EyeLuvSophie asked:


I’d like to branch off from the old school of Russians and Europeans I’ve been so devoted to, and give latin american literature a try. Can you suggest anything?

Norma

Don’t Do Sadness asked:


State your grade, whether you’re in private or public school, and order of classes.

Sophomore - Private School

Honors Latin II
AP World History
Contemporary Christian Moraltiy [required]
Honors Algebra II/Trigonometry
Honors Chemistry
American Literature
Business Economics

Victor

cafegroundzero asked:


Steven King, or Edgar Allen Poe.

I would like to renew my acquaintance with Latin American or Spanish literature.

I’d like some thing that incorporates the elements of magic and fantasy, such as I think does Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Seems I recall Borges having written some short stories in the horror genre. Does any one know or remember of any in particular?

http://www.themodernword.com/borges/borges_infl_eco.html

Gary

tkdchamp21 asked:


So here’s my info:
I have a 3.5 overall weighted GPA.
Grades
Freshman YR
Geometry: C+
Latin: B
English: A-
World Cultures: A-
Earth Science (H): B

Sophomore YR:
Algebra II: B+
Biology (H): B+
Spanish Accelerated I: A-
Latin II: A-
English: A
US History: A-

JUNIOR YR
Analysis: C+
Trigonometry: B
Chemistry (H): C+
Spanish II (H): A-
Latin III (H): B+
Ancient Greece: A-
European History: A-
American Literature: B+
British Literature: A

SR YR COURSES (havent taken)
AP Statistics (H):
AP Biology (H):
Spanish III (H):
Latin IV (H):
Physics:
European Literature:
Rhetoric:

HARVARD SUMMER SCHOOL
Screenwriting: A-
Precalculus: A-

SAT’s
1st try:
CR: 680
MATH: 660
WRITING: 600
Overall: 1940

ACT’s
Composite Score: 30

EC’s
International Certified Blackbelt in Tae Kwon Do
Tennis: 12th in State, 50th in New England
*Couldn’t play Varsity tennis JR year due to sprained ankle
Varsity Wrestling as Jr and Sr
Sophomore Yr: JV Cross-Country, JV XC-Skiing, JV Tennis
Model UN: 4 years
I am Hispanic
I am worried mainly Because of my 3 C+ in Geometry, Chemistry, and Analysis…
(Chemistry+ Analysis during JR Year!)

I hope to make REALLY good SR year grades 1st and 2nd quarters
I Plan to retake the SAT’s to get 700’s on each section.

I plan to apply ED to either Claremont Mckenna or Emory.. which one do i have a better shot?
I am also considering making a documentary o send to the colleges about Venezuela.
Any general information about what each university is looking or would be appreciated.

Virginia

SwimGuy asked:


I read a lot, but I’ve never read a literature book. I’m Mexican, and I teach Spanish to Americans for a living.
I’m fluent in 6 languages; I’m addicted to language books. I have my room full of grammar-exercise books in Japanese, Mandarin, Spanish, English, French, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Nahuatl (Aztec.)
I’ve had such a passion for grammar; I wrote and got 2 books locally published to learn Spanish.
I studied business, not English. But because I opened my own language school and got books published, I know many people who studied English or Literature as their major. They all kinda snob me because I don’t know anything about the stupid books they are reading.
But I read A LOT, I just **** fiction. I love to read biography books of people who got rich, business books, how-to-do books, and world-history books. I think I read just as much as those people.

Just because I’ve never read any of the classics, or because I **** literature.

Does that make me a non-reader?

Adam

«●»мαяια«●» asked:


this is not really a question but ill answer half of it and the other half is from my source. The article is by Jerry Bowyer. i was taught that it is satanic for years and a few weeks ago i found the truth. but my opinion is that jk rowling shows good from evil but too hard for children to understand the difference and makes them take it differently.

KKLA is the largest Christian talk radio station in America. He holds a dubious record there — and’s responsible for causing the largest number of complaint calls the station had ever gotten in a single day.

