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    Dalrymple 1 Kevin Dalrymple Matt Martinson English 101.9 1 November 2012 A Summary of David Foster Wallace‚ “In His Own Words” According to the article by David Foster Wallace‚ “In His Own Words” the “most obvious important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.” Wallace argues that a liberal arts education gives you human value instead of just materialistic reward; therefore it not only fills you up with knowledge but “teaches you how to think”. Not the actual

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    Characters Effect on a Reader Characters dealing with a situation affect each reader differently. The characters reaction to a situation may have a reader feel exactly as the character does‚ or in some instances‚ the reader may look more at how differently they would feel in the same situation. In an attempt to answer Henry James on how characters are only as interesting as their response to the particular situation we will look at “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck and “To Build a Fire”

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    this is for this is for this

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    active in development of enterprises involving several commodities and products for last ten years. MEDEP primarily focuses on creating and sustaining micro entrepreneurs through their integration into the value chains and upgrading activities. In this context MEDEP initiated Value Chain Analyses of six selected commodities / products (Allo‚ Dhaka‚ Incense sticks‚ Orange‚ Lapsi‚ and Chyuri / herbal soap.

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    Dumping in our Waters Water is probably one of the most important resources we have. People can survive without food for several weeks but without water we couldn’t live for more than a week. Millions of liters of water are needed every day worldwide for washing‚ irrigating crops‚ and cooling industrial processes‚ not to mention leisure industries such as swimming pools and water sports centers. (Internet Source) Despite our dependence on water‚ we use it as dumping ground for all sorts of waste

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    Many have dubbed this generation of young adults as the “me” generation‚ a self-centered and egotistical group fixated only on their own successes and failures. I concede that this may be fitting; however‚ I also believe that this arrogance can be attributed to the popular belief that independence leads to success and‚ subsequently‚ that success leads to self fulfillment. This natural‚ almost automatic lifestyle‚ in which millennials disregard others and place themselves as the center of the universe

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    The transactional reader response theory uses the text and the response it stimulates in the reader to determine meaning in a work. Using this theory‚ the details “A Father’s Story” presents‚ and how the reader fills in the gaps determines the amount of empathy the reader has for Luke in his action of covering up Jessica’s murder. Throughout the story‚ it is presented that after Luke’s wife‚ Gloria‚ left with their children‚ he does not see the children very often. After the boys grow up and start

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    Reader-Oriented Criticism This essay will summarize what Reader-Oriented Criticism actually is and how it plays a role with in Friday Night Lights. First of all‚ Reader-Oriented Criticism is the interaction of what the text was written to mean and how the viewer reads it‚ also known as text-reader relationships. “As such‚ reader-oriented criticism is largely concerned with “potential” as opposed to “actualized” meanings of the text to an audience” (Vande 331). The text throughs out cues on how

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    love for Hanna was in a way‚ the fate of my generation‚ a German fate…” This quote from Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader illustrates how and why two main social groups are represented in a symbolic way. In other words‚ Michael and Hanna’s love story is an allegory for the relationship between different generations in Germany: those who experienced the war first- hand‚ and those born after the war‚ the ‘second generation’. This relationship is troubled‚ for several reasons. Firstly‚ after Michael

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    Becoming a flexible reader There are three important reading style that each student to be a flexible reader. Each has its own purpose‚ a student has to identify his purpose for reading and decide if he is reading or looking for specific information. The first style is Study Reading‚ this is the use when the purpose is to read difficult material at a high level of comprehension. the student should read at a rate that is slower than his normal rate‚ he must challenge himself to understand the material

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    The reason why I am explaining this story is because the speech felt as if it was directed toward me and my mindset. I’m not going to explain the entire speech because that would be a little off topic. However‚ in the beginning of the speech‚ Wallace says‚ “There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way‚ who nods at them and says ‘Morning‚ boys. How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit‚ and then eventually

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