AMERICAN LITERATURE

American Literature is the written or literary work produced in the area of the United States and its preceding colonies. For more specific discussions of poetry and theater, see Poetry of the United States and Theater in the United States. During its early history, America was a series of British colonies on the eastern coast of the present-day United States. Therefore, its literary tradition begins as linked to the broader tradition of English literature. However, unique American characteristics and the breadth of its production usually now cause it to be considered a separate path and tradition.
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James Agee

James Agee

Above all else, James Agee was a writer-from his modest early days in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he was born in 1909, to his final heart attack in a New York taxi cab in 1955, when he was forty-five years old.
His father, who came of sturdy farmer stock in the mountains of Tennessee, became a postal worker who died in an auto accident, leaving James in the care of his Anglo-Catholic, well-educated mother. He was a student at tiny nearby St. Andrew's School, then at Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, and Harvard College, where he concentrated as editor and author of poetry published in the Harvard Advocate. Impressed by his achievement, Archibald MacLeish nominated him as an author in the Yale Series of Younger Poets and wrote the introduction.
While a college student, Agee published a satire of Time Magazine that led journalism's Emperor Henry Luce to offer him a position in New York, where he wrote articles as well as book and film reviews for fourteen years. He also wrote cinema reports for The Nation and the script for an Omnibus television series celebrating Lincoln.
Taking a break, Agee joined with photographer Walker Evans to tell a long, illustrated story of the plight of three sharecropper families, published as Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.
Personal problems plagued Agee: endless smoking of cigarettes, plus an insatiable thirst for liquor and love, which damaged two of his three marriages and his children. His first heart attack came when he was strenuously countering John Huston in a hopeless tennis contest. Agee was then writing the script Houston requested for his movie, The African Queen. Here are two poems by James Agee. First, the title poem of his first book:

               We Filipinos varied on our culture and traditions. Some of our beliefs and customs that reflect us. Culture from generation to generation.We cannot separate culture from tradition both  are intertwine. Along the way, how would we Filipinos valued our culture and traditions? What are the significance this beliefs among Filipinos? How important to us this annual celebration to Sr. Sto. Nino, the miraculous child? The ''SINULOG FESTIVAL'' is one of our outmost embrace cultures and traditions. This event is very important for us Cebuanos.We are well known celebrating the''SINULOG FESTIVAL'' with theme of ONE BEAT.ONE DANCE.ONE MISSION.

             Every  3rd Sunday by month of January, we celebrates the ''SINULOG FESTIVAL'',a dance offering to our Sr.Sto. Nino, the miraculous child. This will catter all the talent and skillful performer.It is our culture and tradition that we celebrate this event through dances. Most of the participants comes from out of Cebu. They spent time,effort, and money just to join the yearly tribute to Sr. Sto. Nino. But we have also d ifferent contigents that came from different parts of Cebu.People will be gathered and evokes with one celebration.We Cebuanos are courageous enough to sustain from the heavy rain last January 16 at the year present. Most of us are interesting to challenge ourselves in going to the Circle Site, Fuente to witness the different event and way of celebrating the ''SINULOG FESTIVAL''.Starting at the morning until evening people is non stop on going. They merely subdue the heavy rains.We can see poster, tarpuline along the streets. Many installed products,accessories, foods and drinks. We witness at glance the very energetic performer of the different regions of the Philippines. They dont mind the heavy rain, tired, hungry,thirsty and many more just to offer to the miraculous child.

            Late at night, we can witness different performance of Bands. Many of artist share, witness and become part of the celebration. Some of the artist ride in their Caravan and Floats. They share happiness to the people.We can really see from their faces the enjoyment and excitement to be part of the celebration.Last Fluvial Procession millions of people joined. Most of them endure the bad weather condition that takes 2 hours.But we can see from their faces they really don't mind the heavy rain instead they continue to walk for one goal.

           The Sr. Sto. Nino must be secured from any threat. Because of the worthless and priceless value of the clothes he wear.It is purely Gold that is put over the clothes of the miraculous child.That is why, the church is very strict in handling this.We all devotees of Sr.Sto.Nino believe that the child can give miracle.When we saw at glance the Sr.Sto.Nino we felt satisfaction, happiness, freedom, Peace from our hearts.Most of us has devotion to Sr.Sto.Nino.

         

                   Some article try to explain, how would the learners develop their learning skills? What would be the potent factors that would somehow greatly affect the process of learning? What are the significance to the learners? There are many ways on how learners would get into developing one's mind.

                  Theories with supported articles try to elaborate and discuss, what is the process of learning? what are the aspects that relay the best way of learning? Some of the studies reflects based on the other ideas that would somehow useful for them to come up with their own analysis. Inatist theory figure out that most of the child learn through innate from what they see, hear, feel, touch and even smell this are just basic principles of learning by the use of our five senses. Behaviorist theory also try to reflect the ideas from the previous theory, that child are ought to learn by doing, behavioral aspects of a learner. It is common for us learners that we follow what we see maybe because of the behavior examples the children ages 3-5. They already know how to talk. Cognitive theory, this  theory best explain that the cognition of the mind, it is within the learners to learn. It embraces the cognition of the brain that is practice by doing. The Environment also has the potent factor on the process of learning. It is good to have a conducive place so that there will be no destruction and intervention in the process of learning.

                To conclude, the ideas that we get from the above d mention theories, the way to learn is through experience, that enables for the learners to relate himself. They would appreciate things by doing it in their own. It is somehow relevant to the learners to reflects themselves in the process of learning.

               Some teacher's used strategy to make the specific lesson to be easily understood by the learners. What do teacher's most do?, would they adopt in Educational Technology or Technology itself. How could this Educational Technology would helped Education survive where in also students are in the process of learning.

              '' Educational Technology'' it refers to the high gadgets, newly access of high modernization at times, this is usually used most of our commentators, debaters,speech classes, computer classes, in presenting their lesson or studies. Technology has been great influence for the students learning nowadays. We cant surpass the fast and abrupt development now in  teaching by the use of the technology,however the technology has its advantages and disadvantages to the learners. The advantage  would be the learners will be aware in the modern development through highly mobilize technology of which it contribute for the learning in some reasons, thus technology make things easier and faster, but most of the learners get rid of getting with technology, they get abused in using technology. In addition, through this technology in preparing lesson to the learners would somehow give precise and accurate information or details to support  the learning process. Some of the learners application is measured by the used of this technology. On the other hand, learners would be enhance and develop more of their skills and potentials through Educational technology. Examples of Educational technology, PowerPoint presentation, reporting argument by the use of computer. The ''technology'' itself would somehow reflect the kind of learning's we have before but in some part this is still used by most of the teachers.But their is a big difference the way it presented.Thus, some of our new installed teachers would refer to use this technology in presenting their lesson perhaps.

            I agree that Educational Technology dictates the appropriate learning for the learners meanwhile thus technology also a part of enhancing and developing the mind of the learners.But most important is How would this tool helped the learners. Both has significance in the process of learning.