Refrences

http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/25-writers-who-changed-the-world/
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/guides/Education/Great-Authors-William-Faulkner.pg_00.html

http://www.shmoop.com/william-faulkner/http://www.biography.com/people/william-faulkner-9292252

http://amsaw.org/amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-092503-faulkner.html

http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/william-cuthbert-faulkner-3198.php

My reflection

Where do I begin, I guess I can say English has never been my subject. I mean English is my first language you would expect me to love it right, well your wrong. I always struggled with writing and poems forget it I was horrible. My professor were never really helpful, which made me hate the topic even more. English requires a lot of focus, and reading two things that are very hard for me. When I got into college I knew English was one of those mandatory classes and you could imagine how thrilled I was about that. I knew to graduate I had to take the class, and guess what pass as well. So let me get this straight I have to take my worst subject and you want be to get a C or better to pass, or no what did I get into.

So my first semester I had to take English 101, and I was mad and scared. All my friends told me about all the readings and papers I would have to write and I knew It was going to be a long semester. Luckily enough I had a great professor who was so engaging and funny that I made the class a lot more enjoyable. I started to see I did have potential as a writer, I just had to practice. Later into the class I was realizing my vocabulary was growing and I was becoming a strong writer. My professor always gave me positive critics and that made all the difference. The class was defiantly challenging but surprisingly I came out of the class with a B+ can you believe it, I know I couldn't either. After that class I was ready for a break, so that's what I did. I took a semester off and did a internship with Disney, my favorite place in the whole world. I forgot about school and stress and just enjoyed my experience. I knew it could not last forever and I would have to return back to school.

This January I enrolled back into school and I Knew after English 101 came English 102. So I just picked a random English 102 class and hoped for the best. I am happy I got lucky. Professor Candia was a amazing professor who opened my eyes to literature and writings in ways I didn't even think. She made reading and interrupting poems easy, understandable and believe it or not fun. Our daily blog post made me a better writer and allowed me to explore my writing more. I am not going to say I loved writing the essays but I do appreciate them because I have grown so much as a writing. This blog took up a lot of time and gave me headaches but I can honestly say I enjoyed writing it and speaking about my experiences and learning more about American literature.

I will always appreciate both my professors because they helped be become the writer I am today. If you are like me give English a try its not all that believe me I would not lie to you.

Faulkner's impact on American literature today

William Faulkner is consider one of American's literatures greatest writers. He was a modernist, historian and Sociologist that attacked topics that society need to understand. He  is known for capturing the raw beauty of the rural South in all its dark complexity. While his sprawling verse and habit of knotting together past, present and future has overwhelmed some critics, others have responded to the demands of his writing. He made readers open their mind to creativity and look deeper into societies issues. Faulkner had short stories and sketches published in The Times-Picayune of New Orleans. He won Noble prices and other awards based on his writings. William Faulkner tackled nearly every aspect of life—from the mundane to the sensational—in the American South. One of the most highly regarded novelists of the twentieth century, Faulkner was a brilliant, innovative, and notably eccentric man with a taste for whiskey (Faulkner began to drink heavily at the age of seventeen) and fragmented narratives. Throughout his life, Faulkner was something of a misfit, notorious for his haughtiness and his tendency to invent stories about himself. Faulkner wrote in different styles and let his creativity run while and I think that's what made all the difference. Today Faulkner is still considered on of American's greatest writer, poet and story telling because he was so raw and open and dint listen to critics.
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http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/25-writers-who-changed-the-world/

