Week 4 Journal - Summarizing ENG 121 Instructor: Clinton Hale November 24th‚ 2014 Summarizing David Foster Wallace’s “Consider the Lobster” is an in-depth 2004 article about the annual Maine Lobster Festival. The event is held every July in an area of Maine known as the mid-coast‚ which Wallace describes as‚ “…from Owl’s Head and Thomaston in the south‚ to Belfast in the north” (Wallace.2004). Throughout the narrative‚ Wallace deftly uses concrete language to bring the reader into the tents
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Luck is on Wiesel’s Side"I am too old‚ my son‚" he answered. "Too old to start a new life. Too old to start from scratch in some distant land…" (9)This scene where Elie’s father rejects his son’s request to liquidate everything and flee from the place where the extermination of Jews may occur‚ reminds me of a vivid conversation I once engaged in‚ with my two former North Korean grandparents. The Korean War (1950-53) and the Holocaust (1938-45) are in most aspects different‚ however‚ there is a heartbreaking
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Quote | Reflection | Regardless of the fact that these measures often are used to predict student performance‚ a teacher’s recorded school achieve-ment seldom has correlated strongly with classroom performance (Pg.3) | I can certainly agree with this quote given that academic performance of teacher does not mean he or she is well equipped or suited to teach a certain subject matter. This touches home with me because my background is business. While I did instruct and facilitate many times in
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1. Passage 1 (page[s] 170). “At Least half of my anger at you was sheer resentment that you had done something that I knew‚ buried deep in my heart‚ I should have done. But you weren’t the cause of my joining up either.. . you merely helped trigger it and you did control the service that I chose.” Here Juan’s Father is explaining to him why he decided to join the Mobile Infantry after he practically excommunicated Juan from the family a few years ago for doing the very same thing. Juan’s Father
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Running head: COMMUNICATION JOURNAL ENTRY 2 NONVERBAL Communication journal entry 2 nonverbal Tiffany Ramsey University of Phoenix Communication journal entry 2 nonverbal When we are attempting to transfer our meaning to another person‚ we use three different modes‚ methods‚ or channels to carry our intentions. We use these modes to tell people who we are‚ how we experience the world‚ and the meaning we attach to our experience. We communicate verbally and nonverbally‚ and often
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Entry #1 Hello‚ my name is Noah Abner. I am 15 years old and live with my mom‚ my dad‚ and my brother. People would describe me as funny‚ sociable‚ and sometimes annoying. My childhood has been perfect so far. I go to a school called Bartomiej Nowodworski High School in Poland. I have lots of friends at school‚ and we like to hang out all the time. Most of my friends play sports. Our favorite sport is football; we play every day‚ and we are getting outstanding. My house is not excessively big; we
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Rainsford’s Journey Back Home He had never slept in a better bed‚ Rainsford decided. Rainsford got up and headed out of his room. He looked around as if he thought there was someone outside waiting for him. He scanned around the house and saw no one. Rainsford had felt proud of himself for beating General Zaroff‚ but he also had this small feeling of fear. Rainsford had to come up with an idea on how to get himself off of the island. It wouldn’t be long before Rainsford started getting hungry.
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important to note that the premise of Act 4 isn’t to provide “filler”‚ although in tragedies‚ the idea that there need to be events to tie the ‘deaths’ in ACT 3 [Polonius] and the major climatic turners [The Mouse Trap‚ Claudius praying‚ Hamlet’s encounter with Gertrude and the reappearance of the Ghost] provides a means for Act 4 to provide the mechanism of “jointure for dramatically altered events to take shape” (Frye) Additionally‚ the methodology of Act 4 is often rife with awfully “unfortunate
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Dear Diary‚ Sinning is bad‚ definitely not allowed here in Salem. Well‚ I have committed a very bad sin a couple of days ago. John Proctor‚ a married man. I should be very sorry for this sin I had committed and regret it‚ but I just can’t. I love John Proctor‚ and I know he loves me‚ deep down in his heart. Who has asked me to meet him at the barn? John Proctor. Why else would he do it if he hadn’t loved me? September 1st was when it had first happened. While working at the Proctor home for about
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Chapter One 1. [Describe in a short paragraph how‚ in a recent conversation‚ your communication behavior contributed to your physical‚ relational‚ identity‚ spiritual‚ and instrumental needs. Which need or need took precedence? Why? Page 9] When I think about a recent conversation that I had‚ I think about the conversation that I had with my best friend Jamie. We were in the car discussing our relationships with significant others and how it has affected us. We both gave each other advice and
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