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Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Monday, February 29, 2016
Grupo 3. Tildy´s Moment.
paola
Author's work
In most of
the best stories of O. Henry, written in the early years of the twentieth
century, mainly it appreciates the unexpected and sudden end plot twists at the
end of the story. Many stories take place in the city of New York and usually
portray ordinary characters as dependents, policemen, waitresses. His best
known work, The Four million refers to the number of inhabitants of the city of
New York in the early twentieth century, and the fact that each of these
inhabitants constituted to O. Henry "a story worthy of being told".These are some of his works.
Some of his
works are:
After 20 years.
Is a police
effected their rounds along the avenue with a stunning look. That grandeur was
not exhibitionism but usual in him, for viewers in short supply. Although it
was only 10 pm, the icy wind, with rain aftertaste, they had deserted the
streets, or slightly less.
The merry month of May
Propinen is
that a blow to the poet when they sing the praises of May. It is a month that
govern the spirits of mischief and dementia. In forests are around flower elves
and goblins: Puck and his entourage of gnomes are feverishly engaged in
committing outrages in the city and in the countryside.
The guardian and antifona
I urge is
that propinen a blow to the poet when they sing the praises of May. It is a
month that govern the spirits of mischief and dementia. In forests are around
flower elves and goblins: Puck and his entourage of gnomes are feverishly
engaged in committing outrages in the city and in the countryside.
The tribute success
Hastings
Beauchamp Morley was walking slowly and peacefully by Union Square with a look
of compassion directed at the hundreds of people who were reclining on park
benches. They were a motley collection: men with stolid face, animal and
unshaven; women, anxious and self-conscious, crossing and uncrossing his feet
hanging them four inches away from the gravel.
Grupo 3. Tildy´s Moment.
Iman:
Fast food in New York.
New York gastronomy is based on the fast food two key elements of street food are hot dogs and pizza.
You find hot dogs in almost all corners of Manhattan.
The price of a puppy is around 2$.
New York is one of those places where it is very common to see everyone on the street with a large coffee to go, although in summer can be replaced by a smoothie, a great fruit shake with ice.
CHINATOWN;
If you like Asian food in general and China in particular.
TIMES SQUARE;
Times Square is packed with restaurants of most tourist court, Planet Hollywood , Hard Rock Café and many others offer American food with impressionist décor.
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Isabella:
O. Henry
William Sydney Porter by doubleday.jpg
Portrait of O. Henry, by W. M. Vanderweyde, 1909
Born William Sidney Porter
September 11, 1862
Greensboro, North Carolina
Died June 5, 1910 (aged 47)
New York City, New York
Pen name O. Henry, Olivier Henry, Oliver Henry[1]
Occupation Writer
Nationality American
William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and surprise endings.
Biography
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Early
William Sidney Porter was born on September 11, 1862,in Greensboro, North Carolina. He changed the spelling of his middle name to Sydney in 1898. His parents were Dr. Algernon Sidney Porter (1825–88), a physician, and Mary Jane Virginia Swaim Porter (1833–65). William's parents had married on April 20, 1858. When William was three, his mother died from tuberculosis, and he and his father moved into the home of his paternal grandmother. As a child, Porter was always reading, everything from classics to dime novels; his favorite works were Lane's translation of One Thousand and One Nights, and Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy.
Porter graduated from his aunt Evelina Maria Porter's elementary school in 1876. He then enrolled at the Lindsey Street High School. His aunt continued to tutor him until he was fifteen. In 1879, he started working in his uncle's drugstore and in 1881, at the age of nineteen, he was licensed as a pharmacist. At the drugstore, he also showed off his natural artistic talents by sketching the townsfolk.
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Sara:
New Yorkers: TILDY'S MOMENT
Characteristics of characters:
- Mr. Bogle: the owner of the restaurant. He sits at the desk by the door and takes the money. He's an ordinary man, maybe generous, or at least fair with his employees.
