Sunday, March 23, 2014

Arranged Marriage - The Namesake

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What is an arranged marriage, you ask? Great question, Reader! According to OxfordDictionaires.com, an arranged marriage is defined as, ...
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Monday, March 17, 2014

Names, Names, Names

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*Disclaimer: You probably should read up to chapter 7 of the Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri before reading this post.* Thinking about my blog...
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Sunday, March 9, 2014

How to Uphold Tradition: The Namesake

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Ooookkkayyy time for another boring school mandated book. Psych! The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri is actually not that bad. However, I have onl...
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Sunday, February 9, 2014

The First Part of Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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I have just finished reading the first part of Notes From Underground  (by Foyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Ralph Matlaw). Suffice to say,...
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Thursday, February 6, 2014

Achebe and Fontana

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Here is the final essay for the "Lion Project". Refer to my teacher's blog (Hawkinsanity.blogspot.com) for a prompt and backgr...
Monday, January 20, 2014

Chinua Achebe's Yams....oh & Things Fall Apart

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In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, yams, a prominent vegetable, reappear a few, times to say the least, throughout the novel. Yams,...
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Saturday, January 11, 2014

Ken Robinson's TED talk: "How school kills creativity"

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For this blog post, we were given the task of watching a TED talk and writing thoughts we had in response to the video. Simply, I searc...
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