Jennifer Macias 8/25/12 English 121 Roberta Fabiani "The Plug-In Drug" Reading Response The Plug-In Drug is a very good story that get’s you thinking about a lot. It makes you think about all the times you’ve ever watched television and if you were actually controlling the amount of time you spent watching it or if you were sucked into the television set and had a temporary spell on you. The only thing about this story is whether this writer based it all on facts or a matter of opinion? Marie
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Dear Mr John Humphrys‚ I respect you with all means‚ you have voiced your opinion on texting by creating the article ‘Why I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language’ and like you have said what you think‚ I must express my opinion too. Firstly‚ the way you have conveyed your emotion towards the Oxford English Dictionary seems immature‚ your words: ‘I yield to no man in my love for one’ is overly hyperbolic‚ also: ‘They are as close to my heart as they are to my desk because they are
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Title: Looking for Alaska Author: John Green Text type: Young adult; Fiction “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth‚ thinking about how you’ll escape it one day‚ and how awesome it will be‚ and imagining that future keeps you going‚ but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.” John Green’s ‘Looking for Alaska’‚ tells a story about self-discovery‚ first experiences and the deep impact someone can have on a life. Miles Halter is fascinated by last words
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Reading Response #2 Benjamin Franklin’s principles are comparable to the Mary Rowlandson’s orgins in way and also diverse in some ways. In Benjamin Franklin’s The Autobiography‚ Franklin holds alloy of importance on educations and improving one own self‚ and how it can benefit to anyone. Franklin is a person who believes if he constantly read and educates himself he will improve his own work and archive hid dream. Compared to Puritan constant belief in the bible and her faith in god will
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Objective Reading Response In the reading ‘2b or not 2b’’‚ there are figurative devices that can be identified as used by the author. Metaphor; the metaphors found in the passage is used to make a compare the text messages to’ bleak‚ bald sad shorthand‚ Drab shrink talk.’ The comparison continues ‘Texting is penmanship for illiterates’. Another comparisons without the use of the terms ‘as’ or ‘like’ with unlike things that in this case seems to have similar characteristics‚ was
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baseline for self-approval. We will be looking at three different views of thinking starting with William Golding’s three kinds of thinking‚ in “Thinking as a Hobby”‚ moving to Mark Twain’s two kinds of thinking‚ in “Corn-Pone Opinions”‚ and lastly James Harvey Robinson’s 4 kinds of thinking‚ in “On Various Kinds of Thinking.” William Golding describes three different grades of thinking: grade-three‚ grade-two‚ and grade-one. Golding once “viewed grade-three thinking with an intolerant contempt and an
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write my response on the fact that John Proctor has committed adultery with Abigail. I believe that John does not sincerely mean sorry for cheating on his wife Elizabeth. I think this because if he really meant it then he would be begging for her forgiveness and not just saying sorry and it is over now. Also if he really meant it then he would have an actual conversation about the situation and would like to hear her opinion on the problem. Elizabeth has said that she ¨forgives John¨‚ but my
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Reading Response: Resisting Hitler 1. What types of connections did you make most often as you read: text to text‚ text to self‚ or text to world? How did making connections increase your understanding of the magazine article? The connection I made most of as I was reading Resisting Hitler by Susan Campbell is text to world. I think this is because in today’s society‚ there are many rebellions all over the world‚ making it easy for me to recall these kind of acts upon reading Resisting Hitler
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Reading Response: Malcolm X 1. Subject: This reading is about Malcolm X gaining inspiration to learn how to read and write during his time in prison and the many wonders of the world he learns of through reading. The topic is Malcolm X’s passion for learning and the main ideas are what he learns about which drives him to fight for the nonwhite man. The setting takes place in Charlestown Prison and Norfolk Prison Colony where Malcolm X was imprisoned in 1946-1953. Characters included in the reading
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Reading Response 4: Civil Society In the reading‚ “Civil Society‚” Edwards discusses the concepts of civil society as a voluntary‚ associational life that primarily thrives within western cultures and deals with a community of citizens that have a shared common interest. The reading also focused on how civil societies promote progressive policies‚ nurture positive social norms that encourages stability‚ and advocates accountability and checks against state authority. Moreover‚ noting the beneficial
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