Harry is a lot of things. He’s a little bit Prince Harry forced to grow into the great warrior Henry V. He’s a lot more of the young Arthur, taken from his family at a young age, forced to live under the neglectful care of an inferior family, kept in the shadows of a bullying older adopted brother and unaware of his great origins. Eventually he is mentored by a great wizard (for young Wart, that’s Merlin; for Harry, it’s Dumbledore — a member of the Order of Merlin). Both lead quests to find a cup. Both end up procuring a great sword out of a lake in order to proceed with the quest.
In Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, Harry confronts Voldemort (whose name means “will to death”) by traveling down into a great cavern where he slays a serpent to win an (eventual) bride. He fatally wounds the serpent in the head. He’s rescued by a bird who descends upon him and the bride, a kind of bird whose “tears have healing powers, and who are able to bear immense loads.” The bird bears them up out of the cavern. “There, how’s that?” The problem is that very few Christians seem to be aware of descendit ad infernum, the descent into hell. Don’t the schools teach Dante? Don’t the Churches teach the Apostle’s Creed? Well, as a matter of fact, no, they generally do not. The Proto Evangelium, the first gospel in which God told Adam and Eve that He would send Someone who would rescue their descendents by crushing the head of the serpent doesn’t seem to get a lot of play either. The most powerful spell in Harry’s world is the Patronus, in which the wizard forcefully says “Expecto Patronum”. That’s Christian Latin for “I look for the Savior”. Expecto is used in the Nicene Creed, and Patronum is used in the medieval Dies Irae as the Savior that we look for in the day of judgment. Harry uses the spell when ghastly evil spiritual beings called DEMENtors (caps mine) attack him and another innocent man near a lake. A stag (which just happens to function as a common Christ figure in medieval art) walks across the water dispelling the vile soul-destroying creatures. What’s it take, a 2 by 4 across the forehead? This is Christian stuff!
Well, the 2 by 4 has arrived and it’s called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. In it, Harry learns that the evil Voldemort has broken his soul into shards and used those shards to possess certain objects. These are called Horcruxes. One of them is a ring (Lord of the Rings fans should find this a little familiar) and as long as the object is not destroyed the ‘Dark Lord’ cannot be destroyed either. Well it turns out that one of those soul shards in imbedded in a scar in Harry’s forehead and Harry comes to understand that the only way the evil can be destroyed is for Harry to willingly give up his life. In order to save his friends at Hogwarts School (which we learn in book 7 reminds Harry of a church) and particularly his friend Hagrid (whose name is suspiciously similar to Hagioi, which is Greek for Saints) he must allow himself to be killed by the dark lord. He makes a long walk through a wood in which he stumbles (Via Dolorosa, anyone?) all the while being encouraged by a vision of his deceased mother Lily.

This might be a good time to tell you that the Lily is often used as a symbol for Mary, the mother of Jesus, in medieval literature. There is a hymn about Jesus and Mary called The Lily and the Lamb. Harry goes ‘as a sheep to the shearer’ to Voldemort, where he is killed. There he meets his old mentor Dumbledore (old English for bumblebee, a medieval symbol for wisdom based on Psalm 119). While Dumbledore explains it all, the great white cloud in which Harry finds himself begins to take the shape of a familiar train station. The station’s name is King’s Cross, which is also the title of that particular chapter of the book. Harry is given the choice of going ‘on’ or going back to save his people. Harry goes back and finds that since he willingly gave his life for the people of Hogwarts, Voldemort’s curses no longer bind them. Voldemort, then, is destroyed (by his own hand in an attempt to kill Harry again) and the various races and houses of Hogwarts celebrate in a great feast, in which they ignore the walls and divisions which had theretofore separated them. She’d been accused of atheism (she’s an Anglican) and of being a witch (she knows nothing at all about the occult or Wicca).

Why no apologies to the lady? First, it’s always tough to say you’re sorry. But deeper than that, I think the problem is that so much of the religious right failed to see the Christianity in the Potter novels because it knows so little Christianity itself. However the gospel stories themselves, the various metaphors and figures of the Law and the Prophets, and their echoes down through the past two millennia of Christian literature and art are largely unknown to vast swaths of American Christendom, including its leaders.

Gail

Alisha asked:


Hi there!

I’m currently studying spanish A level and would like some suggestions for Latin American authors and novels or short stories in spanish - I’m reli interested in the culture there!

Oh and I like all kinds of books as long as they’re not overly soppy.

Thanx!

Norma

theos_theory asked:


I’m homeschooling my daughter and am on a strict budget (can only spend around $300) so I can’t really afford both.If I did only buy student textbooks how would I grade her homework? What about assignments and tests?
Could I possibly just buy teacher textbooks and just tell her not to look at the answers?

Here are the textbooks I’m getting:
Latin For Americans 2 - 0078742536
Introduction To Psychology - 0155050699
Macroeconomics - 0073273082
American Passage:A History of the U.S. - 0495050156
Understanding Literature - 0618405402
Saxon Geometry - 160277305x

Jose

academic asked:


I’m interested in applying to top Comparative Literature Ph.D. programs.

Schools in mind: SUNY Buffalo, NYU, Columbia, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, JHU, etc.

My Stats: JHU undergrad. Psychology/English/Spanish triple major, Mathematics/Latin American Studies double minor, 3.8 GPA. Honors thesis in humanities.

Leadership/Activies: president of 2 national honor societies, vp of dance company, clarinetist at Peabody Conservatory (of JHU) and wind ensemble, ballet student at campus dance studio, and member of NSCS.

Work experience: 2 years as research assistant through undergrad (in psychology), summer internships (i.e., advertising company in nyc)

Studied Abroad in: Bolivia, Argentina, Florence, Paris
Worked Abroad in: London
Languages: English, Spanish, French; working on Italian, but taken no classes (yet).

Good recs.

Still need to take GREs.

What are my chances — from info I have supplied?

Juanita

rockon_em01 asked:


I asked this in a different category, but am giving it a shot here, even though this category is travel. Still, plenty of people know a lot of stuff about Cuba, so…

If anyone can help:

I took a class in college years ago on Latin American literature where we focused mostly on “literatura costumbrista”. I fell in love with it, but the books from the class and others that I have bought over the years encompass authors from a nice variety of countries, but definitely not all of them. I’ve been wanting lately to find some great short story literature from Cuba. I have no idea what any authors are like, or what any of them tend to write about. I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez (sorry to be cliche, but come one, he is good!), Rubem Fonseca, Ana Lydia Vega, and others. I love their styles of writing. Truly entertaining. In any case, I want to expand my world and venture into Cuba. I’m hoping someone has some good authors to suggest. Thank you!

Deborah