Accelerated Reader

Day commences by positioning the reader to acknowledge the past history of tattoos, and the significance they held before their original meanings were lost. She states that there were a sign of “deviance” and “criminality”, words which are infused with rebellion, distaste, and shock. By this effect, she conveys that tattoos have been historically looked down upon over the course of history. Consequently, the reader may seek to view those with tattoos in a less positive light, as they are…

induces a great sense of empathy in the reader, causing them to reflect on their own life as they recall similar, personal interactions between…

John Rosa claims that the title of Local Story comes from the idea that the book is an instance of “talking story” about a local story, using this style of oral transmission in written form to convey to the reader the contents of the book. This is not a book specifically about the Massie-Kahahawai case specifically, but about the effect which this case had according to the author, a look into the formation of a local identity that brought together people of different ethnicities into one…

Brant’s point of view does not create a dream which one would define as harmful at face value, like Coates’s idea of the Dream. Instead, Brant formulates an idea of the Dream that any reader can support. Brant introduces the reader to a proud member of the United States military, the ideal American. (Brant p. 10) He creates a mother who is inconvenienced by pregnancy but who loves her child so much that she is willing to recreate her life for her. (Brant…

wouldn’t appeal to the eye of the targeted audience, so they went about it with an eye catching image. They started with a handsome young man pulling in young women who find him attractive. However they do this because they are trying to tell the reader that even though he 's attractive he has another side to him, his looks can be deceiving and he could pull you in, nonetheless you have no acknowledgement that he is HIV positive. They used these types tactics because HIV can get anyone who 's…

the reader. However, with just a few changes…

Octavia E. Butler takes her readers through the journey of the only black vampire of her species, the Ina, to rediscover who she is as well as fight for her life and her right to live in the novel Fledgling. This vampire Shori is the result of a genetic experiment combining the DNA of the Ina as well as that of an African American human. She loses her memory after the community where her mother, sisters, and their respective symbionts lived is burned down as a blatant hate crime against Shori…

This first encourages the reader to think of Paul as a troublesome child whose sole purpose is to make other’s life an uphill battle. He is presented as an abnormally compulsive liar and an arrogant teen that hates school and everyone around him. Later, however, the reader is presented with Paul’s own psychological conflict with himself and society. He regards himself as a person whom society does…

but instead a rallying force for the government when he says, “What Top Gun, Rambo and Red Dawn did for the ‘80s, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather and Peter Jennings set out to for the new millennium” (34). He makes this connection in order to transition the reader from a more popular discourse to one of a more educated politics and history. In reference to alternative media sources Saldana argues, “They are the voices crying in the wilderness. Just like John the Baptist. But then, we know what that got…

In Daniel Levitin’s recent article for the Los Angeles Times, Levitin teaches the reader about different types of procrastination and helps the reader prevent the habit of procrastination. Levitin has a very impressive background and has many professions. Levitin is best known as a neuroscientist, a profession that studies the brain and how it influences behavior. On September 22, 2015, Levitin wrote an article for the Los Angeles Times titled “Which kind of procrastinator are you?” Levitin…