literature

I've also posted this essay here: http://www.zinch.com/student/orochigenocide
And yes, I was listening to "Miserere" by Gregorio Allegri. It reminded me of Dimmesdale from The Scarlet Letter.

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The follow essay elaborates on how the motifs of sunlight and darkness play an important role in emphasizing the themes of The Scarlet Letter. I wrote this essay in later October for my English class.

‘Miserere Mei Deus’: the Sunlight and Darkness

Nathaniel Hawthorne notoriously uses ambiguous references for various open-ended events in his literary works, including The Scarlet Letter, and employs numerous uses of imagery to appeal to the reader’s imagination, to provide evidence to support individual interpretations, to add interesting effects to themes, and to present concepts in a clear way. In the novel, sunlight and darkness are constantly used in comparisons and contrasts in certain circumstances and serve as a motif. In essence, Hawthorne’s use of sunlight and darkness visually emphasizes the positive and negative connotations of settings, events, and character traits.  Read More »

Here’s a story you don’t hear too often: Microsoft millionaire visits a school in Nepal and decides to abandon his job and life of luxury to bring back books for kids.  Read More »

I was dinking around on Google yesterday and decided to type in the name of a former dorm-mate. What surfaced was a newsletter for the Bengali (an Indian ethnic group) community in Minnesota called "Sannikat." I browsed through the 50-some paged adobe document--mostly printed in Bengali script which I can't decipher.  Read More »

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While visiting graduate schools this past month, trying to find the perfect fit, I spent my time in the airports, buses and subways reading "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer. I was told by several friends close to me that the movie was amazing and that the young Chris McCandless (the stories protagonist) was a bold, and awe-invoking character.  Read More »

I can't contain the venom any longer--I feel a need to abuse readers everywhere. Every reader?  Read More »

I'm sorry, this may not be the most progressive of posts. But for serious, I'm looking for some answers to these ever-pressing questions.
-Has anyone seen those smencils?! They're selling them in my school as a fundraiser and I gotta say I think they're like the weirdest things ever. I mean seriously, who ever put the words 'gourmet' and 'pencils' into the same sentence?  Read More »

It's eleven o'clock at night and I am doing homework for the book "Othello", by William Shakespeare. I find this book very interesting. If it didn't have a lot of the same paralles as my life, I'd probably like it even more.  Read More »