Steps to reading Critically and Actively : 1)Develop an attitude of critical consciousness (be active, engage w/text, ask ?): Don’t be passive, uncritical), 2)Read Attentively: Don’t let mind wonder, 3)Paraphrase: Take mental/ Actual Notes ,4) Ask Questions:, 5)Control Your bias (5 Steps) Active Reader: Read Biographical notes about author, Focus on the title of the work, what is date of publication?, Does the author use quotation marks to “signal” words?, Purpose of Italics words? Meaning to be a critical Reader: […]
Obesity has reached epidemic proportions globally, with more than one billion adults overweight, at least 300 million of which are obese; nationally, more than two-thirds of adults are overweight or obese, contributing to the burden of chronic disease and disability (WHO). In school you may have learned that body weight is assessed quantitatively by body mass index, kilograms per meter-squared (kg/m2), because tax payers finance millions of dollars in health education each year. Also, the diet and fitness industry has […]
T.S. Eliot presents Prufrock as a unique individual in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. The poem is a collection of the thoughts, feelings, and interactions of a man’s experience with love. Love, like all emotions are unique to the individual. Prufrock is an individual separated from love by his insecurities and not a model of life. Prufrock’s insecurities far exceed common doubt. Repetitively he questions himself “Do I Dare?”. Uncertainty conflicts people at times, but Prufrock’s struggle is […]
If someone were to tell me that Pat Mora’s tone in Legal Alien was exactly the same as Gary Soto’s in Mexicans Begin Jogging, I would disprove that by defining “tone” and “exactly”, referencing the authors’ backgrounds, and contrasting specific diction between poems. Soto and Mora are Mexican-Americans, which influences the similar subject of their literature. Tone can be inferred from a piece’s imagery and articulation. Although they are of similar context, the tone of Legal Alien and Mexicans Begin […]
Paraphrasing by Definition: Express the meaning of (the writer or speaker or something written or spoken) using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity. Paraphrase Several compelling sources from Karnasiewic’s essay “The Campus Crusade for Guys” agree that strong affirmative action exists for males in many postsecondary schools. Public schools attempt to balance gender ratios in spite of applicants’ merit and the law. In fact, recent anti-affirmative action lobbying may have driven such policies behind locked doors (910). Paraphrase with […]
“God is dead”; the contract has expired: but what does this mean for morality? Nietzsche proposed this question, and thereafter regarded growing secularism was effectively “killing off the bible”; that which has promised eternal afterlife, and forsaken those who “cheat, steal, and murder”. In retrospect many think Nietzsche’s philosophy right, and so well in post-dictating characters like Hitler and Stalin. However, the fact is that atheism has no role in Western mankind’s “death of morality”, being that this is the […]
