Sabrina Choung Professor Boeck RWS 200 February 6‚ 2015 Reading Responses Colombo Pg. 139-140 1. Moore provides evidence to support his contention that America is a nation of idiots by stating‚ “There are forty-four million Americans who cannot read and write above a fourth grade level –in other words‚ who are functional illiterates” (Colombo 122) and also explains how he feels as if America wants to keep individuals “stupid” and “ignorant” (Colombo 123). I do agree with his statement that there
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A Modest Proposal Reading Response Jonathon Swift wrote A Modest Proposal in 1729 describing the very real poverty plaguing the Irish people. He lays out their misfortunes clearly and rationally‚ and argues‚ by hard-edged economic reasoning as well as from a self-righteous moral stance‚ for a way to turn this problem into its own solution. He draws attention to the number of starving children in Dublin. Swift goes through great pains to statistically support his proposal citing examples and generalizations
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Reading Response Mother tongue usually means the language first learned by a person‚ but for Amy Tan it has a special meaning‚ limited language which is the language her mother speaks. Tan feel so deeply about her “mother tongue” because the limited language effects that many people misunderstand her mother. The way Tan’s mother speaks effects the native English speaker think that she isn’t able to express her thoughts perfectly and don’t want to communicate with her. For examples
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Reading Response 1: Douglass Fredrick Douglass was a slave who against the closed minded thinking of the society he lived in‚ rose above and taught himself to read and write which changed his life for the better. After his master had forbidden his learning any further‚ he continued to learn by making connections with the local boys in the city which lead to his successful escape from the south. Douglass explains the conflict between literacy and slavery as being connected. Douglass writes‚ “education
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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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Heath LyBrand Readers Response Native Son Native Son is a story about an African American boy that has grown up in a poverty stricken area‚ and lived in the shadow of the successful white community. The narrator of the story is Bigger; which is an angry boy that has been created to hold a grudge of hate towards the white community. Wright depicts Bigger as this angry boy that has been molded by racist propaganda on the 1930’s along with the oppression of African Americans during this time
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line in fact – it captured me. The first chapter of the book is titled ‘one hundred and thirty six days before’. I felt extremely curious upon reading that‚ as I questioned what we were leading up to‚ and what myself as the reader was waiting for. ‘One hundred and thirty six days before what?’‚ I asked myself. This made me extremely eager to continue reading. For me‚ as I was coming to the chapters that are a few days ‘before’‚ I was in total suspense‚ and could not put the book down. I think that
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The Chrysalids Reading Response Chapters 4-6 There are a few patterns that I noticed in the Chrysalids the one that really jumped out at me was the idea of “normal” the entire story is based around the idea of “normal” and gods image. It’s repeated all throughout the book‚ Sophie gets her foot stuck in the rocks she doesn’t want her shoe to be removed because she fears David will think of her having six toes as something abnormal‚ in Davids house where there are no paintings on the walls instead
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The Comedy of Errors: Reading Response 2 Act 1‚ Sc. ii of Comedy of Errors begins the cascade of confusing identity that is played up throughout the play with the interaction of Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Ephesus. Through this brief interaction‚ particularly lines 53-94‚ the hierarchy of social status is shown between the two characters. A section of this scene also reveals Shakespeare’s playing with the time period it is supposed to be set in. The significant theme of Comedy of Errors
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“What’s in a Name” Reading Response Within the story Gate’s describes the difference between his family and other black families in town‚ he says‚ “we had stopped off at the Cut-Rate Drug Store (where no black person in town but my father could sit down to eat‚ and eat off real plates with real silver wear).” Gates’ family social status is different from other black families in Piedmont‚ West Virginia due to the fact that his family has “financial security.” His father works two jobs in order to
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