In “Both Sides Come Out Fighting: The Argument Culture and the Press”, Deborah Tannen explains that the Press over-simplifies and dramatizes situations, and validates ridiculous arguments in order to appeal to viewers. She provides many examples of the harm this practice can cause, and describes the “Argument Culture” which is present in society. The Press has sizable influence because the way that events are reported affects people’s perceptions, in turn this affects the events themselves. The Media relies on controversy and drama to make news more interesting. They may exaggerate what was said, or analyse non-existent tensions. In the pursuit of remaining unbiased both sides of a story will be equally represented. The societal belief that…
“Any fool can know; the point is to understand” (Albert Einstein). This wise saying is from Albert Einstein, who believed understanding a concept is the most crucial part of knowledge. Elizabeth Kolbert displayed a similar philosophy in writing her passage “Terrible Teens”. Kolbert’s objective was to make her readers truly comprehend her thesis. Making use of personal encounters, Kolbert was able to make her thesis clear throughout her passage. Furthermore, Kolbert uses a comparison to a well-known musical to make her theory straightforward. Last of all, Kolbert uses a professional’s opinion to further propel her proposition as unambiguous. Kolbert not only uses methods of development throughout her passage…
There are many minor conflicts that keep the story interesting. Two very important ones are betweenJohn and his parents and Lorraine and her mother. Both of the childrens parents are verbally abusive and dont show any love or respect for John and Lorraine. They treat Mr Pignatti without respect because they dont know any better. There is also a conflict between John and Lorraine in the story. They start to argue near the end of the story about whether they should keep the key to Mr Pignatti's house. Even though Mr. Pignatti gives the key to them, lorraine doesn't think they should keep it. Their different personalites begin to tear them apart.…
In “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” one can tell that Flannery O’Connor is a dark person, and may even question if she is a Christian or not. In this short story, some people may think Flannery O’Connor may not be a Christian because of The Misfit character. Despite The Misfit character, I believe Flannery O’Conner is Christian and she shows it in several places throughout the short story through several characters.…
How they both are acting is not good and not a good way. They need to be more open and with each other. They don’t really tell each other how they feel or anything. The relationship between them was an abusment relationship. Neither one of them was able to be thereselves. Then to where Raheem had so much self-esteem. He had way to much to where it was hard for them to communicate. So the story “So I aint no good girl” by Sharon Flake is magnificent. But I think that the characters would be better. The way they are made is kind of weird. Raheem needs a lot of work and so does the girl. Other than that the characters are good. And the story was a perfect story to…
Barbara Jordan quotes that "We, as humans beings, must be able to accept people who are different than ourselves." this quote plays a large role in many of the text included in collection one some of which included "American Flag Stands for Tolerance", "My So-Called Enemy" and "The Lottery".…
The author of this story has the main female charter seem like a desperate character and puts up with Raheem cause she feels like she has to be in a relationship to feel good about herself which is not true but that’s the only example of a relationship is the one that she gets at home. This isn’t how a real relationship is supposed to be. Raheem is a really bad boyfriend. He doesn’t respect her at all; she so insecure and likes him so much that whatever he does she lets him get away with it and act like she doesn’t see…
Language can be the source of comedy or the source of fear. Language can also help us determine the geological location of a person. Also to go along with this a person’s identity can be seen through language. This concept of identity seen through language, is what we saw in the book Homegirls by Norma Mendoza-Denton. Through this book she was able to show us the linguistic ethnography of the Sor Juana High School Latina girls in a neighborhood in Northern California. Many of the girls she documents in the book are part of the gangs Norte or Sur. Sor Juana High School is located in Santa Clara California and has a Hispanic population of 403,000 which is 24% of the population in the county. With the Homegirls book Mendoza-Denton shows us concepts of the Latina girl’s language and how it shapes them to the views of the outside audience. For this analysis I am going to focus on the hemispheric localism and Muy Macha, because these concepts shows how language can be expressed through body language or oral language.…
When I was reading this book, I was confused about what was happening and this made me not enjoy it as much. One thing I did not like was how Cadence would write fairy tales about a king and three sisters. I didn't understand why she was writing these fairy tales and what they had to do with the plot. But, later learned that these stories represented her her mother and aunts difficult relationship with her grandfather. I did not like these stories because I didn’t think they were necessary in the book. However, I did like how the author made it seem like in the beginning that Cadence’s life was perfect because she gets anything she wants, but when you read more into the book you realize her life is anything but perfect. I liked this aspect of the book because it made it more interesting to read about Cadence’s story.…
While reading What Language is That? I found that I could really relate to the young girls. I remember being that age and having an inseparateable best friend, someone who just knows everything about you. I could not imagine one day, out of nowhere being told to just forget about them. I was pleased to find out that the girls followed their hearts instead of listening to their parents.…
3. The physical description of the three girls seems like the exposition of the story because the rest of it follows them through the store and relates Sammy’s thoughts about them. The carefully detailed portrait of Queenie, the leader of the three girls, is of great value to the story. Queenie seems like a typical proud teenage girl, and she serves to further characterize Sammy. The fact that he quits his job just so this girl will notice him transforms him into a susceptible young man.…
In summary, the concept is solid, but the story would benefit from more development in the areas of structure, pace, staying focused on the main task, creating a consistent tone, and character…
In the first few paragraphs I see that the story is written in 1st person narrative form as the girl. She is about 16 or 17 years old, since she attends grade 11 school. We get introduced with her father and brother Greg. Her relationship with Greg has its ups and downs, and with her father her relationship is okay. The stories conflict is based on the father wanting his children to follow his footsteps because he wished he did that with his father, and he doesn’t want his children to make the same mistake , but Greg doesn’t want that.…
The little girl becomes bigger, but her eyes grow dimmer. Her heart breaks when she is told that a girl she thought was her closest friend, her sister, almost, cannot bear being around her and only barely tolerates her presence. And that sets off a chain reaction of lights shutting down. Her soul, chained to a wall of insecurity and misery, suffers the slinging of insults like rotten fruit: annoying, obnoxious, stupid, fat. The girl begins to feel that no one could ever possibly care about her as much as she cared about them, but she accepts it.…
The short story contains a lot of pessimistic and negative adjectives, which gives me, as a reader, a feeling of negativity at first, but then you realize that the story is so much negative that it turns out to be filled with humor and a sarcastic touch.…