important benefit is that the Internet is a great means of communication. A few years ago it was rather difficult to imagine that it would be possible to communicate with people from all around the world. Students have the opportunity to speak to the professors from prestigious universities‚ ask their opinions and extend their range of interests. People have the opportunity to communicate with the people from other countries‚ find out their customs‚ traditions and even visit each
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor Essay By: Naomi Brooks Introduction How’d He Do That? Professors use memorization when reading a new book because they are always looking for correspondences between new and old books. Everything is a symbol until proven wrong‚ since symbolism is used when they are reading‚ thinking‚ and asking questions such as: is this an analogy‚ metaphor‚ or what might it signify? With time professors remember significant events‚ and patterns in novels
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Thomas C. Foster indicates in “How to Read Literature Like a Professor” that usually when a blind person shows up in a piece of literature‚ he can see into the spirit and divine world‚ and can see things that the hero of the story is unable to see. While I don’t believe love is spiritual‚ I do believe that it takes a special eye to see it. In “The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green‚ Augustus’ best friend Isaac is losing his eyesight to cancer‚ and essentially going blind. Even though Isaac is losing
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In the year 1897‚ Bram Stoker releases the crown jewel of the 20th century: his vampire epic Dracula. Ever since Dracula‚ Transylvania‚ and castles have been associative of vampirism‚ the world has become “bloody”. There are slight deviations to the novel‚ but the majority of them are fairly partial to the novel. Worldly views show Dracula as an old man with a new face. The inception of Bram Stoker’s Dracula has been the melting pot of the recreations and incarnations of the world’s deadliest‚ blood-sucking
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Cameron Evans Mrs. Elrod AP Literature and Composition 19 Aug 2012 Observations for How to Read Literature Like A Professor by Thomas C. Foster Introduction: How’d He Do That? 1. Literature has a set of codes and rules‚ a set of conventions and patterns. 2. Conventions are used‚ observed‚ anticipated‚ and then fulfilled. 3. The three things that differentiate a professional reader from those less experienced are: memory‚ symbol and pattern. 4. A “Faustian bargain” is like making
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My Memorable Event: My shadow and God Introduction: - What is human life? Everybody has some memorable events in life; some are good and Some are bad. What is the relationship with human and God? I believe in God because of some experience. My first experience: - Departed to meet the girl but don’t know how‚ when‚ or where? Some buddy helped get information she is coming next day some place Some time. No choice but to take an older person. Crying and asking for help; I feel so happy to see
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Alexis Carino 7/31/10 Paragraph Reviews Chapter One: Every Trip is a Quest (Except When It’s Not) In the opening chapter of Thomas C. Foster’s book‚ he explains the importance of a Quest. It is quite hard to figure out a quest‚ Foster explains that in an example about a young boy who goes to the supermarket and encounters his “nemesis.” Quests are the core base of a story since it involves just about everything a story is trying to portray. For example it includes the quester‚ a place to go‚ a
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My Most Memorable Event Throughout my life I have had numerous memorable events. The memorable times in my life vary from being the best in my life and some being the worse. Either way these memories have become milestones that I will remember forever‚ which is the day of my graduation. This day is the most memorable because the enjoyment I had when I received my high school diploma. I can remember this day like it was yesterday. My uncle came into my room at seven o’clock in the morning telling
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Shelby Oglesby Question one. Chapters five of ’ how to read literature like a professor’ tells us that ; nothing is original‚ that everything is taken from something that has previously been told of a or wrote about. The road by Cormac McCarthy abides by this. When i was in the eight grade I read The Picture of Dorian Grey‚ When i was in the ninth grade i read The Twilight Saga‚ and last week i read Fifty Shades of Grey. All three of the listed books are derived from one another ‚ in all three
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The Nutty Professor and Brains‚ Brains‚ Brains By Jana Gilbert “Hello‚ class!” Professor Dobbins spoke enthusiastically as the last student entered the room. Today‚ he was going to talk about his favorite part of the human anatomy: the brain. “Today is going to be exciting!” All of the students groaned. They knew that when he said something would be “exciting‚” it was always boring. Always. “How many of you know what the Ancient Egyptians believed about a person’s behavior? Who controlled
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