Distracted driving has become a controversial issue among teenage drivers recently. With the advancement and easy availability of technology, like text messaging, smart phones, loud music and social media, there has been an increase in traffic related deaths, due to distracted teenage drivers. In overcoming this, Public Service Announcements will be used to open the eyes of distracted drivers,
I found ‘The Man I killed’ to be a particularly interesting story out of this book. I feel like it really goes to the heart of why the author feels he must write and get all these feelings out. He describes the body in vivid imagery, and he returns to it later on, in “Ambush”. He says: “I want to tell her that as a little girl she was absolutely right. This is why I keep writing war stories” (131) and then he goes on to talk about
First was the fact that the poetic language made it possible for the poem to be appealing first as a text and second as a medium of communication. Subsequently, the language was simple enough to be comprehended by the reader. The use of literacy elements by William Carlos Williams in the construction of the poem, To Waken an
Tyleasha Blakely ENC 1102 Amani Francis March 14, 2012 Critical Analysis Essay "Mysterious Connections that Link Us Together" Azar Nafisi In the essay "Mysterious Connections that Link Us Together" by Azar Nafisi, the author discusses how empathy brings connection to everyone and how we should consider other people feelings. This essay writes about empathy as something that connects us to others despite our differences with them. Whenever the author thinks about this capacity to reach out to others, she thinks of Huckleberry Finn and the runaway slave Jim, and how empathy is engendered by imagination. The author wants the reader to understand that through empathy we have deep connections to everyone. In her essay,
The author’s vocabulary and diction was another thing I really liked. He used advanced vocabulary frequently, yet it was still easy to understand. The way he put the words together made it flow extremely well. The setting that John Knowles set was really good. It was easy to tell where and when the book was, from the start.
Ms. Newton’s style of learning preference was Read/Write. I was not surprised at all by my results because an aural learns information quickly when presented in an auditory way. I enjoy listening to people speak versus a piece of paper. I like the visual. In most cases once I get the visual the paper makes more sense and easier to understand.
This hat is referred to a lot in the book whether Holden is taking it off and on or just changing the position of the hat. Since this red hunting hat is rarely ever off of Holden’s head, it represents a type of security blanket for the boy. In the book Holden says, "I took my red hunting hat […] and put it on – I didn't give a damn how I looked.” This shows that he may not care how he looks in the hat, but he always puts the hat on when he was feeling vulnerable or when he is in an uncomfortable situation. The next important piece of symbolism in this novel would be the carousel in the last chapter of the book. While Pheobe was riding the carousel Holden talks about how happy it made him to watch his little sister so calm and innocent looking while riding on the carousel.
According to the article of teenage brain developments, “When two teenagers’ drivers are racing down the road darting through traffic to get ahead of each other… They are doing it because the risk and danger involved” (Sheryl Feinstien). This show that teenagers amygdala is taking over control and the frontal lobe is trying to get the connections right. There are many examples of teenagers getting reckless driving tickets due to the lack of care they have one the road. Salinger shoes a typical teenage male fight “Then he finally let one go at me and the next thing I know I was in the goddamn floor again” (45).
“The Yellow Wallpaper” Reading “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Perkins Gilman is enough to make anyone feel crazy enough to relate to the story’s narrator. This story effectively uses fast paced descriptive language to describe the main focus of the story, which is the wallpaper. This constant recurrent picture is analyzed over and over to the point where it is nearly impossible to picture the vivid details of the ever-changing design. With this repetitive text, I believe that Gilman is trying to simultaneously keep the reader entertained, while offering firsthand looks into the obsessive mind of the narrator. Toward the beginning, the story maintains a typical gothic feel.
Also great literature and writing can take you to peaceful palaces of tranquility and respite in a time of need. Those are just a few of the wonderful things that I feel literature and writing offers us but another thing that I feel its gives us is a sense of freedom and being right or confidence. When I am writing about myself, my thoughts, my feelings or any problems I have it gives me more power I feel, more say so, and it makes me feel as if someone is actually listening to therefore I am free to say what I want to express how I feel and that type of freedom is so relieving. When reading a book gaining knowledge and information that I actually had to pay attention to learn that gives me more confidence in what I am talking about, when I am reading advanced literature books and I notice how they speak that give me more confidence to speak with others because of the dialogue and grammar I have learned from the literature. These things do so much more to us than what we see at the