...1.0 Introduction The article When Digital Etiquette Matters is an awareness article from Dr. Termit Kaur Ranjit Singh (senior lecture at the School of Educational Studies at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)) who shares with us her perceptions towards teenagers busy chasing their social network lifestyle. These particular groups of people tend to care more about the trending gadgets that available in the market, without thinking wisely about their personal financial savings. Whenever this kind of trend reaches its limit, irresponsible attitudes of teenagers occurs when using technology among others. The author also stated that teenagers nowadays, prefer to socialize by using gadget as a tool rather than having a conversation with the closes person. By having a face-to-face communications, it eliminates ambiguity whenever conversation occurs. 2.0 Summary This article explains about the digital etiquette. Teenagers these days see parents and teachers as people who know very little about using technology, on contrary parents and teachers see students getting out of control with all available technology. Technological misuse and abuse has become a societal problem. The solution is called “Digital Citizenship” where users are taught appropriate technology behavior. A good digital citizen is one who does the right thing when he or she is online. Most people feel uncomfortable talking to others about their digital conduct. Moreover, they have the rights to their own privacy and freedom...
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...and study of other nations through books written in English could be challenging to readers if they are not aware of the author’s cultural frame of reference or social development, such as language, religion, tradition of family, community, cultural practices and the social context around them (Andersen and Taylor 9). The Author could use significant or metaphorical key factors or references in their literature, such as Germany in 1939 which represents for cold war, genocide or poverty that could be not easily understood or identified by readers who have insufficient historical or cultural understanding. As a result the reader could operate from an ethnocentric point of views, and fail to comprehend the core message. The reader could thereby miss out and fail to see new or other aspects in life such as how mankind still suffers under hidden discrimination, racism, nepotism, Nazism etc. For instance reading a memoir in English about being an Iranian woman could be different from reading the same memoir in Farsi because culture is symbolic. Symbols are things or behaviors to which people give meaning; the significance of culture lies in the meaning it holds for people (Andersen and Taylor 27). A language helps people to express their meaning to one another. Language or dialects reveal a person’s background or culture. By translating a language we also reveal our identity or culture to the readers. Viewing these peoples and nations through the lens of...
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...appearance of the worms and the occurrence of one worm crawling over Dodong's foot is of great importance to the story, as it serves as a revealing of Dodong's character and future. A short colorless worm marched blindly towards Dodong's foot and crawled clammily over it. Dodong got tickled and jerked his foot, flinging the worm into the air. Several characteristics attributed to the worm can also be reflected back onto Dodong's story, particularly the fact that the short worm was crawling blindly. It would be interesting to note, as well, the connection this worm crawling over Dodong's foot has with Jose Garcia Villa's title. A footnote is simply defined as a note at the foot of the page. It is often used to give additional information to the reader regarding certain words or phrases in the text. And yet the author includes no actual footnotes in the story. As such, Jose Garcia Villa is obviously trying to put forth certain themes...
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...Christine Levesque Capella University Psych 3500 Learning and Cognition Project Research Category The research category I have picked to do is instrumental conditioning. I think these will very important to learn because it has entails punishment and non-rewards and avoidance. I feel people learn from getting rewards or being punished. This is why I am doing this research so it can prove me wrong or prove me right. Research Topic The topic I have pick and will do research on will be the relationship between instrumental conditioning and learning. This will allow the readers to gin more information on instrumental conditioning and all the stuff that go along with it. Research Question What are the concepts that are involved in instrumental conditioning that facilitate learning, and does research support the relationship between instrumental conditioning and learning? -What is nonreward and how is it influential to learning? -What is punishment, when was it first being researched, and how is it influential to learning? -What is avoidance, and what theories and concepts are involved? -What research experiments have been conducted on instrumental conditioning? -What results have come about from the experiments being used in instrumental conditioning? Research Plan What are the concepts that are involved in instrumental conditioning that facilitate learning, and...
