Print Systems Theory and Conflict Resolution Scoring Guide Due Date: End of Unit 6. Percentage of Course Grade: 10%. Criteria Non-performance Basic Proficient Distinguished Define systems theory clearly in your own words. 25% Does not define systems theory clearly in own words. Provides minimal information with little detail when defining systems theory clearly in own words. Defines systems theory clearly in own words. Articulates systems theory clearly in own words; identifies criteria that could be used to evaluate the applicability of the theory to a situation. Analyze a conflict using systems theory. 25% Does not analyze a conflict using systems theory. Provides minimal information with little detail when analyzing a conflict using systems theory. Analyzes a conflict using systems theory. Analyzes a conflict using systems theory; impartially considers conflicting evidence and other perspectives. Propose strategies for reducing conflict based on a systems analysis. 25% Does not propose strategies for reducing conflict based on a systems analysis. Provides minimal information with little detail when proposing strategies for reducing conflict based on a systems analysis. Proposes strategies for reducing conflict based on a systems analysis. Proposes strategies for reducing conflict based on a systems analysis; proposes criteria for evaluating those strategies. Communicate effectively through writing. 25% Does not communicate effectively through writing. Ineffectively and inconsistently communicates through writing. Communicates effectively through writing. Communicates effectively through writing; writing reflects the quality and fluency expected of a professional. Running Head: A VERY OLD MAN WITH ENORMOUS WINGS 1 A VERY OLD MAN WITH ENORMOUS WINGS 3 A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Brenda Rouse ENG125: Introduction to Literature Instructor: Jamie Merriman Pacton November 28, 2016 A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings García, M. G., & Rabassa, G. (2014). A very old man with enormous wings: And the sea of lost time. Marquez tries to shed light on the illogicalities, happenings and perception the story beholds. He develops the sense of realism and familiarity with a wide-range of detail that he embraces in his story. This feature extends through several senses, by sight, smell, touch, and leads the reader to a similar kind of acceptance as Pelayo and Elisenda came to. Marquez emphasizes on the relation between the logical and magical portions of the world he is creating. The reader is persuaded to believe that everything Marquez says is real fact, generating the sense of spiritual and godly acts an actual familiarity to the user. What I established to be most perceptive about this book is that the reader gets a profound insight of the realistic and magical setting in the short story. Und.

1. Print
Systems Theory and Conflict Resolution Scoring Guide
Due Date: End of Unit 6.
Percentage of Course Grade: 10%.
Criteria
Non-performance
Basic
Proficient
Distinguished
Define systems theory clearly in your own words.
25%
Does not define systems theory clearly in own words.
Provides minimal information with little detail when defining
systems theory clearly in own words.
Defines systems theory clearly in own words.
Articulates systems theory clearly in own words; identifies
criteria that could be used to evaluate the applicability of the
theory to a situation.
Analyze a conflict using systems theory.
25%
Does not analyze a conflict using systems theory.
Provides minimal information with little detail when analyzing
a conflict using systems theory.
Analyzes a conflict using systems theory.
Analyzes a conflict using systems theory; impartially considers
conflicting evidence and other perspectives.
Propose strategies for reducing conflict based on a systems
analysis.
25%
Does not propose strategies for reducing conflict based on a
systems analysis.
Provides minimal information with little detail when proposing
strategies for reducing conflict based on a systems analysis.
Proposes strategies for reducing conflict based on a systems

2. analysis.
Proposes strategies for reducing conflict based on a systems
analysis; proposes criteria for evaluating those strategies.
Communicate effectively through writing.
25%
Does not communicate effectively through writing.
Ineffectively and inconsistently communicates through writing.
Communicates effectively through writing.
Communicates effectively through writing; writing reflects the
quality and fluency expected of a professional.
Running Head: A VERY OLD MAN WITH ENORMOUS
WINGS 1
A VERY OLD MAN WITH ENORMOUS WINGS
3
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Brenda Rouse
ENG125: Introduction to Literature
Instructor: Jamie Merriman Pacton
November 28, 2016

3. A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
García, M. G., & Rabassa, G. (2014). A very old man with
enormous wings: And the sea of lost time.
Marquez tries to shed light on the illogicalities, happenings and
perception the story beholds. He develops the sense of realism
and familiarity with a wide-range of detail that he embraces in
his story. This feature extends through several senses, by sight,
smell, touch, and leads the reader to a similar kind of
acceptance as Pelayo and Elisenda came to. Marquez
emphasizes on the relation between the logical and magical
portions of the world he is creating. The reader is persuaded to
believe that everything Marquez says is real fact, generating the
sense of spiritual and godly acts an actual familiarity to the
user. What I established to be most perceptive about this book
is that the reader gets a profound insight of the realistic and
magical setting in the short story. Understanding how it is, and
why, Marquez generates a bizarre situation that leads the reader
to believe such happenings.
Faulkner, Tom. "An overview of 'A Very Old Man with
Enormous Wings,.'" Gale Online Encyclopedia. Detroit: Gale,
2013. Literature Resource Center.
The author of this article desires to show the society’s part in
the story. Precisely, he records that the community both
overreacts and underreacts. This community is made up of the
main characters and the people in that town excluding the angel.
The overreaction is clearly seeing when Father Gonzaga sees
the old man and describes him as a supernatural being. The act
of the community accepting what the old wise neighbor tells
them as fact is also an overreaction. The underreacting
witnessed where Pelayo and Elisenda put the angel in a dirty
chicken coop and the people in the community in due course
forgetting everything about the angel when the spider woman
appears into town. This article is valuable for the reason that it
categorically displays the influence of the community on the
reader and the story.
Goodwin, John. “Marquez’s ‘A Very Old Man with Enormous

