Episodes: My Life as I See It, Blaze Ginsberg seeks to help his audience, ranging from strangers to family members, understand who he is. The author relays his life as if it were to become a television series, complete with music soundtrack and episode trivia. Through his work’s unique structure, Ginsberg is able to translate the way his autistic self sees the world, while also reminding the reader that each individual will look upon this same world in their own way too. Ginsberg suggests that…
The Man, The Myth, The Legend Bob Ryan is an acclaimed American sportswriter who is now retired after 44 years of working mainly as a columnist at The Boston Globe and a sports commentator on ESPN. Ryan’s career initially began focused on the Boston area but eventually expanded to sports throughout the world. Ryan attempts to entertain and enlighten his audience as well as offer his own opinion on current sports issues and topics. In his columns, Ryan combines obscure yet interesting facts…
Shipping Out and Into the Heart of Darkness I was relieved when I found out in Tom Scocca’s interview with David Foster Wallace that Harper’s magazine had the writer cut in half what was a 110-page article. I enjoyed reading the magazine’s published version, but was also more than ready for the cruise and the article to end when it did. I think I was possibly feeling a little of what Wallace was feeling, which is a credit to his descriptive and precise prose. “Shipping Out: On the (nearly…
LATER IN THE STORY: Toussaint explains his theory to sir Belemy. Considering that the general and Toussaint have been narrowly driven over by a wayward cab, assailed and robbed at knife point in an east end alleyway, as well as being bedeviled by suspicious persons... They fathom that there are characters who want them out of the east end... On the third day of their tour of these mean surroundings, they stop at a tavern and are saluted by one who gives his name as Sir Belemy... The uninvited…
There are positive things, and disastrous things that come with the advancement of technology. External influences in technology have more negative impacts than positive. In the article, Talking To Our Devices it is said that “Alexa can now answer trivia questions, list appointments on your calendar, or order a pizza when asked.” This brings hope to some people. In fact, the thought of…
positive is their crossover appeal. For example, the restaurant host several different events to show their appreciation to the customers as well as remain relevant in the public eye and generate new business. Some of these events include Tuesday trivia night at 7:30 PM; the Wednesday night kids eat for one dollar specials, date night/live music, also on Wednesdays, from seven…
I have noticed and experienced being bored in a classroom, times have changed kids now have a small attention span. Our attention has to be grabbed and kept which is very hard to do, with the technology we have now it just makes it even harder to keep the attention and the want to learn new thing. I have been in classes where the teachers just go on and on and on and it gets very boring fast and sadly whenever you think of that class you remember it with a bad memory. I do get sidetracked…
Iraq. It is expected to open in Pakistan in 2013 and in United Kingdom in 2014. Second cup’s sales complete with Starbucks, Tim Horton’s and McDonald’s. Second cup has also joined the social networking world. The second cup’s Facebook page includes trivia questions, information about new promotions, and answering customer concerns. Second cup products include frozen hot chocolate, flavoured fair trade coffees, vanilla bean hot chocolate and Icepresso. Further, second cup also serves a number of…
Storytelling has been around for generations, folk tales passed down from generation to generation. Some stories have particular truths and lies to teach lessons and or skills you might need to know in order to understand the stories. This is the same for the book The Thing They Carried. In this story the author Tim O’Brien tells about all his different stories from the vietnam war. Some of these stories are from his point of view and some are not. But he also gives pointers on telling stories…
Kangaroo Rat By: Mario-Zedekiah T. Rodriguez (Woo, okay as you heard I have to make a quick whip up of something so here you go.) You probably don’t know much about the kangaroo rat, I didn’t either until I was forc-determined to write all about the kangaroo rat. You still know nothing but that is why I am here. So starting off I will talk about how interesting the diet of a kangaroo rat is because I have no more original ideas. THen you can read if you want the home, because that is so…