In the article "Young people’s mental health: the spiritual power of fairy stories‚ myths and legends" Steven Walker correlates the main ideas and concepts on fairy tales to the building of healthy physiological children and young adults. He starts the article off by telling the story of the Greek legend of Oedipus that where a King and his wife are prophesized as having a child that will grow up and kill his father and marry his mother. In an effort to derail the prophecy they pierce the child’s
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Nicholas Carr‚ based on his essay‚ “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” would disagree with Steven Pinker’s “Mind Over Mass Media.” Pinker believes that technology is the only thing that keeps us smart in a society level by making it easier to be informed about everything‚ while Carr believes that it affects our critical thinking ability because having access to so much information makes us skim through the reading‚ so even though we are reading many things‚ it does not mean we are actually holding on to
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Ridhima Morris G. Battistella ENG4U1-02 July 15th‚ 2013 PHILOMENA BEVISO The Obituary of Philomena Beviso is a story about a married couple who struggle to achieve prosperity and success. Costanzo Beviso is a shoemaker with a secure job but chooses to sign a contract‚ which entitles him to eighty percent of the profit from Beviso’s Shoes. This opportunity was given by Augustus Beviso who unfortunately did not return. This causes the struggle to be established and successful‚ therefore Philomena
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Steven Skaggs’ essay on the Grateful Dead’s "Dark Star" and how it is an example of transcendental aesthetics put a new meaning to the way I listen to the Dead’s music. Skaggs goes deeply into semiotic theory‚ and how the song "Dark Star" has an underlying journey within itself. Though I had never heard of semiotics before reading Skaggs’ essay‚ I think that I now understand its basis. Semiotics is the study of signs in their capacity as "ways of knowing". This means that certain words‚ sounds‚ and
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Steven Pinker writes about the criticisms that media has on our minds. He disagrees with the statements that say media take a toll on our knowledge and intelligence‚ but in fact states that they improve it. His article‚ “Mind over Mass Media” also states that we have control over our minds to not become distracted‚ hence the title of the article. Pinker persuades the readers by using his own experience as a professor of psychology‚ reputation and scientific evidence to support his argument. Pinker
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Lincoln is a 2012 American historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg‚ starring Daniel Day-Lewis as United States President Abraham Lincoln and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln. The film is based in part on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s biography of Lincoln‚ Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln‚ and covers the final four months of Lincoln’s life‚ focusing on the President’s efforts in January 1865 to have the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
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Women’s Rights Judith Sargent Stevens Murray writes on the equality of men and women in 1790. Murray wrote this for the public and explains the difference between men and women and how women were degraded in 1790. Murray writes about how women were not allowed to accompany their husbands to certain places because they were not qualified enough and it made the feel inferior. A woman’s place was said to be in the kitchen or sewing. Murray is not bias in her writing but may be looked down on for speaking
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‘Without obviously aiming for pathos‚ Crane achieves it. The story‚ like the seamen‚ betrays ‘no hurried words‚ no pallor‚ no plain agitation‚’ but achieves a real sense of loss at its conclusion. Explain how Crane does this. It is certain that as the reader‚ one is left feeling bereft and truly sorrowful at the close of ‘The Open Boat’. However‚ it is not with emphasising the self-pity of the seamen‚ or using particularly emotive language‚ that Crane achieves this‚ but rather by subtly manipulating
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Regan Montgomery Thaddeus Stevens Reflection. Thaddeus Stevens was not in favor of an easy re-entry into the Union for former Confederate states. He was in favor of punitive action against the South because he believed it was necessary to ensure justice and protect the rights of freed slaves. Stevens also thought that without consequences‚ the former Confederate states might revert to their old ways and continue to oppress the newly freed African Americans. Without violence involving punishment
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Basluel A. Mekonnen Professor Browne English 101 Reading Response “Watching TV Makes You Smarter” by‚ Steven Johnson. A. Comprehension: Steven Johnson argues about watching TV shows makes us smarter by developing our brain. He compares the current TV shows and earlier TV shows. B. Response: Johnson explains about how TV shows has changed over a decade. He explains how the show Hill Street considered to
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