Zhumabekov Adilzhan 11”A” How do we know what we know? We know a lot of things‚ but have we ever asked ourselves: “How do we know what we know?” As an example let’s take a student. A student gets knowledge from the teachers in the school. But why that student unreservedly listens in what does teacher say? The main reason is that a student believes‚ that his teacher teach him only truth. And if you make so that teacher tells incorrect information‚ a student will just remember it and will not try
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In “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read” Francine Prose confronts this plummeting interest in literature among teenagers. The United States has been afflicted with this disinterest for some time—young students are instilled with passion for math and science yet care little for English and literature. Attempting to explain this disparity‚ Prose argues that mediocre literature options and shoddy teaching methods leave students without any connection to the material they read. Unfortunately‚ while
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Goodnight Mister Tom Theme: Growing Growing is a central theme in Michelle Magorian’s Goodnight Mister Tom. The main character William “Will” Beech grows in many ways including he grows physically‚ he grows with his knowledge‚ and he grows in terms of his abilities. William grows physically. For example‚ at the beginning of the book‚ William is described as ‘sickly and pale with limp sandy hair and dull grey eyes.’ He also has the height and is as tall as a six year old‚ as seen when he stands
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In the novel “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” Maya Angelou describes her life as a young awkward black girl in the American South during the 1930s and subsequently in California during the 1940s. when Maya is only three her parents divorce and ship Maya and her older brother‚ Bailey‚ to live with their paternal grandmother‚ Annie Henderson‚ in rural Stamps‚ Arkansas. Annie‚ who Maya and Bailey call Momma‚ runs the only store in the black section of Stamps and becomes the central moral figure in
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In Francine Prose’s ‘I know why the caged bird cannot read‚’ the education system is said to be a process intended to produce a product. In such context‚ the product will obviously be the student who goes through the education system to ensure that he becomes a responsible citizen in the country that they are living. This essay will discuss the phrase above with the objective of bringing into focus the very processes that the education system imparts to students. The essay will focus on different
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Memories of kindergarten usually consist of crayons‚ singing‚ and holding hands‚ but tto writer Robert Fulghum‚ kindergarten is more than just learning your ABC’s. In his essay All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten‚ he states that “ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten‚” (1). Fulghum clearly and effectively gets his point across with a matter-of-fact list that he supports later on in the essay with thoughtful details. His simple
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Analysis: Chapters 1–5 The lines from the poem Maya cannot finish‚ “What are you looking at me for? I didn’t come to stay . . .” capture two of the most significant issues she struggles with in her childhood and young adulthood: feeling ugly and awkward and never feeling attached to one place. First‚ Maya imagines that though people judge her unfairly by her awkward looks‚ they will be surprised one day when her true self emerges. At the time‚ she hopes that she will emerge as if in a fairy-tale
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1. Some contemporary examples that utilize idealism are - the painting of Jose Lerma: The Lightweight and Michelle Blade: Cast & Cascade. The painting uses a variety of objects like wooden selves‚ Durta-lar‚ paper‚ wood‚ lace etc that has presence of almost mediation in my opinion‚ not because you have to focus on it as much as I did at first glance. . The picture creates an engagement with us viewers. It can be a painting is the women and her features of purity‚ shyness and calmness that can only
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Alison Killing is an architect‚ she talks about death‚ and connects it with architecture. She demonstrates that after technology took over medicine‚ our tools and machines got bigger. In order to bring these big devices such as MRI and PET machines‚ hospitals started to be bigger. Furthermore‚ they started to be mainstream with huge black and white corridors‚ fluorescent light and weird drug smell. Is this the place that a person wants to die? She says that “Where we die is the key part of how we
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Fulghum’s essay “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” he expresses several lessons that he leaned while in kindergarten that still apply to his everyday life today. Robert believes the lessons are so important in life because they are the guidelines to life in his eyes. Fulghum made his list to reach out to his readers about how people underappreciate and undervalue these core lessons to life. I agree with his opinion that these lessons are very important in life but I also believe that
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