“Then she started to remember something and came back to look at him with wonder and curiosity. “Are you happy?” she said. (p. 7)
One of which is operant conditioning. Operant conditioning is the process by which people make responses because they have learned that positive or negative consequences are dependent on the response. This basically means that we humans will have a fixed response to a specific stimuli that is followed by something negative or positive. This quote is saying that we read books only for specific reasons,
Therefore saying that the themes in Freak the Mighty can really contribute to your life. Meaning that it is important to have friends that have your back and not to judge
Applying this quote to my own life would mean that those around me will never see me as a changed person but will only see me grow into a more complete version of
Although he learned a lot due to books, he believes that each book teaches you a lesson. He believes that all bad books usually have a greater lesson to teach you than the good books. Books also thought him what he can and can’t do while writing. While reading books he learned “Good writing, on the other hand, teaches the learning writer about style, graceful narration, plot development, the
It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” This quotation means that friendship is can be good, and bad. Understanding one another through good, and bad, but allowing the other to get hurt causes greater problems.
As black women always conform under patriarchal principles, women are generally silenced and deprived of rights because men are entitled to control everything. Women are silenced in a way that they lose their confidence and hesitate to speak up due to the norms present in the society they live in. Hence, even if women have the confidence to try to speak, men wouldn’t bother to listen since men ought to believe that they are superior to women. In addition to that, women often live in a life cycle of repetitions due to patriarchal principles since women are established to fulfill the roles the society had given them. It is evidenced by Celie as she struggles to survive and to define oneself apart from the controlling, manipulative, and abusive men in her life.
This powerful quote simply means the we as people must be willing to
And I want you to teach me to understand what I read." (Bradbury 78) Books to him are a way to communicate with others. He is frustrated that everyone else is blind to that. This expresses the value of the books expanding the way of communicating. He knows he will need help on understanding it and
Conformity in Fahrenheit 451 is shown that everyone is the same, while having individualism, you can be unique in your own way. Beatty says otherwise, “We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no
What it means/why I chose this quote: I grew up in sports hearing practice makes perfect, but I never really thought it would make me 100% perfect, it would just get me close to it. Quote #3: Everyone is Different Respect the Differences Interpretation: I think it means no matter who you are you are different and because everyone is different you respect what they are different about. What it means/why I chose this quote: I have always been told I am different because I bring a lot of energy wherever I am, some people make fun of me for it, but I was knew everyone was somewhat different.
This quote means that you never know somebody fully, unless you take their place and adapt to the person's life characteristics. This matters because you can never know what somebody is persecuted about, praised for, expected of, and stuck with. So, you shouldn’t judge someone because you can misinterpret them for who they really
The different traits from one another will be the one thing that will help you later in life. People who see things differently end up changing the world or having an effect on it. The author talks about how every single one of us is weird, and uses Benjamin Franklin as an example. The article “Isn’t Everyone a Little Bit Weird” explains how Benjamin Franklin was “One of the framers of the United States Constitution, Franklin (1706-1790) was a leading author, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, activist, and businessperson” (Isn’t Everyone a Little Bit Weird 3). Franklin was considered weird, one reason is because, he would take air baths (naked) while writing essays.
Ursula Le Guin defines Omelas as a utopia where the citizens’ lives are never wretched. Le Guin captures her readers’ attention by describing the city’s beauty with the colorful scenery, events featuring games and horse riding, and the everlasting happiness. She does a great job of leading her readers into thinking this could be the perfect society, but leaves us with the question of satisfaction. According to Le Guin, “happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive” (p. 2). This quote means that there must be a balance for the society to succeed.
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.
