lunes, 28 de julio de 2014

TCKs essay

         Third Culture Kids, Taking the Oncoming English

THE KEY TO REVITALIZING A LANGUAGE IS BY MOTIVATING A NEW GENERATION OF SPEAKERS..

.- In first place, its hard to make that happen since all the medias shows the world a bad representation of language, if we arewilling to achieve this task we should first change all the medias or turn them off so in that way the next generation kids won't learn the bad language, instead they will try to imitate the people with good diction and language revitalazing it.
Thats a way too expensive idea, but theres another waywich is isolating the kids of the media and massive people and just showing them whats correct and whats not so in that way when they get out they will haveonly what they learnt from the place and show it to the world.

We can see Third Culture Kids, having a strong relationship with any of their old cultures, they wont have problems to learn a new culture or language. Making them learn the correct way of speaking english will make the future generation of kids fix this mess  that we made of making a very informal way of speaking.

If we make "next generation kids" speak it right, their whole culture will make it too, in other words its a chain reaction work.
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lunes, 23 de junio de 2014

WRITING TASK, fatelessness

Dear Gyurka:
You may not remember me and i dont blame you for not doing so, I was a good friend to you, always keeping you sane when we were at the concentration camp, you might not remember due to all the tragedies you lived there you only might wanna forget all those things, although i want to know how have you been, lots of things happened to me after we left Auschwitz, I found my family and friends at our hometown but didnt saw you, I wont ask aything about yours because it might offend you, but what about yourself i've sent this to your old direction so i dont know if you might still living ther if you happen to get this letter please reply.
Rememeber when we were at our first day of the concentration camp thinking that it might be something fun because we would be with our friends and together nothing could have happened... we were wrong though, at least we had both of us to keep us sane through all of  that, we lost our closest friends back there but we wont forget them since they gave their life so we could live, Gyurka remember that you're not alone and you will always have someone that cares about you.
Well although I didnt have too much to write about and I really dont want to talk too much about the holocaust ( thats how they call it now), i want to forget everything about it, think that it never happened, the nazis never attackes, that no one died and all the childs that died withouth a reason or purpose, It literally was a nightmare, a hell of a nightmare.
I always heard you talking about your father and how you missed him, Im pretty sure he miss you too and that he cares about you, he might have sent a letter but couldnt reach you, the day que were at the bus when everything started you were happy because you were going to date someone that you wanted to for a long time, im sorry about that things like that might happen in life, but this trip to hell made you a strong person im pretty confident about that so just wait for the correct momment and you might even find someone better for you who loves you back. i want to end this letter here, i still feel like i didnt say everything, most is from the "incident" but I just want to leave that in the past and fade away, hopefuly one day we'll meet again you wont even recognize me but it would be fun if we talked each other and didnt even realize that those were us.
take care.

Your Friend.                                                                                                                       Alex.


RATIONALE

In this writting assignment i wrote the text type "Letter", I choose this text type because it fits the era, time and place, 2nd world war in the time of the holocaust, and the person who writes it also makes sense. The purpose of this is that someone who lost track of his old firend writes a letter in hope that he might recieve it, if so, he wants to get a reply as soon as possible, the letter is just about friendship, it adds a little content about the book and the historical events that happened, but being realistic nobody really wants to rememeber what happened there.
In the book Fatelessness the author leaves a secret message which meant that books are the history of men, they are the only thing that keeps history from being biased and changed to the comodity of everybody else. And this letter is trying to do the same.

viernes, 21 de marzo de 2014

Youth and old

Youth and oldness.
Guiding questions:

why is the old man is smiling to the kid?
Why is the kid touching the old man?
what this have to do with health beauty?

miércoles, 27 de noviembre de 2013

Fatelessness Task

1.- This book has a message that the author himself left in the novel without even knowing that he was leaving a very important message, the message is that the book itself its a dead memoir so we the people of today don't make the same mistakes that the nazi's have done. Like in the video an interview to Imre kertesz he said that the book itself would be a memoir to all the people so we dont commit the same mistakes, he said that to us and also i believe that this is right, its the only way that we have to not make the same mistakes as them, we learn through errors and thats the best way to learn. Without this source of information that the author gave us we would be making a second holocaust and the world itself would be like hell, this is why history is important,without it we would be making the same errors and history wouldn't exist.

2.- Its hard to understan the points of view given in fatelessnes, this is a cultural problem, mainly because we lack of information and this type of information cant be given, is something you have to live, there are some things that words cannot explain, such things as the holocaust, what we know about it are just the suffering of the people and how germans burned all those jews, we can`t really know how was it since we didnt lived when that was happening, maybe it was something that was right or maybe it really was a bad thing but this we will never know; people from germany from today has nothing to do with the nazi community from the 1940, this people is really repentated about this, something you really cant be proud of, but we really dont know since we lack of cultural experience to really understand what happened at the holocaust and how they felt.

3.- what really makes fatelessness so interesting is the technique that the author use, the narrative technique, " You must be aware that telling a story is a complex negotiation between author and reader, involving the artificial creation of a temporary reality. The skilful reader is both inside this reality, responding to it – and outside, observing it." this type of technique is demanding the reader to fall into step with the narrator, in this case the author is making the rythm of the novel so the reader don't lose the interest on the book; also this book is written in first person, wich gives you a more realistic point of view of what is happening right at the time and at that place, how the narrators is explaining the moment, personality and skillful reading must be taken into account, this judges the relative truth of what the narrators is telling us.

4.- The holocaust helped the readers to understand the book fatelessness in a better way, the context of this book is a real key factor to make it successful without it the novel wouldnt be as interesting as it is right now,
the creation of this story wouldn't have be this better if it wasnt because of the context in wich it was putted on. The atrocities that happened at the holocaust made the readers feel like they knew what they felt at that palce and at that moment the holocaust was a connection to the readers with the author, without it the novel wouldn't have that much sense and the backline of the story would be boring and the interest would be lost easily.

jueves, 14 de noviembre de 2013

Irme kertesz

1.- the monuments made by the american artist Peter Eiserman represents the museum of terror.
2.- The paradox that the presenter mentions regarding  Imre Kertesz and. The place where he lives is that he now lives  in the country that once tried to kill him (Germany) instead of living at his hometown, Hungary.
3.- Antisemitism after Auschwitz would be because they dont know anything about the holocaust, before auschwitz would be the influence from part of Hitler.
4.- this make us much richer, the information that they give us is another point of view of what happened, this makes it better since we have anothe POV of the situation.
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