5 paragraphs text of "the sphinx without a secret" by Oscar Wilde

Activity: write up a 5 paragraphs text supporting your hypothesis

After read “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” story by Rudyard Kipling the problem or topic I can identify to form or make my hypothesis is the prejudice arising to the mongoose, the way across the take is judged and criticized because of its size and boldness, this is the problem that even the readers cause just about what we think we know and not only in this story, in"the sphinx   without a secret" by Oscar Wilde we judge the woman of the story by the version of the facts his lover, lord Murchison gives about her behavior, in the moment of think about her acts we think as the lord , that she is cheating him , but we did not expect the end that the story that even lord Murchison says about her, so taking into account this here comes my hypothesis, as humans or living beings is possible to just judge by the abilities or truly actions of a person and not by the appearances of it?.

This question is tricky because the majority of humans accept that this is not a problem, we think judge only by what we see is something good, but we can see we are making an stigma about one person only by how it looks in our minds, we are very spoiled to this actions, but I think judge by the abilities of a person is possible and in fact is how it should be our way of judging people, because all is not what it looks like, and always there  is a second version of the story, in the story "the sphinx without a secret" we look how this horrible custom is applied by a young man , the Lord Murchison with his lover, he think his lover was cheating he just to see how it mysterious and discreet towards others she was , and also he judge her judge because he found her in what is commonly thought would be a typical hotel scene of infidelity, leaving and entering alone with much discretion for anyone to see her, Lord Murchison thinks the woman she love had another man to be her clandestine lover.

before tell how the story ends at this point we see how the writer play with us and our minds to make us  believe that she in fact was cheating on him, but this is a lie, she wasn't cheating him, the only sin of this woman was to be obsessed with novels of mystery and darkness,and she liked to go alone to hotel rooms to read, with an indefinite appearance only by believe she was the super heroine of this own story,It was terrible how he judge her but it was worse that he realized too late that she was a good person when she was already dead. may be this was the new lesson for lord Murchison to doesn't judge by the appearances of his lover the next time. if he had asked her about her behavior or had heard and loved her for what she was ,he had never renounced it to her, after this we know that is is possible to judge a person by the abilities and behavior but only after we had lost that person ,or after there is nothing left to do to give us the the opportunity to meet a new person.

so it is truly possible to change our manner of judgment but with  many failures behind and at a high price, it is only possible if you take time to analyze and indeed socializing with a person, not just what we think of that person, it is possible if as human beings we are we have tolerance to not discriminate and accept what  beings of our same specie are,it is a matter of accepting no matter what and not to draw quick conclusions deliberately,rather we can say the story is a reflection of the wrongfulness of this problem and  of how ignorant we are for not wanting to help for end this problem that every day with so existing discrimination of whatever is growing.  

Now we can even say that the story is a reflection of this topic, because it shows us that the  woman was a good person and lover, everybody talks bad about her  but her acts weren't bad, they said she was the typical fatale female and the plane of the story make us believe that, but we as lord Murchison after se what was her end we learned the reason when it was too late, good for us that was only an story, but how do you will feel if this story would be your reality? would someone of us be able to judge that person by how truly is or by how it seems in our mind?. I really think that is possible, and it would simply be for private gain, grow and be better people each one of us, and also the benefit of the world and humanity.

Hypothesis of "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" by Rudyard Kipling

Activity: Give a hypothesis to your essay

After read “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” story by Rudyard Kipling the problem or topic I can identify to form or make my hypothesis is the prejudice arising to the mongoose, the way across the take is judged and criticized because of its size and boldness, this is the problem that even the readers cause because I the moment of search how is this animal and which is the form or the anatomy of a mongoose it is hardly to believe that an animal of this kind can beat a cobra as the story says, so taking into account this here comes my hypothesis, as humans or living beings is possible to just judge by the abilities of a person and not by the appearances of it?.

