The Hum

In “Snapping Beans” by Lisa Parker, a girl is home for the weekend after being at school up in the North. She is staying with her grandma who lives in the South and has a very religious background. The grandma asks her how school is going and the girl is afraid to tell her that it isn’t going great. The conflict in this poem is person vs self because the girl struggles with an internal conflict whether or not to tell her grandma how school is going. The theme of the poem is that after growing up…

“ Sí bueno, ¿Sabes cómo decir los zapatos en Inglés ?” I questioned as part of my daily back and forth I exchanged with my host mother Luisa. She taught me Spanish while I tried to teach her English.The summer of 2015 I embarked to Peru with an organization called Rustic Pathways. Living in Peru for two weeks was an experience that has changed who I am. Throughout my time in Perka Norte, my host family and I grew incredibly close despite the cultural and language barrier. During the chilly…

Going against the grain of the clichéd cop movie filled with violence, car chases and loud noises, Corneliu Porumboiu’s Police, Adjective (2009), is an intelligent and thought-provoking piece of Romanian cinema that examines the concepts of law, morals, linguistics and dialectics. The story follows Cristi (Dragos Bucur), a young plainclothes detective assigned to track a teenager who occasionally smokes hash outside his school with his friends. Aware that the kid isn’t exactly Pablo Escobar,…

When we think of autumn, we think about the hot and humid days coming to an end, and the various colors of changing leaves. However, if you want to experience the true beauty of autumn, the Blue Ridge Mountain is the place to be. The sight of the mountain and the sound of the aging trees and their various color leaves brought peace to my soul. Also, the various fragrances that lingers in the air is breathtaking and relaxing. As I drove along the long frosty, and foggy road of Blue Ridge Mountain…

Once I recognized that I had ADD, I became more aware of what I was doing. Allowing for more control over each condition, hyperactivity was the first of my problems to “grow up”. Petering out into the rapid tap of my leg, or the spontaneous need to hum or whistle. Impulsivity mellowed after a few choice mistakes left me no choice but to pull inward, and avoid any activities that would leave me vulnerable to any change of patience. Slow and steady leads to more accommodating impulses now. I laugh…

A teacher generally understand how words and sounds are formatted in which it helps plan produce lessons to teach , but more important to help engage students to the lessons. The phonological system of a language includes an inventory of sounds and their features, as well as rules in which specify how sounds interact with each other. Linguistically morphology is the patterns of word formation in a particular language both goes hand in hand in formatting words expression and comprehension.…

minutes of contracting the disease. In reaction to this, the Prince summons a few of his loyal courtiers to an abbey isolated from the outside, hoping to defy death. From the inside, the guests encounter shaded rooms of different hues, an irritating hum, and a strange man upon them-- separate from the outside world they were evading, yet reminiscent of it. Nonetheless, death is an inevitable process of life and occurs despite the conditions…

irony, however, is that each is so terrified of death that they can hardly bear to live. This ties in with the title of the book. One could interpret white noise as the sound of death. Jack speculates that death might be nothing more than an eternal hum of white noise: detached bits of data, garbled gibberish, and meaningless sounds, all vibrating at an equal frequency so that nothing in particular stands out and everything remains potentially significant. Though DeLillo avoids drawing any…

“Thank You M’am”, a short story, by Langston Hughes, is about a woman that teaches a poor street boy a lesson about stealing. The story starts of with a street boy, named Roger, trying to steal a woman named Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones’s purse. Instead of getting away with it, Mrs. Jones takes Roger home because she used to be like Roger and she wanted to help him since someone helped her. When Roger tells Mrs. Jones his reason for trying to steal from Mrs. Jones was because he wanted…

Father Returns from the Mountain by Luis Alberto Urrea the most poetic of the stories. It had many poetic elements in it, including a great deal of imagery. The detail used in describing everything from the car after the accident to his father's body laid bare on a table at the clinic was astounding. Urrea used metaphors like, “The truth is a diamond, or at least a broken mirror,” dreams are also “diamonds” and “broken mirrors,” “His mouth is a traitor,” as well as his description of his…