The Storm - Luis Bevilacqua

In the storm we see a story of infidelity, about how a man and a woman have relations together while they are in a relationship with someone else. the woman gets caught in the heat of the moment and gives in to the man's temptations. i believe the man did it because its just a tendency to be prone to sexual action as a man, but the woman was not being satisfied with her current husband so did what she did. They both did something wrong and I believe you pay for infidelity, they should be tossed out of their houses and pay emotionally. Their partners do not deserve what these two did to them. Althought hings happen in a moment of emotion and desperation you should be strong enough not to give in to these temptations.

Christopher Columbus day - Luis Bevilacqua

I really enjoyed this day in which we had a discussion about whether Columbus was a hero or not. It gave me a chance to express my views and discuss some interesting points about his contributions to our history. i believe he is a hero, very few heroes in history have been able to do a great deed without a sacrifice for the gerater good. There will always be blood in a change of culture, there will always be those who oppose, and if blood was not shed, the change would have come much later. We could possibly have ended up a third world country having to fend off for ourselves. I appreciate what he did for us and if I was in his place I would have done exactly the same thing. poeple have no clue what they want, they think they do but they dont. Give a culture a chance to evolve into the future and bring forth future eras of prosperity and they will not want it just because it will spill a few drops of blood to the ground. then so be it, let few suffer now, so that the future generations for decades to come can blossom from that very sacrifice. Try to feed a tiger and it will bite your arm off, because it doesnt know any better.

A Walk to the Jetty - Luis Bevilacqua

In this story Anne wakes up the day she is leaving for England to study to become a nurse. She is glad she is leaving her old life behind for good and knows she won't miss it. She thinks about it and knows she will not miss her mother or father or any of the people she knew through her childhood. She dreads that last morning but at the same time is happy because she knows she will be leaving. On the way to the boat they pass through all of the places that were important in her childhood and she starts to remember, like the library where she used to love to get books, or in the house where they used to take care of her and the lady would make her work hard. Once she gets on the jetty she feels sad because she will be leaving for good and finally starts to feel love for her parents and gives them one last hug before her mother leaves her to the care of the captain.

I Dont Want to Die - Luis Bevilacqua

I Dont Want to Die talked about an old man that was dying and before he died he told his friend he didn't want to die. It talks about living the moment and accepting what you really want to do in the moment. Not hiding behind feelings and just coming out with what is on your mind. For this story I did an activity where I closed my eyes and thought as if I was going to die and I tried to think that way to see the way I would feel in that very moment and embrace it. I closed my eyes and thought about all the happy moments in my life and how they would never come again. I saw the faces of all my loved ones smiling at me and slowly fading away like I would never get to appreciate those smiles in my life again. I lived the moment and accepted my feeling and it really felt awful and I wouldnt like to do it again.

Reflection on The Storm

After reading the story, we learned that Calixta is having an affair with Alcee. I think that this action is not correct. If I had a husband and found out that he is having an affair, I would felt very sad and betrayed. In my opinion, if you have an affair it is because you don’t love your husband as you say you do. In one moment of the story we were told that Calixta and Alcee had been kissing before. With that on mind, we could say that they have feelings for each other. If you feel that your are not in love with your husband, then why are you with him? When you have an affair is because you really don’t feel the same way for your husband; there is something going on in you marriage that do not make you happy. But what Calixta and Alcee did is wrong because the two of them have families that love them and think that their partners feel the same way for them. Being married is a contract between two people, if your not willing to contribute in this contract of love, then why get married?

Reflection on Christopher Columbus

 During our class we had a discussion about Christopher Columbus and we were debating if this man is really a hero or not. Hero is any person admired for courage, and nobility. We must think about this definition to decide whether Christopher Columbus is a hero or not. Nobility is a person that from nature is considered a good person. Courage is the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, and pain without fear. With this two definition we can say that Christopher Columbus is not really a hero. This man was a very bad leader in our island. He was the man who really put our Indians as slave and at the end the Indians didn’t survive. Some people consider him a hero because he found our island, but if we go back through history we can see that what he did was put our ancestors as slave. He did not do anything of nobility nor courage. In my opinion this man really is not a hero because for me a hero is someone who has done good things in society and has lived for others and don’t think for himself. The only thing that we can consider that Columbus did was that he was lucky to find islands in his journey.

Reflectio on A walk to the Jetty

 

This short story is about a seventeen years girl who is going to England to be a nurse. The story starts in the day she is going to take the ship to go to England. Annie, the girl start to think and remember about all her pass and she saw that all her past including her house and things remember her parents and not her. All she can see in her life is the identities of her parents and not her identity. With this idea in mind Annie feels that the journey to England is going to make her a new person that has her own identity. The end of this story is when she gets to the Jetty where she is going to take the ship. In this moment she felt a little of indecision because she didn’t know if she was doing the correct thing, but the she realized that this was the opportunity to be a new person and she felt okay with her decision.

            In my opinion I really like this story because I felt that every person has a chance to make our own identities. The story reminds me of my friends and I because it described a step that every teen has to go through when we go to college. I think that one of the biggest steps we take in our life is going to college because this journey helps you define yourself and get to know yourself. “A walk to the Jetty” inspired me to be myself and have my own identity and it also helped me remembered of my youth years when we didn’t have any responsibilities in our hands.