Skimming

absorb a longish article on the web or in print,” and Friedman said that his thinking has taken this “staccato” sort of quality to it. Not only that, he cannot even read a “blog post of more than three or four paragraphs” without having to resort to skimming (Carr 93). This sort of behavior is something that the internet is teaching not just the young, but the average adult. According to Maryanne Wolf, reading is not a skill that we use as an “instinct,” unlike the natural urge to talk and…

Yemisrach Reta ENG 121-340 Professor Ashley Waterman 2 May 2017 Rhetorical Analysis of the Essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid” In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr uses some evidences in his argument in order to convince the idea of the other people . I believe Carr’s argument is effective because he starts explaining how he feels when he is reading a book and immersing himself in a book. However now, because he uses Internet a lot, he loses his focus of attention after reading some…

This medium and high price strategy will help to serve mostly to medium and rich families. Big portion of meals always has more reasonable price than small ones. Foreign alcoholic beverages is going to have high prices as usual in Turkey. Price skimming strategy will be used as Rose di Pompei sets high initial prices for its products to send a signal to customers that its products are high quality and the service is…

As we have discussed throughout this course, the perception of what a school should be and what teachers should be teaching has become a popular topic in today’s media. After Katrina devastated the New Orleans area, along with rebuilding communities and businesses, the schools also needed to be renovated. The New Orleans Recovery School District (RSD) is now home to 100 percent charter schools. How do these new charter schools compare to the public schools that were in place before Katrina? I am…

They stopped at the edge of a cliff. In a large expanse of ground beneath them, was the remains of a recently collapsed piece of land. For as far as Jingyan could see, the serpentine fissures that spanned the width of a house wound out from a steep sinkhole in the center of the land, creating an additional depth to the already sunken land. There was a heavy stench of lingering gunpowder and the fissures were filled with uprooted trees and crumpled earth. According to the maps, Jingyan once…

childhood, family, and experiences that led him to write Leaves of Grass. The overall assessment of Canby’s book is that it is fair. Canby is frequently wordy, and at least the first third of the book is rather boring because one feels as if he is skimming through Whitman’s life. The photos are interesting, but Canby should have included a time line because he describes events without specifically placing them within a time frame. He frequently returns to Whitman’s numerous editorships,…

means that anyone involved in the church could be “tricked, sued, lied, or destroyed.” Finally in the 1970s, after buying three ships and developing the “sea organization” Hubbard was investigated by the IRS and they were able to prove that he was skimming money from the Chruch. During the 1980s he went into seclusion and a man named, David Miscavige, took over for Hubbard. At the time, David…

reading an article about social movements and protesting, I ponder what the average tax percentage is. No reason why I thought of that, I just happened to. (It varies based upon financial status...). Another thing I do while reading is accidentally skimming parts that seem to be of a similar topic. This is how I got through reading the book How to Fly a Horse by Kevin Ashton. At first I was reading it word for word, but this got very boring very quickly so I eventually started to skim the book…

Boyd and Ava are talking about weed growing. Ava is unimpressed and asks whether he still thinks Harlan is dying. Boyd thinks that becoming a farmer might be the thing to save their town and is surprised at how eager Ava suddenly is to leave Harlan. Ava is less than happy at the instruction she is going to be watched from now on. One of the henchmen calls and Boyd instructs him to tell all of their suppliers to only deal to them from then on. They pull up to the police check point they had been…

As consumers in the digital age, we are constantly exposed to news stories in a variety of different ways through digital media channels. Due to the vast amount of information available, different media channels are able to convey the same story in many different ways. Depending on the platform, consumers are exposed to a certain story, that may encourage different behaviors and highlight different information based on where they are viewing the story. Snapchat (Daily Mail), ABC News, and…