A smoke-free campus Smoking is bad for everyone. When people have a non-smoking area‚ they really appreciate it. However‚ some people ruin the place where there are signs that is prohibited; they still smoke in that place. On the other hand‚ almost every school‚ college and university is smoke-free. Although there are signs around the schools‚ some people are still smoking. It looks like they do not see the signs. In my opinion‚ every school needs a strong cooperation with students so that they
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Readers have been responding to what they have read and experienced since the dawn of literature. For example‚ we have Plate and Aristotle who were concerned about audience responses and how plays generated pity and fear on them. Still‚ the audience or readers were passive. After the appearance of reader response theory‚ readers are activated. They involve themselves to elaborate the text‚ fill in the gaps and enact their experiences with the text. Most reader response critics can be divided into
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The transactional reader response theory uses the text and the response it stimulates in the reader to determine meaning in a work. Using this theory‚ the details “A Father’s Story” presents‚ and how the reader fills in the gaps determines the amount of empathy the reader has for Luke in his action of covering up Jessica’s murder. Throughout the story‚ it is presented that after Luke’s wife‚ Gloria‚ left with their children‚ he does not see the children very often. After the boys grow up and start
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Reader Response Theory - can be traced back to Aristotle and Plato - literature’s effect on the reader - sources in the writings of the French structuralists (who stress the role of the perceiver as a maker of reality) - reader criticism became recognized as a distinct critical movement only in the 1970s - less a unified critical school than a vague collection of disparate critics with a common point of departure - “Reader Theory” “audience theory” neutral terms
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Reader Response: 1984 The novel 1984 made me paranoid and suspicious of the government’s power and intentions. I became aware of the potential manipulation of which the government could impose upon us. The very thing which I depend on for security and protection may be a conniving entity which feeds off of it’s own power and corruption. As I flourished in my naivety‚ I was unaware that the people I trusted‚ whom I believed to be wholly dedicated to our well-being as a society‚ could betray
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The 1920’s were a time of great cultural change in America. Traditionalists found the new values of the Jazz Age to be utterly sinful and immoral. The youth of the twenties rebelled against the constraints of their elders in several ways. One of the most provocative changes was the "new look" for young women. The Flapper Era entered America with a bang. Ladies did the unthinkable in cutting their long tresses to chin length bobs‚ smoking‚ wearing shorter dresses and even engaging
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Reader Response In the short story Bluebeard‚ there is a man who is married to an average house wife. The main part of this story is how Bluebeard leaves his house for a week or so for some reason. This results in leaving his wife all alone in Bluebeards house‚ where his wife has not seen a whole lot of it. Bluebeard gave her a key and said there is a secret closet in the house that you are permitted from. So the wife goes on searching and does not think about that one closet. However‚ her curiosity
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Tracy Hall Professor Thompson ENGL 310 Reader Response Essay January 26‚ 2011 Why Aren’t Women Funny? In his Vanity Fair essay‚ “Why Women Aren’t Funny” (2007)‚ author Christopher Hitchens purports that women are not as funny as men because they don’t have to be; that men must be funny in order to attract women‚ but women don’t need to be humorous to be appealing to men because they are already alluring by simply being women. In the essay‚ Hitchens comes off as quite the chauvinist
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Into the Wild Reader Response Into the Wild‚ written by Jon Krakauer‚ is a memoir about how living in the wilderness and how Chris McCandless lived nearly two years in the wild. Throughout the novel‚ Krakauer relates Chris’ adventures to his own experience in mountain climbing and living on his own. This is not your typical memoir where the author tells a story about their lives. Jon Krakauer is not the main character; however he tells a story of this boy who leaves his well-developed family for
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READER’S RESPONSE STRATEGY/ READER’S RESPONSE CRITICISM Applying Reader Response Strategy in Appreciating Literary Works The appreciation of the short story applies seven reader response strategies posed by Beach and Marshall (1990); they are describing‚ conceiving‚ explaining‚ interpreting‚ engaging‚ connecting and judging. The guiding questions are constructed based on the responses. NO | Response | Explanations | Indicators | Questions to guide | 1 | Engaging(Include) | Getting involved
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