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The day I got lost (Isaac Barshevis Singer)

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THE DAY I GO T LOST Isaac Bashevis Singer  AUTHOR´S BIOGRAPHY Was a Polish-born Jewish writer in Yiddish, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978, The Polish name was Icek Hersz Zynger. He used his mother´s first name in an initial literary pseudonym, which he later expanded.  He was born in Loincin village near Warsaw, Poland under military partitions by the Russian Empire. The exact date of his birth is uncertain but is a date that Singer gave to his official biographer Paul Kresh. It is consistent with the historical events he and his brother refer to in their childhood memories.  His father was a Hasidic Rabbi. His siblings became writers as well. The family moved to the court of the rabbi of Radzymin, where his father became head of the Yeshiva. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND         In 1917, because of the hardships or Worl War I, the family split up. Singer moved with ...
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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (Jeyson Linares) JANE AUSTEN was born in North-east Hampshire, on 16th December 1775. During the 1790's she wrote the first drafts of Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Northanger Abbey; her trips to Kent and Bath gave her the local color for the settings of these last two books. Jane fell ill in 1816 - possibly with Addison's Disease - and in the summer of 1817, her family took her to Winchester for medical treatment.  She died on 18th July 1817. Her life and writing career overlapped with one of the most transformative eras in British history, marked by revolution abroad and unrest at home. The signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the year after Austen’s birth, signaled the start of the American Revolution, followed in the next decade by the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789.  Austen's novels provide an accurate record of that moment in English history in which high bourgeois society most eviden...
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Analysis The day I got lost

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Analysis "The day I got lost" Group No. 1  I was part of these group, the analysis was not easy to do. It was full of discrepancies. I discover how different can people think about the same topic. It was a rich full experience. The debates were really interesting. In our exposition, we were not completely sure about what we said because there are things that we didn't agree. Group No. 2 This analysis was really interesting. They have a different opinion about the static and the dynamic character of the reading,  but they support the reasons very well. They were ashamed of their posters, but this was not a limitation for them to expose their ideas. Group No. 3 I think they were not sure about what they have to do in the analysis. They were doubted.                                                    ...
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