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...Chinese Mothers Are Superior What Chinese and Western parents have in common is the fact that they want to protect their children at any cost. That being said, Chinese and Western parents are quite separated geographically. In which ways can the parents protect their children and how do the Western and Chinese differ in that matter? In the article, “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior”, Amy Chua discusses the differences and makes the readers wonder which upbringing is most optimal. Firstly, Chua is introducing the reader to believe that Chinese parents are not as mean and cruel as they are normally presented. She also initiates the article by telling about herself, which helps the possible sympathy she is trying to build up. “I’m using the term “Chinese mother” loosely.” (page 6 l. 22) and, I’m also using the term “Western parents” loosely. Western parents come in all varieties.” (page 6, ll. 25-26). By doing this, she warns the reader and she is sure to approach the reader about her generalizing. Later on, Chua goes on by telling the reader about the differences between Chinese parents think and handle things in contrast to Western parents. By making her point clear, she says: “Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America.” (page 7 ll. 49-50). Amy Chua also attempts to explain about the “three big differences between the Chinese and Western parental mind-sets.” (page 6, l. 71). She says that the differences...
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...Throughout the start of the novel Capote introduces the Clutter family and characterises them, giving the reader an emotional attachment to them, even though the reader knows that the fate of the Clutters results in their brutal murder. The last character we read about before the death of the Clutter family is Nancy, during this time, we learn more about her as a person, giving us more of an emotional attachment to her. Nancy’s death is quite ironic ‘she set out the clothes she intended to wear to church the next morning’ it’s ironic, because the reader knows that she won’t be wearing it to church the next morning, because she will be murdered during the night – ‘it was the dress in which she was to be buried’. This end focus simple sentence creates sympathy for Nancy, because instead of wearing it to church the next day like intended, she wore it to be buried. We are shown just how selfless Nancy is in this extract ‘the midnight hours were her ‘time to be selfish and vain’. The fact that Nancy thinks that having a miniscule amount of time to herself is selfish and vain shows just how selfless she is because she’s always busy caring for others instead of caring for herself, and is seen as a motherly figure, ‘invariably the last of the family to retire’ this continues to show her selflessness and how she is a motherly figure as it implies that she is still awake after the rest of her family doing household duties and helping out other people. When thinking about Nancy...
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...James Nolasco English 100 Mr. Lewis 10/08/13 More than Love In “Sarah Cole: A Type Of Love Story”, appearance and class are two main indicators of success and social superiority as well as the qualifiers for acceptance in the standard image. In this story, Russell Banks creates an example of inequality between two individuals from opposite ends of their social and economic class. Of these two characters, Ron is more successful and Sarah is the less fortunate. Accordingly, Ron is a step ahead in the relationship from the beginning and Sarah follows close behind. However, this interpretation, obvious as it may seem, is nowhere written in the text. Banks instead makes it visible to the reader by playing with our perception. It is his method of shifting the story’s point of view that creates our awareness of the exclusion in Ron and Sarah’s relationship. Ron ignores humiliation and reputation for a moment only to discover that love can be found despite appearance and social class. Ron is not physically attracted to Sarah; on the contrary, he is fascinated by her appearance. He’s not trying to connect with her emotionally but only to lengthen this instance of experiencing something so odd. Similarly, both he and Sarah are interested in the weirdness of their relationship. Since Sarah probably never has had the chance to date someone out of her league and Ron is being pulled in by her grotesque appearance. Ron is well aware of how being...
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...citation style. |Critical Application of Perspective | | |Points |Points | | |Possible |Earned | |Organization and Flow | | | |Flow is logical and points go from one to the next helping the reader to follow the argument. Each new | | | |section of the paper uses transitional sentences to connect previous sections with new sections. Reader | | | |knows where they are going and is not confused. Components are recognizable (introduction, body, summary, |20 | | |and conclusion). | | | |Understanding of Perspective...