A Rose for Emily

A Rose For Emily written by William Faulkner was Faulkner's first published short story in a national Magazine. This story is taken placed in a fictional city in Mississippi based on Faulkner's place of residents. Faulkner said the reason behind the title was a women who had a tragedy and nothing could be done about it and you pitted her and this was a salute to a women you wanted to hand a rose to.  A Rose for Emily tells the story of Emily Grierson's death and life. This story explains Faulkner's idea of social class and new verse tradition.  The story is divided into Five section and explores the social classes of that town, authority and jealousy. Faulkner made it hard for the reader to figure out the narrator, but soon we realize that its the town as narrators. Faulkner spoke in a interview that he made it that way to show how our society gossips, and treats one another. He wanted to show history of different generations of men and women and how we have evolved. The story opens with the town being at Emily's funeral, mostly out of noisiness and jealousy.  Most of the town hasn't been to her house in ten years except her servants and wanted to see what all the talk was about. The new generation didn't really like Miss Emily because she did not have to pay any taxes. Faulkner implies that Emily father took her youth away from her and many look at that and see a connection between Faulkner and Emily. Faulkner's father was a alcoholic and feel to poverty and felt like he had to grow up faster then others. Faulkner describes the house, and uses history and visualization a lot to get his readers engage. In the story the narrators describes Emily as a small, fat women in black making readers believe having money does not take away all your problems. Throughout the short story you start seeing the town people pitted Miss Emily because they realized her family wasn't a superior as they seemed. Many seem this is also a connection to Faulkner because his family was looked as Wealthy but behind close doors they were having problems. Faulkner wanted his readers to see Emily as a human being and maybe that's why her father didn't leave her any money. Faulkner introduces Homer a man who many believe is gay and took advantage of Emily. Some of the towns women just believed she wanted someone to call family. Emily stayed in her home and never really came out. She comes very ill and no longer is seen only through windows. The new generation saw her as dear, inescapable, impervious, tranquil, and perverse. Shortly after she died in a dark, lonely dusty basement.












http://resources.mhs.vic.edu.au/creating/downloads/A_Rose_for_Emily.pdf

Faulkner's inspirations

Faulkner was inspired by

. His Family
. History
. His Environment
. Society
. Charles Darwin
.Friends
. Mississippi
. New Orleans
. Greek Tragedies
. Bible
. Critics

How family impacted Faulkner and his writings

Faulkner was a family man and cherish his family. Family values and what family meant to him strongly impacted his writings and how he wrote. Faulkner experienced two different social class and how society treats one another. He wanted his readers to visualize and understand that society even make then treated individuals different based on social class. Faulkner father taught him how to hunt, fish and be a man. He wrote poems and short stories about family and how a husband should treat his wife, and how a man should be a father. Faulkner married his long time sweet heart Estelle Oldham, but their marriage was not perfect, they wont both suffering alcoholics and had many disagreements and Estelle tried to commit suicide. He started writing fictional stories based on his life, wife and children to explore his feelings. Faulkner stories related to his life, and the challenges of a marriage a working man trying to be a father. Family value sparked a lot of his creative writing pieces including "The Sound and the Fury. He wanted his readers to see what family value meant in the south and how his life was not perfect.

History centered Faulkner's writing

Faulkner was a modernist, historian and sociologist  who wrote about socialist problems. His writings spoke about topics many people didn't feel comfortable about or even wanted to discuss. Faulkner writings always had a common idea or topic of history. He wrote about different races, backgrounds and social classes. Faulkner trained on British and Canadian bases so he took his experiences and put it on paper. Faulkner was well rounded with different cultures, so he looked into and approached the topic of slavery with full force. History about slavery, and what it meant to be a slave, the life style, the challenges and why our society accepted slavery. Faulkner tackled every history, society problem including different social classes, and how society treats individual in those classes, prime example is his short story "A Rose for Emily". He wrote about how he wanted to change History and move forward. He used different narrators in his short stories and plays to portray individuals in History and what was the past, present and what he wants to see in the future. Faulkner looked in a discussed social class issues in great detail because he saw how his family and himself were treated verse other families just based on income. Faulkner wanted his readers to understand and look back at history and see where we came from and where we were going.
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http://www.shmoop.com/william-faulkner/

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

William Fualkner's writing style

Few writers of Faulkner's time experimented with such a range of methods and styles like Faulkner did. He constantly challenged his creativity mind and different narrators. He used long sentences and would combine two words to make one. He uses imagination and takes his readers into regions and worlds we could not imagine. He uses history both past and present to elaborate his poems and short stories. Faulkner uses his creativity and intelligence by experimenting with different voices and narrators. He is excellent with narrator chronology, by breaking the time frame and recombining with a new aspect. He stories were written with high emotional, delicate, complicated style with gothic elements. His characters range in different varieties including race, social class, old vs traditional and different backgrounds . Faulkner always gets his reader to understand the point of view, and the character's thoughts and feelings. He wanted his readers to get very involved in his stories and the history and the meaning behind it. He wrote about social issues that know other author discussed or felt appropriate. Faulkner wrote from experience but he wanted to keep that experience broad, so all his readers could understand and enjoy. Lastly he was a author who strongly believed in not exhausting your imagination, which meant never write yourself out. http://www.openculture.com/2013/03/seven_tips_from_william_faulkner_on_how_to_write_fiction.htmlhttp://amsaw.org/amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-092503-faulkner.html

Poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth.

