Brooklyn defense attorney David Zevin almost made legal history last month by attempting to submit functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data as evidence that a key witness was telling the truth. Zevin was defending Cynette Wilson, who claimed that the temping agency she had worked for stopped giving her work following her complaint of sexual harassment.…
One of the finest particulars about the Here/Now Festival was the opportunity it offered to have seen Unity Phelan perform major parts in six ballets: For Clara, The Blue of Distance, American Rhapsody, Fearful Symmetries, Polyphonia, and --most importantly--Odessa. I have every expectation that as she grows (as a human being, as a woman, as an artist), as she gains confidence in her abilities and powers, and as she sheds every vestige of self-consciousness Phelan will blossom into a first-rate ballerina, especially in adagio dancing.…
1. Randy Pausch, the author of The Last Lecture, remains stagnant throughout the novel. He has always been a creative, optimistic, and light-hearted person, and stays that way through most of the book. First, his optimism is shown when he and his wife learn of his prognosis after seeing the CT scan and he decides that he will not let it define him or the rest of his life. He states, “Leaving the doctor’s office, I thought about what I said to Jai in the water park in the afterglow of the speed slide. ‘Even if the scan results are bad tomorrow,’ I had told her, ‘I just want you to know that it feels great to be alive, and to be here today, alive with you. Whatever news we get about the scans, I’m not going, the reader is shown . In addition,…
In Daniel L. Schafer’s book Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner, the life of a somewhat mysterious African born woman is broken down. There were many challenges to writing a biography on a woman who did not write any letters nor kept a diary on the events of her life. This and the fact that she was an African slave in the beginning of her life over in Florida made writing such a biography all the more challenging. I feel that Schafer has succeeded in providing an organized and descriptive piece on a historical figure whose background has very much been shrouded in mystery and uncertainty. The book stays true to the thesis and keeps Anna Madgigine Jai at the center of every topic.…
o Morrill Land Grant Act—conveyed to each state 30,000 acres of federal land per Congress member…
William Zinsser gives very specific or memoir writers .My author gives suggestions such as “Be yourself”, “It’s your story”, and “Think Small”. These suggestions encourage memoir writers to think about how they want to tell their story as much as what they want to say.…
What defines a writer’s work? Each writer has their own way of getting their message out to their audience. Authors use elements of writing to make their work their own; from their intended audience to their role in the exposé. More specifically, the style, tone, audience, persona, and occasion of a composition are the elements that define an author’s writing and help get their message across to their readers. In the articles “Keep the Confederate Flag Flying” and “Take Down the Confederate Flag, Symbol of Hatred” the infamous controversy of the civil war confederate flag is continued. Each article talks about both sides of the issue and gives their own opinion. While the elements of writing help define each article from each other, they do not define which side is correct. Duke and the New York Times Editorial Board write about similar topics but each with their own distinct style, tone, audience, persona, and occasion.…
piece of writing creates within the reader. The author John Steinbeck uses tone and mood to…
In this essay I am going to discuss the issue of individual responsibility for criminal behavior, for this, I will focus my attention on different essays. The first essay “Our Time” written by John Edgar Wideman where he attempts to communicate the emotion that he felt and what his brother Robby went through. In this essay, he focused on explaining what happened to his brother. He writes about the forces that contributed to his brother's bad behavior that automatically lead him to do bad things and ended up in the jail for the rest of his life. Also, Wideman writes about how the pressures of his community and culture that was rooted in the history of oppression and racism affected Robby. The second essay “Our Secret” written by Susan Griffin,…
Many campuses have issues between smokers and non-smokers; Kansas State University does not escape this. Many people on campus are bothered by smoking and smokers. This has led to a call for further smoking restrictions. In 2010 Joshua Madden wrote an editorial in the Kansas State Collegian against more restrictions on smokers. In the article, Madden argues that further restrictions against smokers are unnecessary since the effects of secondhand smoke outdoors are negligible, since smoking is a lifestyle choice similar to eating fatty foods K-State should not regulate it, and smoking is limited enough at K-State to add further limits. Further restrictions on smoking on campus are necessary because outdoor secondhand smoke is still very harmful, unlike eating fatty foods, smoking effects the health of others, and the places one can smoke on campus are not truly restricted or enforced. In my opinion, Kansas State should define smoking areas, and move them away from high traffic areas.…
References: Sanders, S. R. (2010). The men we carry in our minds. In J. Reinking, R. van der Osten, S.A. Cairns, R. Fleming (Eds.), Strategies for successful writing (4th Canadian ed.), (pp. 536-539). Toronto: Pearson.…
Good writing gets to the point quickly and uses concise, well-worded sentences to communicate ideas. By integrating the following three simple strategies into your writing, your prose will be tighter and easier to read.…
My main idea about writing is that clarity is the most important feature in writing a successful paper. Having a clear path that allows you to write efficiently is vital when working on an essay. A clear structure is essential to allow both the author and reader to easily read and comprehend the content that is in front of them.…
The time and the place of the piece; the context that encouraged the writing to happen.…
After the initial work of conceiving ideas and thoughtfully organizing them, then it’s time to get down to work and create sentences and paragraphs that will communicate to the reader the ideas you have. Each sentence, in its own way, tells a story. For it to be effective in telling the story, you must be able to put the sentence together, scrutinize it, and correct any problems the sentence might have. Unlike spoken language, written language does not give the luxury of a back and forth exchange. It is not possible to know if the reader understands, nor is it possible to go back and fill in the…