- Aileen: one of the waitress. She's tall, beautiful and full of life. She's also good worker, talkative, but self-interested.
- Tildy: the other waitress. She's small, fat, not beautiful. She has a grey life, she seems happy, but deep inside she feels unhappy because no one wants her.
- Mr. Seeders: customer, he's small and thin. He's young maybe a bit insecure. He feels somebody like Aileen would never be interested on him. When he's drunk, he kisses Tildy, but afterwards, he is sorry about it.
- Other men: customers in general, superficial, they like to flatter only beautiful women.
- The Voice: comes from the kitchen. We know nothing about he or she.
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Raquel:
Summary of the story:
Bogle in the restaurant had a beautiful waitress named Aileen, which were men to admire their beauty, had a companion named Tildy, who was dying of envy to see how men adored her.
One day Mr. seeders gave a kiss to Tildy she excited to see a man wanted began to feel a real woman, but the illusion it hard few days since Mr. seeders he returned embarrassed by what I izo drunk, Tildy corrio to take refuge in her friend Aileen.
Sunday, February 28, 2016
SARA MONTERO MUÑOZ
/ 4ºA
New
Yorkers: Tildy's Moment
Review/Article:
Title:
New Yorkers-Short Stories: Tildy's Moment
Author:
O. Henry
Editorial:
Oxford
Collection:
Oxford Bookwarms
Number
of pages: 56
Short
summary: In Bogle's Family Restaurant Aileen and Tildy
work. Tildy would like to find somebody to love hair as Aileen has.
One day Mr. Seeders, who is drunk, kisses her. She is really happy,
but three days later he comes regretful and she becomes very sad.
Characters:
Mr. Bogle, Aileen, Tildy, Mr. Seeders, Other men and The Voice.
Personal
assessment: In my opinion, this
short story describes two opposite characters: the waitress. One is
pretty and happy, the other is not pretty and sad. And two opposite :
customers-men. Those who are superficial and like pretty women, and
the one who likes a woman no mind her appearance. Definitely, it
seems to me a good story to consider that it's more important inside
each person that physical appearance.
Monday, February 22, 2016
Group 1: A walk in amnesia.
Group 1:
Nuria: Characteristics of characters
Short summary:
The protagonist is a lawyer and is happily married. One day on the train, he meets a friend who is pharmacist and he says that much work can be amnesiac. On the same train amnesiac stays and then he went to a meeting of pharmaceuticals, finally returning to New York and see his wife recognizes.
The protagonist is a lawyer and he is married to a woman who is a housewife. the man who accompanies him throughout the trip is pharmacist.
Anayka: Others
Amnesia:
The amnesia is a disorder of the functioning of the memory , during which the individual is unable to retain or retrieve information stored previously.
The causes of amnesia are organic or functional. Organic causes include damage to the brain caused by disease or trauma , or use of certain drugs (generally sedative ). Functional are psychological factors, such as defense mechanisms. The amnesia posttraumatic hysterical is an example of this factor. The amnesia can also be spontaneous, in the case of transient global amnesia (TGA by its acronym in English) has the highest rate of cases in people between the middle - aged and elderly, particularly males, and usually lasts less than 24 hours.
Types of Amnesia:
1. Chronological classification according
• Anterograde amnesia . New events are not transferred to long - term memory, so the sufferer will not be able to remember anything that happened after the onset of this type of amnesia for more than a small moment. The complement of this is retrograde amnesia
• Retrograde amnesia . No events that occurred before the onset of the disease will be remembered.
These terms are used to categorize symptoms, not to indicate a particular cause of etiology .
2. According to its classification Aetiologic
• Post - traumatic amnesia . It is usually caused by a head injury that does not penetrate the skull. It is often transient; the duration of the amnesia is related to the degree of damage. A slight trauma, such as a car accident resulting in only a slight whiplash can cause the occupant not remember the events that occurred just before the accident due to a brief interruption in the transfer mechanism of memory from short to long term.
• Mental Amnesia . It is a psychological trauma caused by a depression usually by some being or object.
