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Text to Go: The Wig by Han Dong
Han Dong was born in 1961 in Nanjing, and shortly afterwards he and his parents were banished to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. After going on to study and teach philosophy at Shandong...
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Text to Go: Snow by Julia Álvarez
Our first year in New York we rented a smaJI apartment with a Catholic school nearby, taught by the Sisters of Charity, hefty women in long black gowns and bonnets that made them look peculiar, like dolls...
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Text to Go: Ishwari's Children by Shabnam Nadiya
Nadiya is a writer and translator from Bangladesh, whose story, Ishwari's Children"explores the culture and social practices of a rural Bangladeshi village. The protagonist is a 6 year-old boy who journeys...
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Text to Go: Fatherland by Viet Thanh Nguyen
"Fatherland" is the final short story in Viet Thanh Nguyen's collection: The Refugees. It is narrated in third person, past tense, and it returns to the country of Vietnam itself. In the story, the protagonist,...
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Text to Go: A Contract Overseas by Mia Alvar
Mia Alvar's short stories shed light on the Filipino diaspora, with each story following the various journeys of men, women, and their families as they leave their homes in search of a new, but not always...
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Text to Go: The Fall of the House of Usher
"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by Edgar Allen Poe, first published in 1839. The short story is a work of Gothic fiction and includes themes of madness, family, isolation, and metaphysical identities....
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Introducing the Gothic genre
Introducing the Gothic Genre To inquire into the elements of the Gothic genre and begin to relate them to literary techniques and Gothic vocabulary. - Show them the images on the slide and ask them...
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Text to Go: Poems about the Natural World
A selection of poems about the natural world including Daffodils by William Wordsworth, Blackberry Picking and Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney and The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats.....
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Text to Go: Self-Discipline by Will Smith
Will Smith's motivational speech about self-discipline. Marines have a saying everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die the center of bringing any dream into fruition is self-discipline....
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Text to Go: We should all be feminists
We Should All Be Feminists is a personal, eloquently-argued TED speech by the Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. In her speech Adichie offers usa unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first...