In English 102, we read Sharon Olds’ haunting tribute to Marilyn Monroe’s mysterious death. It’s a poem that focuses upon the immediate aftermath of the famous starlet’s suicide. What if you were called upon to take the body away? What would happen to the image you have of her in your head? In English 008, students researched Marilyn’s life, and they compared her tragedies with those of Rhianna and Linsey Lohan. They defined and examined the term “sex symbol.” 50 years after her death, they explain why we still look to Marilyn with love and admiration.
We love Frida Kahlo’s paintings, but we are awed by the story behind them. As a young teen, Frida was involved in a terrible accident when the bus she was on collided with a tram. Several people were killed right on the spot. A piece of railing drove right through Frida’s spine and punctured her uterus. Doctors didn’t know if she would ever walk again. Frida was confined to bed for three months, but that’s where Frida’s artistic vision grew. Her father built her an easel and fixed it to the bed. Frida learned how to paint lying on her back. Her art reflects empty, cold and lonely rooms; her lonliness and despair. Look here for cause and effect writing – students explore how her pain affected her art. How her art affected her love.
At the end of each semester, students combine their love for music with their appreciation for literature. From their personal music vaults they create a soundtrack for their reading. In English 110 we read The Tortilla Curtain, a story of desperate Mexican immigrants pursuing the American Dream. Many students like to write with a Nortena beat, and they draw upon the lyrics of Los Tigres del Norte. More often than not, they choose” La Puerta Negra,” a song about impossible love. They break down the words and analyze the theme. Everyone agrees. This sad song fits the novel like a glove.
David Bowie? He sings China Girl. Playwright Henry Hwang references the lyrics to this song in his introduction to M. Butterfly. Edgar Allan Poe uses clown imagery in his Cask of Amontillado, but there is little to laugh at in this story . Patti Smith? She wrote just maybe one of the most beautiful memoirs I have ever read.
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It's been three days since the accident and I still can't sleep. Every time I close my eyes, I can hear the sound of the train approaching us, getting closer and louder, the wheels scraping on the metal train tracks, the pessimistic look of despair on their faces, and worst of all, the piercing scream that still haunts my ears
My mother, the only parent I know, is both a mom and a dad to me. Both of my parents would work, but even then my father would demand for my mothers paychecks. He'd use that money to get totally wasted, and it went on for a while like this....
In the book “Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility” the most valuable part is when Chuy offered a ride to Yoli on his motorcycle through many places of the San Diego city. no. Yoli thought she hadn’t heard him right...
On November, 1993 both my father and brother started the Richard McGee Correctional Basic Correctional Academy....
For America in the novel The Tortilla Curtain, Being married to Candido is like carrying a backpack full of bricks all day long....
My mother had struggled her whole life to make us happy. Being a single mother of two with two jobs was almost impossible yet it was her daily routine....
My father's addiction has had significant effects in my life. My father's alcohol abuse has made me realize what I want in my life and what I don’t want....
After the bell had rung, I quickly got to my seat, of course being tardy was probably a bad first impression because as soon as I picked a desk to sit at my teacher was glaring at me. He then began to yell at me saying how it was an essential to be on time to his class. This was my first encounter with my economics teacher and I already knew it was going to be a long year. Little did I know that Jack had a specific purpose in my life and although he was scary to me at first, he soon became my strongest adult in my life. As the years went by, I got to know Mr. Little and we became the greatest of friends. Once Jack Little passed away, I had a different perspective on the little amount of time we all have to live...
After living three years in this country, it was important for me to realize that I needed to go to school to learn English. I was feeling like I was illiterate and deaf. When my husband was in work I was afraid to answer the phone, or afraid to go outside. I remember the day when I had my first daughter, I was in pain in the hospital and my new born daughter was crying; the hospital was cold, with a pale color on the walls, and its smell was like alcohol. There were nurses walking on the long and bright hallway. You can hear the nurses talking morning and night. I couldn’t express myself and talk for my daughter that was crying...
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