The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett The “Uncommon Reader” is a quirky little book about Queen Elizabeth II‚ who becomes an avid reader in her 80’s‚ and her life takes a dramatic turn when she discovers the pleasure of reading. At the beginning‚ the Queen was not a big fan at all; she had never taken much interest in reading‚ her feeling was that liking books is "something that should be left to other people." Due to this new obsession‚ she begins to ignore her formal duties much to the dismay of
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Keunna Cannon Engl 1302-40721 Essay 1/ Savant June 9‚ 2014 Poor Mrs. Emily William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily‚” is very interesting and unusual. My first reaction after reading the entire short story was just complete shock that anyone can be capable of something so gross to put it simply. When reading through the story‚ it is written in a very confusing way. The reader has to be actively reading the story or you will miss something which I did the first time reading through it
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From Idea to Essay notes Chapter 1 “The Writing Process” Pgs. 3-12 Expository writing * Type of writing that explains‚ discusses‚ describes‚ analyzes‚ and argues the bulk of everyday tasks that you’ll most likely be called upon to do in your career. * Includes every kind of workaday job‚ ranging from memos and descriptions to evaluations summaries and formal proposals. * Mostly pragmatic and unglamorous. The AIM of good writing * CLARITY * Ways to achieve clarity: repeated
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What Type of Reader are you? What is your favorite type of book to read? Or do you even enjoy reading? No matter how much a person likes or dislikes reading‚ every person in today’s society has to read at least once a day. There is so much material to read‚ one cannot avoid reading something. Not only are there many different types of material to read‚ but there are also many different types of readers. Readers can be labeled either by what they read‚ or why they read. There are the people
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believes in the child impressive physical capability. Moreover the word ‘’fabulous’’ highlights the fact that the reader thinks that whatever the child has made and put together is worthy of praise. This shows that the speaker is very proud of the boy. In the first stanza alliteration is used to emphasise key points: sighing and shaking his head like an old man‚ it encourage the readers to think of shivering‚ as if the boy gets confronted with reading‚ he shivers with fear. When she describes him
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Technology in the policing field has revolutionized the way police officers go about their job on a daily bases. It is constantly changing for both the good and the bad‚ and helps to create a safer and better environment for citizens to live in. Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) is just one of the many technologies that have been discovered‚ and put into place throughout the policing community. Automatic Number Plate Recognition is means of surveillance that uses optical character recognition
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Conn 1 Jennifer Conn Professor Michael Hickman GWRTC 103 –Sect. 61 15 April 2013 Reader Response #3 Though Meyerhardt states that the opening account on female circumcision seemed “Amusing”‚ I personally found it far more disturbing. I was very shocked and disgusted while reading this piece‚ as I am sure my classmates were as well. The “small opening left for urination and menstruation . . . held open by a single piece of straw which is left there during the healing process” (1) forced me
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down the Time Traveler by giving him a sense of peace and serenity; she acted as his child or as a loyal and innocent pet. The Time Travelers attitude and actions through the story show how he emotionally progresses in the story and how he develops from being inquisitive‚ to hostile‚ to valiant. The Time Machine is profuse with many different themes. One of the main themes in the story is fear‚ and the instinct of it. Weena and the rest of the Eloi have an instinctual fear of the darkness‚ for what
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1) The language is magnificent. For a reader such as myself‚ who likes to get lost in tangential thoughts mid-sentence‚ Conrad offers a warm bath we can soak in. I often just let the sentences flow over me in waves of color and music (I usually read Faulkner this way too)‚ but if I want to stop and extract all the meaning from one of his dense little beauties I just pull the golden ribbon and what appears to be a knot of words opens up nicely. I have tried unraveling some of Faulkner’s and McCarthy’s
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Generational Perspectives on the War in The Reader In the book The Reader by Bernhard Schlink‚ the main character Michael Berg encounters several characters that lived in Germany during the Nazi regime. Through these encounters Bernhard Schlink depicts the differences in perspective between the generation born after the war and those who lived through it. These differences lead to awkwardness and conflict and show the difficulty of these two generations to reach a resolution. The
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