Now we can even say that the story is a reflection of this topic, because it shows us that the Mongoose at the end of the tale achieve its mission and protect those who love and defeat the cobra no matter what everyone else says about her, with no more than her teeth and capabilities, this is the hypothesis I bring out from the story, to find evidence or defenses if this is true or not we need something more else than read, because this problem is not only born in fantasy tales, rather we can say the story is a reflection of the wrongfulness of this problem and  of how ignorant we are for not wanting to help for end this problem that every day with so existing discrimination of whatever is growing.  

Poem of "kew gardens" by Virginia Wolf

Activity: write up a poem using 10 unknowing words
Words:
1.gloom
2.stalks
3.crumbs
4.dust
5.abreast
6.struggled
7.begged
8.jerked
9.gestures
10.flat
11.buckle
12.flesh
13.crumbled
14.pebble

The death for me

In the gloom Where the stalks cant grow or flourish,
where the crumbs have already been digested,
And where the dust is limited to oblivion,
death abreast me,
looking for everything I have struggled in past
and it feeds of whom I have always begged.
she jerked to me with her terrible gestures
as if she was a real woman, or as if she was my mother,
the one I have loved.
she makes me see everything flat and un happy,
telling me that she will make a buckle with my flesh
leaving my crumbled soul small as a pebble.

Cartoon structure of "Christmas ever day" by William Dean Howells

   

Activity: Draw a cartoon explaining its structure.

1. (exposition):Is the first plane of the story , and it begin with a little girl in her's dad studio telling him she want to hear a story about Christmas and that she's tired about little pigs stories.
2. (event No 1):The story that the dad is telling starts with another little girl that likes Christmas to much that she decides to send letters to a fairy telling her that her wish was to make each day of the year the Christmas day, for stay forever in Christmas, so the fairy make that wish come true.
3. (event No 2):The dream of the little girl became true and each day in the morning when everybody woke up was again and again Christmas there with all the presents of everyone and the gifts that no one later will enjoy, only the little girl of the wish that eats candy each day more and more, and as that happens every day the time pass and pass, while a year was waste only in that little girls dream.
4. (event No 3):The citizens began to get tired about Christmas an as they start to get tired they began to get poor about  buying presents each day, so they became poor people that just were with a lot of stupid and usefulness gifts of Christmas, also about the eternal presence of Christmas the U.S.A citizens can't celebrate another holidays as the 4th of July or the thanksgiving, because all the stuff different from Christmas that belongs to another holidays transforms in Christmas stuff so they miss the fireworks of the 4th of July because the powder they keep convert in Christmas candy and in the thanksgiving  they miss the turkey at the dinning room because was just not enough for everybody in consequence of each day of Christmas , and also was too expensive because every U.S.A citizen by one each day so it was a big problem to get a turkey for dinner, sadly people just keep going with the annoying Christmas.
5. (climax):The little girl admit her full and completely fault about every day of Christmas that has pass, and the citizens accuse her as a really mess in the country, she and her wish were something each person in the country hates.
6. (event No 4):The little girl try to remedy her mistake sending letters about how she wish Christmas ends, talking to the the fairy that once make her dream come true,but this was in vain because the fairy never returns back any letter, so the little girl go to the fairy's house and discover that she was always busy or she was not at home for attend or hear her new wish for Christmas.
7. (event No 5):later on the little girl discovered or looked how the eternal Christmas was end and how was people celebrating that beautiful and amazing event burning everything related with the annoying Christmas, remembering how amazing was the U.S.A country.
8. (resolution):The little girl found the fairy and talk with her about her new wish that is to have the Christmas day only once in the year, and the good fairy again make her wish come true.
9.(event No 6):We return back to the dad that is telling an story to his little daughter in his studio, a moral story that has just finished and now both of them are ready to go and take their breakfast  with the mom of the girl and continue the road of the life.

