How to Read Literature Like a Professor Introduction: How’d He Do That? Conventions in stories: Types of characters Plot rhythms Chapter structures Point-of-view limitations Chapter 1: Every Trip is a Quest (Except When It’s Not) The reason for a quest is always self-knowledge The stated reason is never the actual reason to go on a quest‚ the real reason for a quest is self-knowledge. Most of the time‚ when a piece of literature involves someone going somewhere and doing something‚ it
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Marie Louis Valet 5/2/2013 Speech 07 Principles of Public Speaking The many challenges young adults face today vary greatly from peer pressure‚ to family issues and drug use or abuse. These are some of the difficult choices facing parents and young adults daily and ought to be dealt with. We often think young adults are ready to launch off into a career‚ college‚ and lively adult social scenes. When in fact today’s young adults are faced with so
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is illegal but many of us do it anyways‚ including myself. Today I will be informing you all about the possible dangers of texting and driving‚ the cost of texting and driving‚ and even the emotional after affects of texting while driving. After my speech today I want you all to think twice before you even think about texting while driving and hopefully you will all agree with me not to. Lets begin with the risks of texting while driving. There was a study by Virginia tech transportation institute
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The primary virtue of How to Read Literature Like a Professor is it’s "duh’ factor. Take this trick question: In a lake‚ there are a patch of lilies‚ which double in size every day. If this patch of lilies take 48 days to cover the entire lake‚ how many days would it take for the patch to cover the entire lake? Maybe you think you know the answer. Maybe you have no clue. But then you hear the answer. That it takes 47 days for the lilies to cover half of the pond. It’s that feeling - that the knowledge
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In “How to Read Literature like a Professor” Foster conveys new insight to books and movies. He explains about literature that isn’t just on the surface. He explains how the author chooses the correct season to put the movie in. Foster talks about the true meaning of flight. He also tells of what water means. The movie The Longest Ride connects with chapter 20. The movie is set at the end of summer about to be the start of summer. An art student‚ Sophia‚ is about to graduate from college and
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shocked‚ flattered‚ and elated‚ all at the same time. As the excitement died down and I began to worry about my salutatory address and a myriad of ideas of what I wanted to say flooded my mind. But‚ as June rolled around and senioritis kicked in‚ my speech felt like just another last minute homework assignment I needed to complete. For inspiration‚ I searched “hashtag salutatorian” on all forms of social media: Instagram‚ Twitter‚ and even Tumblr. Unfortunately‚ these all failed to inspire me and
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removed. (September 2007) The absent-minded professor is a stock character of popular fiction‚ usually portrayed as a talented academic whose focus on academic matters leads them to ignore or forget their surroundings. The phrase "absent-minded professor" is also commonly used more generally in English to describe people who are so engrossed in their ’own world ’ that they fail to keep track of their surroundings. It is a common stereotype that professors get so obsessed with their research that they
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An Internship Report On Letter Of Credit Opening‚ Lodgment And Retirement Procedures And Performance LimitedOf Prime Bank Limited- An Analysis A Report Submitted In Partial Fulfillment Of The Requirements For The Degree Of Bachelor Of Business Administration Supervised By Md. Mehadi Masud Lecturer Faculty of Business Studies Department of Accounting & Information Systems University of Dhaka Prepared By Mohsina Akter Roll-11124 Section-B‚ Batch-11 Faculty of Business Studies Department of Accounting&
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Discussion Question 2 Employer-sponsored Retirement Plans you will find the next information: Discuss the origins of employer-sponsored retirement plans. Then‚ discuss the 2-3 most prominent trends in retirement plans including its impact for both the employee and the organization. Respond to at least two of your fellow students Business - General Business Employer-sponsored Retirement Plans. Discuss the origins of employer-sponsored retirement plans. Then‚ discuss the 2-3 most prominent
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You have been invited to give a speech to the Australian Speaking Society on the topic ‘great speeches – the secret of success.’ Write the transcript for the speech including references to at least three speeches set for study. *** Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ an American essayist‚ lecturer and poet of the mid-19th century once said: “Speech is power: speech is to persuade‚ to convert‚ to compel‚” and how correct is he even today. Speeches are an essential form of communication in our society as it has
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