In the essay “Only Connect…” by William Cronon he talks about ten important qualities that he thinks best describe who a liberal educated person is. Though all the qualities were amazing and well explained‚ the third quality “They can talk with anyone” was very captivating. The theme of this topic was captivating because we live in a world in which people communicate through technology far more than face-to-face communication. Our generation has become so accustomed to texting and emailing as our
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------------------------------------------------- College Pressures In the article‚ College Pressures‚ William Zinsser shows parents the burdens that college students have while they are in school. In the essay he states the four pressures that the students face: economic‚ parental‚ peer‚ and self-induced. The reader can be easily confused when Zinsser first begins the essay. It starts off with someone writing notes to someone else‚ but who is speaking? Zinsser then follows this by fully explaining
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ours? Novelist V.S Naipaul raises this question in the story of B. Wordsworth‚ one of the stories in Miguel Street‚ a 1959 book of Trini characters. "Trinidadians are more recognizably ’characters’ than people in England"‚ said Naipaul in an August ‚1958 piece in the Times Literary Supplement. The "characters" in Miguel Street’s portrait gallery include "Man Man" and "Bolo"‚ both of whom are quite familiar‚ and B. Wordsworth‚ a poet-calypsonian who is the society’s solitary creative voice
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for Happiness? The Four Loves‚ authored by British novelist C.S. Lewis‚ is often viewed as one of the best books written on the subject of love as it pertains to religion. In the book‚ Lewis covers many ideas including the four types of love which include: storgé (empathetic love/affection)‚ philia love (the love between friends)‚ Eros (erotic/romantic love)‚ and Agapé (the unconditional ‘God’ love). In this book‚ Lewis also covers the differences between need and gift love; however‚ one of the most
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Love has the effects of a drug. One can become an addict to love and act irrationally‚ just like the effects of a drug addiction. In the Elizabethan era romantic comedy‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ William Shakespeare reveals with a motif of the magic of a special violet flower the effects of love make people irrational‚ and can happen to anyone. Love has effects that make one irrational. The play shows several times with the magical effects of two different flowers how irrational love can make
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William Faulkner’s work “Barn Burning” is a great example of how authors can connect his writing with the reader. I observed that Faulkner gives us the duty to figure out each situation along the story. He introduces a problem‚ provide the details‚ but doesn’t conclude with a resolution. To me‚ it sounds as if he wants us to draw our own outcome. For instance‚ when Sartoris betrays his dad‚ Mr. Snopes gets killed‚ but we don’t know for sure what happens after it. In order to satisfy our ending‚
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Scarlet Ibis‚ William Armstrong‚ the protagonist‚ is born with a large head‚ petite red‚ shriveled body‚ and a cruel disability. From the start he has an awfully small chance of life and already has a coffin with his name on it. His brother‚ only referred to as Brother in the story‚ states‚ "...was‚ from the outset‚ a disappointment." Although Aunt Nicey believes he will survive‚ the parents of the child have already given up hope. Brother sadly describes his mother’s conversation as William lives to
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Nature is the universe‚ with all its phenomena‚ the elements of the natural world. In society there are those individuals that have an intense connection with nature. William Wordsworth‚ a romanticist‚ pantheist and transcendentalist believed that the natural world was an emblem of god or the divine and his poetry often celebrates the beauty and spiritual values of the natural world. Chris McCandless believed that nature was the essence of freedom. The module "In the Wild" deals with humanity’s relationship
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Summary: In Deborah Netburn’s Los Angeles Times article entitled “A wake‚ some prayers and a little retail therapy: How NASA engineers mourn the death of a spacecraft” which was published on November 9‚ 2017 shares what an emotional experience losing Cassini‚ a robotic explorer‚ was. Netburn presents the different ways that engineers dealt with this grief. The first‚ is that the engineers had a funeral for the rocket and grieved that way. They prayed and read scriptures and also coped by buying
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A giant field of daffodils or a single Calypso borealis in a murky swamp‚ both equally beautiful but vastly different. John Muir and William Wordsworth have two very different way of describing things that are very similar to each other. Both are capable of portraying beautiful stories but in two completely opposite ways. Wordsworth uses intriguing syntax to portray his story while Muir uses profound connotation and diction. John Muir uses lots of profound connotation and diction to portray his connection
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