English Summer Reading Essay “Whether or not an individual succeeds is unimportant. The very act of trying is itself a victory.” The quotation applies itself to a lot of things in life but the book Lush‚ by Natasha Friend‚ which is a realistic fiction and the book The Acorn People‚ by Ron Jones‚ which is a non-fiction really relate to the quote in a special way. This quote indicates that it does not matter if you succeed in what you are trying to accomplish‚ it only matters if you at least try to
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recall myself checking out drawing books as reading books. I was not an artist‚ but the ideal of transitioning lines and dots into a drawing picture caught my attention. During this period‚ I found no other books exciting to read other than these drawings books that showed me step by step how to draw animals‚ people‚ and other creations of art. My teacher stressed to me the importance of reading books that were more meaningful‚ but I had no desire of reading anything. Yet‚ I developed an interest to
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Less Freedom‚ More Food Is it comforting to be reliant on other countries or large companies? If food processes were shown to the public‚ would American food habits continue as they are now? In the article‚ “The Pleasures of Eating” by Wendell Berry‚ the author believes that industrial agriculture is taking away the freedom that Americans have grown up to have. America has become ignorant in the ways of food and food production. Many people do not care to learn about the dangers of food‚ which is
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Reading Borders reminded me of an experience I’ve had a short time ago. My parents invited some of our family friends and their children to dinner‚ and by no coincidence‚ they are all Chinese families. While the parents are socializing‚ we high school students talked about our lives. Soon I realized that I was looking at something that makes me curious: the ways children with multiple identities identify themselves. The friends I was talking to have significant differences in identifying themselves
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GQ: What do I like about the Shea’s essay “In Praise of Peer Pleasure”? I like that it really puts a new positive mask over the negative outlook that peer pressure gets. The idea that peer pressure makes people do things that they don’t like rains true in this essay. However‚ these people are doing good things for themselves and others in return‚ without even realizing it. JW: In this essay the things that I was interested in were the studies‚ phycologist got people to do things just because they
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As future teachers it is very important to make sure that our students understand print. There are students who are fully able to pronounce print but unfortunately aren’t able to comprehend what they are reading. To read I believe means to understand the meaning of words‚ so therefore it involves much more than pronouncing print. In Beyond Traditional Phonics‚ (BTP) Margaret Moustafa stated‚ “pronouncing print is not necessarily comprehending print” pg. 6. Unfortunately‚ there are many students
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Strabo‚ “The Grandeur of Rome” Addressing a Greek audience‚ Strabo gives us this impression of the physical aspect of the mighty city that had mastered the Greek World.. He wrote in the age of Augustus. The city probably continued to increase in magnificence for the next two hundred years‚ and a number of the most famous buildings‚ e.g. the Flavian Amphitheater‚ were not yet erected. The Greek cities are thought to have flourished mainly on account of the felicitous choice made by their founders
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To those who share the same viewpoint as Berry will applause and commend this essay because it goes hand in hand with their sympathetic and bias views on the American food industry. However‚ the “Urban consumer”‚ which is his intended audience‚ will find the call to action that Wendell Berry so easy puts it a lot easier said than
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Robert Davies’ essay‚ The Pleasures of Love is about what can be improved on‚ Or what can be done to obtain the pleasures of love. He shows that we should not follow the same footsteps as Othello and Desdomona‚ or Romeo and Juliet. Davies believed that Othello was a man that had too much passion‚ and his jealously eventually led to a miscommunication between himself and Desdomona‚ Othello did not even bother discussing the situation with Desdomona. With Romeo and Juliet‚ the Star-crossed lovers’
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that readers approach the work in ways that can be viewed as aesthetic or efferent. The question is why the reader is reading and what the reader aims to get out of the reading. Is the site established primarily to help readers gain information with as little reading possible‚ or is the site established in order to create an aesthetic experience? * Efferent reading: reading to "take away" particular bits of information. Here‚ the reader is not interested in the rhythms of the language or the
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