WILLIAM FAULKNER, "The Town"

I think the serious things really are the things that make for happiness--people and things that are compatible, love.... So many people are content just to sit around and talk about them instead of getting out and attaining them. As if life were a joke of some kind.

WILLIAM FAULKNER, Mosquitoes

William Faulkner's childhood

William Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi. He was the oldest of four brothers and was raised in oxford Mississippi. His parents, Murry Falkner and Maud Butler Faulkner, named him after his paternal great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, an adventurous and shrewd man who seven years prior was shot dead in the town square of Ripley, Mississippi. Throughout his life, William Clark Falkner worked as a railroad financier, politician, soldier, farmer, businessman, lawyer.  Faulkner learned how to fish, hunt and was very adventurous. Faulkner mother embraced his creativity and taught him how to read  and allowed him to be creative. He grew up and appreciated the church and the arts, thus his exposure to Charles Dickens and others. He never graduated from high school, but enrolled in the University of Mississippi. Many of his creative writing and poems were published in the school's journal and although his creativity exceled he dropped out of college.  Faulkner knew school was not for him, he just wanted to be creative and write and that's what he did

Walt disney life

A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.

WILLIAM FAULKNER, Light in August

Walt Disney

Walt Disney, creator of mickey mouse, Disneyland and Disney world was born on December 5,1901 in Chicago, Illinois. Walt was one of five children, four boys and one girl. Walt spent most of his childhood in Missouri. He was a quit shy boy, who kept to himself. He fell in love with drawing and creativity at a very young age. His parents were not extremely wealthy so he decided to sell his drawings and pictures to neighbors and friends. He decided to pursue a career in the arts so he attended McKinley high school.  Walt had a tough adolescent he turned to alcohol and got into some trouble. Walt found a passion in nature, during fall 1918, Walt tried to enlist in the military but was to young. So he decided to join the red cross, where his ambulance was covered with cartoons. After he returned from France he decide to go into commercial art. Unfortunately his commercial art company went bankrupt and with twenty dollars and a suitcase he kept moving and went to Hollywood. Years later Walt became a figure head for creativity and arts in Hollywood. He created the seven dwarfs' and that's what put him on the map as one of the most successful creator we have seen. That film produced a unheard amount equaling 1,499,000. In the years follow Fantasia, Dumbo, and Bambi was created. Walt wanted to keep improving and growing and he knew he wanted something to do
something to would leave his legacy behind. Walt was very family oriented and he wanted to create a amusement park for families to get away and create memories that would last a lifetime. He knew family time was precious and should be cherished, so that's how Disneyland came a reality. Disney land opened in 1955, with a crowd of 96,000 families. Disneyland was Walt's last vision he was able to see. He created a park where families could come to a place of fantasy and leave reality behind. Disneyland was a clean family oriented family amusement park where a mouse came alive but it just wasn't big enough. Many years later Disney world came alive. Disney world is four parks that have the core theme of magical moments and put family first. Today Disney is the number one family vacation spot, and a place where dreams come true. What I want people to never loose sight is that is was all started by a mouse.

Animal Lover

Dogs are very close to my heart, and I will do anything to save them. I was never always a dog lover, especially when I was younger. I use to be deathly afraid of dogs, and anything that involved dogs. I would hate when people brought their dogs into public places, and I would cry when I saw a big dog. Looking back I laugh at myself, because sitting here writing this I have a Rottweiler/shepherd dog name princess. She is the love of my life, and I spoil her to death. The reason I fell in love with dogs was basically out of force. My family said I needed to get over this fear, so they brought me my first puppy named coco. I was terrified, I could not even pet him. That night he would not leave me alone, he kept following me and layed right next to my bed.  I knew I had to overcome this fear, so I finally petted him and I fell in love. I could not put him down, he sleep with me from that night all the way until my junior year in high school. Coco was my buddy, when high school was hard. I loved him so much, I took him everywhere and treated him like my own child. Unfortunately coco passed away and I was heartbroken. I didn't know what to do, I lost the dog that got me out of my shell, the dog I grew up with. I knew I was not ready for a new dog but I wanted to help other dogs. I started volunteering at the dog shelter and ASPCA. ASPCA became my focus for the next three years and I continue helping them. I raised money for them and helped when every I could, that's how I got Princess. One day I went into a shelter and I saw a big gorgeous Rottweiler patting and smile at me and I knew I had to have her. So we took her home and she has been apart our family ever since.

