The Business of Learning to Like Books Gerald Graff has had a distinguished academic career; receiving his BA in English from the University of Chicago and his PhD in English and American Literature from Stanford University. Throughout his career‚ he has taught at various universities and is currently a professor of English and education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Today’s summary is about and excerpt from Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American
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"Do you know anything about Gerald Ford? I need to write an essay for school‚" I‚ a fifth grader at the time‚ asked my Grandmother. Take a seat‚" she excitedly replied. Her blue eyes lit up and she spilled forth information; she paused only to breathe‚ then to allow me to write‚ and she’d begin again‚ " He ran in the presidential election against Jimmy Carter in 1976..." This just began the introduction of a five hour discussion regarding Gerald Ford‚ and the 70’s. The conversation started with the
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The book Where things come back by John Corey Whaley is a book about how everything seems to go down at some point‚ but all ended up coming into the right place at the end. The story starts off in a small town called Lily—a small town in Arkansan. Cullen Witter’s cousin Oslo died; his aunt went crazy while Cullen finished his last year of high school. After school‚ he went on a date with a girl his best friend Lucas Cader had to introduce him to—Alma‚ who had a failed marriage and came back to her
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Pied Beauty Hopkins was born in 1844‚ and died just 45 years later‚ in 1889‚ but in this relatively short life he wrote some of the most startling and original poetry of the whole 19th Century. He was a deeply intellectual and religious man‚ and became a Jesuit priest in 1877‚ the same year in which he wrote ‘Pied Beauty’. Throughout his life Hopkins was deeply fond of the countryside and its beauty‚ in which he could see the work and power of God. In ‘Pied Beauty’ he expresses his delight and
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They Say‚ I Say by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein Chapter 1: Summary- This chapter is about how a writer needs to clearly indicate their thesis and convince the audience of their point. It also goes on about how a writer needs to keep the audience engaged. The main point of this chapter is to start your writing with the opposing view or what others are saying. Application- In a debate for example‚ animal testing I might the side against animal testing however while beginning my part of the
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The song “Stan” by rap artist Eminem fits the dramatic monologue format popularized by Robert Browning‚ because in Eminem’s song‚ Stan fits all of the characteristics of the Duke in My last Douches. Stan is extremely obsessive; in the beginning of the song he dies his hair and is trying to actually become Slim Shady‚ even his outfit and style are the same as Slim and is screaming in his girlfriend’s face because she keeps calling him Stanly when I would imagine he would want to be called Slim‚ or
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Gardner‚ Gerald B. (1884-1964) Gerald Brousseau Gardner‚ an English hereditary Witch and allegedly responsible for reviving Witchcraft in the modern Western world‚ was born in Blundellands‚ near Liverpool‚ England‚ on June 13‚ 1884. His father served as a justice of the peace‚ being a member of a family in the timber trade business. The family was of Scottish descent‚ tracing its roots to a woman named Grissell Gardner who had been burned as a Witch in 1610 at Newburgh. Gardner’s grandfather marred
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Case Study I by ___________________________: Citation: Gerald K. Adams v Uno Restaurants‚ Inc Rhode Island State Court‚ 2002 794 A. 2nd District 489 Appeal: Gerald K. Adams v Uno Restaurants‚ Inc Rhode Island Supreme Court No. 2000-266 (KC 97 -1005) Facts: On May 20‚ 1996‚ the plaintiff‚ who had been employed by the defendant for several years‚ arrived for his nighttime line cooking shift at the defendant’s Warwick restaurant. Shortly‚ after his shift began‚ the plaintiff noticed
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Basic Economic Principles: Is life getting better or worse? The media makes it seem like life is getting worse‚ but economics is different. Economists look at objective measures: life expectancy‚ health‚ income‚ education‚ entertainment. Look at these objective measures and most people would agree life is getting better. For instance‚ crime is actually very low compared to other decades but many kids are afraid of being kidnapped. Technology is so much better and much cheaper than they used to be
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1. What things most surprised Mollie-as-Gerald? Some of the things that mostly surprised Mollie-as-Gerald was that the woman had a baby and couldn’t get close to the child. All she did was complain about not having enough energy to clothe herself. You can tell she was suffering from very bad depression. She would stay in her room with the door locked with the wallpaper; which drove her crazy. She made herself believe there was a woman behind the wall and she needed to be set free. One day‚ she locks
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