beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you’re good for. We might both do despicable things‚ Ender‚ but if humankind survives‚ then we were good tools." Graff is explaining to Ender the philosophy behind everything they are doing. Although Ender does not know it at the time‚ this is the same reasoning that the adults will use to manipulate the children time and time again. Ender objects to this idea‚ because
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Gage would agree with this because he had his teacher‚ Miss Hurd‚ try to help him improve with his writing skills. The next author was Malcolm X. His writing was also about his life. He wrote about how he was illiterate while he was in prison‚ but to pass his time he decided to learn how to become literate. He started this by reading the dictionary. While he read the dictionary‚ he would copy each word down so‚ with time he would memorize the words in the dictionary. Eventually‚ he learned better
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Some of these critics tell us that contrary to popular belief‚ "far from making us smarter‚ online technologies are actually making us dumber." (Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein. 2006‚ 168) On the other hand‚ there are people who challenge this school of thought; they bring up the point that students are able to find a target audience and tweak their writing to appeal to their directed audience because of the use of social media. This whole time the author’s advice or opinion on the use of technology
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You didn’t want me‚ you bastards‚ you wanted Peter‚ but you made me do it‚ you tricked me into it!’ He was crying. He was out of control.” (Card 391) This quote explains the fact that he was deceived. He didn’t want to kill all the buggers‚ Colonel Graff told him it was a simulator and that no damage would be caused by this. He is a person who is kind hearted and does things for the right
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he was embarrassed at his parent of lack of education. The schools want him become a machine that memorize textbooks and spits out word for word. That causes students become smarter‚ but they are not able to come up with their own thoughts. Gerald Graff‚ author of “Disliking books at an early age”‚ talks about a little boy who does not read for school and dislike reading. The author uses an excuse as a fear of bullied in school and a fact that he got raised
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Logan Gaskey Film Paper: Ender’s Game When I walked into the movie theater‚ there were a good amount of people that came to see it. They all seemed to have a feeling of anticipation for this movie adaptation of the novel. I bet that most of the people that were in the theater the night that I went to watch it all read the book about‚ so they know what they are getting into and the book has been out for a while so needed to have established some sense of familiarity with the movie. I noticed
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Chris Lee FYS 20 August 2012 In the introduction to “They Say/ I Say”: the Moves That Matter in Academic Writing‚ Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein provide templates designed to help with academic thinking and writing. Specifically‚ Graff and Birkenstein argue that the types of writing templates they offer realistically help set up a conversation and argument. As the authors themselves put it‚ “In our view‚ then‚ the best academic writing has one underlying feature: it is deeply engaged
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The term gluten-free tends to be synonymous with prick or hippie in many people’s minds. They see gluten free diet followers as a cult that brainwashes its followers into eliminating an essential part of their daily diets for an abstract goal of consumer awareness. However‚ few gluten free followers choose their lifestyle just to follow the crowd. On the contrary‚ many of these supposedly brainwashed people are actually independent thinkers‚ concerned citizens‚ and compassionate human beings. For
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too violent. Peter is four years older than Ender. Colonel Graff‚ the commander of the Battle School‚ offers Ender a position at Battle School. He explains to Ender and his family that Ender’s reaction to the bullying and the removal of the monitor was part of Ender’s assessment. Battle School is located on a ship in earth’s orbit. On the flight there Ender shows Colonel Graff that he understands how zero gravity works in space. Graff separates Ender from his classmates‚ and Ender has few friends
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