In the essay “In praise of margins‚” Ian Frazier explains the importance of having marginal activities. He describes these activities as something you do with no purpose‚ where you are free to let your mind run wild. Sometimes marginality is tangible in the sense you can actually create something while doing a marginal activity. Frazier’s marginal place as a child was eh woods. There he and his friends would pretend to be explores and try out odd ideas. Odd ideas that later they would come to realize
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As kids‚ my friends and I spent a lot of time out in the woods. "The woods" was our part-time address‚ destination‚ purpose‚ and excuse. If I went to a friend’s house and found him not at home‚ his mother might say‚ "Oh‚ he’s out in the woods‚" with a tone of airy acceptance. It’s similar to the tone people sometimes use nowadays to tell me that someone I’m looking for is on the golf course or at the hairdresser’s or at the gym‚ or even "away from his desk." The combination of vagueness and specificity
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In Ian Frazier’s essay‚ “In Praise of Margins”‚ the author talks about his childhood life and how he had “margins” where he and his friends would do things and nothing would matter because they wouldn’t care. “Marginal” thought is valuable because it allows adults to use their imagination. His purpose is to try new activities without shame; it’s the spur of the moment that defines margin. I think his view about marginal activity is comprehensive and relatable. When we think of margins‚ we think
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In Ian Frazier’s “In Praise of Margins”‚ Frazier emphasizes the importance of engaging in “marginal” activities. He does not like the negative connotation that the word “marginal” has been given. It’s negative connotation comes from the thought that it describes things that have close to‚ or no purpose. All activities start out as having no purpose to them always end up having a deeper meaning to them in the end. Activities such as traveling‚ playing basketball‚ and exploring the woods in “In Praise
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The essay take the F by Ian Frazier is about his experience living in Brooklyn and that people that live there. People that live in Brooklyn don’t describe where they live in terms of direction like east or north but rather they refer to their neighborhoods and the subway lines that are nearest to them. He talks about the F train that he rode in and out of Manhattan and that diversity of the people who are riding the train. He mentions three classes that are classified as upper‚ middle‚ and low class
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“Take the F” by Ian Frazier In the essay "Take the F" by Ian Frazier he writes about the experiences he had living in Brooklyn. He talks about a lot of topics such as city life‚ diversity‚ travel. He shares his moments while he was in Brooklyn. In the essay he talks about the people he was surrounded by‚ the things he did and places
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“In Praise of Margins” “In Praise of Margins” by Ian Frazier‚ the author argues that marginal places and activities are the necessity of life. For Frazier‚ marginal places are where you can be yourself and be free. As a kid‚ Frazier and his friends explored the woods‚ where they picked blackberries‚ and crunched ice underfoot. Eventually‚ Frazier and his friends grew up and no longer found the aimless joy that the woods once provided. However‚ Frazier reconsiders the woods and explorations he
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“In Praise of Margins” -Argument In the essay “In Praise of Margins‚” Ian Frazier elaborates on the idea that margins are needed for the purpose of our own sanity. Frazier believes that “as the world gets more jammed up‚ we need margins . . . where you can try out odd ideas that you might be afraid to admit to with people looking on.” He believes that by engaging in marginal activities we can manage to avoid most of the stresses this “jammed up” world has to offer. As a child‚ Frazier’s marginal
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Salvatore on the hit show The Vampire Diaries‚ but that role is portrayed by a completely different person. Damon Salvatore the mean‚ bad‚ and sarcastic vampire is nothing like the real Ian Somerhalder. Ian Somerhalder is an amazing actor who has made it a long way from a cute boy from a small town in Louisiana. Ian Somerhalder was born on December 8‚ 1978. He was born and raised in a small southern town named Covington‚ Louisiana. Like any other family‚ both his parents had jobs and he had a good
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COURSE: DEPT: ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROGRAMME: M.A ENGLISH LITERATURE (PART TIME) SESSION: 2011/2012 SEMINER TOPIC: TO WHAT EXTENT THE IAN MCDONALD’S THE HUMMING BIRD TREE REFLECT WEST INDIAN IDENTITY ISSUES. Introduction The western Indian literature has gradually gained prominence over the years. What we have today is corpus experiences of a group of people known as the west Indians which comprises of a group of island such as Trindad and Tobago‚ Jamaica‚ Antigua
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