Harris‚ Joseph. Rewriting: How to do Things with Text. Logan‚ Utah: Utah State University Press‚ 2006. COMING TO TERMS: (15) “not only to explain what you think [text] means‚ but to say something about the perspective from which you are reading it” Three moves in coming to terms: *define the project of the writer in your own terms What is the writer’s position or arguments? What issues or problems does the writer wish to explore? *note keywords or passages in the text How does
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waiting for the school bus‚’ said the children. ‘It’s late again.’ 6 ‘I’ve made a terrible mistake!’ said Peter. ‘You’re always making terrible mistakes‚’ I said. ‘You should be used to it by now.’ 7 ‘We make £450 a week‚’ said one of the men‚ ‘and send most of it home to our wives.’ 8 ‘It’s lonely being away from our families‚’ said another‚ ‘but we earn three times as much in this factory as we would in our own country.’ 9 ‘We’ve been here for two and a half years‚’ said the man who had spoken
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Page 1 According to the International Astronomical Union‚ there are 8 planets in the Solar System. Located between Earth and Venus‚ there floats what some commonly refer to as the “small‚ red planet”- Mars. Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and widely known for its fierce coloring. Chinese astronomers called Mars “the fire star”. The Romans‚ who studied the solar system many centuries ago‚ named Mars after the Roman god of war because of its fiery red color (Kendell 181). The Romans are
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Suddenly‚ her form changes until she takes the shape of a White Martian. Brave enough to reveal herself- that’s our friend‚ all right. Launching rage blasts at the unchanged M’gann‚ she changes to avoid the energy‚ bending inwards to avoid the ones straying to the outside and making holes for the few directed towards
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Term Paper Outline Thesis Statement: In The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds‚ H.G. Wells uses characterization in order to challenge common perspectives on what life will be like in the future. I. Introduction A. Quote/ Hook: Flying cars‚ colossal buildings‚ intricate and fascinating clothes and devices are all what the average person thinks the future will hold for us. B. Evolution: change in the gene pool of a population from generation to generation by such processes as mutation‚
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In the second chapter of What if? Religious Themes in Science Fiction‚ Mike Alsford introduces the idea that science fiction is much more than the futuristic technologies that many people have defined the genre by‚ but is more about the human condition and what defines us as humans. When viewing science fiction through this lens‚ the futuristic technologies are little more than a literary device‚ and the focus shifts to the deeper elements of the plot. In the second chapter‚ Alsford looks at different
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author Adrian Berry believes the human life span will reach 140 years and that the digital storage of human personalities will enable a kind of computerized immortality. Humans will farm the oceans‚ in starships and reside in both lunar and Martian colonies while robots explore the outer cosmos. nobody can say anything for certain about life on earth 5000 years after.everyone has its own view. Regardless‚ a lot can happen in
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If you could stand at the surface of Mars’ equator‚ you would feel like it is summertime at the bottom part of your body and wintertime at the top part! This is so because the temperature at the upper part of your body can be 0°Celsius‚ while that in at your feet can be 21 degrees Celsius. When it is snowing‚ the snow can vaporize before it reaches the ground. The place is a desert but a cold‚ cold one. Mars has so many impact craters on its surface‚ the largest of which is the Borealis basin.
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tasks with little effort in offices now a days. With MS office in our pc we can do many things like creating text documents‚ spreadsheets‚ flow charts ‚presentations ‚pie charts‚ notes‚ business cards‚ greeting cards‚ calendars ‚ brochures‚ flyers‚ postcards ‚website templates and many more things. MS office has become a must have requirement for offices‚ I wonder what it would’ve been like before MS office was made. MS office has given us a proper platform for viewing and creating files which
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In the novel Zen and the Art of Faking It by Jordan Sonnenblick‚ San Lee moves to a small town in Pennsylvania‚ and tries to give himself an identity to fit in at school. To San‚ school is not a passion. Jordan Sonnenblick illustrates a vivid image of San‚ and one may think that his childhood life was that of San’s. The author’s perspective is that school is a filthy‚ boring‚ and judgemental place to be. It can be shown by his different quotes and how evocative he created San’s point of view. Firstly
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