Amanda Dulinky 1/23/13 Reader Response # 1‚ on Alone Together‚ written by Sherry Turkle. Reading the first part of Sherry Turkle’s book Alone Together has brought some interesting questions to my mind. I have often joked about friends of mine who play Massively Multi-player Online Games‚ such as World of Warcraft and Second Life‚ being addicted to their “game of choice”. And after reading & discussing this book‚ while also
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Two meaning can be interpreted from the poem‚ “From the Wave”‚ by Thom Gunn. The first meaning is the actual and literal meaning of a surfer catching a wave. The second is a metaphorical meaning. This meaning describes the ups and downs of a human being’s life. Readers know the speaker is actually talking about surfers‚ because Gunn describes the how it feels to actually catch a wave. The speaker says that “Their pale feet‚ curl‚ they poise their weight / With a learn’d skill. / It is the wave
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Rio Hondo College Speech to Captain John Smith William Ashby 10-14-13 Powhatan‚ “Speech to Captain John Smith‚” The World Turned Upside Down. Boston: Bedford‚ 1994. The message that Powhatan delivered to John Smith in his speech was one of peace. Powhatan told John Smith that he has seen three generations of his people die. The Chief told John Smith that he has seen many years of war and peace. Powhatan explained that he was getting old and tired. He was concerned that his
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knows what a plug is knows that the horse is dilapidated and useless. However‚ Mark Twain from his own journal "The Genuine Mexican Plug" is fooled by the speaker’s energy. The story is about Twain being tricked into buying an old horse from an auctioneer and the troubles he had to endure with the horse. The reader can assume that Twain is gullible and determined to succeed. Because he bought the horse from the high-energy salesman‚ Twain was gullible. In the story‚ he is easily fooled by the salesman’s
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Response to “Don’t Blame the Reader” by David Zinczenko What is the value of freedom? Not the effort of achieving freedom but the extent of its value. Should an individual control every aspect of their life or should they not? This is an important question when it comes to the fast food industry. Fast food annual revenue is an outstanding 170 billion dollars per year: diabetes has never been higher and yet we are still pondering on a problem that has not been resolved. The problem between
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Danielle Wehrle Reader Response “Big Boy Leaves Home” “Big Boy Leaves Home” is a story involving a multitude of violence. In the beginning of the story‚ there seemed to be a power struggle between Big Boy and his friends. They were rough housing with one another until it got out of hand. Big Boy started choking Bobo to the point where his friends were actually fearful for his life. This issue was resolved immediately. Although the boys continued to play-fight‚ they went on to enjoy the swimming
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Montresor from "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allen Poe was a revengeful‚ sarcastic‚ and cruel man because he led Fortunato to his death. There is no doubt that Montresor was the antagonist of "The Cask of Amontillado". The reader discovered that when reading about his revengefulness at the beginning of this short story. Montresor had enough with Fortunato’s insults and finally decided to see an end to his life (The reader inferred that Fortunato had done something to Montresor and/or his
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An Essay on the book Strangers from a Different Shore by Ronald Takaki Concerning the question: “In what ways did the experience of Asian immigrant women differ from that of Asian men? Use examples from at least two different Asian ethnic groups in your answer.” February 8‚ 2008 CES 302 Book Essay Strangers from a Different Shore by Ronald Takaki Since the beginning of time there has been a distinct division between the sexes. Through sheer definition there
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Philosophy 14 November 2007 Notes from Underground Armed with a view that strongly opposes the ideas presented by rational egoism‚ Fyodor Dostoevsky conducts an all-out assault against the theory in his 1864 novel‚ Notes from Underground. The narrator is a sick‚ pessimistic man who remains nameless throughout the course of his ranting. Without any recognizable respect for his own health and well being out of pure spite‚ he is the perfect character to illustrate Dostoevsky’s argument against the
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Where I Come From In “Where I Come From”‚ poet Elizabeth Brewster portrays the differences lifestyles between city-dwellers and country-dwellers‚ with a clear bias towards the latter. Brewster also expresses her belief that people are defined by the place they live in. Vivid imagery‚ structure‚ and poetic devices‚ are used by Brewster to convey the contrasts between city and country life. Vivid imagery‚ created by Brewster‚ conveys the contrasting elements of city and country life. In the first stanza
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