Ailsa Lewis Gidick APUSH- 8 8 January 2018 The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America Book Review Wilson James. The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America. New York: Grove Press.
In the midst of all the turmoil and cynicism in the current media, one can find that there is some good beneath it all, like a flower that blossomed from a sea of concrete. Victor Villaseñor acknowledges the fact that there is always a light at the end of the tunnel when he reflected upon his keynote address, where he criticized on English teachers, bashed, smacked, and tortured, their students. Based on the novel, Burro Genius, by Victor Villaseñor, the story displays Villaseñor’s education and his struggles with abusive teachers. In an excerpt from his book, Villaseñor affects the reader emotionally through the use of stylistic devices and imagery to depict the intensity of afterthoughts of his keynote address. Villaseñor uses these rhetorical
Dear Book Club, I am reading Dante 's Inferno by Dante Alighieri, a famous poet. The story starts off with the narrator (Dante) lost in a dark forest which is looking for God. Three beasts attack him which he can 't escape. A roman poet named Virgil recuses him who was sent by Beatrice.
The National Science Foundation has predicted the future when they said, “technology will have transformed American home, business, manufacturing, school, family and political life.” The report ' 'Teletext and Videotex in the United States, ' ' cites that teletext and videotext will blow everyone’s minds just like vehicles and televisions did. The results of this can be positive to open the doors for a variety of family activities, hobbies, and legacies. Yet the rise of technology, and especially videotext, can result in negativity, because it is most likely the privacy will decrease further. This goes beyond family life, as political and economic issues can be held at risk.
Everything around us in the world is constantly changing, so people often wonder, what is going to happen in the future. Many authors have had thoughts similar thoughts and fear that societies will start to fall apart. Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, and Kurt Vonnegut, author of “Harrison Bergeron” have their own ideas of what will occur in the future. These authors wrote books or short stories describing the fears they have for what societies are going to become in the future. Also, these authors tend to have a sort of pessimistic view on what will occur in the future.
The first time one is able to comprehend the meaning of a word is a momentous childhood moment that is forever engraved in one’s memory. Books and reading are significantly impactful to people’s lives; Mark Twain said that, “books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.” This statement is apropo for Sherman Alexie, who was a Native American living on a reservation during the time he learned to read. Sherman Alexie convinces his audience that an education is crucial to being successful by using personal anecdotes to captivate and create a connection with his audience and repetition to reiterate the importance of having an education. Alexie's use of personal anecdotes fortifies the impact he has on his audience.
Greg Graffin’s Anarchy in the Tenth Grade represents the in-group theory presented by Gordon Allport. The in-group theory proposes that people belong to cliques, some by choice and others by chance, and society affects or has influences on these in-groups through equal out-groups. Mr. Graffin explains how it feels to be a new kid in a new school and how he became a punker. Mr. Graffin explains his endeavours through the in-group “punk” and also expounds on how different out-groups react to his in-group.
He has finally discovered the key to a successful society. “ Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through. And man will go on.
Technology plays such a big role in today’s society. Imagine having technology doing everything for you. Having a mechanical dog or a machine that butters your toast for you. This is what the characters in Fahrenheit 451 all have. My goal for this paper is to clearly represent the overall theme for Fahrenheit 451 which is the over dependence on technology on how it can disconnect people from reality.
“I refused to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant. I was lucky. I read books late into the night, until I could barely keep my eyes open” (Alexie 17).
The Rhetorical Analysis of the “America Needs its Nerds” The mental capacity is treated as a disadvantage in the America, despite the fact it already helped the country many times. This long-term problem became the main topic of the Leonid Fridman’s essay “America Needs its Nerds”. The work first appeared on January 11, 1990 in the New York Times as a part of the series “Voices of the New Generation”. The author spoke about the negative attitude the American society has to smart people and demonstrates it with the usage of words like “nerd” or “geek”.
“Hidden Intellectualism,” by Gerald Graff starts off with an older argument between being book smart and street smart. Throughout the reading, Graff uses his own life experiences to critique the education system today. Points made focus on the idea of overlooking the intellectual potential of those who come across as being, “street smart”. Different authors cited in the reading to show how to accept another’s different intellectual. However, we realize that people who come across as being intellectual weren’t always labeled as that.
Since ancient times, humankind has always sought knowledge and wisdom. However, the path to get them has never been a simple one, due to through time, people with power and money have tried to keep humanity in the “darkness;” therefore, is up the people to find their way to the “light.” Having that in mind, Toni Cade Bambara in his short story “The Lesson,” and David Foster Wallace in the essay “Commencement Speech, Kenyon College,” develop the topic of the importance of education. “The lesson” is about a black lady, from probably the 1920’s or 1930’s, who managed to go to college; and now is trying to inspire a group of black kids to do the same. Whereas, Wallace’s essay is an adaptation from the commencement speech to the graduates from Kenyon
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In Document 1 it discusses a quote from Socrates which states “The unexamined life is not worth living.” This is showing that what is the point of living life if you can't question things or ideas. Socrates was a very famous philosopher and people still use his ideas of questioning things and thoughts today. Sadly Socrates questioned the government and was put to death by poison. The philosopher, Aristotle, is another example of someone whose ideas impacted the world today.
