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    Why students don’t read newspaper? Now days most of students don’t read newspaper for some reasons. Students don’t care about the news and they are lazy‚ some of them say that I don’t like to read because I always read and study‚ and some of them say that no need to read newspaper because the devolving of technology. In this essay I would like to talk about this point and the reasons of why students don’t read newspaper. The reasons that I want to talk about it is the internet People can use

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    TITLE: DO COLLEGE STUDENT READ ENOUGH? “Today a reader‚ tomorrow a leader” said by Margaret Fuller (Anonymous‚ 2014) indicate how much important is reading that can make a college student achieve successful position during their studying period and career period. According to statistics by Dr. Abu Hassan Hasbullah‚ a lecturer who works in University Malaya in Mass Media Department‚ Malaysian graduates only reads four books throughout three years of their studying period which shows Malaysian students

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    In "Learning to Read‚" an excerpt found in The Autobiography of Malcolm X‚ author Malcolm X attacks his illiteracy while imprisoned for battling the white man. Malcolm in his conversations with other prisoners realized he wasn’t the most articulate hustler any more as he used to be in the street. Bimbi a fellow prisoner in Charlestown Prison would take over conversations because of his vast vocabulary and knowledge from reading. Malcolm was not only impressed but aspired to be as intelligent. Malcolm

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    How to Read Literature like a Professor Chapter 1: We learn the basics of a quest in a book or novel. The author says a quest can be any kind of journey. He uses a kid‚ named Kip‚ who runs to the store to pick up some bread for his parents. Along the way he sees the girl he asked out‚ a bully named Troy‚ and his ’68 ‘Cuda. When we hear or read the word “quest”‚ we think of an epic hero coming from a faraway land‚ who faces an obstacle‚ trials‚ a protagonist‚ and love story. To have a quest you

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    integrity and our human imperfection‚ with our actions‚ our dreams‚ and our ghosts‚ alone and in a relationship that link us to others‚ in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness. The bond that literature establishes among human beings compels them to enter into dialogue. The bond also makes them conscious of a common origin and a common goal to exceed all temporal barriers. Literature transports us in to the past and links us to those who in the past eras plotted‚ enjoyed‚ and

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    The Secrets of Being You Natasha Trethewey was born in 1966 in Gulfport‚ Mississippi. Her parents had an interracial marriage and at that point and time in Mississippi it was a crime to have a marriage of such. Natasha feels as if there is “White Lies” about her life in itself. In 2000‚ she wrote “White Lies” which describes her life as she was growing up. She writes three types of poems; Domestic Work‚ Bellocq Ophelia‚ and Native Guard. Trethewey was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. The narrator

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    that I learned from How to Read Literature Like a Professor are to look at the character’s internal reasons for completing a task‚ note the authors word choice in figurative language‚ and look for a deeper meaning tied to the setting or an image that the author is creating. The first insight was given in chapter one of How to Read Literature Like a Professor; “The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge” (3). This piece of information was very useful as I read the section of “Winter in the

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    How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster (Notes) Introduction: “How’d He Do That?”  Part of reading is: o Knowing conventions o Recognizing conventions o Anticipating results  When a person introduces a topic‚ then digresses onto other topics it doesn’t matter what examples‚ as soon as you see a couple of them you recognize a pattern. o You know the author is coming back with an application of those examples to the main topic.  Conventions in stories/novels: o

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    All students planning to take Pre-AP English I need to read Edith Hamilton’s Mythology in its entirety and complete the following assignment prior to the first day of school. Students should expect to turn in assignments the first day of class for a major grade. Students are responsible for an understanding of the material in the book when school begins as we will have class discussions‚ assignments‚ and a test the second week of school. Why read Edith Hamilton’s Mythology? Greek Mythology is one of

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    n chapter 9 of How to read literature like a professor‚ Foster goes into the topic of myths. There are three kinds of myths that Foster mentioned beforehand :shakespearean biblical‚and fairy tale myths. In this chapter however‚ he goes more deeply in myths from the Greeks and Romans. According to Foster‚ myths shape and sustain power of a story the and its symbols; show our ability to to explain ourselves; myths are so deeply ingrained our cultural memory that they both shape our culture and are

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