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https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7j4eKx5EtWjZE9IeUs2a2Z5eDg/view?usp=sharing Reflection: I went through numerous trials, however, all of them were too short for the time limit. I would need to practice talking and analyzing in dept. I also find it difficult to make the conclusion. After certain period of time (around 6-7 minutes), I run out of things to say and ends my IOC in a very awkward way. 

In what ways could Wallace’s theory about education be applicable to the writing of Alice Munro? Wallace's theory about education shows how education can effect not only how one can live a wealthy life but how it can affect one's view of 'choice'. He gives an example of a mall and how one can perceive the world around him/her. His utilization of examples makes the readers relate their daily life forcing us as the audience to think back and receive his theory about education into 'our life'. Such theory of Wallace can be applicable to the short stories of Alice Munro as majority her stories exemplifies how different world and daily life on people can be 'unique' according to how one - the narrator or the protagonist - views the world. For example, 'Boys and Girls' shows the narrators' daily rural life changes unconsciously through a simple act of letting the horse run away. Adding on in the "Family Furnishing", the protag...

In the extract form 'Decolonizing the Mind' by Nguigi wa Thinong'o there were various content and themes which enriched my understanding and appreciation of Things Fall Apart. In the text, Ngugi reiterated the fact that African culture value words for their meaning and nuances. Additionally, he related to how one's aboriginal language had to be transformed into English language due to the colonizers.  From this contextual information, we can glean that the emphasis on proverbs and spoken forms of language in Things Fall Apart was a factual piece of information. Achebe's utilization of certain stylistic features and language is now more explicitly understandable after the interaction with the text as now, I have the knowledge of how the colonizers' effect on language have affected the African tribesmen. 

With reference to Things Fall Apart, show how sub-plots or secondary characters contribute to the reader’s understanding and appreciation of the work as a whole. In Things Fall Apart, sub-plots and secondary characters play a crucial role throughout the novel. Especially in this novel, the protagonist, Okonkwo, is characterized to hide his emotions. In order to relate the readers' emotions to the novel, Achebe have chosen to characterize secondary characters to be more emotional. These emotional description from the secondary character contributes to the readers' understanding of the work as it further establishes symbols and foreshadows main plot twists. Adding on, the secondary characters tend to show various foils throughout the plot of Things Fall Apart. We can glean that these foils are placed to establish a contrast of Nigerian culture before and after colonization. Furthermore, Achebe's use of sub-plots further contribute to a firm understanding of the reader....

Why would Achebe, taking into account the cultural context, choose to characterize Okonkwo using the tragic hero archetype? In the novel Things Fall apart, written by Chinua Achebe, the main protagonist, Okonkwo shows archetypes of tragic hero. Tragic hero is defined as a character with heroic aspects but with a fatal flaw . Okonkwo follows a stereotypical  standards of a tragic hero in the novel. In this particular novel, Okonkwo has the fatal flaw of fear for a change. Also, he has heroic aspects of being rich, respected, and hard working. A tragic hero is often the protagonist in literature of tragedy. Then, why did the author decided to make the protagonist follow the stereotypical guidelines to a tragic hero? The background of the novel is based upon the aboriginal culture of Nigeria of 1800's. It was a period of time of massive colonization - colonization have begun and started to gain power over the endemic culture. The Westerners had supreme over technology such as v...

Hello and good evening It is a great honor to have the opportunity to be invited to speak for one of the greatest community of all times. I want to congratulate the great British to success in breaking the boundaries between countries and spreading our great culture. On the other hand, the African tribes are now falling into altercations and frays on deciding which culture is 'real' for them and which one they should follow. It is common for us to believe that following and preserving a 'real' culture is important; I mean who doesn't think that? Well, today, I want to share this one particular world that you might have, or, by high chance, not heard of. This world is a world where it is 'real' in every aspect. This world is where people believe the existence is a dual but interrelated phenomenon. A world where people believe death is not the end. A world where all forces interact to cause "good". A world where people believe more than one god. ...