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The Silence of Snow By: Orhan Pamuk

The song Wind Beneath My Wings by Bette Miller is dedicated to the OFW (Overseas Filipino Workers) who endures the loneliness in other countries, who left their families and who scarifies their happiness in order to properly provide their families.

The story encircles to a man’s experience while traveling towards home. The man is in a hurry because he was told that the bus that he will be riding will immediately leave. Without any second to spare he hastly run towards the bus. He describes his feeling as “ The Silence of Snow”.

The bus takes off passing through the streets of Erzurum, he stared from his window and notice that it began to snow. The snowflakes dancing like fairies, it was a blizzard. He took this as a sign of going back to happiness and purity, back to where he belong. He couldn’t not forget how he felt as he is watching the snow.

He returned for home for the first time in 12 years in staying in Istanbul. He returned for his mother, her funeral.

His long desires of home. He is so happy. He fell into a succumbed optimism and dared to believe of himself at home in this world.He felt something else that he had not known for quite a long time. The feeling of being home in the family.

Conclusion

The story tells us that it is never easy to be an OFW. They are the ones who sacrificed their happiness and they are the ones who endure the loneliness of being away from home and most especially from their family. They did everything for their family, to provide them with their needs, to give them what they want, please don’t take them for granted. Thanking them wholeheartedly is the most simplest thing you can do as a return for their efforts and sacrifices.

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The song Wind Beneath My Wings by Bette Miller is dedicated to the OFW (Overseas Filipino Workers) who endures the loneliness in other countries, who left their families and who scarifies their happiness in order to properly provide their families.

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A Thousand Splendid Suns By: Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini  (born March 4, 1965) is an Afghan-born American novelist and physician. After graduating from college, he worked as a doctor in California, an occupation that he likened to "an arranged marriage." He has published three novels, most notably his 2003 debut The Kite Runner, all of which are at least partially set in Afghanistan and feature an Afghan as the protagonist. Following the success of The Kite Runner he retired from medicine to write full-time.

The video by Karina Perez is the summary of the story. it is like an overview on what the story tells us. The story is about the life of Mariam, a Muslim woman in Afganistan. The video tells us on what happens beyond the wall of Afganistan and what is the real situation of the people living in there. Before the Taliban came to power Afganistan, their lives are different and Mariam have witnessed the change when the Taliban conquers Afganistan. There is war, woman are abused and people are miserable.

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The Tesseract By: Alex Garland

Alex Garland was born on May 26, 1970 in London, England. He is a writer and producer, known for Ex Machina (2014), 28 Days Later... (2002) and Dredd (2012). He is married to Paloma Baeza. They have two children. Loves writing about Manila, Philippines where he lived for many months as a teenager. Member of the 'Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' (AMPAS) since 2016.

Summary

A pointlessly elaborate portrait of disparate lives coming together in the Philippines, by English novelist Garland (The Beach, 1996). At a certain point, obscurity grows more annoying than intriguing—when, for example, something seemingly complex stands revealed as not just simple but actually dull. This very simple story is complicated as much as possible in the telling—but for no apparent reason. Don Pepe is a gangster in Manila. A half-breed Filipino with European pretensions, he controls various rackets connected with the shipping trade. He meets to discuss business with Sean, an Englishman who owns the freighter Karaboujan, now anchored in Manila’s harbor. Sean’s partner Alan was killed by Don Pepe’s henchmen for refusing to pay protection money to Don Pepe. Sean is strapped for cash as the result of a bad insurance claim, and he tries to convince Don Pepe to allow him one free passage through the Philippines so that he can recoup his losses and avoid bankruptcy. Don Pepe refuses to yield; Sean has to flee for his life. He ends up shooting it out with Don Pepe’s men in the house of Corazon, an old woman who is a complete stranger to him. Corazon, mother of Rosa and grandmother of Raphael and Lita, is killed in the crossfire in her own kitchen. Out of bullets, Sean tries to escape while using Rosa as a human shield, but she pleads with him to let her go . . . and he does, after which he’s shot dead. Raphael and Lita witness the killing of their grandmother and Sean. They are grateful to be alive, as is Rosa, although everyone is sorry about Corazon—even Don Pepe’s gunman.

This picture is an explaination to the story. The tesseract is a  shape or object that has complex dimensions. The tesseract is the perfect example for this excerpt because the excerpt describes Philippines’ injustices and complex attributes. The Philippines is like the tessearct its is complex and has many dimensions.

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The Valley of Amazement By: Amy Tan

Amy Tan is a Chinese-American novelist who wrote the New York Times-bestselling novel The Joy Luck Club. Amy Tan was born on February 19, 1952 in Oakland, California. In 1985, she wrote the story "Rules of the Game," which was the foundation for her first novel The Joy Luck Club. The book explored the relationship between Chinese women and their Chinese-American daughters. It received the Los Angeles Times Book Award and was translated into 25 languages. Tan lives in San Francisco and New York.

Who am I?

