Nothing is Ever Thrown Away: The Dana Gioia Poetry Project By: Jonathan Chiang By: Jonathan Chiang Chiang 1 Chiang 1 “Infinity is Open to Your Sight”: A Brief Biography of Dana Gioia “Dana Gioia is a prominent advocate for the restoration of meter‚ rhyme‚ and traditional formal structures to American poetry” (Muratori). He is considered to be one of the best known poets affiliated with the New Formalism movement. This movement emphasized traditional poetic techniques as well as narrative
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Dana Gioia offers convincing argument on the importance of reading‚ which has been dramatically declining for decades. In fact‚ an ability to read critically is fundamental for social interactions‚ range of thinking and even sustainability of society. To build the argument profoundly‚ author uses variety of facts and studies‚ personal anecdote and conclusions. Throughout the passage‚ Gioia includes institutional surveys such as: Survey if Public Participation in the arts‚ Survey of Literary reading
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According to the biography (Gioia‚ N.D.)‚ Ted Gioia - a man of many hats - grew up in Hawthorne‚ California and graduated from Hawthorne High School. Gioia focused his studies at Stanford and Oxford University‚ with degrees in English‚ philosophy‚ politics‚ and economics. Dabbling in the business world as a consultant‚ Gioia proved himself the jack-of-all-trades as he also made himself prominent in the music realm as an author and musician. Gioia has written many books‚ including History of Jazz
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Anderson Dual Credit English September 24‚ 2013 Kennedys Speech In John F. Kennedy’s speech (April 11th‚ 1962) he states that “Increasing steel prices by some 6 dollars a ton‚ constitutes a wholly unjustifiable and irresponsible defiance of the public interest.” Kennedy goes on to say and back up the thought that increasing the price of steel per ton will‚ in the long run. Benefit society. By saying “If
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Kennedy’s "New Frontier" Spirit President Kennedy‚ the youngest president to take office‚ assembled one of the youngest cabinets‚ including his brother Robert Kennedy‚ the Attorney General‚ who planned to reform the priorities of the FBI. Kennedy’s new challenge of a "New Frontier" quickened patriotic pulses. He proposed thePeace Corps‚ an army of idealistic and mostly youthful volunteers to bring American skills to underdeveloped countries. The New Frontier at Home Southern Democrats and
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The Assassination of President Kennedy - Two Points of View One of the greatest tragedies in our nation’s history‚ the assassination of President John F. Kennedy‚ has also been one of the greatest mysteries of the past forty-seven years. There have been two deeply contested beliefs regarding how the assassination was completed. One is that this was the action of a single gunman and the other that their were two or more gunmen. Another key debate has been who was behind the assassination.
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John Gioia John Gioia is a cool guy‚ who dresses very nice‚ and can draw just about anything. John Gioia most of all is a leader‚ on and off the court. John Gioia helps out‚ not because he has to‚ but because he can. John Gioia has the knowledge and the relatability to be one of the best leaders that can compete with the best. Gioia is a young assistant coach for the East Haven High School boys tennis team.He used to play for the team himself‚ and was one of the captains of the team. This is where
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Dana Gioia builds up a very strong argument by having an abundance of factual evidence. That help her back up her every claim. Therefore‚ she is able to persuade the reader on the topic of how there is a decline in the intellectual endurance of Americas new millennials. there is a decadence in intellectual development The New American young adults have shown a decline based off the fact that people are no longer introducing literature into their lives in her article she says “A strange thing has
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In “Entrance” by Dana Gioia‚ the author challenges the reader to reimagine their view of the world. Stepping outside of our comfort zone and trying to understand the view of those in opposition of us. Doing this we don’t necessarily change our ideals and views‚ but better our understanding and ability to accept what we once could never come to imagine. For me‚ particularly‚ Dana’s poem strikes a deep sense of familiarity‚ because I understand exactly what it means to try and accept another view or
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Throughout the story the author persuasive argument is categorized though facts and lots of research from organizations. The author also includes the advantages readers have over the non readers an the disadvantages non readers have. Dana Gioia show the reader examples of how the us reading literature is declining. “If it were true that they substitute histories‚ biographies‚ or political wortles for literature‚ one might not worry. But book reading of any kind is failing as well.” The author says
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