Story Analysis－Two Kinds In the story “Two Kinds”‚ the author‚ Amy Tan‚ intends to make reader think of the meaning behind the story. She doesn’t speak out as an analyzer to illustrate what is the real problem between her and her mother. Instead‚ she uses her own point of view as a narrator to state what she has experienced and what she feels in her mind all along the story. She has not judged what is right or wrong based on her opinion. Instead of giving instruction of how to solve a family
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book SeedFolks by Paul Fleischman. The book wasn’t really what I thought it was going to be. The book was pretty boring but it had a bigger meaning to it. There was an abandon lot full of junk that no one cared about and everyone forgot about. The crime filled community never communicated with one another ever‚ until the lot. The lot changed people and the way they looked at the community. Plot: The book started off about a young girl who didn’t know anything about her father besides he was a farmer
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Paul Kruse grew up in a family that had limited means. When Kruse reached college‚ he studied theology and became a youth minister. Eventually‚ Paul would move out west and join his brother‚ Jonathan. Both brothers began selling mutual funds and insurance to military families‚ a job Paul became very success at; however in 2001‚ 20 years after starting his job‚ was fired. In 2010‚ after moving to Jacksonville‚ Florida‚ Kruse set up a company known as Yorkshire Financial Services and listed himself
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The paint “Existence” by Paul Nash was created in 1917. “Paul Nash was a British surrealist painter and war artist‚ as well as a photographer‚ writer and designer of applied art. Nash was among the most important landscape artists of the first half of the twentieth century. He played a key role in the development of Modernism in English art” (“Paul Nash (artist)‚” 2016). Most of his artwork are inspired in World War I. The painting “Existence” Has very bright and striking colors like yellow‚ green
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Throughout this article Annie Murphy Paul builds a captivating argument using elements of persuasion‚ emotional appeals‚ and word choice based on a "endangered practice"‚ deep reading: defined as-slow immersive‚ rich in sensory detail and emotional and moral complexity- according to Annie Murphy Paul. She references many individuals in the article as a way of providing different perspectives from a variation of sources as one of her many acts of persuasion towards the audience. She also included
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My response is on “Mother Tongue” which is the story of Amy Tan’s successful mother and her struggles with societies views on different dialects of English. The main idea of this story is that society may take a somewhat offensive stance on accents and dialects and assume many things. I agree with this idea for the pure fact that‚ yes people do judge people based on certain things‚ that is just how animals work. Is it unhealthy to stereotype people? Of course. Is it natural of humanity? Undoubtedly
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Annie Murphy Paul uses several forms of factual evidence from multiple sources. She also uses emotion-laced wordings to get her point across about how important deep reading is. Annie builds her argument by using factual evidence from Raymond Mar and Kieth Oatley‚ that states that individuals who read fiction often "appear to be better able to understand other people and empathize with them." By using this evidence‚ it allows the audience to learn one of the many benefits of deep reading.
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On the opposite end on the spectrum‚ Paul Collier addresses inequality as the Alcatraz for developing nations. His prescriptions for poverty directly reflect his thesis on inequality that “as the bottom billion diverges from an increasingly sophisticated world economy‚ integration will become harder” (Collier 202). Collier views globalization as a series of “chutes and ladders” in which countries can rise or fall to the bottom and he views the poor nations of the world as the “unlucky minority” who
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provide Currie’s credibility‚ stating that he is a philosophy professor. Annie Murphy Paul proceeds to incorporate dictation and factual research to slowly build up her persuasive passage. In the second paragraph of her article‚ Paul states the credentials of her information as well as the source. The investigation demonstrates how reading literature appears to make readers more emphatic and understanding. Paul once more takes research done by Britain’s National Literacy Trust that validates her
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Paul Revere’s ride by Henry David Longfellow was written in 1860. Henry david Longfellow was born in 1807 in maine and was a harvard scholar. The poem “Paul Revere’s Ride is one of his most known verses. Paul Revere was a silversmith and a colonist who took part in the boston tea party. Paul revere during the Revolutionary war was a rider for boston’s committee of safety. While Revere was in that position he made a warning system by using lanterns to warn minutemen of the british. Paul Revere is
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