Final essay of "oil of dog"by Ambrose Bierce

THE IGNORANCE OF LIFE

Always we had seen that in the society there are different types of ignorance or stupid things of world that determine our situation, for example today just to see everybody with those stupid selfie sticks only worrying about how “beautiful” they are we understand that the society sucks and the future generations are condemned to an elitist future, or as another example of this just by see how many people left the knowledge or education in the oblivion replacing everything by the unstoppable wish of money, just with the excuse that even an ignorant can made something with his or her life and there is no time for education. This is so sad because if we remember the enlightenment there was a thirst of knowledge and the privilege of knowing almost how to read and learn was a really big treasure, so if today everybody is free to have education why not all do it?, And here the problematic born and from that it born a hypothesis, why some people prefer live in an ignorant society than have an education? My hypothesis say that first of all to our government is better to have stupid citizens who don’t react about what they are doing with our country and second is that since the last ten years with all the capitalism and new tendency of consumerism, the facts of have a good education or a complete knowledge are not consider as lucrative because why finish the school when you could be earning money?.

And I really think this is the truth about that because today the ignorance of the people is greater than anything, and yes everybody knows how to add and rest but if that is the case why there are some kids working outside? They could have education, or why there are a lot of dumb people that finding themselves without any knowledge recur to the violence or delinquency? We doesn’t know anything about what our life is and our real situation  because or we doesn’t care, we doesn’t  have money or we just think in money, this is why people could learn at schools or universities, the knowledge and the education give a better alternative about what we can be in a future. And also is just better to have knowledge and be smart than be plastic and dumb as a joke in the street. Now some context quotes.

“…In performance of this duty I sometimes had need of all my natural intelligence for all the law officers of the vicinity were opposed to my mother's business.” oil of dog, Ambrose Bierce

“…I might naturally have been expected to become vicious and dissolute, but I did not. The holy influence of my dear mother was ever about me to protect me from the temptations which beset youth, and my father was a deacon in a church. Alas, that through my fault these estimable persons should have come to so bad an end!”oíl of dog,Ambrose Bierce

These quotes of the story show how the main character was an ignorant in his life that just thinks in work more than in his education, at the end he doesn’t have better options for his live, in the first one he says that he only uses his natural intelligence so that mean that he was not a genius more than what he know because we wasn’t studying  when he can and his knowledge was limited, and the second one express how he replace intelligence to affront difficult situations by “the holy influence of his mother” and the church, just as a lot of people do because they doesn’t know.

The relation of this with Colombia is pretty simple because Colombia is one of those countries with the worst education of the world and is also a poor country, and there are a lot of ignorant people like farmers or just poor people that can pay for education. That know better only how to work manually than make an equation because is their culture (as the case of the man in the story oil dog) so the case is the same, there are a lot of people in Colombia that have diferents grades of ignorance’s as their manner of behave and culture, as the example of the ones that can have any education because they can pay it or the plastic and elitist people that are dumb for only worry about themselves and the stinging avaricious people that only cares about money. Colombia is an ignorant country too because the ones that have knowledge and education knows how is the country but doesn’t make anything for improve it.

So to conclude this we must mention again the importance of have a good knowledge and an education because both of them can open a large of doors of opportunities to us and make the world more conscious about what we are now and were we are going but also is sad to discover at the end that we are ignorant even when we can have education living in an world that need the idea I mention before for not be fooled by those who believe timely have an ignorant country, we must improve because “an ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own  destruction”

Ludy Gabriela Fierro Heredia, Bogotá D.C

31 of march, 2016

Bibliography: quote of Simon Bolívar: http://quotesgram.com/simon-bolivar-quotes-in-spanish/

How the widow won the deacon by William James Lampton

Activity: write a comment relating literature and online marketing

The literature in the web is an alternative for have in a physical way of the books ,is a good and cheap alternative that is getting stronger every day ,we can say that there is a struggle between literature on the internet and by the other hand the necessity of having in physical de book for  read it , a point that is in favor of the literature in the web are the free samples of any book and the pdf, the opportunity of download the book you were searching for keeping in your electronic device, but in the moment of choose randomly a book on the internet there are not many things that can guide or support you to buy a book, the internet doesn't specify or shows to the readers the plot of a book, it doesn't deliver a good synopsis for make the book or tale look more attractive and catchy to the readers, this is just the example of the web page "boo ganga" with the book "how the widow won the deacon" by William James Lampton.

