The essay take the F by Ian Frazier is about his experience living in Brooklyn and that people that live there. People that live in Brooklyn don’t describe where they live in terms of direction like east or north but rather they refer to their neighborhoods and the subway lines that are nearest to them. He talks about the F train that he rode in and out of Manhattan and that diversity of the people who are riding the train. He mentions three classes that are classified as upper‚ middle‚ and low class
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Daoism: A religion hard to pin down but pervasive in influence as its ideas are found throughout Asian society and even in other religions Contrast with Confucianism which is a religion of strict social code and ethics Arose around the time of Confucius and in “competition” with and as an alternative to the structure of Confucianism Daoism is “allergic to doctrine” – Prothero Dao characteristics/beliefs; Hard to pin down as Daoists will disagree with everything; like Christians Wandering: purposeless
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Obedience Summary Stanley Milgrams experiments are some of the most recognized behavior experiments in psychology today. Milgrams most known experiment was ‘shocking’ to people and has also been controversial ethically. As Ian Parker stated it would “make his name and destroy his reputation.” Parkers Obedience essay talks much of Milgrams life before the experiment and how the psychology community thought about his ethics. Parker talks of Milgram struggling to place his findings in a scientific
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28 April 2013 Monologue of an Onion Analysis People search forever to find true love‚ but true love will never be found if you can’t find true love within yourself. In the poem “Monologue for an Onion”‚ by Suji Kwock Kim‚ the metaphor isn’t just about the onion it’s also about being loved. Everyone falls in love at least once. And this love feels everlasting and perfect‚ as if it’s never going to end. Then‚ when the moment of heartbreak happens‚ it feels as if the world is crumbling right in
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THE PLANNERS The poet of the poem “The Planners”‚ Boey Kim Cheng‚ uses many techniques‚ including but not limited to an extended metaphor and personification‚ to effectively communicate his views on the planners. In the beginning of the poem‚ the poet states what the planners do. “They plan. They build. All spaces are gridded‚” shows that the planners are very organized. The word “permutations” shows that each space is tightly packed to its full potential by the planners. “The buildings are in
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In employing a different ‘’centre of consciousness’’ when telling the story from a narrator’s perspective‚ the point of view of characters usually shifts to different opinions. Atonement by Ian McEwan‚ uses this style in his mode of narration to successfully build the story around the narrator‚ Briony and then shifts to Cecelia’s perspective allowing the responder to consider the ambiguity and reliability of Briony as a narrator. As a post–modern ‘coming of age’ text‚ we are never given the satisfaction
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In the essay “In praise of margins‚” Ian Frazier explains the importance of having marginal activities. He describes these activities as something you do with no purpose‚ where you are free to let your mind run wild. Sometimes marginality is tangible in the sense you can actually create something while doing a marginal activity. Frazier’s marginal place as a child was eh woods. There he and his friends would pretend to be explores and try out odd ideas. Odd ideas that later they would come to realize
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Ian Wilson Mrs. Reynolds Rhetoric I 16 December 2013 Remember the Titans Thesis: Coach Boone’s speeches to his players are by made powerful and influential by his first-rate use of logos‚ ethos‚ and pathos. 1. logos: don’t repeat history’s mistakes‚ work together or you won’t win‚ comparison to the real Titans 2. pathos: comparison to Gettysburg 3. ethos: he is non-racist‚ forces his interracial team to work together Many strong speeches are given in the movie Remember the Titans. Two of the
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In his piece “Working Towards the Fuhrer”‚ Ian Kershaw details Adolf Hitler’s regime as being one of “charismatic authority”. Sociologist Max Weber defined this concept as "resting on devotion to the exceptional sanctity‚ heroism or exemplary character of an individual person‚ and of the normative patterns or order revealed or ordained by him”. Over the course of his interpretation‚ Kershaw locks in on the concept that‚ unlike Stalin’s Russia‚ Nazi Germany could not exist without Hitler. To establish
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would cease to exist‚ and what was written wouldn’t be questioned because there wouldn’t be a reason to not take it as the truth. The point of an alternate ending is to change an outcome of a situation; to replace the original truth with another. In Ian McCwan’s novel Atonement‚ the protagonist‚ Briony‚ drastically changes the end of her book‚
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