In chapter 4 of “The Norton Field Guide to Writing with Reading”, Richard Bullock and Maureen Daly Goggin, The author informs students on how to succeed in college. Student should put in effort into their academics and be engage. They should find the reason they’re in college. They should do multiple things for a subject to stay focus and retain more information. When in class students should raise their hands if they don’t understand the subject. The more they know the more options they will have in the future. It does not matter if the student does or does not agree with a view point, they should listen and learn. Try to think from a different point of view. Students…
The simple pitch is that Candy Corn is a staying of age film. In the film industry and especially the Indie scene coming of age is a cliche and I understand why. Life is hard and at some point we have to accept the world and try to make the best of it.…
There are a few patterns that I noticed in the Chrysalids the one that really jumped out at me was the idea of “normal” the entire story is based around the idea of “normal” and gods image. It's repeated all throughout the book, Sophie gets her foot stuck in the rocks she doesn’t want her shoe to be removed because she fears David will think of her having six toes as something abnormal, in Davids house where there are no paintings on the walls instead phrases from the bible about gods divine image and if any one deviates from them they are to be known as Satin spawn, and how civilization is divided, people of gods image live a good life protected from people with deviations who live as out casts…
In Jack Horner “extraordinary characteristics of dyslexia “the author argued that dyslexics people “spatial thinker” convey their ideas and knowledge in a various way than the non-dyslexic people “linear thinker”, and also explained that dyslexic people stand out and reach their goal as they get older .the author firstly illustrate that spatial thinker don’t tent to read but instead they take photos of the thing they want to understand and visualize it. Spatial thinkers also don’t care much about time like the linear thinkers do. However the author stated that most of the spatial thinkers fail in the linear thinker testing style because they don’t operate in time limit and can’t grasp anything from regular texts .spatial thinkers ;however,…
With the inmate being so violent and unpredictable he could attack a security officer and that means that the officer needs to be alert and on guard at all times. Never turn your back. While refueling the transport van the inmate could kill another inmate so there should always be extra security as far as shackles and seat belts securing the inmate so he cannot maneuver. I first wanted to take this exercise as what the inmate would attempt to do if he escaped? Murder, rape, robbery, stealing a car, kidnapping, so I hope I went the right direction with this and took it as the what if factor before actually escaping.…
Creator Winnie Holzman’s show “My So-Called Life” and Marjane Satrapi’s The Complete Persepolis both highlight the immense changes that surround adolescences in their relationships with others as well as how they perceive their own identity. It is during the stage of adolescence and emerging adulthood that young people are dealing with what Erikson refers to as identity versus confusion, in which adolescence are doing a lot of re-visitation to past stages of their life, and are constantly at battle with understanding truly who they are. Holzman’s show follows an adolescent named Angela Chase, who is a high school sophomore trying to discover and assert her identity. Satrapi’s graphic novel depicts her hardships with being an adolescent in a new country away from her family, and how she struggles with understanding her true self.…
Envision a world where people refused to read. The world would not be as great of a place. The extensive increase in readers might force this to occur. In “Reading is in Painful Decline” by Stephen L. Carter, the author justifies how the decline is negatively affecting the country. Carter uses a wide variety of rhetoric to persuade the reader that the decline in reading is causing many of the country’s problems.…
The idea of reading has become very unpopular to many people across the world over the past few decades. According to Jordan Weissmann, the author of the article, “The Decline of the American Book Lover”, many people of our generation have stopped reading and have become unintelligent. She says, “The Pew Research Center reported last week that nearly a quarter of American adults had not read a single book in the past year. As in, they hadn't cracked a paperback, fired up a Kindle, or even hit play on an audiobook while in the car. The number of non-book-readers has nearly tripled since 1978”( Weissman). Books provide something that nothing else could ever provide, knowledge. Many could argue that if teachers provide and give us education, what's the point of reading a book? They have forgotten that the only way teachers could’ve gotten the knowledge to teach us is by reading books. Not having books in our society is almost like not having food. It is an essential quality that us humans must have. Similarly. Montag's society almost resembles our current world. Books have been ignored by many people of our generation and nobody has done anything about it. However unlike Montag's society, people of our generation haven’t outlawed reading. They still read books, and it creates a perfect chance to put an end to the extinction of…
We need to reflect on how our children are really being educated, and create that adventurous and mysterious aspect of reading a…
Richard Miller has a lot to say in The Dark Night Of The Soul but one thing that really stuck out to me was that there is only so much we can do to try and control the behavior of students. Reading and writing isn’t going to save every one of their problems. It can have just as much of an effect on someone today as technology can. In most of the stories he shows there is this concept along with many others that have to do with reading and writing.…
There is nothing better than devouring a good book. We hungrily flip through pages, possibly even just scan the text purely to see what action lies ahead. However, in the 19th century, protocols of reading were much different than our current practices. Books, magazines and newspapers were seen as precious and it was a treat to be able to read for a few minutes at night. The cultural context of the 1850’s will be crucial in order to determine common practices of reading, especially in women. The female reader was treated very differently than their male counterpart. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin will be used as a case study to examine the role of not only the female reader, but the female…
According to the Health and Wellness Resource Center, people with high IQ’s, especially those who abuse drugs, are most likely to commit suicide. In the novel, Mockingbird by Walter Tevis, humans are dependent on narcotics to live through a world of illiteracy which results in suicidal thoughts throughout the population. As it was written during the years leading up to1980, Mockingbird is somewhat a reaction to the author’s world as it portrays the rise of narcotics in the 70’s, while contradicting the increase in reading and writing scores in America, but duplicating the growth of suicides throughout the author’s lifetime. The medical purposes of sedatives are to relieve the consumer from stress and slow down brain activity.…
Color blindness is the inability or the decreasing ability to see color or the differences in colors. John Dalton wrote the first paper pertaining to Colorblindness called “Extraordinary facts relating to the vision of colours” in 1798. He himself was colorblind and originally named the disability daltonism.…
I approach the weekly readings with a lot of energy so that when I read the material it stays fresh in my mind. I also like to take notes as I read highlighting the main points in each paragraph. I approach my readings as if it were my job and take the information provided very seriously. I look at is as the tools to my trade and to not fully comprehend the text means that I can’t fully accomplish my goal of getting a degree.…
I currently approach the reading in the course very cautiously. When reading any of the material in or out of class, I take my time. It is important to do so because by going to quick, there is a chance of missing some of the material. By reading slowly I can assure myself that I have better chance of taking in more information. Also by removing myself from any distractions, I can concentrate harder on the things that I am reading. Preparing for my reading sessions in advance helps to optimize my chance of greater concentration on my reading materials.…