In her essay‚ Linda Moore tries to persuade her audience that learning a second language should be a requirement not a luxuary. She tried to persuade her audience by using facts and experiences from other countries and to touch the reader’s feeling to make him/her on her side. Firstly‚ she compared the number of Chineese student who are learning English with the number of American students who are learning Chineese. The difference is HUGE. She used that to demonstrate how highly regarded this skill
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Art of Observation A. Title: Orange Crush‚ Author: Linda Hains‚ Location: 3rd floor of the Library A1) In this piece‚ different colors and shapes can be seen on a 3-Dimensional pickaxe. The colors vary from red to blue to yellow and the shapes resemble plant life that is native to the desert. A2) Linda Hains’s axe is titled “Orange Crush” and is located in the 3rd floor of the library right next to another axe. This piece is in honor of the University’s Centennial Anniversary and is labeled
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I learned from the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson that friendship is tender and brutal event. When Melinda loses all her friends at a party just before she starts high school due to a grave of misunderstanding‚ she’s forced to reevaluate the nature of friendship. This story teaches me that friendship can change overtime and people can change too. This proves that you should trust no one because one day people can hurt you and let you down without knowing the true part of the story. In
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1. Jamaal L. Shields 2. Reading #11: “The Code of the Street” by Elijah Anderson 3. The argument Elijah Anderson is trying to make is that the behavior of the children today is greatly influenced by the street culture. In this street culture‚ he describes it as being violent when they’re faced with impersonal attacks and any type of disrespect shown. 4. I think this course reading fits with two course concepts from the lectures in class and the textbook. The first concept would be ethnography
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Communication Communication is the way we express our feelings and show our thoughts. It is a major part of our day to day lives. In Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson‚ Melinda goes through a rape at a party at the beginning of summer. She was raped by Andy Evens and called the cops on the party to tell them that she had been raped. Everyone got in trouble at the party and now blame her for what happened. She does not want to tell anyone what actually happened to her at the party and doesn’t really
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Mattie’s Life and Changes In Fever 1793‚ by Laurie Halse Anderson‚ sixteen year old Matilda (or Mattie) Cook changes dramatically over the course of the book. In the beginning‚ she is portrayed to be a young selfish girl who was always too lazy to work. By the end of the book‚ she is shown to be a strong young woman. Her family of three consisting of her grandfather‚ mother‚ and herself runs a small coffee shop. Her family usually works relentlessly before‚ during‚ and after the shop’s hours
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Ever wonder what was really going through Tinker Bell and Tiger Lily’s lives? In the novel Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson‚ Tiger Lily is a young indian teenager faced with a forced marriage with a abusive young indian boy‚ Giant‚ or to run away from the tribe and find new adventure with Peter Pan and the Lost Boys. In the novel it tends to show you a different view of what’s happening‚ from Tinker Bell’s point of view. It shows how she feels about other characters and what happens as she joins
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Publishers: USA‚ 2008‚ 222pp. By Michael Wiame Owen Anderson is a professor of philosophy and Religious studies and a research fellow in the Princeton University. He published several books including The Declaration of Independence and God the Natural Moral Law. He specializes in epistemology‚ ethics of belief and Religion in America among others. In his exciting publication on the Clarity of God’s existence: The Ethics of Belief in the Enlightenment‚ O. Anderson pointed two principles of importance. His emphasizes
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• Purpose in mind Albert Lau feels that national history is established with a particular intention. The nature of this purpose could either be in a nation’s effort to foster a sense of belonging or even identify amongst its citizens or the state’s means to nation-building. In the context of Singapore‚ the perspective in which the Singapore Story‚ the official national history‚ is written is one which can be used in achieved in its “agenda of nation-building”. • Shaper of national identity
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Alhajri Fahad Who has never used a phone during class time or driving? Almost everyone including me have done this before but my question is; is it necessary to use the phone even if we are really busy? The addition of using phone becomes a very common among teens those days in the whole world and becomes a serious problem that needs to be focused on. There are two things that must be focused and discussed; which are the addition of using phone and the solution of it. First of all
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