Response to the Fountainhead The excerpt of the brought me into the scene of a drastic debate between a unique young student and a strict dean. It is no doubt a conversation of age‚ as well as principle. Roark‚ a highly personalized architecture student‚ was facing the awkward situation to be expelled from his university because of his terrible performance and random attitude towards his final project. He received an interview from the dean who was trying to find out whether Roark was aware of
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Pride and Prejudice Reader Response To me personally I found this book to be beneficial in understanding the ways of society throughout time. Within Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice‚ Bingley and Jane’s relationship proves that social pressures essentially inhibit people from fulfilling their true identities‚ and their true desires. Whether it manifests itself in the pressure to marry for security and convenience‚ or the pressure to attain affluence and culture‚ the social norm erases individual
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Response Essay In reading the three articles‚ “From Degrading to De-Grading” by Alfie Kohn‚ “And Now He is Nothing” by Michael Specter and “Dilma Rousseff” by Simon Romero my impressions of each article varies from one of unbelief to affirmation. As compelling as the ideology of not grading is‚ the practicality of implementation would be enormous. The assumption that Lance Armstrong is now nothing can it really be so easily dismissed? Finally‚ Dilma Rousseff rise to power as a right of previous
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Spamalot Response A play about a King on a quest for a magic grail‚ by the sound of that it seems like this is just some ordinary play‚ but no this is Spamalot. Spamalot is a comedy where everything is humorous and light hearted. There are many things I love about this play including the set and costumes‚ these two elements really made the play better to me. However‚ one improvement that could have been made was the lighting in the play. As the curtains of the theater opened up I saw a big
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Response Paper: Saying No to College For many high school students‚ the obvious choice after graduation is going to college. But why has this become the norm? With many students being conditioned at a young to prepare for college‚ there might not seem like any other choice. As college tuitions continues to rise and the job market continues to decline‚ young adults have started to rethink the choice to attend college. After all‚ there have been many successful people who have not graduated
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Response Essay The Stay-at-Home Husbands’ Feeling The Article Wall Street Mothers‚ Stay-Home Fathers –As Husband do Domestic Duty‚ These Woman are Free to Achieve-“ by Jodi Kantor and Jessica Silver-Greenberg is in most way neutral towards the two genders of this role reversal. The article shows both the perspective of husbands and wives‚ and it looks like that kind of role reversal is fine. However I believe it is unfair for the husbands. This is because sometime the husbands can feel both unhappy
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Response to Literature Essay “The Horned Toad” ‘Your little Juan is safe with God‚ my son’ she [great-grandmother] comforted.” (pg. 4‚ paragraph 8). The realistic short story‚ “The Horned Toad”‚ written by Gerald Haslam‚ is awe-inspiring. In “The Horned Toad”‚ taking place in the mid 1940’s‚ in Oildale‚ California‚ a young boy learns how to be a companion with his great-grandmother. The narrator finds a horned toad that changes his perspective about his great-grandmother. In life‚ sometimes
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Narrative Response 1 The Shadow‚ was written by Albert Camus‚ in the year of 1942‚ just three years after World War Two began. Even though throughout the book much of the war isn’t shown‚ Albert Camus‚ was still able to incorporate one aspect of the war‚ racism. While at his mother’s funeral the main character first notices the women sitting next to his mother’s coffin. “An Arab woman—a nurse‚ I supposed—was sitting beside the bier; she was wearing a blue smock and had a rather gaudy scarf wound
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The Giver INTRODUCTION The book was great! This book and its story are unique. The Giver is a deftly crafted work‚ both stunningly beautiful and deeply disturbing. Finding myself being imperceptibly lulled by the peace‚ order‚ safety and serenity of Jonas’s world; being awakened by the sickening thud of reality’s steel-toed boot in the gut‚ leaving both him and me breathless and disoriented in the aftermath. This story is haunting and powerful. It’s a raw portrayal of the presumed moral sacrifices
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English Assignment (Summary Response Essay) Nama : Ayu Pradina Boeboe NIM : 16712135 Fakultas : FTI Wilfried Prewo in his article with the title “The Sorcery of Apprenticeship” claims the Germany economy is productive to conduct the nation’s youth training system. The advantages of this training are it is based in the workplace‚ offer a transition from school to traning to work‚ and it also strengthen the tradition of internal advancement. I agree with his opinion which he said this
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