... learning takes place when students are motivated and interested. It is my belief that the way to achieve this is by giving students a voice in the learning process, and by assisting them in finding connections in the curriculum with their own life and interests. Thus, "pedagogists ... of the students. Nevertheless, it worked out very badly as it gave rise to a sort of inertia and dissatisfaction among the students failing to voice their minds. And my changed philosophy of education, thus, concentrates on student-centered one. I believe in focusing on individual needs, and involving stud...

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... not only a story, but as a comment on the "European truth-. Post-Colonialism is a resistance to the colonial power and addresses and gives voice to the minorities who historically were silenced. Ondaatje retells the story of Toronto from the perspective of the migrants who literally built the foundations on which ... for his post-colonial aims- to bring the marginalised to the centre. The idea of the opposing societal groups and the struggle for a voice can be drawn from this novel and is reinforced and elaborated on by these two readings. The understanding of these two readings allows ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... Emily? to accomplish a host of literary objectives. First, he establishes the point of view in the form of a first-person narrator. The narrator, an unnamed townsperson, is presented as the voice of the town. He knows Emily's life story from the gossip, speculations, and legends of the town. Next, Faulkner uses the narrator, to accomplish four other functions; he begins to ... element. Faulkner establishes this relationship straightway and develops it regularly. The town of Jefferson is more than simply the setting; it is a character with a voice and values. And this town, understood as...

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... a " soft-spoken, dark-dressed stranger...white teeth...were filed to a point". As shown in the movie the actor was also a very darkly clad man. He also had a very soft, hypnotic voice and whenever he smiled his teeth were very shiny and pointy. The man described as "the biggest man in the country...when he stood up to speak, stars and stripes ... blessed and the shaking of the earth underground" was Daniel Webster. In the movie the actor who filed his role was a very big man with a powerful voice. The last character, Jabez Stone, wasn't given a very active role in the short story, but h...

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• Grade Level: High School

... the story. The story creates two very distinct characters, a nagging mother and her daughter. "Kincaid sat at the typewriter in her Hudson Street apartment and attempted to recreate her mother's voice in its first fictionalized incarnation" (Paravisini-Gebert 51). During the story the mother makes it clear to the daughter that a woman's sole purpose in life is to wait on man ... and ensure his happiness. The story also uses the mother's voice as way to deliver instructions to her daughter in a nagging manner. Kincaid must have been thinking about her own experience as a young girl. The ...

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... that Francis Macomber is an adventurer who enjoy hunting, much like Hemingway did when he was a young boy. Before the safari and the lion, Macomber seems like he is a very active brave man, but breaks down in the face of danger. Margot Macomber mocks her husband openly by asking their guide, Robert William, if elands are dangerous. Hemingway tells us that ... defense for her husband, but really she was so scared that he would leave her that she killed him instead, "That was a pretty thing to do," [Wilson] said in a toneless voice. "He would have left you too." "Stop it," [Margot] said "...

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• Grade Level: High School

... , it only flickered. I have not written any other children's stories, and the flickering of passion experienced in grade school blew out after moving to the states in the tow of active-duty parents. I hoped to be an author, but I had quit writing for fun, resorting instead to TAAS practice and assigned writing with great fervor, hoping that in formal writing I would ... . Of course, it's always somewhere inside of me, but you could say that it's subdued in certain environments. More than not, in my academic classes as well as electives, my voice is quite often soft and low. While during t...

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... and Carver uses no complex metaphors: I feel depressed. (p69) Here is what I tell her. (p64) As Mrs Chapman has suggested, Carver prefers the first person narrative to an omniscient narrative voice. This allows Carver to step back from the story and have less of an interpretive influence. Carver doesn't guide the reader in what they should think of the short story ... de Perre claims that Carver gives a warning against passive readers. The concept of understanding a story becomes problematic if we equate ourselves, the readers, with Rita, the listener. Carver demands an active reader wh...

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... began using butcher paper to jot down a few stories. In 1934, Bradbury and his family moved to Los Angeles, where he went to Los Angeles High School. He was very active in the drama club at his high school, as he was looking forward to becoming an actor. His first pay as a writer was from George Burns, for contributing a joke to ... supernatural. Setting: The 21st century in an automated house with no people. Character: There is really no main character of this story, so we would have to say that the voice inside the house saying " seven O"clock!" is the main character. Point of View: D...

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... . When the audience is able to draw it's own story around an author's narrative, the experience is more satisfying than when every detail is presented through the cinematic medium - an active audience is happier than a passive one. Stark contrasts exist between the description of the characters and emotional content between the book and the movie. This may be mainly due to ... chapter, the Greenies are expressed as hardworking soldiers who were always ready to kill. After Fossie waited many days for Mary Anne, he is convinced that he heard Mary Anne's voice coming from the Greenies" post...

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• Grade Level: High School