long-awaited Christmas Break, many students had opted to not attend for the measly two and a half hours. Early that morning, I had reluctantly crawled out of bed and changed from my warm pajamas into jeans and a spirit shirt, but my change in attire failed to compensate for my tiredness. I yawned loudly as Coach Perkins and I took seats at a small, but tall, table surrounded by four elongated stools. I forced myself to focus on the task at hand, which happened to be a discussion about regret. Coming
9/12/14 I’m An Only Daughter Too. In the essay “Only Daughter” the author Sandra Cisneros explains what it was like growing up, as the only daughter of six sons. Not just, the only daughter, but also the only daughter of a Mexican father and Mexican- American mother. For me growing up as the only daughter with two-step brothers, this was hard for me to understand what was so miserable about that. One of the things that I liked that Sandra put in her narrative was the “Background on gender preference”
period realism was highly valued. We also see nature becoming a central aspect of literature during the Romantic period while during the Victorian period art is a lot more focussed on the indoors life. In the Victorian period we see the novel grow, essays and periodicals circulation increased drastically. ‘The Expansion of print culture enabled a wide range of prose writing to flourish’. (Paul Poplawski, p 455). I think it is very interesting to see that the industrial revolution impacted the realistic