Can your children get you in a serious trouble and even send you to prison!? Obviously, yes. One such a man, author Dave Barry, wrote “Driven to distraction,” published in December 30, 2001, and he argues that how far it is difficult to satisfy your children’s demands in order to make them joyful and happy. He begins building his credibility with personal facts and successfully employing emotional appeals. In his article, Dave relies on his personal experiences with his daughter and the trouble he got into.…
A Dive Into Culture In the story, “The Old Man Isn’t There Anymore,” the author, Kellie Schmitt, focuses heavily on the differences between Chinese and Western cultures. Schmitt challenges the reader by introducing concepts that were not yet known to the reader and making her recall the differences that she has faced in the past regarding different cultures. Schmitt uses her experience from the past three years of her living in Shanghai, China, she illustrates the contrast between the two cultures using her encounters with her “housemates” in China. By sharing her experience of attending a funeral and living in a house with multiple people, Schmitt effectively demonstrates the gap between the expectations and ceremonies of the Chinese and Western societies.…
Throughout ‘Severing the Human Connection’ by H. Bruce Miller, the author illustrates the changes that have come to society’s strategy of dealing with criminals as well as his displeasure with them. Beginning at a self-serve gas station, the author finds the cashier is “locked inside a dark, glassed-in, burglar-proof cubical …with the biggest [sticker] of them all ‘PAY BEFORE PUMPING GAS,’” he goes on to find that this is society’s newest way of dealing with criminals, in this case, as the author writes “people who fill their tanks and tear out of the station without paying.” He says this an epidemic at the time, but doesn’t support the approach “…I cannot understand why I should be made to feel like John Dillinger every time I buy a tank of…
Everyone has a green-eyed monster living within them waiting for the right time to show itself. Both Andrea Roman and David Sedaris let their green-eyed monsters show in their essays. Andrea Roman wrote her essay “We’re Not…” to demonstrate how Bolivian culture has influenced her lifestyle and has slowly become a part of it. Roman insinuates that her mother, a native Bolivian, expects Roman to behave and act as a Bolivian would. This means that as a child Roman was not allowed to borrow clothes, attend sleepovers, or even finish her homework on Sundays.…
Does one dare to explore mysterious/wondrous short stories? Dan Chaon has an approach to the craft of writing that is both unique and different. Among the missing is a collection of short stories about everyday people, most of whom are somehow broken on the inside. Whether it’s a woman finding comfort from a blowup doll, a family driving into the lake committing mass suicide or a boy who imagines he’s a detective who investigates a man he believes is his future self. His work is ambitious and weird yet it feels real.…
-Colleen Hoover examines the strange reality of relationships in her book Slammed by revealing why teacher and student should, but yet should not be together. Layken and Wil should not be together, he is her teacher. However he is only a student teacher and she will be 18 soon. Yet, the undeniable attraction between the two is unbearable for either of them to ignore.…
The essay by Barbara Ehrenreich is about her experience and what happens in the world of work. When she was in college, she use to hang out with boys and go to parties with them. The boys in her time use to have fun and at the same time do well in their schoolwork. Nowadays boys are less likely to go to college and even less likely to graduate. She says that if she didn’t change her original plans to have fun with the boys she would possibly end up in rehab.…
Around 58,022 people died in the Vietnam War in 1975, yet many people are still affected by seeing the Vietnam Memorial. In the poem, “Facing It,” by Yusef Komunakaa, the mood of the poem is melancholy because the imagery from the stone man, the woman’s blouse, and the lady combing hair establishes the mood. In example, the author described himself as a “black face, hiding inside the black granite.” This was showing that he was a black man who was also in the war. During that time, he wanted to be as strong as “stone,” but he wanted to cry for he was “flesh;” the readers could imagine him morphing into stone, then into a human.…
In the article “Where Have the Good Men Gone?” Kay S. Hymowitz warns readers that the men have turned into boys and they have changed overtime. This article first appeared in the Wall Street Journal on February 19, 2011. It is adapted from her book Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys. This article tells the audience how the good men have gone bad and turned into boys.…
Humans are consequently repeating history. In the past, imperialists colonize other countries and exploit manpower, land and resources. Today, fossil fuel companies are also exploiting Earth’s resources and people’s homeland. On the bright sight, there have been progresses and changes in history, such as the end of slavery, and the Civil Rights Movement, which granted rights to African-Americans and women, taking a large step towards equality.…
Gutkind 61-68 After reading Gutkinds 61-68 I leaned a lot more information that I could put into my own works that would make them better and more creative. I really took a lot from the paragraph that talked about geography and travel. This paragraph stated that information about location can add substantive and allow you to connect to more readers. I realized that this paragraph speaking about location could also be applied to much more than just travel and location. Connecting with the reader is in some aspects the most important thing to do as a writer and adding information that would help them better understand what you are talking about is key.…
In the article, “The New Greatest Generation,” Joel Stein talks about the millennial generation and the labels that are put on their generation. Stein tells that over the years, millennials have been labeled narcissistic, lazy, and self-absorbed. Stein proclaims that the millennial generation only cares about themselves and everything they do, say, or think revolves around them. Stein informs that many people, including older generations, believe that the generation is selfish. They are said to not respect authority and worry too much about their self-appearance.…
And Still We Rise by Miles Corwin 1) In this book there was two teachers, Toni Little and Anita Moultrie. These two teachers had different styles of teaching their class. One way of teaching that really popped out at me was how Toni assigned an essay to the class to see the difference in writing of the student. This way she would be able to see which students were dedicated to school or which ones where just there to be there and not even pay attention.…
Perhaps the single, most common answer to the question of the purpose of school is that it is to shape young minds in preparing them for the future. For some, school is where they go learn skills and techniques useful in the work world. For others, they are just forced to go to school, to be hassled with the burdens of overwhelming assignments, which deprive them of their ever so fulfilling social lives and other salient priorities. However, for the students in Crenshaw High School, school was a sanctuary, a safe haven; the only place where they felt accepted, worthy and optimistic. School was their only outlet where they could openly express themselves, especially in their English classes.…
Recently many schools tend to give children rewards for unrealistic reasons. Giving children rewards is important, but it has to be for a proper purpose not just for their participation. In the article “Losing Is Good for You” by Ashley Merryman, the author says that giving children rewards without deserving it have a negative outcome on them. Also, it discourages children from working hard to get the reward. At future, children will develop false understanding in their working fields.…