The principal lesson Zinsser is trying to teach is to keep your writing simple and keep an eye out for clutter. Zinsser goes on to explain how “clutter is the disease of American writing‚” due to the desire to add purposeless words or phrases used to make someone’s writing sound more professional and significant. Zinsser includes examples of clutter‚ “Clutter is the ponderous euphemism that turns a slum into a depressed socioeconomic area
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William Zinsser has advice for writing memoirs. “Be yourself”‚ “speak freely”‚ and “tell your own story” (Zinsser‚ 2‚ 4‚ 6). It applies to many different memoirs. William Zinsser’s “How to Write a Memoir”‚ gives the point of “be yourself” (Zinsser‚ 2). This applies to “A Summer Life” because Gary Soto writes as if he was a child. According to “A Summer Life”‚ “I was five…”(Soto‚ 16). He also was adventurous because he went to find a shoe whose‚”…print was almost three of my brother’s hands‚
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Williams syndrome also recognized as Williams-Beuren syndrome is a genetic disorder caused by a deletion of more than twenty five genes from chromosome 7. Although Williams syndrome is often non-hereditary‚ the chances of the syndrome being passed on if an individual with Williams syndrome has a child are fifty percent. Individuals born with Williams syndrome often possess distinctive facial features which make the syndrome easily recognized. These features include wide spaces between their teeth
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thing happens when people like the Clutters experience an “undeserved” misfortune. Perhaps misfortune is an understatement in the Clutters case‚ but the fact is that when bad things happen to good people‚ everyone around them cannot help but question the nature of good and evil; with that comes the existence of God. Capote put it best in the quote he included from the schoolteacher: “Feeling wouldn’t run half so high if this had happened to anyone except the Clutters. Anyone less admired. Prosperous
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among excess clutter could harm my health‚ physically and emotionally. We may think it is just a cleaning process‚ but the depth of the problem will open our eyes to realize how and why the effect of clutter weighs us down. Why it is hard to unclutter? Why can’t it be organized? Why is more clutter mounting up? Emotionally attached objects are hard to get rid of. New attractive items are found in markets all the time. Consequently‚ clutter can easily mount up in one’s life. Clutter and disorganization
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Mariam Kurasbediani Given that the Homo erectus‚ the long-lived early human ancestors to ever walk our planet nearly 1.9 to 200‚000 years ago—were able to hunt‚ gather‚ and use simple tools thus‚ being able to survive in different environments—a rudimentary form of language (protolanguage) helped them to communicate and cooperate in their family groups. This paper agrees with Bickerton’s analysis by drawing factual evidence from BBC’s Documentary "Prehistoric Autopsy-Episode Two: Homo erectus”
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people" do you think of a people who are despoiled‚ alienated‚ or lost? William Carlos Williams characterizes the American people in this way in his poem To Elsie‚ which provides commentary on the American people’s lost perspective. Through tone and imagery Williams tells of a self-alienating America that has lost perspective of its most treasured ideology‚ the American Dream‚ due to its violent and unstable tradition. Williams’ tone is a key component to understanding the message that he wishes
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understanding. By beginning with that line it only opens the readers mind to the narrator’s thoughts of uncertainty making it easier for us as readers to understand. As a reader I enjoyed the story because it was simple and to the point‚ unlike William Carlos Williams “The Red Wheelbarrow” or Edger Allan Poe’s stories. There isn’t particularly a metaphorical meaning to it‚ and it can be read over and over again and I can still feel the same simplistic beauty I did the first time. I believe the rhyming and
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4: The Firetruck and the Wheelbarrow” William Carlos Williams has a tendency to hyperbolize and glorify objects in order to demonstrate their importance to the functioning of human society. This is done to the effect of creating “unsung heroes” out of everyday objects and encourages the reader to understand the value of little things in all situations. Interestingly‚ he does all of this without personifying his subjects. In “The Great Figure”‚ Williams describes a fire truck rushing down an urban
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Case Study: Logitech 1. Explain how trade lowers the costs of making computer peripherals such as mice and keyboards? Trade helps in reduction of product prices due to following reasons:1. Components are procured from any part of the world where they can be produced/ manufactured at the best cost. (Motorola plant in Malaysia makes the mouse’s chip; Agilent Technologies supplies optical sensors)2. The intellectual capital going into any product is created at the place wherethe right talent is available
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