re-take 8th grade mathematics. However, something about mathematics excited me. Maybe it was the fact that mathematics never came easy to me and I wanted to prove to myself that not only could I pass mathematics classes, I could actually understand and excel at them. For me, mathematics is not about the arbitrary numbers, trivial solutions, meaningless formulas, or repetitive computation: it is about the progress of knowledge and human understanding.