Reader-response criticism is a school of literary theory that focuses on the reader (or "audience") and their experience of a literary work‚ in contrast to other schools and theories that focus attention primarily on the author or the content and form of the work. Although literary theory has long paid some attention to the reader’s role in creating the meaning and experience of a literary work‚ modern reader-response criticism began in the 1960s and ’70s‚ particularly in America and Germany‚ in
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Patrice Flowers Professor Arzola English 1302 Friday‚ February 22‚ 2013 Critical Analysis of Nora Ephron “The Boston Photographs” Nora Ephron author of “The Boston Photographs” reaches out to her readers by touching their emotions by some gripping photographs. She claims “Photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism‚” this theory is proven in her writing. In Ephron essay‚ she discusses the photographs that Stanley Foreman took of an attempted rescue that turned to a devastating
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church was bombed and caught fire. The guards‚ however‚ did not open the doors and most women burned to death. Both persons read about the trial but only one of them knows that it is an extract from a book‚ the Reader (written by Bernhard Schlink) and has read the rest of the book. One of the readers is familiar with the character of Hanna Schmitz‚ the
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books that illustrate what is happening in the text. That is when I came up with a modification of a learning log for Kaboneye and I to complete each time we met. The learning log requires Kaboneye to do many things. She must first write today’s date‚ then the titles of the books we read together‚ and then she needs to write down any words that she doesn’t understand while reading the book(s). After‚ we have finished reading the book I will ask her if she has any questions for me—for further clarification
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NAME : NUR SHAFIQ BIN HARUN GROUP : M3 STUDENT NUMBER : 2014487636 Many years have passed and I’m just a step of becoming a man. My life is full of colours and stories which sometimes are bad and some are beautiful. Now I want to talk about all my passions in life. Well we cannot lie to ourselves by saying that we do not have passion in life because everyone seems to have at least one to avoid getting bored. Friends is the main reason on why you are passionate about something rather than
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1. Briefly summarize the article (2-3 sentences). What is it about? What happens? It’s a film review about the famous movie Forrest Gump.It mainly talks bout some impressive parts of the movie . 2. Respond to the article (3-4 sentences). Ideas: How did I like it? Why? What experiences/memories did it remind me of? What comments do I have? I like it very much .The reasons are as follows :First of all .it reveals the great parts about the movie and it has some really deep research.for
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Prepare and Deliver Effective Presentation Concepts Covered In this tutorial‚ Sarita covered several concepts about Perception and decision-making. There are two types of thinking mode we occupy in our daily life decision-making‚ fast thinking and slow thinking. The fast thinking is also called Heuristic which can be facilitating when used right. It is a short cut of thinking and also the first reaction to the problem. It is admittedly not accurate and with error. The common error includes Halo
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Zone 1: weld metal zone The weld metal zone is where the parent metal and filler metal are heated together to the melting point and then cooled. There are two main microstructural features that can be observed in this zone: they are the Widmanstatten patterns and columnar grains. These patterns are observed to have random directions. The Widmanstatten patterns appear due to large austentite (gamma-Fe) grains being cooled rapidly‚ as steel is a good conductor of heat. The rapid cooling also resulted
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Ecology Discussion Questions Chapter 40 1. If you are a biologist interested in working in the tropical rainforest‚ briefly describe a research study you could complete at each level in the biological hierarchy‚ starting from the organismal level to the biosphere. 2. What are the two abiotic variables that dictate type of terrestrial biome? Do aquatic and marine systems rely on the same two variables? Why or why not? 3. Which of the terrestrial biomes is the most vulnerable to anthropogenic
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Michelle Rabicheva Professor Kathleen Haley English 1012 17 September 2014 John Muir‚ “Stickeen” “Stickeen”‚ by John Muir is a very descriptive essay on how the author forms a bond with a dog. The author goes on an adventure to explore Alaska’s glaciers. I found this essay to be touching and nostalgic. The author shows throughout the essay how his relationship has changed with Stickeen and how inspiring Stickeen was to him through their journey. Toward the end
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