The five readings this week demonstrates the concepts that I have chosen to work on for a successful essay. First‚ in "The Fourth State of Matter" by Jo Ann Beard‚ he uses appropriate language for each character in her story. In the passage‚ the main character is listening to her voicemails from her husband Chris. "I have to talk to you right now‚" he says grimly. "Where are you? I can never find you." "Try calling your own house‚" I say to the machine. In his second message he has composed himself
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up-to-date‚ but the contents—descriptive‚ narrative‚ and argumentative essays‚ as represented by George Orwell‚ Joan Didion‚ James Baldwin‚ Annie Dillard‚ Richard Rodriguez‚ and E. B. White—have the sleepy timelessness of a bayou. John D’Agata’s anthology The Next American Essay cannonballed into these long-quiet waters in 2003. Alongside essays by Didion and Dillard were much less familiar pieces by David Foster Wallace‚ Anne Carson‚ and Harry Mathews. Instead of a typology of essays‚ there were unclassifiable
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“In Praise of Margins” -Argument In the essay “In Praise of Margins‚” Ian Frazier elaborates on the idea that margins are needed for the purpose of our own sanity. Frazier believes that “as the world gets more jammed up‚ we need margins . . . where you can try out odd ideas that you might be afraid to admit to with people looking on.” He believes that by engaging in marginal activities we can manage to avoid most of the stresses this “jammed up” world has to offer. As a child‚ Frazier’s marginal
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workshop for artists” (Bohannon 65). While holding of the smoker‚ Bohannon finally hears “the message spoken in an unfamiliar language – a language made of breath and blood and finality” (69). Bohannon’s essay reminds me of Annie Dillard’s essay “Seeing”. In that essay‚ Dillard explained how there is
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In modern day‚ man does not truly think about how much the earth means to life. On the contrary‚ humans aspire to cease Mother Nature’s beauty with the replacement of modern day cities made up of synthetic nature. Since the dawn of the twentieth century‚ a major theme in the American Arts has been the protest against man’s destruction of the natural world. With this in mind‚ as very well argued in Chief Seattle’s article “Respect”‚ humans fail to be conscious of the physical and sentimental value
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In an abundant number of books‚ audiences are the major guidance whom affect authors the way of their writing. Both of the novel Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard and the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare are books published in different times for wildly different audiences. Both authors show the audiences the reflection of the society from being obsessiveness in the two books. In the story “Living like a weasel”‚ the author wants to tell audiences that they should get
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WRITER’S NOTEBOOK WEEK1 This is my first week of ENG 105 and so far I’m nervous that how am I going to be able to balance my two classes with my work in the Marine Corps‚ this week it was ok keeping in mind my personal opinion about writing/reading‚ the reading for this week somewhat showed me what to expect for the 7 weeks left with this class and since this is an English class I’m sure there will be a lot of essays involved. We had some reading to do for this week for an introduction to writing
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I am writing today to inform you about Globalism. I will begin with . “In 1962‚ the Canadian communications theorist Marshall McLuhan predicted the electronic transformation of the planet earth into a “global village”. In the global village‚ communication between geographically remote parts of the world would be almost instantaneous‚ and every important new development—technological‚ ecological‚ political‚ economic‚ and intellectual—would affect every villager to some degree. Social and geographic
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our oceans‚ forests are being chopped down by the mile‚ and hunting has pushed some of the most beautiful creatures to have ever existed to bring of extinction. Our species lost has lost our respect for the world around us and authors such as Annie DIllard and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Authors such as those attempt to reinstate the lost concept of respect for the natural world through pieces‚ such as “Living Like Weasels” and “Nature” respectively. From these pieces we learn the value of nature and why
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Homer’s Epic The Odyssey and Annie Dillard’s vignette from The Fixed. The Cyclops Polyphemus from The Odyssey and the Polyphemus moth in The Fixed have some similar physical attributes‚ as well as some differences. Also‚ their injuries in the stories are similar‚ but have different outcomes. The Cyclops and the moth are similar and different in their physical attributes. Homer compares the Cyclops to "a shaggy mountain‚" meaning that it is large and hairy‚ which it is. Dillard describes the moth as "one
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