Michael Moore’s article‚ "Idiot Nation" complies with Mike Rose’s article‚ "I just want to be Average."; since both articles‚ state that the education or intelligence level of scholar in America‚ are very low. This decreasing level of intelligence‚ in scholars; is caused by the incompetence‚ the instructors comprehend; according to Rose‚ and Moore. One instance of the instructor lacking the proper training; is shown when Rose‚ states; "Sophomore English was taught by Mr. Mitropetros...He had little
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Possible Lives Mike Rose In the reading Possible Lives by Mike Rose‚ Rose talks about an education and community in Calexico‚ California. He started out by mentioning that Calexico is a Bicultural city where they speak two languages‚ the city residents is of 21‚000 with majority Spanish speakers. Calexico was originally not a city but a surveying camp with the name of Mexico and California put together. It was until 1908 that it became a city and no longer a surveying camp. Rose then focus on
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’Both these poems are love poems with a twist.’ Do you agree? ’i wanna be yours’ by Cooper Clarke and ’Stop all the Clocks’ by Auden are both unusual romantic poems. To judge whether they’re both love poems‚ and if so‚ if they have a twist‚ we’d have to analyse classical love poetry. Cooper Clarke wrote ’i wanna be yours’ in the 1980s for a ’punk’ audience (being a self-proclaimed punk poet). The poem is intentionally mocking of the blossoming consumerist culture that valued possession over emotion
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Katy Cibulka Haag College Composition 27 January 2013 Just Your Average Snow Day In grade school‚ snow days were the absolute best part of the winter months and living in Missouri promised at least a few per year. One particular day in third grade stands out in my mind as the best snow day of all. Any kid could tell you how a snow day begins; waking up at the regular time and groggily recalling the forecast from the night before‚ we would run to the window and peer out to see the blinding white
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my fellow classmates and students of all ages. I would like to reach anyone who feels they are “average” and also people who want to be more than average. My audience is of both genders and a variety of ethnic backgrounds. The audience already knows that Mike Rose was a misplaced student who was sent on a dead end track for his education. He was then redefined by being placed in college prep courses and blossomed into a very successful writer. I believe anyone who read the core reading can remember
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that the world’s demographics are always shifting and there has been a steady stream of Middle Eastern immigrants into Western Europe. Because the English Bill of rights provides citizens with freedoms that cannot be denied by the government‚ I think that Aishah Azmi‚ 23 was only acting in her right by wearing a veil that her religion regards as necessary for moral purposes. The Koran states‚ Quran (33:59) - "Tell thy wives and thy daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks
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katienagler Just another WordPress.com site Home About Introduction MAR 21 Mike Rose Annotated Bib and Summary Posted on March 21‚ 2012 by naglerk11 Standard Rose‚ Mike. “Rigid Rules‚ Inflexible Plans‚ and the Stifling of Language: A Cognitivist Analysis of Writer’s Block.” College Composition and Communication 31.4 (1980): 389-401. Print. Mike Rose brings all the chapters of this book together by not just researching how writers write‚ produce‚ plan‚ revise‚ etc.; but instead he is
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Katelin Griffith English 110 Essay #3 Week 2 Girls Just Want to Have Fun We all have moments in our lives that we are not too proud of. Looking back on my own life there are a few moments that were embarrassing‚ but I would not change them for the world. That being said‚ there is one day that was surely going to be remembered forever because consuming several alcoholic beverages before a school field trip is an unforgettable moment of stupidity. To begin
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In the article “Girls Just Wanna Have Fangs” Sady Doyle proposed the idea that teenage girls are the main reason the Twilight series made its big debut‚ though clearly to Sady the series and the girls did not deserve this much negative attention. Doyle discusses many points in the article a big part of it is that girls play such a huge role in the progression of the series success. Doyle address both the movies and the books in this article. As Sady states “Twilight isn’t a literary masterpiece
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In Lives on the Boundaries‚ Mike Rose claims that developmental English classes that are meant for remedial students are not actually helping them to become literate. The curriculum is actually hindering students from becoming literate. Rose states that those kinds of remedial classes teach the students that writing is about structure and being grammatically correct instead of being a way to express meaningful ideas. Because of these “corrective teachings”‚ the students see writing as tedious. Rose’s
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