In the story, “Your Question for Author Here” by Kate DiCamillo and Jon Scieszka, the main character (Joe) struggles with a person vs person conflict. He writes a perfunctory letter to Maureen O Toople and acts like he doesn’t care. As a result, he does not get his author answers. The piece of evidence is going to show the start to the conflict and how it begins. “I actually picked you mostly to annoy Jennifer, because she is crazy about your books and is always talking about the houses or princesses or whatever is in them” (106).
He ends his note with commenting that all of notes, journals, and postcards that McCandless wrote were like work that was done from an above average high school kid. Chris was another person who came to
You Have Insulted Me essay by Evan Hang Kurt Vonnegut’s purpose for writing the letter, “You Have Insulted Me” is to convince the school board to change their decision through the use of rhetorical strategies, logos, pathos, and ethos. To begin, Vonnegut uses ethos to convince the school board. Vonnegut uses examples of ethos such as that he served in World War 2 and earned a purple heart to change the school board’s decision. “Every year I receive at least a dozen invitations to be the commencement speaker at colleges and high schools.” Vonnegut uses real-life, reliable information to show the school board that he is trusted by many people.
While teaching at Stanford University, one of the most prestigious university's in the United States, he has won numerous awards and honors. He even begins paragraph two explaining a job he used to work at, further expanding on his creditability and with the job being a real life experience, it creates a sense of power and authority over the readers. By telling the story in a first person setting, it shows his knowledge of what he is teaching and that he is a trusted author. With his language being more advanced and vulgar than the normal person is used to, it shows that this is for an advanced audience, not simple minded
Tobias Wolff’s novel Old School conveys the ideas of honor, identity, voice and competition through the experiences of a boy who attends a preparatory school in the 1960s. The unnamed narrator’s actions are caused by the visiting writers, who definitely influence the narrator more negatively. Although the purpose of the famous writers visiting the school is to influence the narrator at the prep school more positively by helping him build character and allowing him to pursue perseverance, in reality the pressure the writers add discourages the narrator from finding his own voice and adds even more competition to an already extremely competitive school. This results in the narrator experiencing problems of plagiarizing, the search for his voice
Leonard Pitts crafts a judgmental tone through repetition, his choice of diction, antithesis, and personal anecdotes to convince his audience that plagiarism is despicable and a complete dishonor to the struggle of original writers and literature itself. Pitts carefully chooses his words to create a critical tone in the open letter. It is most apparent when he refers to Cecil’s plagiarism as theft. He repeatedly calls Cecil’s actions theft because it brings the reader’s attention to how Cecil’s decision to plagiarize Pitts is stealing and disrespectful to literature. Since thievery is a crime most people are well aware of, the reader is compelled to criticize Cecil for doing something so obviously wrong.
In the article Pietro Boselli hit the headlines the same week as Gemma Laird. Boselli was an advanced math teacher from Italy who taught undergraduate He became famous when one of his student googled him and found his modeling photos and once it went viral he became the sexiest math teacher. Bates tries to compare the two articles for comparisons with no evidence to support. Yes, Boselli was a teacher but he did not get fired because he was a model, he took a break to pursue his modelling career since he always dreamed of becoming a model since he was a
Thomas C. Foster’s novel How to Read Like a Professor teaches readers how to deeply analyze literary works to be able to understand deeper meanings in the work, and to be able to predict what will happen later on in the literary work. The Disney film Atlantis: The Lost Empire contains many of the aspects Foster goes over in this first ten chapters, which mostly include quests, referencing well-known literature, weather patterns, and the gathering for meals. According to Foster, a journey is never just a journey. It is a quest to discovering some sort of Holy Grail, whether it be an object, an idea, or self-discovery.
“I get to go first.” “Why do you get to go first?” “Because I’m in charge. Not you.” “But why of all people would you be in charge?”
In the novel Wonder by R.J. Palacio, the perspective changes when we read about August through the words and thoughts of Jack and Summer. “Nobody asks August what’s going on. Hardly anyone ever talks to him.” (Palacio 144). August gives off a really genial and welcoming aura, but he refuses to be social because rejection becomes his new fear.
In the book Old School by Tobias Wolff, the unnamed narrator struggles through healthy imitation and plagiarism inside of the Hill school. While attending this school, the narrator enters a writing contest. The submission the narrator uses is of another person, but he claims the writing to be so related to him and how the writing is his life in a sense. The narrator ends up plagiarizing the piece and is expelled by the school. The school expelled him with thought of reputation and to set an example for the other students.
The book wonder by R.J Palacio, is about a ten year old kid named August (Auggie) Pullman. He was born with a facial deformity that prevented him from going to school. He's going into fifth grade at Beecher Prep, and him being the new kid going into a new school is hard for him. Auggie is just like us. He's an ordinary kid, just with an extraordinary face.
The book Wonder by R.J. Palacio was filled with eye opening precepts. As I read the book I felt that one precept stood out most of all. This was the September precept “When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.”- Dr. Wayne Dyer. I fell this means that you should choose kindness over the ability to be right.
When Polonius suspects Hamlet, he demonstrates symptoms of Paranoid Personality Disorder. Paranoid Personality Disorder is about behaviors of distrust and suspiciousness of other people and believe others’ motives are malevolent. According to the psychology disorder book DSM-V, one of the diagnostic criteria is “preoccupied with unjustified doubts about the loyalty or trustworthiness of friends or associates” (649). Polonius’ Paranoid Disorder is shown in Act 3 Scene 3, Polonius is trying to figure out what is going on with Hamlet, and he believes Hamlet will talk about that to the Queen in private. Shakespeare writes, “My lord, he’s going to his mother’s closet.
As each writing assignments is graded, I realize how much I have improved as a writer by the grade and the fewer mistakes that I have made in them. As each time the grammatical and spelling mistakes are fewer on each paper. I want to share how I have grown as a writer on second semester by being in class and reflecting on my previous assignments. Even though there weren’t many writing assignments this semester. There were some assignments that I have done poorly on.
