compare and contrast precies
Caliope Miron
Division and Classification Précis
9/23/2014
In the short essay, Types of Shoppers (2014), the student describes the three unusual types of shoppers that make her average supermarket cashier job a little more interesting. The student goes about her observations with identifying and listing the characteristics that describe the “amnesiac shopper” who is always forgetful, the “senior citizen shopper” who appears to just be looking for a way out of the house , and the “hot shopper” who is ill tempered and anal retentive. The author does this classification of customers in an everyday grocery store in order to entertain the reader of her conclusions and to let the reader become aware of these shoppers in their own environment. Given the informal writing and casual tone, the student is writing to the average person whom uses the supermarket. Unnamed Student. Types of Shoppers. 2014. Web article.
In the short essay, “Here is New York” (1948), E.B. White observes the three ‘New Yorks’, that is the three general types of people in New York and how they all unite under a common mentality. White describes the city’s inhibitors as first, “the New York of the man/woman who was born there,” second as “the New York of the commuter,” one who travels in and out of the city each day, and last as the “ New York of final destination” one who moves there from far away and makes it there home. He then uses this distinction between the three types of new Yorkers to draw awareness to that while they make up the ‘heart’ of new York, they also draw attention to themselves by being a city so full of life and opportunity that unwanted threats from the outside will target the city and want to destroy it, thus anticipating the terror that visits the city almost 50 years later. Given the uplifting and encouraging tone and simple classification of city dwellers, White is writing to all the citizens of large cities like that of new York to spread awareness of possible
Division and Classification Précis
9/23/2014
In the short essay, Types of Shoppers (2014), the student describes the three unusual types of shoppers that make her average supermarket cashier job a little more interesting. The student goes about her observations with identifying and listing the characteristics that describe the “amnesiac shopper” who is always forgetful, the “senior citizen shopper” who appears to just be looking for a way out of the house , and the “hot shopper” who is ill tempered and anal retentive. The author does this classification of customers in an everyday grocery store in order to entertain the reader of her conclusions and to let the reader become aware of these shoppers in their own environment. Given the informal writing and casual tone, the student is writing to the average person whom uses the supermarket. Unnamed Student. Types of Shoppers. 2014. Web article.
In the short essay, “Here is New York” (1948), E.B. White observes the three ‘New Yorks’, that is the three general types of people in New York and how they all unite under a common mentality. White describes the city’s inhibitors as first, “the New York of the man/woman who was born there,” second as “the New York of the commuter,” one who travels in and out of the city each day, and last as the “ New York of final destination” one who moves there from far away and makes it there home. He then uses this distinction between the three types of new Yorkers to draw awareness to that while they make up the ‘heart’ of new York, they also draw attention to themselves by being a city so full of life and opportunity that unwanted threats from the outside will target the city and want to destroy it, thus anticipating the terror that visits the city almost 50 years later. Given the uplifting and encouraging tone and simple classification of city dwellers, White is writing to all the citizens of large cities like that of new York to spread awareness of possible