• Fugue state is also known as dissociative fugue . It is caused by psychological trauma and is usually temporary.
• Childhood amnesia. (or infantile amnesia). It is the common inability to remember events of our childhood. While Sigmund Freud attributed this to sexual repression, others have theorized that it is due to language development or immature parts of the brain.
• Global amnesia is total memory loss. It can be caused by a defense mechanism which occurs after a traumatic event. The disorder of post-traumatic stress can lead to the return of unwanted traumatic memories spontaneously.
• Post-hypnotic Amnesia occurs when events during hypnosis are forgotten, or where past events can not be recalled.
• Psychogenic amnesia . It is the result of a psychological cause as opposed to direct damage to the brain generated by a head injury, physical trauma or disease is known as organic amnesia.
• Amnesia source . It is a memory disorder in which someone can recall certain information but does not know where or how they obtained it .
• Syndrome of distrust in memory . It is a term invented by the psychologist Gisli Gudjonsson to describe a situation where the person is unable to trust his own memory.
• Medial diencephalic amnesia . Amnesia seen in memory disorders that are associated with lesions of the medial diencephalon. An example of these disorders it is Korsakoff syndrome.
• Summoned Amnesia: excessive intake of alcohol in a very short time, can cause a blocking phenomenon similar to the symptoms of amnesia memory.
Yasmin: Brief summary
The story talks about Elwyn Bellford, is a lawyer and he works very hard, has a beautiful wife but they do the same things every day. He has a friend Doctor Volney. Volney tells him not to work so hard, some people forget who they are. He tells Bellford ”You need a change and rest.” However, he does rest, on Thursday nights he and his wife play a game of cards, and on Sundays his wife reads him her weekly letters form her mother. One day he walks to work and thinks about Doctor Volney’s words, he is feeling very good and pleased with life. When he wakes up, he is on a train, he changes his name. A man talks to him and he tells the man his name is Edward Pinkhammer. Then Edward follows the train to New York. He feels Manhattan is wonderful, and during this time he learns something very important-if you want to be happy, you must be free, he doesn’t try to remember who or what he is. When he comes to his favourite restaurants. He sees a former love.He tries to remember her. However, he still says he forgets everything. When he returns to his hotel, Doctor Volney waits for him and wants to talk to him. Then he follows Volney. Marian and Bobby try to get Elwyn to remember who he is. Finally, he goes home with Marian and Bobby.
Adriana: Short bio
O. Henry was a writer, journalist, and pharmaceutical. His real name is William Sydney Porter, and he was a master of short stories. He was born in North Carolina, his father was a doctor, and his mother died of tuberculosis. They were both to live with his grandmother. It was a great reader and student, in 1876 he graduated from elementary school, then he began to work in a pharmacy, and graduated as a pharmacist. His youth was very bad, started with alcohol abuse, and he escapes with a woman named Athol Estes, they had a daughter, was called Margaret. He started working in a bank, where he was accused of stealing money, on the eve of the trial, he escaped to Honduras without his wife and daughter. Nothing is known of his life in Central America, but one day he returned home because his wife was about to die, and there he was arrested for fraud. In prison he wrote stories to pay for food of her daughter, then left prison for good attitude, he went to live in New York and change the name for O. Henry. Shortly after he died of liver cirrhosis with 23 cents in his pocket.
Jorge: NY features (Museums)
Museum of 11-S: Inaugurated in May 2014, 13 years after the tragic events that changed the world, this museum pays tribute to the 3,000 victims of the unfortunate event; the museum collection has more than 10,000 objects including testimonies of survivors include photographs, objects of victims, both works of art commemorating material recovered from the rubble, columns of the Twin Towers, audiovisual terrorists...
