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The Dreams by Naguib Mahfouz...? “The Dreams” by Naguib Mahfouz Born in Cairo in 1911, Naguib Mahfouz is the of more than thirty novels and fourteen collections of short stories. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1988, for his mastership in writing Arabic novels that perfectly depict the social, economic, and political lives of Egypt. After he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1988, Naguib Mahfouz is known to be one of the well-known story-tellers and novelists in the world. Each of his novels critically analyzes the prevailing atmosphere in Egypt in various eras. The last written piece by Mahfouz is “The Dreams,” in which he designs various characters and...
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Constructing Narratives...? Constructing Narratives Constructing Narratives Settings of ELL es lend easily and naturally to discussions based on storytelling, as well as activities that integrate the construction of narratives. Storytelling, as well as stories, provides students from different cultural backgrounds an undeniable mechanism for appreciating their world and developing a narrative construction paradigm or environment. Making use of ELL settings helps ELLs appreciate themselves, develop critical thinking and foster mutual understanding. Various elements of language use are critical for effective construction of both written and verbal narratives (Bishop...
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Naguib Mahfouz...everything that Mahfouz has written. Even in a novel with a strong metaphysical claim such as "Al-Tariq" (The Way), the social message is appropriately woven into the texture of the work: man is not meant to spend his life on Earth in a futile search and his only true hope of deliverance is the application of a positive and responsible effort to better his lot and that of others (Lalami 2006, p.1).
The fact that Mahfouz has always been a socially committed writer with a deep concern for the difficulty of social injustice is an unquestionable reality. To him, individual decency is undividable from social morality. In...
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Spiritual Narratives...Spiritual Narratives The Schomburg Library’s publication Spiritual Narratives is a publication intended to both preserve and distribute examples of Nineteenth Century Black female writers. As the forward of the book explains, many of these writings are in danger of being lost to time. Even in their own time, many of these writers went unnoticed. “Many of the books reprinted in this set experienced a similar fate, the most dreadful fate for an author: that of being ignored then relegated to the obscurity of the rare book section of a university library” (xii). These writings are important to preserve, though, because they represent the “the other side” of the American experience. “As our Caucasian barristers are not to blame... and had...
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Biblical narratives...Common mistakes made as readers engage the bible narrative A narrative is referred to a story told for the purpose of conveying an intended message through people, their problems, as well as different situations they encounter in life. The main objective of narratives is to interconnect individual events and actions into inter-related aspect of clearly understandable composites. They portray the significance that each event has over the other in a comprehensive way. For instance, biblical narratives are majorly God’s stories theologically showing the truth about God and history about his people. Bible narrative goes deeper to help us...
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Written Landscapes...cultural transformations of human civilizations.
2. LANDSCAPE IN EARLY MYTHOLOGIES AND ANCIENT LITERATURES
2.1. THE ROLE OF LANDSCAPE IN MYTHOLOGICAL NARRATIVES
The importance of landscape in the ancient mythological narratives cannot be understated. This is because myths’ key concepts inherently relied on the association of specific sacral space with relevant landscape features such as mountains, seas, forests. In the Greek myths, Richard Buxton observes that the very depiction of the world’s creation in Hesiod is directly related to the emergence of landscapes necessary for all life to thrive. 1 By...
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Social Media Individual Assignment..., lifestyles and other interests. Social networking enables individuals to stay connected with each other irrespective of geographical distances, culture, bindings etc. Thus social networking work as an online community. An access to social networking sites enables one to socialize. However, as every technology has pros and cons, social networking also possesses positive and negatives with it.
1. Do you have a page on a social networking Web site?
a. If yes, which one(s)?
b. If no, what is keeping you from creating one?
Yes, I do have social networking site. I have an account on...
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Slave Narratives...American Literature Slave Narratives Introduction Slave narratives have shaped African-American literarythrough revealing the plight of Southern slaves under their masters. The issues of politics, gender and race are presented in the literary genre and the two narratives served their purpose since slaves ultimately attained their freedom. Douglass’s narrative demonstrates how he managed to escape from slavery and provides a first-hand testimony of slavery since the narratives mention their legal status and is signed by the writers. Douglass outlines his pursuit of literacy therefore demonstrating that African Americans are committed to independence and...
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Gendered Landscapes...Gendered Landscape Woman doing her chores as the man rests by AdriHead Most women, I included, are not pleased with the sexual division of labor. Over the decades, the women have fought to eradicate poverty, inequality, exclusion, alienation and violence from the male gender (Baugher, 2010). Despite the evolution of womens involvement in property ownership, contractual and voting rights, women still go through difficulties that are a result of their gender (Carubia, Dowler, & Szczygiel, 2005).
The womens ability to give birth has made male gender assume that nurturing and domestic chores are the responsibilities of the women. In the image above, the woman is left to make sure that the children have completed their...
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Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz...Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz’s “Midaq Alley is a story depicting a small, poor street known as Midaq Alley in Cairo with few shops and homes. At the core of the story’s heart is a skillful depiction of Hamida, a beautiful foster daughter of Umm Hamida, yearning for freedom out of Midaq alley at all cost. The ambition for freedom sees Hamida transforms from a humble girl to a “prostitute.” The setting of the story is between 1940’s and early 1950’s, a period marking Second World War when the British army is camping at Cairo. Additionally, the story illustrates Midaq alley as an isolated residence lagging behind history with people in it languishing in poverty though the typical...
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