Marina Gallo's blog

I have always had a great passion for literature, progressing throughout my life from my childhood when I was captivated by picture books to my more matured love of reading that persists to this day. When I came to college and found myself faced with choosing a major, mylifelong love of books provided me with the obvious answer of an English major.  Unfortunately I found out too late that the major was not what I thought it would be.  I had imagined myself sprawled for daysat a time amidst heaps of novels, which, upon having read, I would dissect and debate in classes filled with my peer English majors.  I had pictured myself in classes filled with

Marina Gallo

Professor Dalke

Emerging Genres

Paper 3

April 26, 2008

Blogs as the Downfall of Paper Media.

Marina Gallo

Emerging Genres

Professor Dalke

Paper 2

March 25, 2008

                                                            Dialect Differences

When we read Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, we can see the use of different dialects is central in the telling of her tale. It helps to aid hermission of promoting the abolition of slavery. It seems to be something that Stowe found very important to add to her story even if it made it more difficult for the reader to understand. Would the story have been different without the use of what has been called “negro dialect”?  My answer would be that the effectStowe was searching for was found through dialect and without it the story would have been different. This effect was to help create change.

Marina Gallo

Emerging Genres

Professor Dalke

Paper One

February 23,2008

                                                Fatevs. Free Will-Round One