„Thinking as a Hobby” by William Golding is a narrative essay. As we take a genre of the text we can assume that the author is the main character in this story and he established his own point of view. Golding in his essay divides people into three groups: grade-three thinkers‚ grade-two thinkers‚ and grade-one thinkers. He also claims that more than ninety percent of humans are representatives of first kind thinkers. The story begins when author was a young boy and he attended to grammar school
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Hobbies One of the biggest problems of human kind is time. Although after retiring from their job people usually dedicate their time to an activity‚ which they enjoy. An activity that people enjoy doing in their free time is called a hobby. People in general have several hobbies‚ even if they think they have none‚ or no spare time at all. Some of them are fond of normal sports like: football‚ tennis‚ basketball‚ hockey or gymnastics; and some people like extreme sport‚ for instance
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Pseudo means false or insincere. So a pseudo listener isn’t listening properly. They may be distracted and concentrating on something else (watching tv‚ in a daydream‚ or texting). They may say ah huh‚ yes‚ but aren’t really listening at all. The six types of non-listening are as follows; Pseudo Listening‚ Monopolizing‚ Selective Listening‚ Defensive Listening‚ Ambushing and Literal Listening. As stated in the chapter‚ Pseudo Listening is when one pretends to listen. When we pseudolisten
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My Hobby ------------- A hobby is not a profession. It is an activity that we do for fun and interest. Different people have different interests. So‚ they do have different hobbies. My hobby is reading. I read books that interest me‚ such as story books‚ magazines‚ newspapers etc. I developed this hobby very recently. When I was a little girl‚ my father and sometimes my mother used to read fairy tales and other stories to me. But they could not do it everyday because of their busy schedule. So
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The Hobby of Running Running as a hobby is recommended because it is beneficial in helping to improve health‚ helps you to meet new people and is versatile and relatively inexpensive. Running is also a useful tool in reducing stress and provides other psychological benefits. Running is a relatively easy hobby to take up. Running requires no new skills. You can begin running at any age with many people over 40 taking their first running steps as they embark on the path to health and a new and
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Active listening is a communication technique that requires the listener to feed back what they hear to the speaker‚ by way of re-stating or paraphrasing what they have heard in their own words‚ to confirm what they have heard and moreover‚ to confirm the understanding of both parties. When interacting‚ people often "wait to speak" rather than listening attentively. They might also be distracted. Active listening is a structured way of listening and responding to others‚ focusing attention on
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family also my grand father loves watching it so we usually watch all the matches together. I know many other games like tennis which I took training for but I don’t like it very much and hence i dont like playing it anymore. Swiming is another hobby of mine. Whenever I get time during holidays I must go with my father for swimming. My grandfather is one of the best swimmer and I wish I would become like him one day. My two twin brothers also love swiming and we just went with them to South coast
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After reading "Thinking as a Hobby"‚ it was apparent that the three statuettes were all very symbolic in their own unique way. The pure‚ effortless beauty that is portrayed by the nearly naked woman in a bath towel shows that beauty is so insanely important to the world in which we live. The second statuette talked about in this document is the leopard‚ which symbolizes nature. The way the leopard is positioned in the beginning of this piece of work symbolizes the way humans are always under the
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Thinking as a hobby Response: “Thinking is a Hobby” In the essay “Thinking as a hobby‚” the author William Golding writes about his past experiences. Which caused him to see the three grades of thinking. Thinkers are represented by three statues. The first being the crouching Leopard ‚the crouching position refers to natural thinking ‚ aggressiveness and most likely are ready to pounce at any moment. This coincides with the lady milo of Venus grade two thinking‚ which represents those who don’t
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My hobby Each individual person has one or more hobbies. One of them likes to sing‚ other to collect something‚ or just to read books. These things help to forget problems‚ to relax and have a good time. Some people like to spend their free time different others are interested in one hobby. Nowadays you can choose thousand personal interests and ways to spend leisure. Millions of people are fond of music and sport. Many children and youth like to play with computer or ransack in the net. Usually
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