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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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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Anna Sidhu September 26‚ 2010 Unit 1 – Lesson 1.1 – 1.11 Aunt Poem Literary Response After reading the poem Aunt by Al Young the inference I can make about the aunt’s personality is that she is not afraid to express her emotions whether those feelings are of happiness or anger‚ out going‚ and a generally happy positive person. The reason I know that she is not afraid to express her feelings is from the line in that poem “O & her anger realer than gasoline slung into fire” and “She
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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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Seeing is not believing Yirong Wang This is an essay that introduces a new perspective to us to decode ancient visual arts. The author reminds us that there are other ways of decoding visual figures alongside the “Beazley method” so we need to undermine stereotypes in our minds in appreciating ancient Greek vases. Let’s first talk about “Beazley’s method”. The basic principles of this approach are that we can distinguish the artists through their stylistic skills on the vases. The author thinks
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SOC101 Classical Sociological Theory Sections 107 and 108 Reading Response Questions for Wednesday 5 November: Durkheim on DoL (III) The following questions pertain to The Division of Labor in Society (pp. 201-6‚ 258-74‚ 277-303‚ 309-19). Pp. 320-31 are recommended. Please respond to each question in two to four sentences. Use brief quotes and/or page citations to support each answer. 1. According to Durkheim‚ what are the primary causes of the division of labor in general? Increase in material
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Serrano‚ Edric “HIDDEN INTELLECTUALISM” Reading Response Journal In the article “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff‚ The Author is telling us that knowledge can be seen not only from academic thinking but also in the form of “street smarts”. Graff explains that we know some “impressively street smarts” but does not do well in school‚ but Graff argues that “street smarts” are just as important as “book smarts”. Many people think that it is such a waste‚ that “street smarts” should be taking
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produced by this repetition mimics the numb sway of a high. However this line is still more obvious than the first two because Keats mentions “opiate” which is a much more well-known drug that produces a numb sort of euphoria. The fourth line of the poem introduces a new dynamic to the first stanza. Keats says‚ “Lethe-wards had sunk:” Norton tells us that Lethe is a mythological river in Hades that causes forgetfulness. With this line Keats’ intention in the first stanza can be expanded from a euphoric
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I am having a hard time with this reading response because this was the book I was the most excited to read for this class but I really struggled to like or even finish the book‚ which is very disappointing. Regardless of the notes we were given about the story in class I felt as if I had no idea what was going on during the first third of the book and after that I continuously wondered if I had missed very vital details to the story because I was so confused to begin with. Despite the interactions
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Reading Response In the novel “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime” by Mark Haddon a young boy diagnosed with autism named Chris tries to uncover the murder of his neighbor’s dog. The story is written from first person point of view which is Chris’. By doing so the author allows us to step inside Chris’ mind and understand how he views and analyses things. If the novel were to be written in any other point of view it would not be near
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