First the author shows the theme by integrating character’s actions throughout the story. Before Charlie becomes intelligent he wrote, “I want to be smart.” (Pg. 221) I think this quote confirms the theme because since he wasn’t smart he could have separated himself from smart people. As Charlie was reading a book called Robinson Crusoe he wrote, “I feel sorry because he’s all alone and has no friends.” (Pg. 229) I believe this quote reveals the moral because as he reads this book he find out Crusoe is all alone and isolated and even though Charlie doesn’t realize it yet he himself is isolated and lonely as well.
Gonzaga’s pre-med curriculum was too much for Alexie, so he switched to law. Just like pre-med, he did not like that class either and dropped it. Feeling depressed, he started drinking to relieve his problems. He finally found comfort in literature. He later enrolled at Washington State University and took writing classes.
My English is so poor; I want to improve my English. First time, I avoided classes that involved a lot of writing, as I was still intimidated by past failures. But when poor writing began to affect my grades in other courses, I decided to take a composition class. Now, I use my On Course textbook in my English class, this journal will help me about self-awareness. I began to see how negative scripts could cause problems.
You can accomplish anything you set your mind on doing. “I not only wasn’t articulate, I wasn’t even functional” (715). Malcolm X learned this valuable lesson while in prison; when he first went to prison he could barely read or write. He wanted to be able to communicate articulately and to be able to read, so he taught himself. He used the dictionary and over the time he was in prison he copied the entire thing into tablets and then read it out loud to himself when he had finished he realized he had remembered a lot of it.
It was very hard to deal with in school because I got confused very easily in anything that had to do with reading or writing. I also never liked or enjoyed reading very much. Due to me having dyslexia it frustrated me to try and read, and I hated to do things that frustrated me. It was very hard for me to find books that I liked. Most ones I would have liked were too advanced for me, so I wouldn’t have been able to read them.
In Russel Baker’s essay “Becoming a Writer,” he explains how writing changed from being heavy labor to a calling. He started with everything associated with English boring him up until 11th grade. He said how dull and baffling English grammar was, and he didn’t understand how to create interesting compositions. Baker mentions that he set himself up for a dry year based on rumors concerning Mr.Fleagle from other high schoolers. Then the “comic antique” appearance and the uninspiring delivery of the reading by Mr. Fleagle convinced Baker writing was dull.
We came from a small town in, Elyria, Ohio and I was the youngest of four children. Mr. Smith didn’t seem to care about what was going on in my home life and just wanted results. I remember turning in papers and they would come back marked up in read ink telling me all the mistakes I made, most of those mistakes where punctuations and spelling. I have never been a great speller and I remember in one of his assignments he had us do was to write an essay and hand out copies to out classmates for them to read. Before handing out my essay, I had Mr. Smith look my paper over to get his thoughts on how it read.
Dear John Boyne, There are many interesting writings about the Holocaust, but I feel that your book brought up very different point from this dark period of history. “The Boy In The Striped Pajamas” took me on a journey from a 9 year old boy’s perspective. I could have easily sympathized with Bruno and Shmuel’s character, and it did not take me long to realize that innocence can lead to destruction. Bruno was kept in the dark about his father’s work. His innocence and lack of knowledge about what was going on in the concentration camp, lead him to a tragic death.
They saw his theory as dehumanizing, treating man as a machine, lacking morality and being dangerous to our way of life. Despite the negative stigma he carried, Skinner managed to make contributions to education, science and psychology. He received many awards and was recognized for his work and eventually even got away from his reputation of being a cold-blooded scientist. Skinner’s Life and Theory of Behavior Burrhus Frederic Skinner was born March 20, 1904, in Pennsylvania. He grew up in a happy, upper-middle-class, Presbyterian home but started to lose faith in high school and never practiced religion again (Feist & Feist, 2009).
Writing, was something that I was never good at even though I loved reading class, the writing part made me hate the subject. With such desperation of even hearing the words, "new writing assignments" my heart would instantaneously sink ten feet down. I recall being a second grader looking around all the sketchers lighting up with ideas, jotting everything that was coming to their minds on paper. On the other hand, I'd look down and I'd see an empty paper with no soul nothing just blank thoughts. The knowledge of knowing that the teacher was going to judge my paper, and probably make us read it to the class was terrifying too me and I just knew that my paper was just not good