Holley 1 Adam Holley Professor Richardson ENC 1101 B001 June 27 2012 Reading Response 1 “If readers construct the meaning of texts‚ how does information transmission work?” Through constructing the meaning of texts‚ a reader can interpret and summarize chunks of writing into something that is already processed by the reader. Personally‚ I know that if I begin reading a piece of text that I have never researched or learned in the past‚ obviously I cannot make an information transmission. On
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Reading response#2 Jay Ho I want to talk about Paul Woodward and Finnie Walsh in the middle of the book. They have some difference between them. They both are hockey fans since they are children. Although they both love hockey very much‚ but Finnie was better than Paul in the hockey. I think it is because Finnie has the talent of hockey. Even Paul was steadily improving. Finnie was born in a rich family. His father owns a mill. He had no need
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| Response to reading on Rand. | | | I like and agree how the author of this article explains the negative ideas collectivized ethics. The idea of collectivism suggests that an individual is obligated to live for the advantage of a society. Under this idea‚ certain rules are declared as useful for the majority and are to be supported at the expense of others individuals within that particular society. It is by norm that public ventures are established within a society such as‚ health
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Summer Reading Response AP Literature For my summer reading poet‚ I chose Mary Oliver. I find I relate better to the works of female authors and she was one of the only two on the list of options. After hearing phrases like “America’s best-selling poet” and “one of the best writers of the century” to describe her‚ I was not sure of what to expect. However‚ after reading one of her works for the first time‚ a poem called “The Journey”‚ I knew that I‚ a not so avid reader and an inexperienced
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Maurice McKelley 1 May 2013 Professor Harper LE 300 Reading Response # 4 “Social Grouping” Since man’s creation we have been grouping things‚ trying to make sense of the world around us. We have grouped and classified all known flora and fauna in this world. The French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet‚ Chevalier de Lamarck classified over 1‚634 species of marine animals. Carolus Linnaeus‚ often called the Father of Taxonomy believed through classification of plants
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Nasro Hassan Reading Response 5 1. According to Singer speciesism is the unjustified attitudes and bias towards the interest of members of one’s species or against those members of another species. Singer believes that the basis of equality is if a being can suffer. If a being can suffer than it should have some moral worth. Therefore animals are beings because they can suffer. 2. According to Kant only rational beings are moral‚ animals are not rational so they have no moral worth. We only have
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Close Reading: Moby Dick by Herman Melville LaQuita Johnson Honors American Literature 1 Tues/Thurs/ 9:00am/ Stone June 16‚ 2013
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Reading Response #3 Of Mr. Booker T. Washington by W.E.B. Du Bois AFRS 210 September 20‚ 2013 Prince In chapter three of the Souls of Black Folks‚ W.E.B. Du Bois argues that although Booker T. Washington has took many stands in opposition of the injustices done to black people‚ his “Atlanta Compromise” speech has done more to hinder the black community than help it. Washington believed that reconstruction failed because African Americans were offered too much too
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Reading Response to the Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley By [Course] [Course Instructor] 25th November‚ 2013. The Devil in a Blue Dress As the first of a series based on the fictional character of Easy Rawlings‚ the Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley is a hardboiled mystery and detective fiction novel that I enjoyed reading. For reasons connected to the major themes of race and racism and the influence of money‚ I must say that
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Reading Response on “We Wear the Mask” Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem “We Wear the Mask” attempts to convey that all of humanity wears a mask for basic survival. The poet ultimately conveys that since we cannot be true to ourselves we can’t expect the more from the world than lies. Dunbar uses “we” as a general term for all of humanity‚ although he is not excluding himself from this generalization. We as a society have at one point felt the strain of what others decide who we should be based off
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