The concept of this is the online marketing and the meaning to see this is just like as strategies or tools that make  methodologies used for promoting products and services or anything through the Internet, we must say that the free samples of a book are good techniques that invite us to buy the book but this is only when you know what is the book you want to read but in the case that I mention before the readers only have to conform with  the basic information about the book for example of which category or genre belongs, the author that wrote  it , the languages that haves , the date of the publication and number of  pages , also we can see an image of the book, but it would be better if they give or we can find there in the page more information about  the author some references of he or she, in another way to see this we can say that they limited themselves for not put effort into what they sell, they make us think that the book or the product does not have interest and it is better find some other page or alternative. the story develops  basically in a conversation between religious sisters that has as topic the recent relationship between a widow called Kate Stimson and the deacon Hawkins, this may be doesn't sound like the most attractive plot ever of a book but after read it I can say it is a good book ,the web site limits us and themselves  of an interesting book we can enjoy and now finally I think that buying a book in his physical adaption can't compare to have it on your phone, going to a library searching a book is just better than looking in a web site, in a library we have the advantage that any book speaks for itself there just with looking it by the back part, every book persuading you to buy it ,making asking you  what book is going to be the one who enter to your soul and heart forever, because I think that is what make books ,in a web site this dies because it makes books looks just like boring things.

The Hanging Stranger by Philip K. Dick

Activity: write a critique using Colombian context

the hanging stranger is a fictitious story  that talks about Edward C. Loyce, a man who discovers one day going to the work  a man hanging from a lamppost and also discover  that he is the only one who can see it  later on as the example of the hanging stranger  he discover that the society is basically manage by aliens that every time are around us and are our government and are in our future but all the people  just seems like if they didn't  care and just think that Loyce needs some mental help , Loyce is the only man in his city who notice this and recognize the truth in front of his eyes.

Here in Colombia we have many examples of the daily life that can be similar with this situations,  this is just like a murder in a neighborhood in Medellin or any place of Colombia  or the elections of the president, mayor or politician, in a murder in a neighborhood maybe everybody can knows who is the killer but just they don't tell anything or give help because they don't look that situation as a personal problem so they don't care even when they can  do something, sadly in this country we are used to see the problems and don't make anything for solving it, it is good for the government to keep in silence the people without any controversial voice they can hear to make the people wake up. and in the second example of the democratic elections here in Colombia we have the problem that a higher porcentaje of the citizens doesn't vote for chose a new president or mayor, they have the excuse of "every candidate is just a corrupt thieve that only steals our money" in some cases this is the true but if that high porcentaje stop being indifferent to choose our leaders and decided to vote would this make the change and show a good democracy demonstrating the people power  (the true democracy meaning) in the country because if we are not join to choose something that involve each person we are just letting our future to the an unknown trash, and maybe they must vote for every citizen have an acceptation about who is going to representing us,  as examples like this in our country we have many we can even go in past to the slavery times when humans intelligence was as a donkey intelligence ,at that time some people was conscious about  the horrible facts of slavery but they just keep in silence ,was just in the independence when the slavery comes down  and the independence was a revolution of people that do not ignore the aliens or the hanging man. everybody has the truth in their eyes but we just can call warriors the ones as Loyce  that have the truth also in their mouths, hearts and actions. but sadly if we remember and analyze the last part of the story only the warriors ends dead after all they fight, this is a reflexión of the story that tells that the briefs ones are the ones who die before everyone, a true  message for society. 

I really like this story because of the message that is behind of all, that calling of don't stay in silence forever for look and analyze in a good future the truth we deserve, no matter if is even the government or the same people who live with us in society the ones who doesn't want let us see it, human beings must be brave and vote , denounce and do not ignore the aliens that are masquerading as humans an also don't ignore the man hanged because by the end surrounding  the whole story and analyzing well the origin of he  we can conclude the hanging stranger is a sign that invokes the destruction of silence and tells us simply that something is not right and someone else in the past pay the consequences of realizing it .We do not know if some day we can become the hanging stranger.