Questions for Discussion 7.) As a reader‚ who is a female‚ his gender bias does not affect how receptive I am to Emerson’s ideas. I believe that all of the ideas he states using masculine pronouns‚ are too applicable to women and girls. I can relate to and understand his ideas. I believe that men are no more intelligent than girls‚ or girls are no more intelligent than boys. We are equally intelligent and capable of most of the same things. In the third paragraph‚ Emerson states a variety of skills
Premium Question Rhetorical question
Jonathan Spence’s novel The Question of Hu covers mid-eighteenth century travels from China to the western world of a Jesuit missionary‚ Father Jean-Francois Foucquet‚ and a Chinese scribe‚ John Hu. The interactions that occur consist of the cultural differences between Chinese and European customs. Hu’s personality becomes a large question Spence raises not only with the title but also throughout the story when Spence talks about Hu’s way of thinking. John Hu’s personality is described by both
Premium China Han Chinese Confucianism
Pause and Reflect pg. 137 1. Take a few minutes to listen to the inner voice you use when thinking. Close your eyes now and listen to it. Did you hear that voice? Perhaps it was saying "What voice? I don’t have any voice.." Try again‚ and pay attention to what the voice is saying. 2. Now think about the following situations‚ and imagine hw you would react in each. How would you interpret them with your inner voice? What feelings would follow from each interpretation? a. At first I would be
Premium Education Learning Psychology
resides with the reader; a statement that the school of Russian Formalism would disagree with. Eichenbaum‚ Schlovsky and other scholars would argue that the audience has little to no relation with the text and therefore‚ cannot be a vessel of meaning for a literary work. For formalists‚ the form of the literary work creates the meaning that readers desperately seek. However‚ there is another school of literary theory that would argue against the Formalist thought; the school of reader-response theory
Premium Literature Literary theory Literary criticism
\ QUESTIONS ON MEANING 1. Lutz’s thesis might be stated briefly as follows: The four kinds of doublespeak all include language “that avoids or shifts responsibility‚ language that is at variance with its real or purported meaning” (the quotation is from par. 2). The thesis accumulates over paragraphs 2–3‚ with the addition of the intention to classify in paragraph 5. 2. Paragraph 4 offers the following questions: “Who is saying what to whom‚ under what conditions and circumstances‚ with what
Premium Doublespeak Nineteen Eighty-Four Euphemism
Alexis A. Phillips "Questions for Analysis" Basic Critical Thinking - 28 Instructor: Cynthia Harrison Questions for Analysis 1 1. What details of the events has each writer selected to focus on? The details that each writer selected to focus on their point of view on the event that laid up to Malcom X assassination and what actually happen when he did get killed. Each writer specifically focused on the victim‚ the place where the event took place‚ what
Premium Malcolm X Black nationalism
Answer the following questions in preparation for class discussion: 1. What exactly does Zinsser mean by "clutter"? How does he believe we can free ourselves of clutter? Unnecessary and meaningless words‚ slang or statements. We free it by stripping it to its cleanest form 2. Identify the main idea in each of the 13 paragraphs. How is each paragraph related to Zinsser’s topic and purpose? 1)Corporate lang. uses clutter to confuse. 2)Stripping the lang. is cleaning the clutter. 3)President’s
Free Attention Writing Attention span
Reader Response to "They’re Made Out of Meat" "They’re Made Out of Meat"‚ written by Terry Bisson‚ is a breathtaking short story. The level of fluidity achieved by this unique author is unbelievable given the facts of the plot. The narrative‚ which consists entirely of dialogue between two characters‚ was written with such an artistic approach that it made the text relatively unputdownable. During the entire story‚ the author brilliantly succeeds in masking the elusive reality of the storyline
Premium Life
Section B Question 1 Detailed and informal Question 2 Casual -because of the arrangement of the text‚ simple and focuses to the younger generation -because of the choice of words used in the story Question3 Tenant- A person who rents a land‚ property from the land lord Intrigue- plotting of something painful or harmful Audacity- showing a lack of respect‚ rude or impudent Oblivious- not aware of what is around you Question 4 Tenant - renting a house owned by someone
Premium Pronoun Possessive pronoun
“The Devil Wears Prada” is the story of a Northwestern graduate‚ Andrea “Andy” Sachs. She is simple yet smart. The story conveys her journey as a journalist and how she turns into a serious one. Andy clears an interview for the job “a million girls would kill for” at fashion magazine Runway‚ not as a journalist but rather the second assistant to the unkind and merciless editor-in- chief‚ Miranda Priestly. Andy accepts the job under the impressions that in an year’s time‚ Miranda would help her
Premium Abuse Ethics