|that horrifying events make you realized how perish life is. | |What do I want my audience to learn from reading this paragraph? |I want the audience to learn from this paragraph that your life can be | | |over in a split second. | |Who is my audience? |Peer review and Professor Palm are my audience.
Each decision made says some things about the person that has made it. Decisions reveal, test, and shape the ideas we have of our self and our morals. Their consequences have far-reaching implications and the book indicates when they are made in haste, with only individual interpretation or emotion, they can be devastating to the owner. The author of Defining Moments, Joseph Badaracco, Jr., relies heavily on what history has taught us through great intellectual interpretations of the most prominent philosophers: Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sophocles, Niccolo Machiavelli, William James, and Marcus Aurelius. Badaracco draws examples from other writers on ethics and philosophy to reinforce how, which, and when to apply the teachings of such forward thinkers to everyday situations, with which we are faced.
Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible not only as a book to read for entertainment, but also an informational read on the Red Scare and McCarthyism. In his commentary of the book, Miler explains how freedom was being limited during this time. He expresses his thoughts that freedom was being limited
By Benjamin Barber, The Student and the University by Allan Bloom, and Class in America by Gregory Mantsios, the connection between the three is the idea of how education is the key to the people’s future, how it classifies them, and how it builds a nation. In Letter to America, written by David Boren, a former US Senator and president of the University of Oklahoma, quotes, “One of our greatest shortcomings as Americans is our failure to be intellectually curious about what is happening to us as people.” (Boren, 11). The problem is that education is being disregarded, and America needs to realize this as a whole. If the education in the United States is declining, the students are affected, and then the building of a great nation is disrupted. Barber, Bloom, and Mantsios all provide opinions and ideas that could solve this problem and help future generations succeed in a functional nation.
Paper Number 2: Gaddis Chapter Six While reading Gaddis’ chapter six, he focused on how to question causation. He uses E.H. Carr’s fatal flaw as a big example for the distinction of “rational” and “accidental” causes. Gaddis also gives an alternative view on procedures of causation, and additional procedures historians need to keep in mind when narrate the reality of history. Carr explains rational causes as, “lead to fruitful generalizations and lessons can be learned from them.” While he says that accidental causes, “teach no lessons and lead to no conclusions.” Gaddis claims that Carr clearly confused himself as well as his readers about the differences between the two. Gaddis claims that not explaining clearly the distinction between rational and accidental causes is the more serious problem with Carr.
Critical Lens “A book must be an ax, to break the frozen sea in us” – Kafka Another way of saying the above quote is that a book must be a tool that penetrates your inner feelings. In other words, the book you read must have an impact in your life or change the way you see the world. I agree with this and I will show how the book “The World in 2050” by Laurence Smith deeply affects us because of its copious information which both upset and inspire. The book “The World in 2050” by Laurence Smith is an eye opener that makes us realize the damages we are doing to our planet and the changes we are going to experience through that years. For example, according to Laurence Smith, Shanghai will be under water.
I believe that the epigraphs are there to give as a little bit of insight, on the chapter that follows after it. All the epigraphs are relevant to whats going on in the book. If you actually take time to read the epighraphs, you might find them slightly helpful or maybe not at all. To some it would be considered helpful because it kind of gives you a better view on Chris McCandless (the main character). McCandless thought that society was corrupted and evil institution.
For Wypijewski suggests an interesting idea in “A Boys Life”, that contends the Matt Shepard story into less of a hate crime and more of a tradgedy of sorts. Early in Wypijewskis paper she illustrates her discontent with the media’s coverage with the story in her dismissal of the idea that Sheppard was crucified, a key point in which the media publicized the story (Joann Wypijewski, “A Boys Life” 582). Wypijewski continues by introducing the main point of her thesis, which asks the reader the true definition a man. She explores this topic by examining the lives of Henderson, McKinney and even Sheppard, and the various events which in accordance with media created stereotypes and their environment throughout their lives, that shaped the three boys into “men”. And then in turn the occurrence of the murder.
These novelists written about dystopian literature in which have underlying cautionary tones, warning society that if we continue living in the view of “each man for himself”, this will be the consequence. Each dystopia that these authors describe features
Branches of Government Jefferson said it best, “My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government” (The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., 1996-2012, para. 1). After the ultimate control while under rule of the crown, the founding fathers sought to create not only a government that provided for rights and liberties of the people, but also to ensure that government interaction and authority was spread amongst various branches. This distribution of power would provide checks and balances to guarantee reduced influence, while allowing each section to operate independently. However, agreement of each party would be problematic to achieve when needing to enact new laws and regulations.