summary London is compared with Paris' better location of art pieces

OLYMPIC ATHLETES ? Olympic athletes should not receive financial support from goverments. And they should participate as individuals not as representatives ofa country Do you agree?

EVERYBODY COMES TO HOLLYWOOD

Some people say Holywood is a 'dream factory'. Others say it is an instrument for cultural imperialism. What is your view?

a novel I In a time when people were living ‘the American Dream’, when new products made life easier and people were encouraged to buy them, when the need to success in professional life, to earn more money, to marry and get a house in the suburbs, are the main goals of any American. At that time a woman, Mira, found out that this dream didn’t match her. She felt she didn’t like her life, she spent long hours cleaning, cooking and taking care of the children, she also felt disappointed with her husband. He neglected her in all aspects, sex included. But fortunately when she looked around the nearby housewives she realized her life was not so bad. She wasn’t been beaten, raped or obliged to have a dozen children. This is the main character of this novel in the first section of the book: A typical middle-class wife of the 50’s. But this changes when her husband wanted to divorce. He was cheating her. Mira was desperate and tried to commit suicide. She didn’t understand men, she had been dedicated all her life to her marriage and her children, she had been behaving as the perfect wife but nothing mattered. Without her children she decided to resume her studies and she returned to school at 38 years old at Harvard.

three 3. In a few words discuss the presence and purpose of religious imagery in the excerpt. The religious imagery is explained as a retelling of the Christ Crucifixion episode. Solomon is portrayed as a “savior” (Jesus) and he is suffering from the tortures of the shock therapy (the crucifixion) and he is doing a sacrifice as Jesus did. He is against the fascist national government of the United States. This government could be represented by Golgotha, the hill where Jesus was crucified by the Romans. Finally the resurrection will be achieved by Solomon when he will splits the Heavens of Long Island; that is when he will be released from hospital.

Hello 4. Explain the main idea contained in the section of the poem where the excerpt belongs. The main idea is to show his empathy with his friend, who is entrapped in a psychiatric. Solomon is compared with God, and also as a best mind. His life is being destroyed by madness and shock therapy. Ginsberg admired a great deal Solomon. The main goal of the author was to denounce the abuses that were happening at mental institutions at that time. Although he didn’t look for controversy and fame, the poem became very criticized not for what Ginsberg wanted but for sexual obscenity. 5. How does the excerpt evidence the influence of other literary authors and traditions? The Bible and the Christian Church is reflected in the imagery. The traditions in the mental institutions as the presence of the games as the term ping pong and the term lose; the presence of a musical instrument the piano. This mental institutions are portrayed with military terms, (bang, died, armed) as this period was the post WWII. Ginsberg is influenced by Nietzsche’s “superhuman”, a term used by the 19th century to denote the secular epitome of human, psychological, spiritual and physical dominance. This “superhuman” is Solomon. Regarding the form of the poem it is highlighted the strong influence of Whitman, with the use of long lines and repetition to give it a syncopated rhythm.

Egyptian days While I was working with my last Old English text, I learnt about these days. The Egyptian days were considered bad days. In the Anglo-Saxon literature, these days are regarded as unfavourable for blood-letting, Although the pagan tradition of these days the text they belonged to "Lacnunga" was compiled in a monastery, and curiously the identification of these days was based on biblycal episodes: The first Monday in April; Cain was born and also killed his brother Abel The first Monday in August, Sodom and Gomorra were destroyed The last Monday in December was Judas Iscariots birthday So if you are superstitious don't arrange important events these days . I'm not superstitious but I've found it curious our ancenstors have this type of prognosis. The Egyptian Days Three days there are in the year that we call Egyptiaci, that is in our tongue dangerous days, on which by no means, for no necessity, let either man’s or beast’s blood be diminished. The first of these is the Monday nearest to the end of the month which we call April. The second is the first Monday after the beginning of the month which we call August. The third is the first Monday after the end of the month of December. Whosoever on these three days diminish his blood, be it man, be it beast, shall, as we have heard say, soon on the first day or the fourth day end his life; or if his life is longer he shall not reach the seventh day; or if he taketh any draught on those three days he shall end his life within fifteen days. If any one is born on these days he shall end his life by an evil death. And he that on these days tastethe flesh of goose, within a space of forty days he shall end his life. Anglo-Saxon Magic and Medicine. J. H. G. Grattan and Charles Singer Oxford University Press 1952. Oxford, p. 199. Folcroft Library Editions, Folcroft Pa, 1971.