are meant to starrtle us. Some books try to scare their readers by giving spooky details or‚ by vivid drawing in the book. Many people do get scared from books but many also do not. For a personal perspective I do not get spooked out by books‚ I usually always need to see the scenes acted out like on a movie which I know a lot of people that have to do that as well. Ways that the author transforms roles trying to scare us is for example‚ in the poem “Beware: do not read this poem‚ by‚ Ishmael Reed”
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In the article of “The Man who Couldn’t Read”‚ it stated‚ “ We can’t waste time to blaming anyone. As a country we need to become obsessed with teaching people to read‚ now.” This quote is very significant to me because not many people likes to read. For example‚ My little brother does not like to read. I have to coercively tell him to read because his negligence gets to him. I have to coercively tell him to read but he sometimes defies me. I continuously tell him the benefits of reading‚ for example;
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More than Bows and arrows Overall‚ I found this film very surprising. I never realized how many Native American achievements that have been overlooked in today’s society. Native Americans have done so much to affect the formation of today’s country that it is astonishing. They have made so many contributions that I had never realized prior to this film. I thought that some of the most important contributions were irrigation techniques and medical procedures. Religion also played a vital role
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Describe an important event in the story Macbeth “Each new morn‚ new widow’s howl‚ new orphans cry‚ new horrors strike heaven in the face”. This is the effect of one man killing his rightful king and selling his soul. Macbeth is that play by William Shakespeare. Some of the important themes in the story are ‘Happiness isn’t certain‚ choices have consequences and you can provoke others. At the start of the story Macbeth is a valiant soldier who at the start of the story was referred to as “valour’s
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The “reading war” has raged since the early 1930’s. What is the reading war and why is a “simple” thing such as learning to read and spell so controversial. Why‚ when Johnny sees the words “yellow pencil” can he color the bird yellow however‚ ask him to spell the word and he stares with a blank face and says (Y_I_L_O). Is this a byproduct of the wars or as people have hypothesized it is for the reason that Johnny comes from a “bad family.” This paper delves into the “Reading Wars” and discusses
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Religious Believers Understand More About the World than Scientists To discuss this statement first we must look at the definition of understanding. Religious believers and scientists would probably differ in their definitions and therefore disagree from the beginning. A religious person would perhaps say that understanding the world means knowing how to be a good person‚ how to live a good life and fulfill God’s plan. A scientist would probably disagree‚ saying that understanding the world is
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In Thomas C. Fosters How to Read Literature like a Professor‚ Foster expresses how every story has a journey that someone or sometimes multiple people go on specific journeys. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus‚ the novel is based on exactly that‚ a journey. One journey is Victor Frankenstein’s quest for knowledge. Foster says that “The real reason for a quest is always self knowledge.” Victor Frankenstein is the perfect example of this; Frankenstein sets out on a journey to
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In the first chapter of Thomas C. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor‚ Foster discusses the five aspects of a typical character’s quest and alerts all readers that “when a character hits the road‚ we should start to pay attention” (6). To start out the chapter a rather dull scene is set of a young boy commuting to a store to retrieve bread for his mother. Foster reveals that the seemingly unimportant commute is actually a quest. It is determined that “a quester” (3)‚ a destination‚ an
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In classrooms students are raised to become educated‚ to become good people‚ and to overall become a strong‚ integrated part of society. In our english classes more specifically‚ we are taught to be these people through the morals that are instilled in the pieces we study. In Francine Prose’s essay on education‚ I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read she inaccurately claims that the importance our teachers set upon those values squanders any appreciation built for the quality of an author’s diction
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“Learning to Read and Write” by Fredrick Douglass is a reminiscent type writing where Douglass talks about how he learned to read. Douglass‚ a slave growing up in Maryland was not allowed to read or write. So his mistress‚ the slave master’s wife‚ taught him to read even though it was forbidden. The mistress Soon stopped for a reason that was never clarified but it was probably because the master found out about Douglass learning to read and made his mistress stop teaching him. So to read and write
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