Motivational Essay Essay

The peer review I received prompted me to rethink and revise the arguments I make in my essay. The reviewer didn’t find anything inherently wrong with my arguments, she just advised I could maybe expand on some of the evidence I used to support my claims. I took her advice and tried to elaborate on my ideas in hopes of better supporting my essay. Essay 2 Margaret Atwood uses Oryx and Crake to illustrate the horrifying future of what society can turn into if we continue to ignore the planet’s…

Arguing is the act of persuading someone to follow you in your ideas and benefit from the situation. Jay Heinrichs, the author of Thank You for Arguing, Third Edition: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion, has been a writer for over 30 years and has nearly perfected the art of arguing and/or persuasion. Within his book Thank You for Arguing you are taught all about the act of arguing and how if differs from a fight. The act of arguing can be…

Randy Pausch is a brilliant writer and well recognized college professor for a University. Randy has taken on the challenge of writing what he has referred to as “The Last Lecture”. In his book, he reflects to his childhood, which all have played a role in shaping him into the man he is. It was in his boyhood that he developed all these traits, visions and morals. Randy’s juvenescence was an influence on the positive person he developed to be. Randy pertains to a childhood memory, The…

Thinking about what to write for this essay has been a huge challenge because I feel that I cannot relate to any of the excerpts that have been read in class. I’ve never been involved in a dramatic incident like in “Rain of Fire” by Evan Thomas or “Road Work” by Staff Sergeant Jack Lewis, nor have I ever had a definitive experience with being privy to the prejudice of the world as in “Jackie’s Debut: A Unique Day” by Mike Royko. I’ve found the most to relate to in the excerpt “Learning to Write”…

On Monday September 11th of 2017 my group and I presented chapter two “Schooling the Imagination.” Frankly I arrived late to the presentation because I ran to go make copies in the only place I could the library. When I did arrive I tried my best to be involved. At first forgot to present myself but did towards the end. I made myself responsible of presenting the class with an activity about the different perceptions of color. Then read to the class journal entries which they had to respond to.…

“Symbolism is the use of multiple symbols representing differentiated terms in a system which conveys meaning.” Na Li writes this in, the international journal of language studies. Writers enjoy using symbolism, which allows the reader to form personal opinions. The ideas are left for the reader to form, without having the writer place it on the page. A dance is performed when both the reader and the writer understand each other through a work of literature. The creative mind of the reader and…

For my summer reading assignment, I chose the book “Cloud and Wallfish” by Anne Nesbet. I chose this book because I prefer fiction over nonfiction and I’ve enjoyed historical fiction in the past. My thoughts on this book changed rapidly once I read the book jacket. The summary Baxter provided in the PDF compared to the summary on the book jacket were very different. Now that I have read the book, I have some thoughts. Firstly, I think that if Baxter had provided a different summary I would have…

were always a struggle in spite of having so many ideas that I couldn’t draw out into an introduction. Consequently, when it came to the rough version of my composition, everything was scattered and incoherent because my ideas were merging with other essay prompts. Although this may be true when it came to peer reviews my partner at the time gave me some quick pointers in how to better improve my composition. For example, since in stylizing my composition in an APA format was still an issue my…

When I think about literacy I think of two different parts, reading and writing. Both of which I have had different experiences of. Reflecting off my past experience reading was the more challenging one out of the two. I have always enjoyed writing and learning how to express myself on paper. For those reasons, I will be exploring both of these literacies separately. Ten years ago, me being around eight years old, sitting in a reading circle with my fellow classmates. It comes to be my turn to…

Be Who You Are The message of this book is to remind everyone that it does not matter who you are, you should just be yourself. I like the fact that throughout the story in big bold letters it repeats, “Just be who you are.” I really enjoyed the illustrations because the colors on the pages were vibrant and really caught my attention. Parr did an excellent job of using an array of attributes to compare. He talked about personality, physical characteristics, communication and attitudes towards…