3. She implies that the “new-model English class graduate” is less likely to question orders or think too deeply about current events, and that they are conditioned not too read too closely or to ask too many questions. 4. Prose blames
He decides to continue reading. He comes to the conclusion that burning books is wrong. Montag observes the society he lives in and sees that the people aren’t living life right. He remembers Clarisse and wishes that more people were like her. Instead of continuing to live like he used to, Montag believes reading books will help them live life the way Clarisse did.
Reading books change their mind and maybe as well as their lives. The value of literacy does not only play a role on kids but also on adults. After surviving from the holocaust, it is hard and hurt for Wiesel to recall the memory of what he and others had suffered but he chose to write the history down to let it remembered. He said[,] “I was duty-bound to give meaning to my survival, to justify each moment of my life. I knew the story had to be told.
I didn’t realize this book went over so much different things, like how the Ku Klux Klan got started, and Drug dealers living with their parents, I would recommend this book for everyone to read it was very interesting to me. I didn’t realize Macroeconomics would fall into this. One thing that I didn’t know was that teachers would cheat to get there grades up to get a better bonus; I guess I just came from a small school. I would have to agree with the Author of this book, that there is so much stuff that goes on in this world that we don’t think about. We stay in our own little community, and not think what is going on outside of it as long as we are happy and safe.
Though the Internet is the main subject of his argument, Carr provides insight on other developments as well. By touching on the inventions of such inventions as the map and the clock, he explains that both “changed the way we saw ourselves and the way we thought” (55) and provides example of his idea that the modernization of technology changes our thought process. He illustrates through historical references, the progression of how we read and write. Such examples include: writing on stones and wood, upgraded to papyrus, to tablets, to paper, to typewriters, to computers. Growing up in a time that was predominately print rather than computer, Carr is quick to favor print reading.
Ethan Scheurich Mrs. Smith English W-131 Midterm Article Midterm In this article Timothy Roberts states his opinion about whether or not tattoos influence the choices younger people make. He states that they don’t decide what choices the youth make. I personally would have to agree with Timothy because I have tattoos and I am not involved in half the stated in the article besides smoking cigarettes. There are some things in the article that Timothy says that I also do not agree with. For some people like myself, I like using tattoos to express myself in ways that I wouldn’t be able to speak.
In the book Feed there are some similarities and differences between teenagers today, than in the book. One difference that is totally different is the language we speak in our society today. In the book they use weird words like “youch, unettes, unit, and null”. When I first read these words I thought to myself like, “What the heck does this mean?” I had to re-read the sentence over again, just so I could comprehend the stuff they were saying to each other. One similarity between teenagers today and in the book Feed is that we both use slang words.
It's a story of sort of banished hopes, or at least obliquely realised ones, I suppose. I was ... I wasn't a bad student. I did my best, but maths weren't my long suit, and the further I went with them, the more they became a mysterious world beyond my comprehension. And I think by the time I left in my sub-senior year, I was doomed to go and find my way somewhere else.
We rather evade taxes; make quick money; and just survive” Change between Generations. “Everyone keep asking me what race I am. Yeah, they like: where’re you from with that name? because they hear that Puerto Rican accent, And I just tell them that I’m Nuyorican. I hate that.” Stereotyping Ethnicity based on skill level at work.
Reader-Response When you are street smarts people think that you’re not going make anything of yourself, but when you are educated people say and think his/she going become a doctor or lawyer, In the short story “A Homemade Education” by Malcolm X, Malcolm X states that even though you are street smarts it’s also even better to be also be educated because it would gave you a better understanding of the would around you. This reading does have significance, relevance, importance to me and my community because I live in a neighborhood that not a lot of people make it out the neighborhood they mostly end up street smarts or died. I have personally seen people that I have grew up with that makes the statics that people say about living in