Disney college program

Disney is who I am, its my place. Disney has been in my family even before I was born. When I hear the word Disney I think of magic, memories, family, and friendship. I have been to Disney world over thirty times and still counting. When I heard of the Disney College program I knew I had to do it. I just did not when to do it, and finally the moment in my life opened. I was lost, I did not know who I was, or wanted to be, so what better place to go then where I feel the most alive. I took the leap and took a semester off and decided to apply for the Disney college program. I got accepted and that made all the difference. I knew I was going to leave my family and friends behind and move away for six months. I was scared but I knew I had to do it. I packed up everything and took a two hour plane to Orlando Florida. My mom unpacked me and I met my roommates and in that moment I knew my life was never going to be the same again. During those six months I found who I am, outside the shadow of my siblings and friends. My grandfather passed away and I cherished life and its moments more. I created magical moments for make a wish families, and watched families reconnect. I made friends from all over the world and got to travel places I never thought I would be fortunate enough to do. I went on 2 cruises, California , and the Bahamas. This experience will always hold a special place in my heart, it made me who I am today. With this experience I was able to find my true self and want I want to do for the rest of my life. Disney will always be apart of my life and i will always be thankful to Walt and a Mouse that started it all.

My family and Friends

Family is the only people that will be there for you in the end, is so true. My family is my everything, my support team, fans, and my therapist. My mom had me at a young age and never gave up. She is a single mother and did everything and anything to make me the women I am today. She worked extremely hard to make sure I went to private school my entire life, I was in my favorite activity dance for fifteen years and never showed any stress. My mom worked so hard, so with that she was not able to attend all my events, practices and school activity. My mom had to work so I could stay in all my activities but my aunt and grandma were my support team and biggest fans. They would never miss any of my practices, recitals or activities and they always cheered me on. My mom always told me friends come and go, but lucky I have beat that statement with my friends. I cherish my friends so much, especially the ones that stayed with me during some of the roughest times in my life. I am a girls girls, so I love my girls night out and my squad. They keep me sane and grounded. They make me laugh when all I feel like doing is crying. They support me, even when sometimes I do not deserve their support. Most importantly they trust me and I trust them. My squad are girls I have know for more then 10 years and some that I just meant, but have showed me that friends can turn into family. Friends are the family you choose, and I think I chose some good ones.

My dream career

Event planning is where I belong. When I was growing up I knew I wanted to be famous, but I did not have any talent, but I knew I had the talent to plan, and decorate. I always wanted to entertain and have my name be know, but I had to find away for that to happen. Planning is my skill, I love to plan everything. My friends call me the planner, I also have a eye for creativity and have the ability to put things together. I can plan almost anything from small gatherings to major weddings. Creativity is my passion, you can tell me your two favorite colors and I can turn that into a full theme for a party. Event planning is not easy, you have to deal with people who want perfection, and nothing less. I knew being famous was still a priority for me, and I had to see how event planning incorporated that. That's when Disney gave me the opportunity to intern at the magical place in the world. I was able to work under some of the top event planners in the world. I was able to witness the production of Presidents Obama dinner and take him on a exclusive tour of magic kingdom. I was able to sit in and intern on the production of ABC Christmas parade with Reba, Kelly Clarkson and other amazing celebrities. I got to meet event planners that I looked up to and celebrities that I have grown up and loved. This summer I will be interning in the white house under the event coordinator team and I am so happy and grateful for this experience. In the future I hope I will be a amazing event planner, and be a planner celebrities and high people in power come to see to plan and execute their event.

All about Jessica

My name is Jessica Hazelwood, I am a 21 year old outgoing, friendly, smart young lady. I was born and raised in long island and the beach was my backyard.  Every day in the summer you can find me or a boat or at the beach. I am a girl who loves hanging with her friends and family. I am a loyal, caring friend, and love hanging with them. On my free time I love shopping, traveling, watching movies and playing with my dogs.  Dogs are my weakness, I would do anything to save a dog. When I was younger I used to want to take every dog I saw home. Besides dogs, Disney is my favorite place to go. I am someone who believes in dreams and hopes, and Disney represents that. I come from a very open, loud, close family and we do everything together, including going to Disney world. Who is Jessica, Jessica is a young women who is trying to finish college, a loyal friend and a young women who loves her family to death.