Victor Tio English 101 Tu/Th 10:30 Prof Magie A Critical Response to Timothy Egan “’The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest’” In this essay “The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest” Timothy Egan begins his essay by introducing himself that he was born in Seattle and graduated from the University of Washington and he is the Pulitzer Prize. He views Seattle as a new and interesting city which has changed a lot in the last century. Declining
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The poem "Spring and Fall" by Gerard Manley Hopkins is a poem focusing on the brevity of life‚ and the grief that is felt in the hearts of all mankind throughout our lives. It is also about the sadness felt by humans as we see ourselves aging‚ and ultimately about the fact that sin and separation from God bring sorrow and sadness that can never be fully explained by man. The poet is seemingly speaking to a young child‚ Margaret‚ who in her naivety and youth is only beginning to learn about aging
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Violent Media is good for Kids by Gerard Jones Outline Introduction: Jones’s thesis expresses that violent media are not a bad influence on children‚ but it does however; allow them to better express themselves. They also can benefit them to release their inner rage as well as gaining their confidence. Body paragraph: Throughout Jones’s article he uses some persuasive antics to encourage readers that violent media can decrease the amount of rage and reckless a child can have… “ pretending to
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In Gerard Manley Hopkins ’ "Spring and Fall‚" the speaker of the poem describes the changing phases of an individual ’s understanding about loss and death from a childhood to maturity. Throughout the poem‚ the child ’s innocence is gradually lost over time as her weeping for the dying leaves turns into weeping for her own mortality. As if putting on a play for his readers‚ the poet incorporates visual images as well as aural effects into his poem. In "Spring and Fall"‚ Hopkins uses rhythm‚ word choice
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In “Violent Media Is Good For Kids‚” Gerard Jones takes his position on how the comic books violence has led him to further develop as a person and inspire his career as a writer. In fact‚ he talked about how the Hulk led him out of passivity and loneliness as a young kid. But this is only about one person and not everybody else. Nobody is the same in this world. Many of Jones acknowledgements in this story come from self-accomplishments through reading comics and violent media that has led
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In Gerard Jones’ “Violent Media Is Good for Kids” found in our text‚ Practical Argument‚ Jones argues that children should not be sheltered from violence. Gerard Jones discusses his own experiences growing up in a home that banned any violent media. He was a scared‚ introverted child in desperate need of help understanding the feelings he was taught to bottle up. When a few Incredible Hulk comics somehow made it past his parents and right into his eager hands he was a child reformed. The stories
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In this essay‚ I am going to explore and analyze how Gerard Manley Hopkins marries the two themes of religion and nature together in his poem‚ “Pied Beauty”‚ and how these ideas are presented in terms of language‚ form‚ and structure. Firstly‚ Hopkins presents these two themes through peaceful imagery created by various aspects in the poem. For example‚ this is evident in “Landscape plotted and pieced – fold‚ fallow and plough”. The word choices in this line‚ include “plotted”‚ “pieced” and “plough”
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The Forgotten Truth of the Dirty-Thirties HIS-190 19 November‚ 2010 When you consider the disaster of the American Dust Bowl of the Dirty Thirties on the Great Plains‚ no wonder Stephen Long of 1821 concluded that the American West was “almost wholly unfit for cultivation‚ and of course uninhabitable by a people depending upon agriculture for their subsistence.”1 It seems that Timothy Egan’s book‚ The Worst Hard Times‚ hit the nail right on the head as to the cause of the worst natural disaster
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Recognizing and Defining the Problem 1) The problem that I recognize has to do with my position at Mark –Maker Co. where I work as a rubberer. The problem comes in when I have to read paperwork about a cutting die and may be confused as to what exactly the order as written is telling me to do. When we don’t know exactly what types of rubber we should be putting on a cutting die‚ problems can happen like the product not ejecting off the die. Selecting a Method of Solution 2). The method of solution
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Effect of Violence in Media on Children In his essay "Violent Media is Good for Kids" Gerard Jones states that parents try to shield their children from violence but in reality they keep them from self realization. In the analysis‚ Jones uses examples from his life experiences and quotes from a professional in child behavior. His argument‚ however‚ is incorrect and his support for his argument plays mostly on emotions and no statistical evidence to support his claims. Jones uses his life as
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