Teachers and professors think the Web is great to a certain point though. Teachers have noticed students are carried away by the Web because they are focusing less on reading. Carr agrees, “…. They don’t necessarily read a page from left to right and from top to bottom. They might instead skip around, scanning for pertinent information of interest… I can’t get my students to read whole books anymore…” (318).
Kay uses Sophie to represent the opposition to the message of the novel as a whole: love and family overrules everything. Kay first introduces Sophie in the chapter ‘Interview Exclusive’, around half way through the novel. So far in this chapter Colman has been speaking in first person. The chapter name suggests that that he is being interviewed and we are not just reading his thoughts. This becomes clearer when Kay introduces Sophie, the interviewer.
While grabbing the reader’s attention with the first sentence, he clearly establishes the topic when he begins with, “The other evening the telephone rang and a lovely female voice asked, ‘Is Stephen there?’” (301). Lautens informs the reader that the essay will likely be about phone calls, boy-girl relationships, and fathers answering their teens’ calls. Readers are also subtly introduced to Lautens’ sarcasm, as he describes the
Computers are now being introduced in kindergarten classes. When older students went to school, computers did not exist. Because of this, older students lack the knowledge of online usage, and struggle during online classes. Life experiences are an area where the older students have an advantage. Adult students have the
Tim O’Brien A Coward In an attempt to relieve some shame and guilt about his involvement in the war O’Brien writes a story about himself that he has never before told anyone, titled The Rainy River. The story starts off at the summer of 1968 when he was 21 years old and was drafted to serve in the army. Before he was drafted, O’Brien had taken a stand against the war by doing things such as campaigning for the presidential campaign of anti-war advocate Eugene McCarthy and writing college newspaper editorials against the war. O’Brien recounts his thoughts on receiving a draft notice, feeling that he was not good for war and should not have to because of his educational accomplishments. O’Brien in the story tries to leave
I was one despised ... Ragged boys in gangs would pounce on the well-dressed like myself." He later reflected: "When I went to school I was able to read. At the Manchester elementary school I attended, most of the children could not read, so I was ... a little apart, rather different from the rest."
Growing up as a kid reading was not an interest of mines. It was something about reading that jaded me and didn’t quite capture my attention. I can remember like yesterday my always forcing me to read a book. “Tyvell you better be reading.” She would scream. And I would say “Yes mam I’m reading,” as I was staring at the pictures pretending as if I am reading.
In the essay, “Mother Tongue,” by Amy Tan emphasizes the idea that we all speak different languages unconsciously and also we are categorized by the way we speck. In the essay Tan observes experiences that made her realized the different types of “Englishes” she uses. The first time she became aware was when giving a talk about her book, “The Joy Club,” she saw her mother in the audience and she realized that she had been using academic language learned from books, a language she had never used with her mother. The second time she noticed one of her “Englishes” was when talking with her mother and husband, she said “not waste money that way” which for her is an intimate language used only by her family. Tan emphasizes that fact that her mother recognizes her opportunities and interaction in life are limited by her English.
Identity in Raymond Carver’s “Are you a Doctor?” In Raymond Carver’s “Are you a Doctor?” a man picks up a ringing telephone expecting his wife to be on the other end. He is surprised to hear the voice of another woman. Initially, the man asks the woman to throw away his number and not call him again. The woman begins flirting with Arnold and he finds himself wanting to talk to this woman. Arnold agrees to the woman’s request and goes over to Clara’s house where he kisses her goodnight.
For some strange reason, students act as if they do not need a textbook for the course. If students remember that they need a textbook, then they spend it on something they really do not need. Finally, students feel that having a textbook is not important. To illustrate, some students can go an entire semester without books and can still pass with the course with a B or C. Consequently, students do not have a book because of a lack of funds. Secondly, some students do not have books for class because they lack transportation.