رفـعـت رفـيـق الـعـرعـيـر

by: Refaat Alareer

O, Earth

Hug me

And hold me tight

Or devour me

To suffer no more.

I love thee

So take me.

Make me rich.

Make me dirt.

Gone are the days of serenity.

Guns are the words of humanity.

I have no food but a thorn,

No sport but a sigh.

For a soldier needs to feel high.

O, Earth,

If in life I am to hurt

Let my dirt in you give birth.

O, Earth.

Dear Novel.Prose class,

I hope this finds you well. I will dedicate this topic to update you into the Novel course we will be starting in 10 days.

As a starter, I have prepared the audio books of the novels we will be studying. The first one is ‘Animal Farm’ but I still have not made up my mind regarding the other one. We can discuss this in class.

Also the Prose dudes can pass by to pick up the audio and soft copies of ‘Gulliver’s Travels’.

So if you are interested and you have some time to kill, you can pop in my office next saturday and take the audio book and a soft copy.

Plz if you want to come post a comment here.

Can improve my handwriting?

Sure you can. Personally, my hand writing was horrible (I mean more horrible than it is now). I once got a handwriting book and it really worded like magic. Thanks to that book at least my writing is now legible.

These are some books that you can download and learn to write beautifully and most importantly legibly.

click to download

daily handwriting practice

Get Ready Handwriting

learn english handwriting

what’s wrong with these sentences?

1) The play is about a man comes from a different culture

2) They were love Othello

3) This is one of some factors help us understand Othello

4) The topic is not a topic talks about an important issue

5) We can find some words express nature

6) there are some exprtessions represent nature

7) But in Shakespeare Hamartia considers a fatal flaw.

White people deal with black pepole as strangers, they do not deal with them as people.

Dear Pronunciation Students, below is a list of your midterm marks. Please check and contact me in case you think you deserve more.

30 midterm

10 homework

10 attendance and participation and quizzes

5 oral exam

total>> 55

NOTE: this is the last time I ask the guys who got bonus to write their names below and I will add it to the midterm total.

how was the short story, pronunciation AND Romanticism and criticism I exam?

likes/dislikes?

Salaam everyone,

Please follow this page for upates, info and Q&A about your final exams.

1) Short Story

- you need to be familiar with all the material, BUT naturally the part that was not in the idterm exam should receive more attention from you.

- Palestinian story such as “I was not in the Mood, “When you shoot shoot to kill”, ” and “The old man and the stone” and other stories like “tomorrow will be different” and “my neighbor” (what else?)are just for general knowledge. “The Mark on the wall” is just to use as an example if needed.

2) Romantic Literature

- you need to be familiar with all the material, BUT naturally the part that was not in the idterm exam should receive more attention from you.

to be continued

3) Literary criticism I

- you need to be familiar with all the material, BUT naturally the part that was not in the idterm exam should receive more attention from you.

to be continued

4) pronunciation

THERE will two listening questions in the final exam. if you listen to the material in the book, it will help you a lot.

Research papers (not yet checked for plagiarism)

the following can go pick their papers up from my pigeonhole at Abu Mahmoud’s office.

1) Tasneem A

2) Zainab B+

3) Hanan B-

4) Mona abu alreesh B

5) Ola Ziada C+

6) Manar Al-atrash c

7) Abdul Kareem c

8 ) Eman Abu Shamala C+

9) Malaka Laharazin B

10 ) Eman Keshko c-

11) yasmeen alsous b

12) wafaa nabhan b-

13) waffa abu rahma b-

14) bayan alzaq b-

15) yusra alnazly c

16) alaa abu shaban c

17) somayya rajab c-

18) sanaa abed b

19) safa abed c+

20) aya zinati c-

21) hanaa albarbary c

22) walaa alaskary ???

23) athar saleh c- ! (and no soft copy?)

24) nada abu asad c- !

25) Yasmeen El Serafy c- ????

26) dalia c ???

2) asmaa alsaid c+

28) manal c-

29) najia b+

30) maice b

31) malaka b