Skimming

With the golden sunlight streaking through her honey-yellow fur, Ivanna perches on the arm of the fuzzy, slate gray couch. A beagle mix, she weighs 20 pounds and is only as tall as mid-calf. She is pudgy, with skin wrinkling up into little creases wherever she bends. Her fur is short and prickly. Her head is the size of a wiffle ball, with triangle-shaped, thin ears raised and listening. She oversees the street outside, brown eyes darting and her stout, round snout grazing the large bay window.…

technique the author effectively uses is giving several examples that help to support his claim. First he speaks of an experiment conducted by University College London. The study, monitoring internet use over a five-year period, showed habits of skimming. This example was not only correctly placed within the article, but also supported the author’s theory of a society that needs short pieces of information. Another situation Carr uses in order to prove his point is the instance of Friedrich…

Walter Johnson wrote Soul by Soul, Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market in 1999. The book contains 283 pages and was part of our required reading for American History 132. Johnson takes a unique approach to discussing and describing the slave trade in New Orleans. He doesn’t focus on famous people or try to tell a story, instead, he looks at the slave trade from three different perspectives; the slave trader, the buyer, and the slave. Johnson uses slave narratives, court records and bills…

The Artist date exercise revealed to me what type of person I am. Through the little incidents that I come across weekly and writing them down, looking back at it and skimming through all my artist dates, I found that I’m a person with very little patience. I retaliate with violent thoughts and at times I can be nice, which is weird. But overall from learning about myself, I realized that my personality including my actions…

1066: The Year of the Conquest is a book by David Howarth trying to express the year 1066 through its battles. Specifically, the peace that the battles disrupted and the people involved such as the dukes, kings, earls, nobles, and the commoners. His goal is not to provide facts on what happened, his goal is to show his readers- whether they are scholars or those who enjoy history- the drama that unfolded that year, with as many reliable sources as possible. Howarth describes the year by…

athletic apparel brands have now jumped on board with their own lines of yoga wear, Lululemon is priced at the top of the heap” (330). They are successful with premium pricing strategy, and I don’t think that they would be successful with a price- skimming strategy. Since the market is so status orientated, I don’t think they would be as interested in the product if later consumers can buy the product easily after a certain time. I don’t think that it would have thrived with a market penetration…

This journal will be repeated content due to the continuation of last week’s class. This week we looked at a real situation of implementing ‘experiential therapy’. This model indicated that the counselor views themselves as both counsellor and the client. This addresses that the client can address hidden/ subconscious issues through role playing. The T.E.D talk video on emotional intelligence, showed the EQ was the ability to understand how to work with people and understand your own feelings,…

canola oil to various external and internal customers. As the refinery and utilities supervisor, I look after the tank farm inventory, the bleaching process, the deodorizing process, the boilers and auxiliary equipment, the tailings pond, and the skimming pits. The Pitch - Problem Background It is industry practice to hinge a quality specification on a taste test, prior to shipping the rail car of canola oil to the customer. However, the concern here is that it is a subjective test, since…

Mental health, as defined by the WHO, is a state of well-being in which a person is able to realize his or her own potential, cope with the normal stress of life, work productively, and make a contribution to the community (Halter and Varcarolis, 2014). While this is an official definition, it is not necessarily what the media and the public think of mental disorders. Mental illness is portrayed mostly negatively in the media with individuals show as dangerous, incompetent, crazy, etc.…

1. The title of the novel is The Things They Carried. 2. The author of the novel is Tim O’Brien. 3. The time period and setting shifts consistently throughout the novel. At times, it takes place during the late 1960s in the Vietnam War and the U.S. homefront prior to the war. In other instances, the story takes place in the 1980s after the war on the U.S. homefront. 4. The genre of the The Things They Carried is fictional, coming of age, and a war story. 5. Tim O’Brien is the main…