http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AprilSantavy/ en-us 2004-12-01T12:54:21-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AprilSantavy/006198.html The second portfolio fulfills my American loterature class reequirements. From our presitations in class many discussions aross. These are the stories mentioned in my portfolio. Coverage: All the literary stories we studied in class. the Mighty John Henery Huck and... AprilSantavy 2004-12-01T12:54:21-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AprilSantavy/006195.html I think the legend of John Henry was a true story but over they years was changed to make a point. John Henry was a steal driving man who took on a steel driving machine and won. Even though he... AprilSantavy 2004-12-01T12:33:59-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AprilSantavy/006192.html Trisha Wehrle make some valid point and I do agree with the idea that the river in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn a symbol of Huck maturing. Huck learns lessons or has to over come some kind of obstacle... AprilSantavy 2004-12-01T12:18:38-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AprilSantavy/006191.html I find it very interesting that Robinson writes about such real and horrible things such as suicide. The author most likely has some source or idea of where their writing is stemming from. The Mill story deals with the... AprilSantavy 2004-12-01T12:02:16-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AprilSantavy/006186.html I found many Native American readings to be interesting, but some of them were difficult to read. It was hard to be sure if I was reading the story the way it was meant to be heard. I guess that... AprilSantavy 2004-12-01T11:38:21-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AprilSantavy/006136.html I have mixed feelings about Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary. I found our discussion in class to be interesting I shared many of the same viewpoints my classmates did like was he bashing men's and women's way of thinking,... AprilSantavy 2004-11-30T20:20:35-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AprilSantavy/006128.html I never really thought of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and The Girl of the Golden West being like one another until I read Shanna DeFrances's paper. After reading her paper I have to agree with her. She makes... AprilSantavy 2004-11-30T19:47:34-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AprilSantavy/005656.html The Yellow Wall Paper the Society in the late 1800's Back round on the author Charlotte Pekin Gilman was the intellectual leader of the women’s movement from the late 1890’s through the mid- 1920s. She believed that sex differences were... AprilSantavy 2004-11-03T08:18:01-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AprilSantavy/005162.html Fall Blogging Portfolio My blogs are about how I feel about the literature stories I have read in my American literature class. This is my first attempt at blogging so hopefully with time and practice I will become more natural... AprilSantavy 2004-10-11T14:22:48-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AprilSantavy/005118.html I didn’t like Emerson’s essay called Self Reliance. I find it interesting that he criticizes the law and explains that no law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Without laws what would protect him his own... AprilSantavy 2004-10-11T09:16:28-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AprilSantavy/005117.html I found reading An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge to be interesting. I like how the author really didn’t comes out and explains the setting of the story, but rather gives several clues that allows us to discover the period... AprilSantavy 2004-10-11T09:15:25-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AprilSantavy/005116.html Poe's, "The Raven" was a literary piece I found difficult to understand . It wasn’t clear to me what actually the bird that landed on the man's perch was signifying. I did notice the mood changed as I read it.... AprilSantavy 2004-10-11T09:14:12-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AprilSantavy/005115.html It interested me the different ways Chillingworth would use to get information regarding his suspicions of Dimmesdale being his former wife’s, Hester, lover. The first exampleChillingworth showed this when saying, “Why should not the guilty ones sooner avail themselves of... AprilSantavy 2004-10-11T09:11:59-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AprilSantavy/004865.html I just wanted to say everyone did a great job the poetry slam way interesting. I have one small comment to make about presenting to your peers. Last Wednesday I had a chance to hear some professors complain about giving... AprilSantavy 2004-10-03T16:56:30-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AprilSantavy/004256.html this story was good but it took forever the story to get going there seemed to be half way through the story before you knew what was the point to the story.... AprilSantavy 2004-09-08T15:48:54-05:00