B: Write an essay in which you analyse and comment on Jonathan Franzen’s essay ”Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts”. Part of your essay must focus on how Jonathan Franzen tries to engage a young audience and on the message of the essay. Jonathan Franzen’s speech was given to the college students at Kenyon‚ Ohio‚ USA. The introduction part of the speech is Jonathan Franzen talking about his relationship to his newly purchased phone‚ and how he got rid of his old one. Choosing the subject
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Delprøve 1a Besvarelse 1a 1. Rettelse: Having heard the terrible news‚ we realized these things could have happened to anybody. Forklaring: Fejl i verbalbøjning. Sætningen er i pluskvamperfektum/perfektum(?) og indeholder modalverbet ’could’. Modalverber skal altid følges af infinitiv uden ’to’‚ i denne sætning infinitiv af verbet ’to have’‚ og når man danner pluskvamperfektum skal man bruge en form af ’have’ + perfektum participium – her ’happened’. Derfor skal det være ’have happened’
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must conform to their demands and requests. Nora is a great example of this‚ as Torvald controls most aspects of her life. He forbids Nora from doing basic things‚ such as checking the mail. This raised the question discussed in the oral: Is Nora a coward or brave for leaving Torvald and her family? One could argue that it was a cowardly move because she is leaving Torvald to support his children by himself‚ therefore taking away any influence a mother figure
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Essay on Jonathan Franzen’s Liking Is for Cowards‚ Go for What Hurts “Liking is for Cowards‚ Go for what hurts” is an essay written by Jonathan Franzen who is an American novelist and writer of essays. This essay is based on the speech he gave at Kenyon College in the state of Ohio in USA. And in May 2011 it was published in The New York Times. What this essay is about is‚ is the differences there are between the love people have for consumers technology and real life. “Liking” probably comes
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Sir V.S. Naipaul is a Trinidadian writer of Indian descent. Very famous for his novels. His novels‚ reached to developing countries .He received the Nobel Prize in 2001 for Half a Life‚ a story about an Indian immigrant to England and Africa. One of his stories too is One Out Of Many. This short story talks about the live of Santosh. Who moved to Washington to follow his employer who is an Indian cook employed by a Washington government‚ when Santosh moved he saw many stranger things. In addition
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Macbeth is a hero and a coward‚ often at the same time depending on what meaning of the words you use. Macbeth is the hero of the story but he doesn’t act like a hero‚ except for a time at the beginning of the play (Act 1 Scene 2). After Macbeth murders Duncan‚ he doesn’t ever become his heroic self again. Macbeth then becomes a coward‚ which he demonstrates by killing in cold blood all the people that pose even a small threat to him‚ including his companion and comrade‚ Banquo who is suspicious
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Quote 1: “I am a coward.” This quote was spoken by Faber when Montag arrived at his house with the Bible. Faber said this because he wanted to express his guilt to Montag that he recognized the unfairness of society‚ but did nothing in order to save himself. The quote is important because it shows that Faber is ashamed of his inability to act against society. The quote shows the reader that society is unforgiving and can even cause revolutionary thinkers like Faber to cower down in fear. Later in
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Crossing the B l a c k Waters: N i r a d C . C h a u d h u r i ’ s A Passage to E n g l a n d and V . S. Naipaul’s A n A r e a of Darkness A L A S TAIR I NIVEN N 1955 N i r a d C h a u d h u r i made his first v i s i t outside India and i n 1962 V . S. N a i p a u l went to I n d i a for the first t i m e . B o t h men were established w r i t e r s ‚ practiced i n h u m a n observation and yet possessing an innately p a t r i c i a n sense of t h e i r o w n d i s t i n c t i o n . I n v i e
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Rafael Cordero Mr. Hull U.S History 21 January 2015 Is Edward Snowden a Traitorous Coward? or an American Hero? Edward Snowden has become one of the most popular whistleblowers in modern days. He did a great favor to the world by revealing many of the secrets that the U.S was keeping from the public. However the done deed may have gone too far because the toll it took on the United States was bigger than most imagined. Snowden was a simple employee at the NSA before his infamy overcame his position
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“Darius III- Noble Enemy or Incompetent Coward?” The Persians King Darius of Persia was mostly known as Darius Codomannus at the time of his reign. He was the cousin of Artaxerxes III who was murdered by a eunuch named Bogoas. Bogoas raised Darius Codomannus to the thrown after killing Artaxerxes III and his son Arses. Bogoas tried to also murder Darius by poisoning him but he was forced to drink the poison himself by Darius. Due to the circumstances of his accession as king the empire he
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