A Midsummer Nights Dream - Critical Response The character that I feel sorry for in the play “A Midsummer Nights Dream”‚ by the great and famous playwright William Shakespeare is Demetrius. The story is about a group of four lovers who get lost in a forest outside Athens. These four lovers begin to argue over who loves whom after Oberon‚ the king of the fairies puts love juice in the two men’s eyes‚ thinking that this would fix their problems but instead this seems to make everything worse. At
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Coy “Against School: How public education cripples our kids‚ and why “‚ is a piece written by John Taylor Gatto which was published in the Harpers Magazine September 2003 issue. Gatto was a New York City public school teacher for about thirty years ‚ who after all this time teaching came to a conclusion that public schooling was nothing but‚ a system created by the high powers to create a large labour force and to keep the general public under some level of control. He believed that schools stifled
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FOR AND AGAINST ESSAY – USEFUL EXPRESSIONS POINTS TO CONSIDER • Make a list of the points for and against • Start with a topic sentence which summarises the topic of the paragraph • Do not use informal style • If possible use well-known quotations USEFUL EXPRESSIONS AND LINKING WORDS/PHRASES (for second paragraph) • Firstly‚ First of all‚ In the first place‚ To begin/start with • Secondly‚ Thirdly‚ Finally • To list advantages: One/Another/A
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Summary-Response Essay Informal Outline: Thesis Statement- I enjoyed reading the article. General Support Point 1- I liked the author’s main point. General Support Point 2- I could relate to it. General Support Point 3- I got information from it. General Support Point 4- I agree with her. Summary and Response: “Path to Better Eating Strewn with Traps” The article “Path to Better Eating Strewn with Traps” by Marcia Clemmitt‚ talks about how the American diet can have tricks‚ so people can
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Critical Essay Science fiction is a really weird genre. It has some odd stories. These are some more oddballs. “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury is about hunters that time travel to kill various types of animals‚ dinosaurs being one of them. One of the travelers‚ Eckels‚ stepped off the path that no one could leave and it changed history. The leader killed him with a gun‚ hence the name sound of thunder. “Nethergrave” by Gloria Skurzynski is about a boy named Jeremy who is not liked at his school
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In the article “Against School‚” Gatto‚ compares school to the concept of boredom. Of course‚ almost anyone who has gone to school would obviously agree with that statement; boredom is the common condition to everyone who spends time in school. Gatto also‚ breaks down the purposes in placing Inglis’ “six basic functions” of school by trying to overemphasize the reason for public education. Yet the truth is that we all go to school to better our selves and our family. We all want one thing in life
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A Response to “ Anarchy in the Tenth Grade” Overall‚ I found the argument presented in “ Anarchy in the Tenth Grade” interesting and informative. Author Greg Graffin presents a clear thesis and supports it well with logical examples and sound reasoning. However‚ I also found parts of the essay confusing which makes me wonder about the intended audience of the piece. “ Anarchy in the Tenth Grade” examines how people can relate to being alienated from certain groups‚ and how the author found his
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Censorship of Children’s Literature – An argument against Some of the greatest novels for children and young adults are under attack. Due to what some deem as “inappropriate” language or certain topics‚ countless books have either been censored or banned entirely from schools and libraries. This is not just something that happens abroad‚ but in America as well. That’s right. America. This is home where freedom of speech is one of our oldest and most highly held ideals. An all too common pastime
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Is his article “Against School” John Taylor Gatto argues that the current education system is turning people not only into servants and consumers but also childish empty beings who learn to accept things blindly‚ he states that the idea of compulsory schooling must be forgotten and students should be able to learn things on their own. And while many may disagree with his claims‚ saying that they are the childish rants of a man who knows nothing of the modern education systems‚ and that children
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Critical Response to “The Moral Thinking of Macbeth” In his essay‚ “The Moral Thinking of Macbeth‚” J. Gregory Keller attempts to address Hannah Arendt’s claim in her article‚ “Thinking and Moral Considerations‚” that evil may arise in society directly from thoughtlessness. He attempts to use the murder of Duncan in Macbeth as an event to clarify her argument that thoughtlessness leads to evil and that thinking about the ethical ramifications of one’s thinking can actually turn people toward
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