Miss Brill Discussion

Discussion

Feuille D'Album Discussion

Discussion

Haunted House Discussion

Discussion

Response of Hope

Virginia,

Don't give up! There is still hope. There is strength in Christ. He will save you and empower you to continue to live and feel better. He will give you a purpose and joy. You have so much to share with the world and there is so much that you could do for God. There are people around you that support and care for you. Please don't feel like all is lost. There is hope for you.

Paige

Lawrence and the Rocking Horse

Joyce Recap

Sorry about the kind of fuzzy and staticy background sound.

An Araby Critique

link to video

Yeats Tour

Yeats Tour: National Library of Ireland

Kipling Short Stories

Name of the story: How the Camel got his Hump

Theme/Moral: The story teaches a lesson on the importance of working hard and the consequences of laziness.

Opinion: I thought that the story was good and interesting. The title attracted me to the story because after I read the title, I wondered about camels and their hump. So even though I know the story is not true, it was an interesting explanation and it had a good lesson. 

Kipling, Rudyard. "How the Camel Got His Hump." Read Book Online: Literature Books,novels,short Stories,fiction,non-fiction, Poems,essays,plays,Pulitzer Prize, Nobel Prize. Web. 12 Apr. 2011. <http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/914/>.

A Poem Inspired by Kipling

If you can find beauty in the world around you,

Even if it appears as though there is none

In places where everything is gray and the sky is dark.

If you can see and feel the morning sunshine,

And be joyful in a new day, despite what has happened before

Embracing the new day’s opportunities.

If you can point to God in all of life’s situations

Praising His name with unfaltering faith

Then you will be like a light to those around you.

Dicken's Stories

The wealthy Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge is a stingy and mean old man, who is visited by the spirit of his friend and business partner, Mr. Marley, and by three ghosts that show him his past, present, and future Christmases. While being transported throughout time, Scrooge's heart began to soften, as is he is shown the world around him, and the life he’s lived from a different perspective. Scrooge returns to the real world on Christmas and, with his new outlook on life, he becomes a kind and giving man, who is quick to be a help to others.

Another Summary: A Christmas Carol

"A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens." The Literature Network: Online Classic Literature, Poems, and Quotes. Essays & Summaries. Web. 07 Apr. 2011. <http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/christmascarol/>.

SparkNotes Editors. “SparkNote on A Christmas Carol.” SparkNotes.com. SparkNotes LLC. n.d.. Web. 17 Mar. 2011.

The Hound of Heaven

Sorry we were laughing so much. We chose to post this video because it was the first one we did and our answers weren't planned out. These answers were more real because we didn't know what we were going to say before recording the video, so it was really our thoughts on the poem.

Housman

The time you won your town the race 

We chaired you through the market-place; 

 Man and boy stood cheering by, 

And home we brought you shoulder-high.    

To-day, the road all runners come,        

 Shoulder-high we bring you home, 

And set you at your threshold down, 

Townsman of a stiller town.    

Smart lad, to slip betimes away 

From fields where glory does not stay, 

And early though the laurel grows 

It withers quicker than the rose.    

Eyes the shady night has shut 

Cannot see the record cut, 

And silence sounds no worse than cheers  

After earth has stopped the ears:    

Now you will not swell the rout 

Of lads that wore their honours out, 

Runners whom renown outran 

And the name died before the man. 

So set, before its echoes fade, 

The fleet foot on the sill of shade, 

And hold to the low lintel up 

The still-defended challenge-cup.    

And round that early-laurelled head  

Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead, 

And find unwithered on its curls 

The garland briefer than a girl's.

Housman, A. “To an Athlete Dying Young.” British Literature. Ed. Ronald A. Horton. 2^nd ed. Greenville, SC: BJU Press, 2003. 678. Print.