1-17) http://thenostalgialeague.com/olmag/haycox.html 2/18 (Holiday –no class) (in Adaptations pp. 18-33; in Reader: “Adaptation Studies at a Crossroads”) 2/25 “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” 1993 / Smoke Signals 1998 (in Adaptations, pp.34 -49) Paper One and Two Assigned (due 3/11 and 4/22) Suspense/Film Noir: 3/4 “Maltese Falcon” 1930 / Maltese Falcon 1941 (in Adaptations. pp. 50 – 82; st FYI: novel’s 1 chapter and portion of script is included in this reading) 3/11 ”The Killers” 1927/ The Killers 1946 (in Adaptations, pp. 127 - 132; 151-153) Paper One due 3/18 ”Memento Mori” 2001 / Memento 2000 (in Adaptations, pp.
His magazine work has been nominated twice for National Magazine Awards for feature writing. He is known for his bestselling works of narrative history and literary non-fiction. His novel Ghost Soldiers was the basis for the 2005 Miramax film The Great Raid. The book also won the 2002 PEN USA Award for nonfiction and the 2002 Discover Award from Barnes & Noble. The story Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II Most Dramatic Mission is based in the Philippines during the 1940's.
Harris’s work has appeared in American Visions, Essence, the Washington Post Sunday Magazine, Savoy, The Advocate, and the award winning anthology Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America, Go The Way Your Blood Beats. A short novel “Money Can’t Buy Me Love” was published in Got To Be Real : Four Original Love Stories (December 2000). In 2002, his short fiction appeared in Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writers (Harlem Moon), a collection he co-edited with Marita
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Research →World War 1 –dates and places, allies and enemies Date: Aug 1914—Nov 1918 Places: Europe Allies: British, Russia, France, Serbia kingdom, Belgium, British, Japan, Italy, Romania, Greece, United States, China. Enemies: Italy, imperial German, Austro-Hungarian empire, Ottoman empire, Bulgaria. →The life of the author, Charles Yale Harrison Charles Yale Harrison (16 June 1898–17 March 1954) was a Canadian author and journalist, best known for his 1930 anti-war novella Generals Die in Bed. Born in Philadelphia to Jewish parents, Harrison grew up in Montreal, where at age fifteen he wrote his first short story and at age sixteen took an entry-level job with the Montreal Star newspaper. Harrison's journalistic career was
Truman:- Harry Truman was president of America after the death of F D Roosevelt in April 1945. Harry Truman gave the order for the atomic bombs to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and he represented the United States at Potsdam, the last of the great war meetings. Harry Truman was born in 1884 in Lamar, Missouri. He was brought up in a rural background and in World War one he served on the Western Front as a captain in the American artillery. After the war, he took a law degree at Kansas City and after this he moved into the social and political circles of the Democrat Party.
Oscar de Leon, born in the Dominican Republic in the early 1970s, later transplanted to New Jersey, grapples with a fuku that goes back to his grandfather who suffered at the hands of the Dominican Republic’s mid twentieth-century dictator, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Diaz fronts his novel with a poem by Derek Walcott, Nobel Prize-winning Caribbean writer. The poem’s last lines, “…either I’m nobody or I’m a nation,” could be poor Oscar’s epitaph. You know already just by Diaz’ title that Oscar is not destined to live long. What you don’t know is why.
Keyonna Jones Dr. Senefeld English 1010 11 April 2013 No Country For Old Men Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island on July 20, 1933. Cormac was raised Roman Catholic. He went to Catholic High School in Knoxville, and went to the University of Tennessee in 1951-52. Once he left Tennessee, he moved to Chicago were he wrote his first novel The Orchard Keeper, which was published in 1965.McCarthey waited until he was 70 years old before he publish his book No Country For Old Men. No Country For Old Men is a novel that is set in the modern day Texas.
Carlos Fuentes, a renowned Mexican novelist, scholar and diplomat, presented his view of Mexican history and national identity at a lecture in a packed McCosh 10 last night. Fuentes traced the social, political and economic development of Mexico in a talk called "A Panoramic View of the History of Mexico." Fuentes began his talk by describing Mexican mythology, focusing on the question of identity that pervades the country's lore from the very beginning of the civilization to the present day, a theme he also often visits in his many novels. "From the beginning we asked ourselves questions of identity: Who are we? What do we remember?
Regents-style comparative analysis of our 2006-2007 reading Book/Story Title Author Main Character(s) Ordinary People (1978) Judith Guest Conrad Jarrett; Dr. Berger; Calvin and Beth Jarrett; Buck; Jeanine Pratt One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1961) Ken Kesey Chief Bromden/Broom; R.P. McMurphy; Nurse Ratched; Harding; Cheswick “This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” (1995) Sherman Alexie Victor Joseph; Thomas Builds-the-Fire; Cathy; Victor’s father Shoeless Joe W.P. Kinsella Ray, Annie & Karin Kinsella; Shoeless Joe Jackson; J.D. Salinger; Moonlight Graham; Eddie Scissons; Mark; Richard; Bluestein The Great Gatsby (1925) F. Scott Fitzgerald Jay Gatsby; Nick Carraway; Tom and Daisy Buchanan; Characterization similarities: • The main characters come to a new sense of themselves and their place in the world. 1.