The MoMA: Inaugurated in 1929, it's Museum of Modern Art in New York, has become its own merits in the museum world's most important modern art. Some of the most important artworks exhibited at MoMA are: The Starry Night Van Gogh, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Picasso, The Persistence of Memory Dali and Miro Dutch interior.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: is one of the most visited museums not only New York, but also one of the most visited in the world's top ten. It has more than 6 million visitors a year. The museum opened in February 1872 when Robert Lee Jenkins donated his private collection. Since then it has increased its collection to more than two million objects. The most important objects in the Metropolitan Museum are the treasures of classical cultures and paintings by artists such as Monet, Cezanne and Rembrandt. Among the more unusual exhibits is the Egyptian area, where the Temple of Dendur beautifully reconstructed exposed. This temple was a gift from Egypt for help in saving Abu Simbel.
Museum of Natural History: Inaugurated in 1869,this is one of the best science museums in the world. His exhibition takes a look at the history of the Earth and man.Inaugurated in 1869, this is one of the best science museums in the world. His exhibition Takes a look at the history of the Earth and man. The colecciónestá composed of more than 35 million objects and is the world's largest.
Museum of New York: It was inaugurated in 1923, in this museum you can through the past, present and future of American cities.
The new york police museum: this in an old station, this museum is dedicated to preserving and displaying the history of the New York City Police Department, the largest and most famous of the world police body.
Nuria: Characteristics of characters
Short summary:
The protagonist is a lawyer and is happily married. One day on the train, he meets a friend who is pharmacist and he says that much work can be amnesiac. On the same train amnesiac stays and then he went to a meeting of pharmaceuticals, finally returning to New York and see his wife recognizes.
Character of Characters:
The protagonist is a lawyer and he is married to a woman who is a housewife. the man who accompanies him throughout the trip is pharmacist.
Amnesia:
The amnesia is a disorder of the functioning of the memory , during which the individual is unable to retain or retrieve information stored previously.
The causes of amnesia are organic or functional. Organic causes include damage to the brain caused by disease or trauma , or use of certain drugs (generally sedative ). Functional are psychological factors, such as defense mechanisms. The amnesia posttraumatic hysterical is an example of this factor. The amnesia can also be spontaneous, in the case of transient global amnesia (TGA by its acronym in English) has the highest rate of cases in people between the middle - aged and elderly, particularly males, and usually lasts less than 24 hours.
Types of Amnesia:
1. Chronological classification according
• Anterograde amnesia . New events are not transferred to long - term memory, so the sufferer will not be able to remember anything that happened after the onset of this type of amnesia for more than a small moment. The complement of this is retrograde amnesia
• Retrograde amnesia . No events that occurred before the onset of the disease will be remembered.
These terms are used to categorize symptoms, not to indicate a particular cause of etiology .
2. According to its classification Aetiologic
• Post - traumatic amnesia . It is usually caused by a head injury that does not penetrate the skull. It is often transient; the duration of the amnesia is related to the degree of damage. A slight trauma, such as a car accident resulting in only a slight whiplash can cause the occupant not remember the events that occurred just before the accident due to a brief interruption in the transfer mechanism of memory from short to long term.
• Mental Amnesia . It is a psychological trauma caused by a depression usually by some being or object.
• Fugue state is also known as dissociative fugue . It is caused by psychological trauma and is usually temporary.
• Childhood amnesia. (or infantile amnesia). It is the common inability to remember events of our childhood. While Sigmund Freud attributed this to sexual repression, others have theorized that it is due to language development or immature parts of the brain.
• Global amnesia is total memory loss. It can be caused by a defense mechanism which occurs after a traumatic event. The disorder of post-traumatic stress can lead to the return of unwanted traumatic memories spontaneously.
• Post-hypnotic Amnesia occurs when events during hypnosis are forgotten, or where past events can not be recalled.
• Psychogenic amnesia . It is the result of a psychological cause as opposed to direct damage to the brain generated by a head injury, physical trauma or disease is known as organic amnesia.
• Amnesia source . It is a memory disorder in which someone can recall certain information but does not know where or how they obtained it .
