Though being serious topic you wouldn’t think that satire would create a standing argument but Fridman proves us wrong by making his point and opinion pop right out of the passage. This helps support the writing by attracting more readers though his unrealistic writing for the subject. Fridman connects to his readers through pathos, as many can relate this passage to their unpopular but successful experience in high school or even middle school. This association between the readers and the writing generates more feedback and interest of his work. As he says, “it is a high time to face the persecutors who haunt the bright kid with thick glasses from kindergarten to the grave.” The bullying, the teasing, and the harassing for their abilities and their “disgusting taste” must be stopped, as stated in his writing.
An example of this is when he shot Candy’s dog and he doesn’t apologise to Candy, but instead he cleans his gun in full view of everyone. This demonstrates that Carlson doesn’t feel sorry at all for shooting Candy’s dog and instead feels that Candy should apologise to him for having the dog for so long, and making him put up with the smell of the dog. However, some people might argue that Carlson is a sensitive and caring individual because before Carlson shot Candy’s dog he said “This ol’ dog suffers hisself all the time.” because “He’s all stiff with rheumatism.” This could suggest that Carlson is sensitive and caring because he wants the dog to be put out of its misery and he thinks that nobody should be made to suffer, not even a dog and he even says “I wisht somebody shoot me if I got an’ a cripple.”, which suggests that he wouldn’t want to be in pain and nobody else would either. Although I disagree with this because I think that Carlson is just trying to find another excuse for killing the dog. I think this because all the other reasons that Carlson has suggested have been reasons that suggest that he doens’t really care how the dog feels and he just cares about himself and his own wellbeing.
Through this, Haddon is explaining how autistic people have certain talents or hobbies that they are experts in. In this case, Haddon illustrates Christopher as an expert in mathematics. Christopher also has a photographic memory that he uses continually throughout the book. When Christopher runs away from home in attempt to find his mother, he has no information on how to find her except for his memory of reading her current address on a letter. During all the excitement that Christopher runs into, he doesn’t forget his mother address; his memory can visualize the letter and the address on it.
When Candy’s dog is shot, it does not know that it is being shot. All it knows is that it is outside with a man. The killing of this dog was done correctly. It was cared for up until the last second, and it does not feel pain. George also does the euthanizing of Lennie correctly.
I agree with what Graff says and also agree when he says, “The challenge, as a college professor Ned Laff has put it, “is not simply to exploit students’ nonacademic interests, but to get them to see those interests through academic eyes” (p.302). I strongly believe this is true, I wish teachers would really take this into consideration. The author also reminds us of his own adolescent experience. Graff was anit-intellectual as a young student until he entered college. Graff disliked books very much and only cared for sports.
In Genome, Ridley wanted to give insight about the human genome and how life really worked. Ridley thought of knowledge to be a blessing and not a curse (3). Though A Heartbreaking Works of Staggering Genius did not talk about the human genome, it discussed a story and let the reader view life from Egger’s perception. Though most of the narrations were depressing, Eggers really wanted to give the audience knowledge about the truth of life. In one of his observations, Eggers stated that everyone “feeds” off of each other every day until there is nothing left but a heartless body (425).
It was becoming more complex, especially in math. I enjoyed the challenge even if I didn’t fully understand, so I would ask my friends at school for help. They would always be happy to, and even laughed with me about the silly mistakes I would make because I was never careful to pay attention to
I mean, sure, grades are very motivational, but they are also very harming. Countless suicides are caused by grades and pressure, and I think it just really isn’t necessary to put a student on the spot like that. Let’s say a student makes straight A’s. That’s great in most cases, but does it really self-motivate the student into learning more, or does it give them a little lee-way to slack off and maybe not study as much? Or let’s say that a student gets straight C’s.
Combs describe his own success or many student’s real world experience perhaps a chapter on majoring in the success with your dysfunctional family, enormous student loan, drugged-out roommate and relationship issues. Instead, Mr. Combs supplies his readers with 154 pages detailing and expanding on a single maxim: figure out what you want to do it life, and do it. Major in Success has some major flaws as well as some great advice. The less there is a great deal to be gathered from Major in Success, but probably not in the manner Mr. Combs planned. Some great lessons can be learned from understanding not just what is in the book, but what it is that makes the book successful, despite its shortcomings.
The research paper and its effectiveness at measuring a student's performance has become a debate within the educational community. Critics of the form say that in our age of technology the internet has made sources too readily available and therefore the essay type is obsolete. Yet, there are professors that would disagree and state they are encouraging students to think unconventionally. With good evidence on both sides of the argument it is hard to decide if this is an effective means of evaluation. There are more effective ways of assessing knowledge such as other types of essays and oral presentations.