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April 30, 2008

Food Fight

Anthropomorphized- To give an object, animal, plant etc. human characteristics (just like personification).
 
2. The humans in the cartoon are portrayed badly, whether you are referring to the scientists with evil grins, or ignorant common people being stupid. This helps the artist prove their point by showing the negative effects of manipulating food products, and how […]

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April 27, 2008

Assertion Journal

In a passage taken from Professions for Women by Virginia Woolf, it states, “the angel in the house is dead and no longer lives in the imaginations of either women or men.” When examining the underlying meaning of this passage we can re-word it to be able to explain more thoroughly what she means by […]

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April 24, 2008

Angel in the House

Discussion Question:
3. By saying “a novelist’s chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible”, Woolf describes how in order for the imagination of a writer to stay on the same level they must be in the same lethargic state of mind throughout their writing. This makes sense because if the author was to experience […]

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April 21, 2008

Rephrasing the Question

What is the author referring to when he speaks of the “learning bias of the last century” in paragraph 5? What is he referring to as “they”?
What is the stand on the argument Csikszentmihalyi tries to convey in paragraph 8? How does he back up his reasoning for his opinion? What kinds of evidence does […]

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April 17, 2008

Fallacies (Re-done)

There were three little girls who met playing at the park and two of the girls wanted to go down the slide, and the other girl wanted to go on the monkey bars. Because they didn’t seem to agree, the two girls told the other girl that she could either be thier best friend and […]

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April 16, 2008

The Bird and the Machine: Rhetoric Questions

By presenting imagery before exposition Eiseley sets you up for his story by painting a picture in your head. By sending you to the place he is going to describe in the beginning, it helps your brain be able to follow more of what is going on if you have a picture in your head. […]

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April 15, 2008

The Bird and the Machine: Discussion Questions

Eiseley shares how what he read in the paper made him feel as though he was being placed in a different world. I would perhaps feel this way if I read and article discussing another culture, or a technological concept too far out of my grasp.
The reciprocal matter is that he does something for the […]

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