The Life and Writing of Liza Ward
Liza Ward I imagine wore pearls and a sweet grin; she wrote of abiding emptiness. An image of neatly trimmed edges in navy blue with long brunette waves of classic beauty, her words echo with hollow despair and the impossibility of overcoming the past. Answering the phone for this interview, a high-pitched, girlie voice chirps “Hi, how are you?” with genuine interest. Her novel speaks from the other side, from the silence of a happy life.
After reading her first novel, Outside Valentine, I expected a measured, soft voice that would stretch around the ball of emptiness at the center of all that is human, a voice that arcs in stabbing, eloquent tones, speaking from the beyond of some enlightened view of human suffering, loneliness, and never-ending need. Only 29, Ward could pass for 14 on the phone, and her sweet, gentle voice recalls images of a 1950’s housewife, earnestly offering a batch of cookies to solve world hunger. In that youthful voice, Ward speaks of the need for maturity and distance to approach your work, and the importance of ...
Charters, Ann. The Story and Its Writer – An Introduction to Short Fiction. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2011. Print.
Jane presents one aspect of woman in The Waking collection (1953): Ross-Bryant views Jane as a young girl who is dead. The poem expresses concern with the coming of death. This poignant elegy is presen...
Block, Molly. "College athletes should not receive payment for playing." The University Star: n. pag. Print.
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"The best argument against paying players is that it diminishes the value of an education" (qtd. in Zimbalist). State University has breached its academic standard by allocating unnecessary expenditures to athletically advanced students. Student athletes should not be paid at State University, because it focuses on an extracurricular activity as a means of profit, praises athletic ability over merit/ scholastics, promotes a bridge between players and regular students, and creates hierarchy between universities.
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In her work, “This is Our World,” Dorothy Allison shares her perspective of how she views the world as we know it. She has a very vivid past with searing memories of her childhood. She lives her life – her reality – because of the past, despite how much she wishes it never happened. She finds little restitution in her writings, but she continues with them to “provoke more questions” (Allison 158) and makes the readers “think about what [they] rarely want to think about at all” (158).
Mrs. Sommers is a middle aged timid mother of a handful of children, and is apparently not well to do anymore after her husband’s death; Not that she probably ever was, but more so than her luck would have it now. She is small framed with tattered old clothes, as if she hasn’t been able to purchase anything in quite awhile, nor would she knowing how...
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Portuguese is beautiful language when listened too. The language is one of the Romance languages and was influenced by many cultures during its time of its uprising of becoming a country. First influenced by the Romans when invading the Iberian peninsula in Europe where today Spain, Portugal, Andorra and part of France coexist today (The Portuguese Language).Then was influenced by the Germanic people which influenced the current Portuguese style. Not only was Portuguese affected by Latin brought by the Romans but also the Celtic, Germanic people and even the French. Portuguese gained new words such as the Portuguese word ‘guerra’ which means war from the Germanic people. Interestingly enough, the word 'rua' (street) is similar to the French word 'rue' which was brought over from when French infiltrated Portugal during the 10th and 11th centuries.(The Portuguese Language)
4. “A few months hence, and the the room now so deserted, occupied by her silent, pensive self might be filled again with all that was happy and gay, all that was glowing and bright in prosperous love, all that was most unlike Anne Elliot” (108).