• Syndrome of distrust in memory . It is a term invented by the psychologist Gisli Gudjonsson to describe a situation where the person is unable to trust his own memory.
• Medial diencephalic amnesia . Amnesia seen in memory disorders that are associated with lesions of the medial diencephalon. An example of these disorders it is Korsakoff syndrome.
• Summoned Amnesia: excessive intake of alcohol in a very short time, can cause a blocking phenomenon similar to the symptoms of amnesia memory.
Yasmin: Brief summary
Adriana: Short bio
O. Henry was a writer, journalist, and pharmaceutical. His real name is William Sydney Porter, and he was a master of short stories. He was born in North Carolina, his father was a doctor, and his mother died of tuberculosis. They were both to live with his grandmother. It was a great reader and student, in 1876 he graduated from elementary school, then he began to work in a pharmacy, and graduated as a pharmacist. His youth was very bad, started with alcohol abuse, and he escapes with a woman named Athol Estes, they had a daughter, was called Margaret. He started working in a bank, where he was accused of stealing money, on the eve of the trial, he escaped to Honduras without his wife and daughter. Nothing is known of his life in Central America, but one day he returned home because his wife was about to die, and there he was arrested for fraud. In prison he wrote stories to pay for food of her daughter, then left prison for good attitude, he went to live in New York and change the name for O. Henry. Shortly after he died of liver cirrhosis with 23 cents in his pocket.
Jorge: NY features (Museums)
Museum of 11-S: Inaugurated in May 2014, 13 years after the tragic events that changed the world, this museum pays tribute to the 3,000 victims of the unfortunate event; the museum collection has more than 10,000 objects including testimonies of survivors include photographs, objects of victims, both works of art commemorating material recovered from the rubble, columns of the Twin Towers, audiovisual terrorists...
The MoMA: Inaugurated in 1929, it's Museum of Modern Art in New York, has become its own merits in the museum world's most important modern art. Some of the most important artworks exhibited at MoMA are: The Starry Night Van Gogh, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Picasso, The Persistence of Memory Dali and Miro Dutch interior.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: is one of the most visited museums not only New York, but also one of the most visited in the world's top ten. It has more than 6 million visitors a year. The museum opened in February 1872 when Robert Lee Jenkins donated his private collection. Since then it has increased its collection to more than two million objects. The most important objects in the Metropolitan Museum are the treasures of classical cultures and paintings by artists such as Monet, Cezanne and Rembrandt. Among the more unusual exhibits is the Egyptian area, where the Temple of Dendur beautifully reconstructed exposed. This temple was a gift from Egypt for help in saving Abu Simbel.
Museum of Natural History: Inaugurated in 1869,this is one of the best science museums in the world. His exhibition takes a look at the history of the Earth and man.Inaugurated in 1869, this is one of the best science museums in the world. His exhibition Takes a look at the history of the Earth and man. The colecciónestá composed of more than 35 million objects and is the world's largest.
Museum of New York: It was inaugurated in 1923, in this museum you can through the past, present and future of American cities.
The new york police museum: this in an old station, this museum is dedicated to preserving and displaying the history of the New York City Police Department, the largest and most famous of the world police body.
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Guidelines and Groups
Topic: Paper
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Deadline: 29th Feb
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Name
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Story
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Review/Article
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New York Features
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Group 1
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Nuria, Anayka,
Adriana, Yasmin, Jorge
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A
Walk in Amnesia
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Museums
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Add your own
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Group 2
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Miriam, Leticia,
Javier, Andrés, Sohaib
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Christmas
Presents
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Individual
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Movies & TV
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Add your own
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Group 3
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Isabella, Iman,
Sara,
Paola,
Raquel
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Tildy’s
Moment
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Individual
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Fast Food - Dishes
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Group 4
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Álvaro, Pablo,
Alexis,
Juan,
Vali
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Soapy’s
Choice
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Skyscrapers
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- Contents:
Brief summary, short bio, NY’s features, characteristics of characters, others
- Don't forget: The tests may include questions on The Memento
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