Skimming

The Dust Bowl was caused by the hands of man and the hands of nature and has resulted in many longer term effects. Because of the Plains states’ successfully wheat business and harvest, thousands and thousands of farmers traveled to the area. However, this influx of farmers led to overgrazing and overplowing of the southern plains. Many of the farmers used a farming technique called dry land farming and destroyed the large areas of grassland. This, coupled with an incredible drought and Great…

differs to zipping “along the surface [of the water] like a guy on a Jet Ski.” When on a Jet Ski, the rider is moving so fast that they often skim or barely touch the water. Therefore, in Carr’s “sea of water”, the reader (or Jet Ski rider) is lightly skimming the words on the page, like a Jet Ski on water. Carr’s meaning is that he feels like he is losing his ability to read…

Technology has molded and influenced modern society in every aspect of daily life. The growing popularity of social media has expanded the ways society communicates not just locally, but all around the world. There is a new pressure on young people to have the latest devices and embrace the new social media trends. Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are gaining users daily. As a result, increasing communication via social media decreases face-to-face communication.…

Mitch Albom, author of “Mitch Albom: FBI vs. Apple about more than a phone”, builds an overall effective editorial that supports the readers point of view by fighting for the protection of our phone information. In this case, a man named Syed Farook, killed and injured several people, including his wife. The FBI believes that accessing information from his phone may be able to help them with their case. They order Apple to build a new software that will allow them to bust into phones by being…

PREFACE “History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.” Phyliis McKinley In these pages we strive to broaden man’s ceaseless search for truth and his tireless efforts to tear away at the facades of conventional belief. We aspire to bring enlightenment and culture to the unwashed masses who live in this paradise we call Southwest Florida. We walk the reader through eons of events that have reportedly occurred here. Our past is replete with many…

her a sanction from an employee to turn it off, which serves to confirm that one of the rules was quiet. A few people chose to browse the magazine selection but did not appear fully engaged in the activity seeing as they only spent a few moments skimming a page before they flipped it. There was some light conversation, typically exclusive to the people who arrived together, but one time when it was just three people in the waiting room a conversation about rescue dogs erupted, prompted by an…

Section A A1. a. It is also defined as the activity, set of institutions and processes for creating, delivering and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, and society at large. Marketing is used to create, and satisfy the customer. With the customer as the focus of its activities, it can be concluded that it is one of the premier components of business management. The term developed from the original meaning which referred literally to going to a market to buy or sell goods or…

Throughout this course I feel that it definitely kept my interest way more than I thought it would. In high school, I would simply not do my reports or papers. I have never enjoyed or found writing the bit interesting. Ever. I don’t know what it is about writing that I honestly just really do not enjoy. I think it may have something to do with how much you actually have to think and compose. I have done well in courses like Mathematics solely because you put an input, and automatically have an…

Communication can often be difficult enough when dealing with people face-to-face, but the introduction of digital communication has created a new set of rules and issues to be dealt with that were not previously needed. Not having been born into this new technology, there were rules and protocols that I had never thought of or been exposed to. This paper will reflect the areas in which I need improvement, and my action plan to be a more successful communicator. In a professional setting, I…

but in English 111 I learned something that has help me catch so many little mistakes that I would not have found before. This new approach to my revision procedure is reading my paper out loud while doing self revision. I have come to see that skimming and fast reading my papers is not very effective, but when I started to read my papers out loud I noticed a couple of good this come from it. Reading out loud made me slow down and actually take every word I had written into consideration and it…