What Am I?

Please tell me or I’ll cry

And please to me don’t lie

I got an extra body part

It looks like an abstract art

They want to tear it apart

My extra finger to depart

My grandmother wants to cut it

She said the gloves won’t fit

My teacher in music said I should quit 

For there are no notes that my fingers can hit

As I grew older, I got a lot of realization

People change parts of me without permission

To remove this is not my decision

Is to be like them my obligation?

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

By: Mark Haddon

He graduated from Oxford University in 1981, returning later to study for an M.Sc. in English Literature at Edinburgh University. He then undertook a variety of jobs, including work with children and adults with mental and physical disabilities.  He also worked as an illustrator for magazines and a cartoonist for New Statesman, The Spectator, Private Eye, the Sunday Telegraph and The Guardian (for which he co-wrote a cartoon strip).

People with autism are sometimes criticized by people who doesn’t really understand what autism is. They see autism as a illness, they underestimate people with autism. Discrimination is always there if you are different from others, this is what autistic people experience, not only limited in school but also in every corner of this cruel world.

 The video above inform us more about autism. On what really autism is and how people with autism should be treated. The video tell us on how autistic people act and this video helps us understand people with autism.

In relation to the excerpt by Mark haddon, autism think differently from us, they have unique talents. The excerpt is from the perspective of an autistic person on what he thinks to people talking non-verbally and using some metaphors. He can’t understand on the language that people are using and he is quite confused. The excerpt tells us that autistic people are people with special needs but deserves to be treated fairly.

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The Good Body By: Eve Ensler

Eve Ensler (born May 25, 1953) is an American playwright, performer, feminist, and activist, best known for her play The Vagina Monologues. In 2006 Charles Isherwood of the New York Times called The Vagina Monologues "probably the most important piece of political theater of the last decade."

In 2011, Ensler was awarded the Isabelle Stevenson Award at the 65th Tony Awards, which recognizes an individual from the theater community who has made a substantial contribution of volunteered time and effort on behalf of humanitarian, social service, or charitable organizations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Ensler

My body, My sanctuary 

But I always feel like I’m ugly

Why is my tummy is so flabby?

It always makes me unhappy

Models are so thin 

Like eating is a sin

I want to be their twin 

How do I begin?

I treat food as demon

The screams of fries and bacon 

I starve for a reason 

To be thin is my mission

I want to be thin like them 

Being fat is really my problem

Myself I condemn 

I will never be like them

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Silk By: Alessandro Baricco

The year is 1861. Hervé Joncour is a French merchant of silkworms, who combs the known world for their gemlike eggs. Then circumstances compel him to travel farther, beyond the edge of the known, to a country legendary for the quality of its silk and its hostility to foreigners: Japan. There Joncour meets a woman. They do not touch; they do not even speak. And he cannot read the note she sends him until he has returned to his own country. But in the moment he does, Joncour is possessed.

http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/8538/silk-by-alessandro-baricco-translated-from-the-italian-by-guido-waldman/9780307277978/

The story revolves with a man asking for a slikworm eggs from a country girl in Japan. Silkworms are used to make silk and Japan is known for their good quality of silk. They treat silk as their own treasure.

Hervé Joncour a French adventurer. As he travelled Japan, he met Hara Kei and had a deal with him that he will give him gold in exchange with the silkworms but instead his attention was caught into the wife of Hara Kei.

He described her as near as perfect. He feels desires for her. Hervé Joncour seems to like her. While he was in transaction with Hara Kei for the silkworms, he acts like being serious with the deal and nothing else matter. 

In their conversation, Herve offered Hara the golds he have just to give him the real silk worm eggs. But according to Hara he can only get what he want if Herve leaves their island. But Herve insisted that he can only do that if he can get out of that Island alive and he can give all the gold that Hara wants.

Hervé Joncour in the end walks away. The last thing he saw is the eyes of her staring at his.

In conclusion to this story, We can say that there will always be things that money or gold cannot buy. Things will always have value more than money could ever be.

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A Low Art  By: Margaret Atwood

A low art is made by Margaret Atwood, a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General’s Award several times, winning twice. In 2001, she was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame. She is also a founder of the Writers’ Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada’s writing community. Among innumerable contributions to Canadian literature, she was a founding trustee of the Griffin Poetry Prize.

https://ohagiman.wordpress.com/2016/09/20/a-low-art-excerpt-from-the-penelopiad/

A low art is all about Penelope who died for waiting Odysseus, in this story Penelope have many regrets about what happen to her life. In the story Penelope is already dead and she is in the Hades full of regrets, all of the people that went to Hades have sack, that sack full of gossip.

Odysseus is a traveler. He has a lot of stories. He is a man full of sweet words, most woman believe in his stories and that Penelope believe and fall from his words. 

Being the wife of Odysseus, a lot of people are talking behind her back. Gossiping, laughing and making fun of her and she called it a low-art because it is for people who have a low class or standards in the society or in the subject of art.