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The author of this essay, Father Shops Best, uses several different rhetorical modes. Examples of these would be, observation, reflection, and autobiography. Dan Zevin, the author of this essay, is looking back on the first time that he and his father had went shopping at Costco together. The author is telling a story about a personal experience of his, one that reflects back on his past, and is talking about the way that things looked and what he experienced in this memory. At the beginning of…

Scott’ and ‘the author of Waverley is Scott’ as two distinct logical statements. The first is simply a matter of identity, and can be deduced by intuition alone. However, the phrase ‘the author of Waverley is Scott’ should instead be considered a question regarding who the actual author of Waverley was. Russell can therefore account for why the phrase would remain significant, even when the referent is not known; it can be considered an assertion which depicts an attribute of being an author of…

school work. The article “Can students really multitask? An experimental study of instant messaging while reading” by Laura L. Bowman, Laura E. Levine, Bradley M Waite, and Michel Gendron, provides information from various studies as well as the authors’ own experiment to explore the effects of using Instant Message while reading and presents it to readers using quantitative information to help explain. The article “Can students really multitask? An experimental study of instant messaging…

as a depressed, regretful tone and a hopeful, admirable tone. By using metaphors, structure, and diction, the author is able to portray different, conflicting tones within the poem. Within the first five lines of the poem the author uses diction and portrays a very depressed and regretful tone. A specific example would be, “To see me hold my louring head so low;”(Gascoigne 2). The author uses the word “louring” to express the gloomy, low mind of the speaker.…

gained lots of people and policy makers’ attention just as it caught these authors in this debate. The authors debating over the value of higher education agree the cost is an increasing problem. The expensive cost is not only found at four-year institutions. The cost is also a struggle at community colleges where many students are lower income. While the articles do agree the cost of higher education is expensive, the authors have yet to reach common ground on the value of higher education, and…

disadvantages. The author claims that this is important to the absence or presence of agendas determines the coherence or fragmentation of both the department and the field. Due to the multiple agendas immediately raise doubts about the potential of a single department or even the field at large to fill these agendas successfully or even adequately. The author expresses concern to the de-emphasize and elimination for practice and performance of physical activity in kinesiology departments. The…

In the article, “When all news is ‘fake’, whom do we trust?” the author Ruth Marcus writes from an interesting point of view about the media. Her article provides no biasness and only gives facts about the media and the society at large. She leaves the begging question as to whether the media should or should not be trusted by the society to the reader of the article. She provides facts to support her article, the technique of the author’s delivery is established as formal. The purpose of this…

The article highlights the issues the Anti-Federalists had with the Constitution. The author expresses his belief that without a clear bill of rights the generations to come will not know their rights, and could easily be oppressed by a ruler. The author gives several examples of bill of rights, to serve as an example for the Constitution of the United States. Under the proposed constitution the author believes corruption and greed will spread eventually leading to a country ruled by an absolute…

well as national aspirations that eschew ethnicity. The author clearly states that he regards nationalism as a discursive formation that gives shape to a modern world and that is shaped by nations who hold solid claims about their solid identity, collective identity, and political legitimacy. The Mortality and Morality of Nations is a straightforward with the reader in revealing the hopes and perspectives of the author. For example, the author clearly states that within his research and…

Without a leader, or leadership, the team will fail, and chaos will ensue. The authors make this their main point by giving ideas and practices that will help eliminate pre-existing problems and in return yield good leadership. They add that conversation and understanding are keys to leadership. A more detailed explanation of their…