Question

I need help creating an essay.
The question is,
Think about all of the selections you've read thus far by European writers. Examine one element that the selections have in common(other then they are by European people)
* The High School Step Team
*First Confession
*The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock
*The Destructors
*Poor Fish
*Ten Songs

Answer 1

Do you have any specific questions? I'm guessing you've read all of these. Do you have any ideas about what they may have in common? Maybe a theme, perhaps?

Answer 2

I read through them fast so im not really sure:(

Answer 3

Can you post them on here?

Answer 4

The stories?

Answer 5

TEN SONGS

Walked through a wood, saw the birds in the trees;
They had no plitcians and sang at their ease:
They weren't human race, my dear, they weren't the human race

Dreamed I saw a building with a thousand floors,
A thousand windows and a thousand doors,
Not one of them was ours,my dear not one of them was ours

Stood on a great plain the falling snow;
Ten thousand soldiers marched to and fro
Looking for you and me, my dear looking for you and me

Answer 6

some of the first confession
Nora's turn came, and I heard the sound of something slamming, and then her voice as if butter would melt in her mouth and then another slam and out she came. God the hypocrisy of woman Her eyes were lowered her head bowed and her hands were joined very low on her stomach and she walked up the aisle to the side alter looking like a saint.

Answer 7

THE HIGH SCHOOL STEP TEAM
Karla's cousin Jade urged her to join the step team."This afternoon you should defiantly try out!" Jade suggested after the final bell rang.
"I know she wants the best for me," Karla thought to herself," but I'm not sure I'd be any good, and I'd feel embarrassed if I messed up in front of others." Karla had seen step teams in action: they stomped, they clapped, and they performed all kinds of synchronized moves
"Our team is not as amazing as professional steppers, but we have a lot of fun!" Jade said. "Also, if you join the team, you will instantly have forty new friends!"
"I like the idea of forty new friends," Karla thought to herself. "Still, I'm worried about bringing up my math grade. I'd better play it safe for now" she decided.
"I really appreciate your concern, but I've got to say no thanks for now" Karla told Jade. " I'm going for after school help in math"
As Karla turned away from Jade and walked down the hall towards math class, she pictured her cousin shrugging her shoulders "Okay do whatever you think is best," Jade said. I'll see you at home"
Karla went to the after school math session. The work was challenging and she had to concentrate, and she The teacher said nice things to Karla about her efforts to grasp the ideas the were studying "And yet" Karla thought" I still have a lot of work and study ahead of me" When the afterschool math session ended Karla peeked into the gym.
"Hey that's my cousin!" Jade cried out. "Come over here Karla."
Forty male and female students stopped in midroutine to look at Karla. Too embarrassed to refuse , she joined one of the lines
Karla soon learned that stepping requires a lot of mental energy. "It's something like math" she thought silently, "but not exactly the same. I have to connect my brain to my body and make it move or stop at exactly the right moment. The key here is to execute every movement skillfully" Very soon, Karla had mastered the teams trademark "Slap-finger-snap-slap-slap-stomp That night, Karla got to work on math At first ,she felt guilty about the time she spent in gym.
Then she reminded herself of the of saying."All work and no play make Jack a dull boy." An English teacher once told her the origins of the cliché go all the way back to ancient Egypt.
As Karla Worked she was surprised to find that she suddenly understood her algebra problems better than she had before. "there must be some carryover effect from step practice," she concluded. The concentration and focus that she exercised in step team practice seemed to help her focus more clearly on her math. Karla smiled as she thought," Who would have guessed that spending time with step team might be more helpful to my math grade than spending time on math work?"
Later Karla was as much as a member of the step team as anybody" I don't feel the least bit embarrassed anymore" She told Jade "When I am stepping I feel completely focused on the rhythm of the team and working together with my forty new friends As an added bonus my math work now seems much easier much

Answer 8

POOR FISH
Some of it
But I still felt profoundly astonished and although she went on repeating that she was mad about me I failed to be convinced and so on other occasions when we went out together I couldn't keep from harping about the subject partly for pleasure of hearing her say it again and partly because I found it hard to believe

Answer 9

are you copy/pasting these from somewhere? I can't find Poor Fish any where.

Answer 10

From my assignment

Answer 11

I cant find them anywhere either

Answer 12

They don't give you the whole story, only parts of it?

Answer 13

Yeah I think they are somewhere else but I don't know where

Answer 14

that's strange.... it seems like it would be hard to write an essay if you can't even read the whole thing

Answer 15

I know:(

Answer 16

maybe you should contact your teacher to see if you can find where the whole stories are

Answer 17

okay I will

Answer 18

cool

Answer 19

You know that posting test questions is cheating, right? This is an exact question from a test. Read the stories, and you can find the answers!

Answer 20

...Well geeze im sorry...

Answer 21

And actually im not cheatin @HoldingYouAccountable because my teacher gave me this question before the test!

Answer 22

Did your teacher tell you to go ask other folks for help with answering this question that s/he gave you? I'm not saying that you're intentionally cheating, but what you're doing here is certainly unethical. If you're a CA student, it also goes against the honor code that you agreed to.