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    PARAGRAPH-BY-PARAGRAPH READING WORKSHEET ¶ | Author’s ActionA presents text Y / A tells story Y / A reports from Y / A analyzes Y / A reads Y / A speculates Z / A argues Z | 1 Sentence Distillation of Paragraph Spoken in Author’s VoiceIf this column is filled out properly and thoroughly you should be able to read it from top to bottom as an accurate distillation of the whole essay. Review and amend earlier distillations for accuracy and coherence as you go. | Key WordsList key words. Review

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    In his essay‚ "The Loss of the Creature‚" Walker Percy claims that there are two types of "students:" "privileged" and "unprivileged knowers." However‚ Percy labels his readers by what he feels is appropriate. According to David Bartholomae and Anthony Petrosky in the introduction to Ways of Reading‚ it is up to us‚ the readers‚ to determine what Percy might mean when he uses key terms and phrases in his essay. Bartholomae and Petrosky believe that "The meaning is forged from reading the essay

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    influential book‚ and confronts several important aspects of art‚ unlike any other author. John Berger takes a general approach of Marxism and New Art History relating to social history in Ways of Seeing. He focuses less on the aesthetic properties of art‚ and more on the New Art History approach; on the social and political construction of artworks‚ mainly oil paintings concerning class‚ race‚ gender‚ and ethnicity. Berger also focuses on a Marxist methodology‚ in which he explains art works as the reflection

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    the Meaning of an Artwork According to John Berger in his essay “Ways of Seeing” the way that a painting is viewed by some may already be distorted prior to analyzing it because we are not viewing the original piece. The information that comes from the silence of a painting is only truly experienced when looking at the original work rather than a reproduction of it. The original work speaks to you in a way that a reproduction is not able to. Berger says this clearly when he states:

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    Loss of the Creature Walker Percy expresses his perspective about the world in various ways. He connects his examples by making them one after another giving symbolic as losing and achieving your goal. Percy tells true experiences with people if they would ignore all the negativity and get rid of it all‚ life would be much better. On another hand‚ loss of sovereignty is what is explained by how people make situations gather up to the symbolic complex with their minds. Percy starts off with the Grand

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    Filtered In “The Loss of the Creature‚” Walker Percy describes how the modern society presents packaged experience to people and how the true values of experience via confrontation is being ruined because of that “preformed complex” (460). The travelers these days in the Grand Canyon will not see the same values and beauty that Garcia López de Cárdenas did‚ because they already pre-experienced the values of the Grand Canyon via “appropriated symbolic complex”; Percy describes this as the difference between

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    In John Berger’s article‚ ’Ways of Seeing’‚ it explains European eighteenth century art and how it relates to many of todays cultural transitions. Before Berger begins explaining the art itself‚ he tells us about the cultural constructions that exist today. These cultural constructions are enforced and were highlighted through European eighteenth century art. He began by explaining the difference between a man and a woman’s presence. Men’s presence depends how much power he is able to successfully

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    Bryan Washington Professor H. Alvarez English 1A 17 March 2013 Essay #2 “Both John Berger in “Ways of Seeing” and Michel Foucault in “Panopticism” discuss what Foucault calls “power relations.” Berger claims that “the entire art of the past has now become a political issue‚” and he makes a case for the evolution of “ new language of images” which could “confer a new kind of power” if people were to understand history in art. Foucault argues that the Panopticon signals an “inspired” change in

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    Caitlin Lindsey British Romanticism 12/2/15 Final Assignment Shelley v. Clare The one major difference between Percy Shelley and John Clare as people is the fact that Shelly was an educated man and John Clare did not receive an education from anyone save for himself. As a self-taught man from the countryside‚ Clare definitely has a different style in writing than Shelley. Where Percy Shelley’s style is more complex in detail and filled with metaphors‚ Clare’s is full of simple details and straighter

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    THE WHITE BIRD John Berger From time to time I have been invited by institutions--mostly American--to speak about aesthetics. On one occasion I considered accepting and I thought of taking with me a bird made of white wood. But I didn’t go. The problem is that you can’t talk about aesthetics without talking about the principle of hope and the existence of evil. During the long winters the peasants in certain parts of the Haute Savoie used to make wooden birds to hang in their kitchens and perhaps

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