MelissaLupari http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MelissaLupari/ 2006-05-04T07:35:22-05:00 Portfolio 3 "From Beginning Till The End" http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MelissaLupari/2006/05/portfolio_3_fro_1.html Portfolio 3 -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)

]]> American Lit MelissaLupari 2006-05-04T07:35:22-05:00 Ressurection BLues http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MelissaLupari/2006/05/ressurection_bl.html After fiinshing this play I really ended up enjoying the last 2 scencs. They seemed to make the most sense to me. I think that this play would be awsome to see, even though I love to go and see plays all the time and musicals.
I thought that the character's were really funny how they would bicker back and forth. Definality would recommand to keep this book for the end since it is short and a easy read, I think that it would be a great idea to act out some parts to this play our last class.

]]> American Lit MelissaLupari 2006-05-03T08:59:00-05:00 Ressuration Blues http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MelissaLupari/2006/05/ressuration_blu.html "Prego, Signor.....No, that's Italian. Bitte... not bitte...stop, okay? What's Spanish for "stop"?

Liked this quote being that I am Italian....I am trying to get the talking Italian down better. It is not that easy. This play is very confusing to me. I have two more scences to finish reading so i think that the end will help me understand what is going on. I think after I read some blogs, and listen to some class disscusion I will hear things that i remember reading and have a better understanding of the play. I think it is a great play so far.

]]> American Lit MelissaLupari 2006-05-01T11:34:52-05:00 Formal Presentation #2 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MelissaLupari/2006/04/formal_presenta.html American Lit MelissaLupari 2006-04-26T16:22:32-05:00 Formal Presentation http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MelissaLupari/2006/04/post.html Formal Oral Presentations -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)

]]> American Lit MelissaLupari 2006-04-26T16:21:27-05:00 Roberts, Ch 17 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MelissaLupari/2006/04/roberts_ch_17.html I think when looking at everything that we have studied throughout the semester, I see me focusing on a lot of the reading, the major detials that pin point the topic or primary text.

As for my paper focsuing on Flannery O'Connor the way she makes the charcters come out in her writing, even though very vague and sad, she trys to teach us not to be to trusting of others and that there are not to may good people on this earth. Aso the religion and way of living down south. There can be several different types of questions it all dpends on you track of thought.

]]> American Lit MelissaLupari 2006-04-21T20:03:10-05:00 The Color of Water, McBride http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MelissaLupari/2006/04/the_color_of_wa_1.html "See a marriage needs love. And God. And a little mone. That's all. The rest you can deal with. It's not about black or white. It's about God and don't let anyone tell you different." (233). This is so true if you let people try to live your life for you then why are you living a life..there is no point. You have to be your own person following you own dreams and your own goals not following what someone else has in mind for you. This hit me in a personal way, with me dealing with my familiy, mother always trying to live out my life and tell me what she thinks is best for me but that is not what I want i want to live my own life and make my own good and bad choices no matter how it effects me and move on with it from there not always looking at the bad part in things,which is how some people live and look at there life and it never really gets them anywhere but being mesiraible and unhappy.

]]> American Lit MelissaLupari 2006-04-18T12:59:42-05:00 The Color of Water, McBride http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MelissaLupari/2006/04/the_color_of_wa.html "As a small boy, I was never wuite aware of the concept of "Father." This really was very sad to me. Growing up never knowing who your real fatehr was but having someone else to look up to a call dad and as you get older and understand that the man who has raised you are and never really will be his. That just breaks me thinking that it happens a lot to children. (117)

]]> American Lit MelissaLupari 2006-04-17T13:24:14-05:00 Portfolio 3 "From Beginning Till The End" http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MelissaLupari/2006/04/portfolio_3_fro.html Portfolio 3- Jerz: American Literature II (EL267)

The portfolio of the second half of the semeter show how much growth I have learned with this class. American Literature has taught me how to read,write, and even blog better. I never thought that I would be able to get this down pat but it has come to be so seay for me. This portfolio covers reading that were required in the class and different class disscusions. I really enjoyed learning in a different way then what I am used to with my feild of study. I liked the challenge that you provided to your students, although at times I was ready to cry because I never thought that I would make it through. Now being at the end and looking back I would have changed some things, but I can only look to do better in the future. I can definalty say that I know more walking out then when I first walked in to this class.


COVERAGE: These are reading that required many days of long hours reading over a couple times to be sure I was understanding what is being taught and said in class.

The Dicplaced Person

The Great Gatsby chapter1-3

The Great Gatsby chapter 4-6

The Great Gatsby chapter 7-9

The Color of Water, McBride

The Color of Water, McBride


DEPTH: These works are things that I looked more in depth with. Focusing on them reading them a couple times to be sure that I was understanding the main topic of the story.

Roberts, Ch 18

Roberts pg. 254-263

Roberts, Appendix C

Roberts, Appendix A

The Adding Machine


INTERACTION: These are works that I made comments on to help my peers or agree on the same of different thoughts.

A Late Encounter With The Enemy

Good Country People

The River

A Good Man Is Hard To FInd

Ressurection Blues

Dessert Places

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]]> MelissaLupari 2006-04-07T10:46:57-05:00 Chapter 12, Roberts http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MelissaLupari/2006/04/chapter_12_robe.html Roberts, Ch. 12 -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)

]]> MelissaLupari 2006-04-07T10:41:56-05:00 Frost and Huges http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MelissaLupari/2006/04/frost_and_huges.html Hughes and Frost -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)

]]> MelissaLupari 2006-04-07T10:36:49-05:00 Roberts, Chapter 8 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MelissaLupari/2006/04/roberts_chapter_3.html "Oldfactory image refers to smell, a gustatory image to taste, and a tactile image to touch." I never heard of any of these words used before and for each of them to use a part of the 5 sences, it was something new that i had just learned today and become very interesting to me. So i learned something new. A great deal of love poetry deals with this.

]]> American Lit MelissaLupari 2006-04-01T16:57:14-05:00 O'Connor The Displaced Person http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MelissaLupari/2006/03/oconnor_the_dis.html "At last," she said, "I've got somebody I can depend on. For years I've been fooling with sorry people. Sorry people. Poor white trash and niggers," she muttered. "They've drained me dry."
Everytime Mrs. McIntyre gets some one to people here they do a half assed job, it seems to me that she is extremely picky and Mr. Shortley was not going to help her, because his own work to do in his barn and the side work with his wiskey. Mrs. McIntyre seems to be very predjustice against white and blacks, it makes me wonder what etnic background she is? I guess some times people do not appricate the help that they do get or have until they loose all there help. Toward the end she does get very sick and has to sell all her cow and there is only a black women to take care of her and the priest that comes by once a week to explian the doctrines of the church to her. I guess now she is not so cruel to blacks because there is no one more willing to help take care of her then this women.

]]> American Lit MelissaLupari 2006-03-28T14:43:07-05:00 O'Connor Good Country People http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MelissaLupari/2006/03/oconnor_good_co.html "but I guess the world ould never be better off if we were all that simle." Life was not that simple for Mr. Pointer as he called himself, but at every house he would change his name so what was his real name. He knew who to munipulate these women, and the fact that the mother let Hulga go with hime, they did not even know the man that well he just come to there house sat down and had dinner the next minute Hulga was meeting him in the park for a picnic. Another good county man, i think he was out to see what they had, nosey boy one who you know better than to trust coming down the street out of nowhere.

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