Shaun Strickland 6/26/10 EDUC 526-905 I have to be honest upon looking at the prompt of this short reflection‚ I truly began to struggle. “My first experience with books‚” “how am I supposed to remember that?” The following question will be a bit easier to answer as my memory was fairly well developed by my first positive and negative writing experiences. All of the above have had a tremendous impact on who I am today as a student and as a teacher. These experiences also have helped me to
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First Things First In his book First Things First‚ Stephen Covey describes setting priorities as the most important aspect of successful (personal) improvement. No matter how efficient you do your work‚ if you´re doing the wrong thing‚ nothing will really improve. Covey compares the difference between efficiency and setting priorities with a compass and the clock: how fast you go is not as important as where you´re going. In the first part of the book‚ SHORTCOMINGS OF TIME MANAGEMENT are discussed
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Even considering the complicated format of the book‚ David Fincher managed to almost perfectly illustrate the novel Fight Club‚ by Chuck Palahniuk‚ in his movie of the same name. Although tempting to compare a book and its film counterpart on even grounds‚ as a substitute of one another‚ the tools used to create each one differ greatly and thus should be evaluated on a thematic level. While the reading audience has the chance to reread‚ and absorb the themes in layers‚ the other audience is seeing
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Interviewer: “How did this fight start?” Benvolio: “Mercutio and I were walking through town‚ when we saw Tybalt and some of the other Capulets coming. They walked up to us and they started to ask about Romeo and if he had decided about the challenge. Romeo was walking by when Tybalt confronted him about fighting. Romeo told him that he did not want to fight. In result‚ Mercutio agreed to battle Tybalt.” Interviewer: “What happened during the battle?” Benvolio: “Since Romeo didn’t want to
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Author: The book‚ The fight‚ was written by Norman Mailer in 1975. Norman Mailer was a post-war book author in the 20th century. The Fight is not a war book‚ like his usual books‚ but a book documenting the historical fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. I have not read any other works by him‚ but if his other book sare like this one‚ i would like to read more books by him. Genre: The genre of The fight is non-fiction. It documents the historical fight between Muhammad Ali and George
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Gwendolyn Brooks ’ "First fight. Then Fiddle" initially seems to argue for the necessity of brutal war in order to create a space for the pursuit of beautiful art. The poem is more complex‚ however‚ because it also implies both that war cannot protect art and that art should not justify war. She suggests this idea in the sentences that open the poem: "First fight. Then fiddle." One must fight before fiddling. Playing the violin wouldn’t be a pleasure if an enemy was threatening one ’s safety
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The first book burning in history can be traced back to the Qin dynasty in 200 BC (Book Burning: fanning the flames of hatred). People may think that was a long time ago and things like that do not happen much anymore‚ but there are still many book burnings today. Many people try and symbolize burnings for something bigger. Book burnings occur to annihilate the beliefs and vultures of those deemed inferior to society as a whole. In Europe during the middle ages heresy or having beliefs that do not
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In the movie‚ “Fight Club”‚ a narcoleptic insomniac (played by Edward Norton) wants to change his life so he starts up a club with Tyler Durden(played by Brad Pitt) where people from all over the city come to fight. The club turns into something much bigger throughout the movie and fighting is not the only thing that they do. The narrator has many problems and feels like he is getting left out of the club even though he was one of the people who started it. Durden became the leader and the club
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Crops and People First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies by Peter Bellwood Review by: Ann Christine Pastor Peter Bellwood’s First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies seeks to focus on the origins and dispersals of ancient agricultural communities with respect to a variety of fields of study to establish a historical interpretation from a comparative perspective. Although Bellwood admits to having training only in the discipline of archaeology‚ the book also considers the
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Sixteen-year-old Jayd Jackson is nobody’s fool. Street-smart‚ book-smart‚ and life-smart‚ she knows when somebody’s trying to jack her‚ or just plain play her--even someone as fine as her (ex) man KJ. And she knows how to survive the streets of Compton. The girl’s got it going on. What she doesn’t know is how to play the game at South Bay High‚ aka Drama High‚ a white school in Los Angeles where the kids keep looking at Jayd like she’s going to steal one of their rides. And that’s just the beginning
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