Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges uses imagery when he says that “the last desperate glow that turns the plain to rust” to explain a sunset. Figurative Language: Figurative language is language that is not literal but represents one thing in terms of another. Two common figures…

I am applying to the Integrated Teaching Through the Arts M.Ed. program. I currently work in arts education and have been searching for ways to connect my curriculum to core academic subjects. I believe that your program is suited to teach students to navigate this specific challenge. For me, one of the most exciting aspects of Lesley’s program is that it is structured in a way that will allow me to continue my work, and that I will be able to immediately apply my learning to my teaching and…

much as we would the personality or story of any other character from a movie, book, or play. We also have the ability to manipulate such stories, and consequently, have the ability to manipulate the way the world and others see us. “Borges and I” by Jorge Luis Borges is one of many representations of mankind’s tendency to view one’s life as a drama, in which they themselves are actors, and can manipulate their characteristics. “I like hourglasses, maps, eighteenth century typography, the taste…

By looking up at common dictionaries two definitions of the phenomenon, fiction, is given: 1. Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people. 2. Something that is invented or untrue. Fiction is the classification of any ilk of writing propelled by imagination; it varies from play, short stories, novel, novella and so forth. Fiction constitutes an act of creative invention, so that faithfulness to reality is not typically assumed; in other words,…

Solaris problem, Kris Kelvin seems to approach this key eventually while playing with the ocean in the back pages of the novel. The key already-potentially exists – as every written and unwritten book exists in the Library of Babel, constructed by Jorge Luis Borges. Possibility is…

letter. Carlos Fuentes, famous contemporary writer of Mexico, swears that you can still hear stories of some old foreigner wandering the Mexican landscape. This, paired with Bierce’s own impressive works and history, inspired writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, and of course, Fuentes himself. This is what I believe to lie at the core of Chickamauga; that which we pass on to the next generation. Chickamauga is a piece of anti-war fiction that details a young boy’s fateful…

produce its own identity and culture through the world-renowned people that have originated from there. These people include football (soccer) players Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona, ex-president and iconic communist Che Guevara, outstanding poet Jorge Luis Borges, the current president of Argentina Mauricio Marci, and even to the current leader of the Vatican, Pope…

interwoven fabric of literary history. Critics point to this as an indication of postmodernism’s lack of originality and reliance on clichés. On of the best works which represented this technique is “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote” by Jorge Luis Borges, with its references to Medieval romances. Another technique used by the postmodernists is Pastiche which means to combine, or "paste" together, multiple elements. It can be a combination of multiple genres to create a unique narrative or to…

The swimming contest by Benjamin Tammuz is a story of an Arab boy and an Israeli boy. This took place around the time where there was huge tension between the Arabs and the Jews. There had been much division and segregation amongst the two people. Most of the time, the youth is not up to date with any sort of political conflict or racial division that is occurring at the time. Hatred for the other group is a learned behavior that some youth have not learned yet. Such as the two boys in this…

Jorge Luis Borges, a 20th century author, declared, "I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library." Reading is a beautiful paradise that can take a person to a whole new world in a whole new time period. It promotes imagination and stimulates the mind. Over the summer, the sophomores of Oakland Catholic’s Honors World Literature Class received the pleasure of reading three stories: A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Oedipus the King by Sophocles.…