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Summary of Chapter One Origins: From Folk-Tale to Art-Tale Book: The Short Story: An Introduction by Paul March-Russell, 2009 ________________________________________________________________ Universidade Federal do Ceará DELILT - Centro de Humanidades Literatura em Língua Inglesa I Prof.ª Lola Aronovich 2018.1 ________________________________________________________ Paul March-Russel begins telling us that the earliest recorded references to the term "short story" is from the Oxford English Dictionary, in the late eighteenth century. Subsequently, Anthony Tropole, Wilkie Collins, Raymond Williams, are cited as writers from that time that had also used the term. The coinage of the new name was grounded in the late nineteenth century, given the fact that there was a need to represent in language a cultural change, a shift in consciousness in society. In effect, some writers seemed to reject the new term to define their pieces of writing. Hence, they stood referring to the genre

JONES, Charles A. "American civilization", Volume 2, February 2013, Human Figurations, Permalink: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.11217607.0002.104 Reading the title "American civilization" we may think of the many aspects we can talk about it such as the political, social or economic background. The author, Charles Arthur Jones, is an emeritus college professor from the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at Cambridge University. In his very current article from 2013, he makes points accurately about the abovementioned scenarios. Furthermore, he delineates the concept of civilization, discusses frontiers, cultural and social differences, modernity, and compiles some historical facts to base his arguments. The paper is a shortened version of the homonymous book, written by the same author and, published in 2007. The article organized into subheadings, which in the end, conveys the purpose of showing the challenging nature of cultural differences

The present piece of writing is a result of the necessity to share my point of view about the Literature I course. We have been having great evenings with presentations by the exquisite professor Lola Aronovich and also by our classmates. Besides that task, we have had discussions on the respective subjects that each short story brought up. It is essential to notice that, since the beginning, the professor was very polite, careful and critical with us during our presentations. She always gave us space for expressing ourselves freely, but of course, making her points about historical, political, social and cultural facts/curiosities that might have influenced the authors. There have been precious moments for my learning process. In the first class, professor Lola explained prose and short story as a whole and, how the course was intended to work. After that, along the course, we were requested to write some papers to deliver it to obtain some extra points for our final grade. A very e

Among the interesting short stories we have read so far in this first literature course, many characters caught my attention. In this piece of writing, I will share my opinions about my favorite and least favorite characters from two different authors: Alice Munro and Raymond Carver. Their titles are respectively "Boys and Girls" (1968) and "They're not your husband" (1971). As mentioned in the first paragraph, my favorite character is from Alice Munro's short story "Boys and Girls". I had presented about gender in it one class, and that is one reason, but not the principal motivation for me to approve this character more than the others. The unnamed girl seems to acquire similar attitudes and thoughts as the sexist men around her in the farm do so. Despite that, in the end, she still being polite, respectful when she accepts the condition that her father, here representing men's power, imposes to being "only" a girl. As long as we

There is a huge debate about celebrities' social responsibility. Worldwide many celebrities have been getting into political and social causes. In Brasil, for example, Gilberto Gil, Chico César, Fernanda Lima, Letícia Sabatela, Wagner Moura, Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso are some of the well-known artists who support social, political and cultural movements. First of all, it's important to know that everyone has social responsibilities. Since we live in communities, being responsible for your fellow human being passes through thinking about education in a macro sight. Some people believe that celebs must be role models once they are famous. On the other hand, there are people who judge this discussion from different points of view. as social individuals, every person has rights. The question is: how has media been dealing with the privacy of those celebs? - what is the media role? - Somebody could argue that regardless of being a public figure they have the right to privacy. In

Improving our speaking and writing has to do with how much we know about the language we speak. There is a good reason to study grammar deeper. The present essay intends to do a brief explanation of two interesting and very useful grammar topics: defining and non-defining relative clauses and participle clauses. First of all, we may distinguish when we use these two types of clauses: defining relative clauses are used when some information is important to specify what is being talked about. On the other hand, non-defining relative clauses are used when this information is not relevant or is only additional. An interesting characteristic is that this last one always uses commas. Relative clauses are sometimes referred to as adjective clauses. They are constructed by using relative pronouns such as "that", "which", "who", "whom", "whose" etc. in order to refer to people or things in a sentence. It is important to remember that we do not u