Adrienne Nicole Strunk Writing 115 Chris Risley Summary-Response In Praise of the F Word In her essay “In Praise of the F word” by Mary Sherry‚ she talks about how she teaches high school graduates that have been "cheated" by the education system; that they are “handed meaningless diplomas.” 2.) Students were just passed along to the next grade whether they understood the material or not. 3.) And the students soon discover that themselves later on. 4.) Sherry describes how her attention-getter
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Mother Tongue‚ by Amy Tan This story is about a young Chinese-American‚ who grows up speaking Chinese and English (many different forms of English). She talks about how not being able to speak English can create some real difficulties. She tells stories about how her mother spoke‚ what she calls “broken” English‚ and how it affected her everyday life‚ as well as her daughters. At first she was ashamed of her mothers English‚ and that if reflected the quality of what her mother was trying
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Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain Response and Summary Paper The sense of death crushes one’s heart‚ but what happens behind the scenes before a funeral‚ the author: Jessica Mitford was the one to bring this dark secret to light. She goes into great detail of the gruesome make over loved one’s go through. This response is a sort of recap on what she said through greater detail. Through reading this I believe some of this is simply to make money off of people deceased family members. I think this is
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Why Are All The Cartoon Mothers Dead Summary “Why Are All The Cartoon Mothers Dead?” presented an interesting theory about the majority of animated movies. The author‚ Boxer‚ talked about how the mothers in the stories are absent‚ not only are they absent but they are typically dead. A prime example of this is Beauty and the Beast. The author goes on to talk about that not only are the mothers dead but the fathers then take over as the mother and father‚ in some of the stories. Boxer’s example
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Amanda Stivala Composition 1030-72 Summary and Response 9/24/12 Growing up in America one doesn’t really question our customs or the daily lives of the people here. Everyone kind of has a precedent for our everyday live and no one really tries to break the mold on that. Poranee Natadecha- Sonsel argues that Americans are unlike many other countries because they have a certain individualism about everything they do in their culture. In her article‚ “The Young‚ the Rich‚ and the Famous: Individualism
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Film Response #1 “American Tongues” Synopsis: The video American Tongues is a documentary‚ illustrating the aspects of geographical linguistics within the United States. A dialect or an accent means the words we use and how we pronounce them‚ and in this case the language is American English. Variations of English that result in local dialects are discussed‚ reasons for dialect differences are given‚ and attitudes about dialects are shown in the video. There are several ways that dialects form
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Assignment #1: Summary and Response Victoria’s Secret has several ads on television and in magazines that are most likely to bring attention to women. This particular ad contains an image of a women’s arm‚ her hand in a seductive position while holding a red bra in her fingers looking like she is about to drop it on the ground. The background is dark pink around the edges and gets lighter as it gets closer to the bra. This effect draws the audience in so they focus on the bra in the center of
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Summary/Response In Glenn Harlan Reynolds broadside response‚ The Higher Education Bubble‚ he writes that the costs of college is rising year after year. Many families are putting themselves into unnecessary debt in order to send their students to college. This pattern has repeated many times throughout the years and Reynolds refers to this as a higher education bubble. Students feel that because everyone else is going into debt it must be okay. In many cases‚ colleges are not helping the matter
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To Be Is To Live With God The Effect of Using the Mother Tongue on Learning Vocabulary in Elementary Levels Compared to Using Dictionary Examples (A Research Proposal) By: Reza Rouhi Rad Supervisor: PhD Tahriri May‚ 2012 Introduction An inseparable part of learning every language is vocabulary. With poor knowledge of grammar and rules of pronunciation‚ one can communicate‚ but having an insufficient knowledge of vocabulary may lead to severe problems. Vocabulary knowledge is the most important
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I can always count on her to do something if she says that she is going to do it. It just so happens that it was true. I called my mother on her cellular phone and it just so happen she was at a store where there was a Western Union. I caught her in a lie and there was nothing that she could do about it but just sit there and look dumb. She "no"‚ because they were yellow and they look like they I had been walking in a puddle of urine. One example is when I was in Houston‚ Texas at a Robotics competition
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