“Facebook Multiples Genders but Offers Users the Same Three Tired Pronouns. “They Say/ I Say.” Ed. Gerald Graff‚ et al. New York: Norton‚ 2015. 721-724. Print. In the essay “Facebook Multiplies Genders but Offers Users the Same Three Tired Pronouns”‚ Dennis Baron talks about the issues regarding Facebook’s gender identification features. The point of this
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Moves That Matter in Academic Writing‚ the authors furnish certain types of writing templates geared toward cuing students to think cognitively as well as critically; ultimately producing a writing style that is unique and creative to the individual. Graff and Birkenstein maintain that the templates they offer “help students make a host of sophisticated moves” in their writing “that they might not otherwise make”. In addition‚ not only can the templates spark subconscious thoughts and ideas in students
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the provided public schooling. In Hidden Intellectualism‚ Graff shows how he had gained intellectualism‚ not through the public education system but from the sources he sees every day such as sports and magazines. Graff states‚ “Until I entered college‚ I hated books and cared for only sports… that my preference for sports over schoolwork was not anti-intellectualism so much as intellectualism for other means” (958). By stating this‚ Graff shows how when schooling failed to provide a successful education
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Cited: Balko‚ Radley. "What You Eat Is Your Business." Graff‚ Birkenstein and Durst 395-99. Graff‚ Gerald‚ Cathy Birkenstein‚ and Russel Durst. They Say I Say With Readings Second Edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company‚ 2011. Print. Warner‚ Judith. "Junking Junk Food." Graff‚ Birkenstein and Durst 400-05. Zinczenko‚ David. "Don’t Blame the Eater." Graff‚ Birkenstein and Durst 391-94.
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The twenty-first century has brought about an explosion of information and ideas: as some would call it‚ the “digital renaissance.” With this comes the notion of mankind’s relationship to the machines that are making this new renaissance possible. Is the rise of technology improving how we think‚ or is it negatively impacting it? Are we getting “smarter” with the rise of this technology? This highly debated topic brings up many differing arguments. Clive Thompson in “Smarter than You Think: How Technology
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head coaching and the assistant coaches. You could also say that the adults like Colonel Graff and Major Anderson were apart of the football connection too. Because Major Anderson could be like the General Manager in football. A General Manager in football runs your team with drafting players‚ signing players‚ and has a connection with the head coach like Major Anderson does with all the commanders. Colonel Graff is like an Owner of an NFL team. An Owner of an NFL team basically is the highest guy or
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’s custom of over-consumption in late 1990s. He defines "Affluenza is a painful‚ contagious‚ socially-transmitted condition of overload‚ debt‚ anxiety and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more‚" (De Graff‚ J. & Wann‚ D ) Affluenza in The U.S. and Its Cure The authors‚ De Graff and Wann did their best to prove to the readers in their book‚ "Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic" that The "American society is affected by Affluenza"‚ and then they talk about what they think should be done
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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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school. The boys name was Stilson Ender had kicked the boy in the groin‚ also in the face and ribs. He had broken the little boys ribs. In chapter 4 Ender had gotten into another fight with a boy during the launch. He had gotten into this fight because Graff had been talking good about him in front of the other boys. Ender had broken the boys arm he had done this by grabbing the boys hand and pulling down hard on his hand. In chapter 1 it states “But they let go of him. And as soon as they did‚ Ender kicked
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When I enter the Science Fair together with my friends‚ I’ve seen the different activity. I felt the curiosity behind the “Colored Shadows and Van de Graff Generator”. Colored Shadows shows that not all shadow that we can see is black. We can learn about human color perception by using colored lights to make additive color mixtures. In Van de Graff Generator which makes our hair stand on end. The device looks like a big aluminum ball mounted on a pedestal‚ and you can see its effect in the accompanying
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