In 1793, the factory started to slow down, because they had to remove the seeds from the plant itself. Thankfully, Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin,
Lawkete starts her book in the first century, before recorded history. “The first gin was made from a single roller and a hard, flat surface.” “They were used to remove cotton fiber from the seed.” After some period of time, the cotton gin had finally reached America in 1607. Western Europeans accidentally found their way to America while trying to bypass trade in the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean.
In “Sharon Cho” from Speaking of Reading, Sharon Cho discusses how, why and the positives to reading. She read everything, she was sick and out of school a lot and reading was what she would do when she was out of school. Simultaneously, while she was reading she picked up on many things including, she now has a better vocabulary and she is more creative. After all, reading makes Sharon feel good about herself, superhero comic books made her feel grand. She felt like she could be a superhero, and felt like she was.
“That individual at a time of crucial intellectual and emotional development bypass the joys and challenges of literature is a troubling trend.” It makes the reader consider if they are lacking some sort of skill from not reading. Gioia added quotes from a magazine, sharing a common belief. “When asked what kind of talents they like to see in management positions,
In “Reading and Thought” by Dwight Macdonald, Macdonald raises the idea of reading deeply and how our society has changed its reading style. He points out that our modern society constantly reads irrelevant information in articles, newspapers, or magazines in our daily lives. A term called “functional curiosity” is a person’s interest in being amused, entertained or wanting to know what’s happening around the world. According to Henry Luce, the creator of Time magazine, “Functional Curiosity grows as the number of educated peoples grows.” Macdonald argues that being “functionally curious” is not functional because it does not help the individual function.
(Bachrach 20). Cuba was a Spanish colony, and it was the last Spanish colony in the Western
Showing the reader positives of reading in a factual way can be very persuasive. He then goes on to use strong and persuasive diction to support his claim, stating “The decline of literary reading foreshadows serious long-term social and economic problems, and it is time to bring literature and the other arts into discussions of public policy.” Using a slight guilt technique can persuade the reader. This strong diction continues to support his claim. And finally he ends his essay saying that the qualities gained from reading are not skills that “society can afford to
(Cambria and Guthrie’s, 2010) research indicates that in order to motivate students to read we need to take in consideration their interest, dedication and confidence. “An interested student reads because he enjoys it; a dedicated student reads because he believes it is important, and a confident student reads because he can do it. ”(Cambria and Guthrie,
Science has proven that reading can provoke positive changes in us as human beings. Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the article ‘Your Brain on Fiction’ published on March 17, 2012. Annie explains how researchers have discovered that reading can initiate different parts of the brain, this is the reason why sometimes literature can make the reader so engaged and attached to a piece of writing. Research also explains how reading has the ability to produce activity in our brain’s motor cortex. Finally, Annie explains how reading fictional pieces can change how you interact with other individuals.
Based on this, they could eventually seek job opportunities and develop their knowledge from reading
This outlook is reflected in national surveys, the number of literary non-readers in the United States is starting to outweigh the number of readers and, this has slowly been proceeding over the past 20 years (Gioia 421). Reading is a fundamental part of life. It’s a major way of expression, imagination, learning and being the best person
The significance of reading has become a persistent theme in the business world. The February issue of Wired magazine, for instant, created a new set of mental skills to the 21st century, aptitudes decidedly literary in character: not “linear, logical, analytical talents. “The ability to create artistic and emotional beauty, to detect patterns and opportunities, to craft a satisfying narrative. ”author Daniel Pink States. When companies were asked to pick an position of high level employees, a person who have strong imagination, creativity, and high-order thinking will likely to be enrolled.
In “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Readers” by Kavitha Rao, she express her opinion on the topic that the current generation is not reading for fun. She mentions several experience she had with other people, that don 't see the benefit in reading for fun. She says that since people aren 't reading more leisure anymore they 're becoming less creative, inarticulate, have poor communication skills and low confidence, which is caused by parents forcing their kids to read, and the education system need to have students memorize textbooks and nothing else. After reading this article I find myself disagreeing with Rao on several points she made, I don’t believe the modern attitude towards reading is causing people to be self absorbed and unimaginative, she also claims that book clubs don 't encourage reading for fun, parents are forcing their children to read boring books which turned them away from reading and that the educational system is to blame for college students for being inarticulate.
Reading the memos and policy announcements of her company is very important for all employees and not being able to read it, it means that these employees speed reading training program was not effective. I think that Sue’s company reading is one of the most important things and that’s why they put speed reading training for many of the employees on the company. Employees are not using it at work then that means that it was not worthy. At the same time I see that it was worthy, but in their personal life because many employees say that they use it at home, but not on their working life, but on Sue’s company it
Everyone knows that reading is important, but have you ever asked yourself why is that so? Reading is one of the most beneficial and practical activities that a human being can do. Unfortunately it is a disappointment that people these days read less. As we know, books were the main source of entertainment centuries ago, but with the widespread of technological advances such as the cinema, television, internet, among others, many people left their books on the bookshelf. The purpose of this speech is to present the benefits and the importance of reading.