4. Wings’ and Bambara’s ‘The Lesson.” The Explicator 64.2
(Winter 2006): p118-121. Literature Resource Center.
The objective of Goodwin is to propose that mutually these
story’s efficiently use narrative voice. Father Gonzaga is used
as a representation of the Roman Catholic Church. The villagers
symbolize Columbians and the angel signify religion. The
village dweller at first proposed that the angel rule and be their
mayor however when Pelayo and Elisenda went out to their
courtyard, all the villagers were having fun with angel having
no reverence at all. The ideas of the villagers expose unlikely
opinion on religious conviction as a government. The villagers’
behavior of the angel betrays their response towards governance
by religious establishments. Marquez practices a different
attitude and uses the position of an external party seeing the
happenings to a not emphasis on the inside expedition of any
single character, and this significant to his audience. Marquez
does an outstanding job on making use of the authentic
narrative voice.
Running Head: A VERY OLD MAN WITH ENORMOUS
WINGS
1
A VERY OLD MAN WITH ENORMOUS WINGS
2
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Brenda Rouse
ENG125: Introduction to Literature (PTH1647B)
Writing Prompt #2

5. Instructor: Jamie Merriman Pacton
December 3, 2016
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings is a fictional story that
talks about the elements of realism and magic. The old man in
the book is referred to as an angel who which brings the aspect
of supernatural forces. This story, A Márquez, Gabriel García,
and Gregory Rabassa. A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings:
And the Sea of Lost Time. Web. 19 Aug. 2016. Very Old Man
with Enormous Wings is a novel based on the story of a couple
and their ill child.
At the beginning of the story, the author said, it had seemingly
been raining for about three days, and crabs were found
everywhere. The two main characters, Pelayo and Elisenda who
are husband and wife had a child who had fallen sick due to the
unpleasant smell coming from the crabs. Palayo and Elisenda
while on his backyard sees an aged man with enormous wings.
They tried to speak with the old man, but he was talking in a
different language that they could not comprehend (García &
Rabassa 2014). In their minds they believed this man was lost.
While they were trying to come up with a conclusion about this
stranger, one of coming up with their conclusion about this
stranger, one of their neighbors told them that the man was an
angel.
Pelayo then decided to keep the angel, and he locked him in a
chicken coop all through the night. He planned on sending him
off on a raft at dawn. The following morning, Father Gonzaga
who was a priest came to the couple's home together with all the
people in that neighborhood to test this strange man and try to
figure out whether he is an angel or not. Father Gonzaga found
many reasons for the man being an angel and not a human, some
of the reasons being the fact that the man cannot comprehend
Latin which is the language of God and he also had many moral
values imparted in him (García & Rabassa 2014).
Elisenda felt exhausted from cleaning up after all of the visitors

6. and decided to start charging people who come to see this angel
a fee of five cents per entrance. The couple ended up becoming
rich from these visits. Within no time, to the couple's bad luck,
the people in the community soon lost their interest in the angel
when another strange creature came to their attention in the
very town. The new creature turned out to be a woman who had
defied her parents when she was younger and since then
changed into a tarantula. For this woman tarantula to carry on
telling them her story, the people within the communal started
throwing meatballs into her mouth (García & Rabassa 2014).
They had labelled these meatballs as her means of food. Even
though the people in the town were no longer fascinated with
the angel, the family ended up saving enough money to build
themselves a mansion enclosed with precincts and balconies.
They seemed to be contented with their unplanned success, not
having anticipated it. The angel's health started to weaken, and
it anticipated death. On his last wintertime inside the chicken
coop his health astonishingly improved and he grew new
feathers.
In due course, the chicken coop collapsed, and the 'angel'
moved in with the Pelayo family in their mansion. Over the
years, the angel started to become an irritation for the family.
At a certain point, Elisenda even tried to chase him away from
their lives. The 'angel' attempted flying away many times with
no apparent success. Finally, in the end, he managed to leave
the house and flew away after he gained enough strength.
(Goodwin, 2006).
In conclusion, the author Gabriel Garcia Marquez plaited the
ordinary with the supernatural in an unanticipated but
nevertheless a very interesting way (Goodwin, 2006). This story
leaves us asking ourselves question like what could have our
response if we were challenged with the supernatural right in
our normal lives. By combining the ordinary and
repugnant portions of life with the miraculous, Marquez
proficiently makes the use of a unique style and creative tone to
create a story that carries foundations of ordinary life, yet

7. supersedes it. His story bids us, as readers, to look a little
closer at the happenings in our lives and define how we are
reacting to the mundane we face (Goodwin, 2006). He motivates
us to take a second glimpse at the not-quite-normal occasions
that hint a deeper connotation. His story suggests that the
circulating of the mundane with miraculous could change our
lives if we view them with the precise standpoint.
References
García, M. G., & Rabassa, G. (2014). A very old man with
enormous wings: And the sea of lost time
Goodwin, John. (2006). “Marquez’s ‘A Very Old Man with
Enormous Wings’ and Bambara’s ‘The Lesson.” The Explicator
64.2 (Winter 2006): p118-121. Literature Resource Center.