Rosales 1 Cecilia Rosales Professor Allen Final Summary-Response Essay 16 October 2011 Argument Culture: Confrontation Online In “The Argument Culture” by Deborah Tannen‚ she describes our adversarial society in debates and dialogues. Tannen discusses our culture’s style of seeing issues‚ questions‚ and conflicts as having two sides that battle each other for one goal. She states that using war metaphors: war on drugs or fight against AIDS‚ makes every conflict a battle in the minds
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Assignment 1.1 Summary and Personal Response to “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits” By chin Uva‚ Professor‚ Dr‚ Atia Yasmeen‚ Course: English Composition 115 Date: Feb 11‚ 2012 Suki Kim who came from Korea‚ tells in this essay that is named “Facing Poverty with a Rich girl’s Habits” about why she and her the richest family moved to Queens‚ New York in the early 1980’s. When she was enrolled the seventh grade‚ her millionaire father bankruptcy overnight. After her father lost all
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In this story‚ Oates writes about Connie who is a fifteen-year-old girl who‚ like most‚ notices her good looks in the mirror. Her mother has never approved of her and her actions and compares her to Connie’s older sister‚ June‚ who is twenty-four. June lives at home and works at Connie’s high school as a secretary (Oates‚ 1). Connie and her friends enjoy going to the movies‚ at least that is what she tells her father. They really go to a restaurant across the street to meet boys. Connie met a guy
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In my essay I will discuss how “If the ministers matter so much‚ or the quality of the ministerial governments matters so much‚ why don’t we already have this government and this political infrastructure‚ which can govern us better and which New Zealand has‚ Norway has‚ the Netherlands has‚ Denmark has and a number of countries have? Why haven’t we built up a system of government which suits our needs‚ which can look after us well and which doesn’t neglect us‚ as it has done up to now?” During my
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Lance Hollingsworth Summary/Response English 1010 In the article‚ “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” by Stephen Marche we are informed of the negative effect social media can have on out psychological self. “Social media – from Facebook to twitter – have made us more densely networked than ever. Yet for all this connectivity‚ new research suggests that we have never been lonelier.” (Marche 60) What is loneliness? It is a psychological state. Marche stated many times that loneliness
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Summary & Response: How It Feels To Be Colored Me Living in a world where it is foreign to be colored was hard for many people of this nature in the 1920s. For Zora Neale Hurston‚ this was not a challenge at all. This high-spirited girl gives an explanation of how it felt to be‚ “...like a brown paper bag of miscellany propped against a wall” (Hurston 197). Written by Hurston herself‚ “How It Feels To Be Colored” gives us a humorous‚ sarcastic-ridden view of what her childhood was like from her
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option in the Los Angeles Historic Core‚ Fry Madness. The restaurant is announcing its official ribbon cutting September 25 at 5 PM during their Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) Appreciation week that runs September 25 through September 28. “We’ve raised the bar‚ creating a whole new experience where the side is the main dish‚ and our unique specialty Hoptail cocktails are the side‚” said Owner‚ Shawn Laleh. “Our culinary concept provides a new twist on french fries and adds a brand new new element to
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On the front cover of magazines‚ in the fashion industry‚ on the television‚ and in movies‚ society surrounds women with a visual perception that the ideal woman is beautiful because of how thin they are. The media promote thin as sexy. People‚ especially women‚ strive to be sexy. This promotion of the concept of what women should be has led to a dissatisfaction of their bodies. The ideal to be sexy has created a disillusion of what women should look like. With such a need to be super skinny in order
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Taste of Africa Restaurant Marketing Plan Texas A&M University-Commerce EXECUTIVE SUMMARY It’s no surprise that Americans mostly eat out. It’s predicted that the restaurant industry in the United States will have sales of about $580 billion and a 2.5% percent increase compared to last year. By looking at these figures‚ we can see that the industry has not been affected as much as other businesses by the national economic crisis. The restaurant industry remains
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Summary Response Paper In this article she is talking about online dating. She believes that there is nothing wrong with it and sees it as just another method to meeting new people. She states that people have been going on blind dates for as long as the mind can remember so what is wrong with setting up your own blind date? She says that the stigma against online dating with the people in the twenty something age group is interesting. This is interesting because it is that age group that came
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