Trap

Death Trap,Mars Myranda Hickman, Hailey Hutsler, Cameron White, Adalie Giles, Davis Minton To live on Mars, to be left there to start a community on Mars. Mars is a death trap a one way ticket there and not one back. Communication never seeing family again in person or even worse you can’t get the satellite to work. The reasons you shouldn’t go to Mars and will leave everything behind and never to see again. The death trap called Mars One. The communication on Mars is a day late. You…

In Jane Cogie’s paper, “Avoiding the Proofreading Trap: The Value of the Error Correction Process.” Cogie advocates for writing center tutors to resist becoming “cultural informants”. Where when there are “relatively few sentence-level errors, the cultural informant approach… can begin to feel a lot like proofreading, with the student becoming increasing passive, knowing that the tutor will be there to help.” From there, the other authors in the piece introduce a frankly, excessive, chart that…

In the article “The Comparison Trap” by Rebecca Webber she makes some very good point on the subject at hand comparing being negative and positive just depending on the aspect you take on whatever you're comparing yourself to. A point I would like to make for a point she could have touched on as well, being the aspect of the comfort zone. To look more on positive reaction you can usually find it by just simple stepping out of that comfort zone by doing something maybe you never did before or…

If we know the right direction to go, then why is it so hard to go there? The book, “The Pleasure Trap,” is innovative because it explores the motivations and principles of our behavior. The authors, Douglas J. Lisle, PhD and Alan Goldhamer, D.C. give an interesting perspective on how today’s modern culture can cause intelligent, health conscious individuals to be the saboteurs of their own well-being. They challenge the conventional wisdom of the causes of depression and illness in today’s…

Eliana Dockterman’s article, “The Digital Parent Trap”, from Time Magazine, tries to convince the audience to accept technology into children’s education. The year of 2013 was a very significant year, technology began to get the biggest updates yet; thus, encouraged Dockterman to influence parents and future parent’s beliefs in early technology benefits. She wants to raise technology as an effective learning tech fluency, as a result, she incorporated strong characteristics of information to…

This roof was not going to be our death trap! Sitting by the door, I looked over at the tarp and tried to decide how thin I could cut the plastic material so that the strips would still bear our weight. It would need to stretch about three floors, or at least near enough that we would be able to drop to the pavement without risking serious injury. In the world today, an ankle injury would most likely be a death sentence. The other problem was that we were getting weaker by the moment. The…

In this passage adapted from Eliana Dockterman,” The Digital Parent Trap”, the author of the passage strongly advocates the early exposure to technology. By juxtaposing both good and bad possible outcomes, the author indirectly instill a sense that there are more to gain than to lose from early exposure. The author’s passage structure of examining both sides from different perspective, allowed the readers to be engaged as they were able to gain knowledge from both sides. This functioned as an…

Author, Eliana Dockterman in her article, “The Digital Parent Trap,” exposes the potential benefits of technology use among young people. Dockterman purpose of the essay was to talk about the benefits of having technology in the school for kids. “On average, according to research cited by MIT, students can remember only 10% of what they read, 20% of what they hear and 50% of what they see demonstrated.” “...in the virtual worlds on iPads or laptops- that retention rate skyrockets to 90%”…

headed discussion in regards to the formal of early introduction to innovation, Eliana Dockterman contends that early exposures to tech has a greater number of favorable circumstances than drawbacks joined to it in her article " The Digital Parent Trap." Eliana successfully constructs her contention by utilizing logos, feeling, and ethos approach. The essayist begins her dispute by utilizing experiences and strong sources to fabricate a sentiment power that the pursuer can without a lot of an…

this feeling my nephew has made this play for me. I have slowly stood up to what I have seen the player king just act out. I do not laugh anymore but stare. I want to scream and say I have had enough of this nonsense this play you call “The Mouse-trap”. But all i do is drop my drink and stubble as I try to walk. I laugh and laugh to draw the attention away from the play to what I had just witnessed but as I see Hamlet and Hamlet sees me i stop the laughing and say “give me some light”.…