The audience is a major factor when it comes to how your approach should be. If you are writing to a group of friends and family members you probably will not have to be so specific, you can put it in terms that you know that they will understand. If you are writing to a group of people you do not even know, you should make sure your writing has more detail and is more formal. It is also good to know what kind of response you want back from your audience. Genre is a kind of writing such as a proposal, a report, a letter, a profile, a poem, ECT.
Ugh!” “I will see. You shouldn’t be waiting until the last minute it” “Thanks! Why don’t you just use a more reliable company? Comcast sucks!” I cannot count the number of times I have had this conversation with my mother. I rely on media technology every day.
As an introduction, Mairs attempts to gain sympathy and personal connection with her readers by describing her physical disabilities due to MS (multiple sclerosis). She surrounds this description with how she has never seen any representation of her in the media, her tone insinuating either annoyance or depression. Depending on how a reader “hears” the narration in their head, the next paragraph can cause a little angst or frustration. Mairs turns from a sympathy-seeking cripple into a hostile contradicting writer. She states in the first paragraph “… I haven’t noticed any women like me on television…” yet her next paragraph is centered on a television show about a woman with MS. Mairs tries to redeem herself by describing how this woman’s emotional weakness, for running back to her doctor/love interest, is inaccurate, but that is mostly a sexist representation of women and less a misrepresentation of the disabled.
Throughout the duration of the story, the mother talks on the telephone and reminisces. Olsen implicated many literary devices in “I Stand Here Ironing,” –foreshadowing and metaphor, just to name a couple. For example, at the beginning of the story, the mother was suggested by the counselor to meet with him/her to provide an insight of Emily so that they can help her. However, she does not seem interested in speaking with the counselor at all. In fact, she seems very disgusted.
Markus Zusak uses her and her love for books to help portray the main idea of words and literature and the power they can have. When Liesel first arrived on Himmel Street she couldn’t read and was totally illiterate however Hans took the time to teach her to read and soon we find that Liesel has a real gift for writing and reading. Max says in his book ‘the word shaker’ “She knew how powerless a person could be without words” and it is from being illiterate till she was 10 that she gained this knowledge. Because of the events in her life, and her understanding of their power, she decides to use the words positively. We see this when she writes in her novel, the book thief, "I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right."
You have chosen to avoid me and bring me to court without any warning, “where the law requires one to bring those who are in need of punishment, not instruction.” In this clarification from the Apology Socrates is stating that he is not persuading others to become evil. He is not converting others into wickedness. Why would he put himself into a situation that will harm him? If he is corrupting the youth he is doing it without the intention of harming others or himself. It was his accuser’s responsibility such as Meletus to approach him about the matter and warn
When one reads just for the sake of reading, they don’t have interest and won’t be thinking about how the literature might actually connect with their own life and interests. Usually if a person doesn’t connect or have interest in the literature, they don’t realize how they can relate their own life to the piece and get useful knowledge. Bloom also emphasizes how important reading for personal interest is. “Ultimately we read…in order to strengthen the self, and to learn its authentic interests” (Bloom 2). Reading solely affects the reader.
Throughout the poem the child portrayed in the poem seems to be awkward and indifferent towards her mother. However, the child ends up fascinated with her mother even exclaiming the fact that her mother is actually hers and no one else’s. The mechanics of the poem are not very structured as Olds seems to almost always use a free verse style of writing. The poem “I Go Back to May 1937” is a poem of thirty lines that uses imagery to describe the scene of her parents as they depart into college together. The first nine lines beginning with an exploration of two adults signified by the terms "gates" and "colleges."
First, I’ll be talking about the traditional forms of communication and how they are slowly disappearing because of today’s new ways to communicate, then I will be talking about how the traditional forms of communication are better and how they should not be forgotten, and I’ll finish with the negative influence modern technology has on our lives, such as creating barriers between people. The emergence of modern mobile phones and computers has changed the way people communicate, a lot. In the past, people had no choice but to write letters to each other (landline phones did exist too, though), it was known as the traditional form of communication, and usually the delivery of letters took a dozens of days. Now, people can send a message or make a phone call at any time, anywhere, without any delay. In my opinion, soon this would result in the complete disappearance of the traditional skill of letter writing.
I have begun developing a dependency on the cell phone, allowing it to organize my day-to-day life, allowing it to become my distraction, and allowing it to become my memory for the remaining days of my life. Because of cell phone use, I no longer wish to communicate to anybody face-to-face on a daily basis, I cannot memorize any one person's number (including my own), and it disrupts my daily life. Communicating used to be an enjoyable experience for me, the greetings were always so friendly, and the ongoing conversations were always so exciting. Text messaging on the cell phone changed all that for me. I cannot recall the last time I ever sat down with a friend at a cafe to just talk.