Pop Culture Popular culture has a tremendous effect on our everyday lives for years and has had a significant change on everyone in some type of way. It is heavily influenced by technology. In some form of way technology has allowed people to gain more knowledge on general topics. “2b or Not 2b” by David Crystal‚ and “Watching TV Makes You Smarter” by Steven Johnson‚ both discuss how technology has had a huge impact on the way our modern day society works. Crystal argues the benefits that come with
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all high school graduates are capable of challenges in college‚ as most of them do not have enough academic abilities to perform extremely well. Consequently‚ young adults might have intangible hopes about their career after school. In contrast‚ Gerald Graff‚ a professor of English and education at the University of Illinois at Chicago‚ encourages young individuals‚ particularly “street smarts”‚ to go to a higher institution
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"They Say / I Say With Readings" is written by Gerald Graff‚ Cathy Birkenstein‚ and Russel Durst. It was published in 2015 by W.W. Norton and Company. The Preface of "They Say/ I Say" is essentially about how the goal of this book is to make the writing process simpler for people and to break down the topics and methods that will be discussed in the textbook. According to the Preface‚ all effective arguments are created using the "they say/ I say" format. The authors of this book encourage the
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Gerald Crabtree‚ professor of pathology and developmental biology at the Stanford University‚ the human race‚ especially the Western population‚ has lost an average of about 14 IQ points since the Victorian Era. Dr. Nijenhuis‚ the co-author of Dr. Crabtree’s
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White-Collar vs Blue-Collar Even though on the surface it’s portrayed as a fictional occurrence‚ the zombie apocalypse boom is really about the economic fears of white-collar workers simply because these people don’t have the necessary skills to survive under such a threat and blue-collar workers would have the upper hand in surviving because of their immense survival skills. White-collar jobs are on the rise in today’s world. They are not as dirty or as labor intensive as blue-collar jobs. It
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My Body‚ My Problem? It seems that obesity will always be a problem with no solution. For once it would be merely impossible to find a solution that everyone likes or even one that the majority will support. There are different points of view in which someone could try to figure something out to at least help with the matter of obesity. ABC News is trying to tackle the problem and inform people on obesity by having a summit with Time magazine and discuss on various ways that would lower obesity
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Cited: Graff Gerald‚ Cathy Birkenstein‚ and Russel Durst. They Say‚ I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. New York: W.W. Norton &‚ 2010. Print. Pariser‚ Eli‚ Siva Vaidhyanathan‚ Evgeny Morozov‚ and Jacob Weisberg. "Is The Internet Closing Our Minds
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Radley. “What You Eat Is Your Business.” They Say I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing .WITH READINGS. Gerald Graff‚ Cathy Birkenstein‚ Russel Durst. New York‚ London. W.W. Norton & Company. 2012. 396-397. Print. Pollan‚ Michael. “Escape from the Western Diet.” They Say I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing .WITH READINGS. Gerald Graff‚ Cathy Birkenstein‚ Russel Durst. New York‚ London. W.W. Norton & Company. 2012. 437-440.
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Ender’s Game is a military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set in Earth’s future‚ the novel presents an imperiled mankind after two conflicts with the "Buggers"‚ an insectoid alien species. In preparation for an anticipated third invasion‚ children‚ including the novel’s protagonist‚ Ender Wiggin‚ are trained at a very young age through increasingly difficult games including some in zero gravity‚ where Ender’s tactical genius is revealed. The book originated as the short
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Academic writing The forms of expository and argumentative prose used by university students and researchers to convey a body of information about a particular subject. Generally‚ academic writing is expected to be precise‚ semi-formal‚ impersonal‚ and objective. Central Values of Academic Writing "When you write college papers‚ you need to remember that you are situated within an academic community [with] clear expectations for what your papers should do and how they should look. While
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