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...Girl Anderson Jude ENG 115 Professor Chris Swindell Strayer University October 23rd, 2013 The short story Farm Girl is an in depth look at life through the eyes of a young girl growing up with her family on a farm. Throughout this non-fiction story the author Jessica Hemauer, does an amazing job of describing her surroundings to pull the reader in and make them feel like they are there with her. She begins as a younger girl describing how difficult it is for a child to awake from a deep slumber, and immediately get to work doing jobs some grown men would cringe at. “Cleaning out various huts and pens and laying down fresh straw are part of our daily duties” (Hemauer, 2011 p. 84). She continues by explaining how this is the worst of the jobs she and her siblings endure, and how the dust makes it difficult for them to breathe, but they all know there is no use in complaining because it has to be done (Hemauer, 2011). She continues her story into her teenage years describing vividly the life and struggles of a teenage girl, especially one with so many responsibilities and restrictions. While in eighth grade she describes to the reader how unusual her life is in comparison to her classmates, and how she dislikes not being able to participate in extracurricular activities. However, she finally does get the chance to be normal as she defines it. “In eighth grade I really want to play basketball, and after begging and pleading with my parents, they finally say I can join the team...
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...rhetorical devices used throughout the article that are just making assumptions on the topic. This article gets the point of the author across very clearly; I believe this is where the rhetorical devices he come in. by using all these diverse rhetorical devices it helps the writer to say what he wants and lets the reader to be more on his side of the issue at hand. For example, the authors’ statement that “my invitation must have gotten lost in the mail,” this is not an actual statement but is sarcasm in the paper creates a rhetorical device. This statement is considered an exaggeration because he is overstating or embellishes what he really means to say. Rhetorical devices if used in an accurate way are designed to convince a reader to agree with one side of an issue rather than the other. Each type of device gives a different effect and shows opinions or someone’s thoughts in different ways. So the author used these devices to show his point of view and to persuade his readers to agree with him. It is good to make your reader agree with you but also to show the other side of the issue as well. The author of this article used the rhetorical devices to persuade the reader to his side but also pointed out the other side of the issue as...
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...be a real dear friend of the wife. Robert is coming through from Connecticut where he was paying a visit to his deceased wife’s family. Bub isn’t really excited about the fact that a blind man is coming over to his house to stay. Bub later gets the time to know him after the wife pretty much asked him to be a good house host, Robert in the end impresses Bub when he drawls a cathedral for him. The central idea of the story is that a individual should never be judged without getting the chance of getting to know them As the story begins the Bub says “ I wasn’t enthusiastic about his visit . He was no one I knew. And his being blinded bothered me”. ( ) This quote reviles to the reader the feelings the Bub had towards this visit of Robert. Carvers does a good job of being able to connect the reader with Bub’s emotions after he is asked by his wife to be a good respectful house guess to Robert. Robert begins to patiently persist to get to know Bub with different conversations as the wife slowly drifts away from them . As the two begin to have more of a In the end Robert asks bub to close his eyes and they will together draw a cathedral from scratch . As a result, bub confronts his own insecurities and misconception about his inability to communicate with...
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...sense of pride evidential in the elder in the family or community who makes it their moral and ethical duty to pass on these stories. To the younger generation, the firsthand account of historical and family events is greatly appreciated. The poem’s central idea is to portray the maternal bond between an elder and a child as she passes on not just a story but confidence and self-acceptance of being a descendant of slaves. The poem characters are a woman and a child where the setting is on a front porch during a summer evening. Aunt Sue’s Stories begins as the narrator describes Aunt Sue, not physically, but exactly what she is best known for. Aunt Sue’s personality, character and motherly instincts are depicted through her stories. The reader learns that Aunt Sue is emotionally connected to her stories because lines 21 and 22 suggest she may have been a slave. The poem develops into one of her stories about the conditions of slaves, working hard in the hot sun and walking home when the dew begins to fall. “Singing sorrow songs” symbolizes Hughes unconditional love for the blues. The blues represents the psychological condition and the genre of the music which the people have long used to comfort their soul and as suggesting humor to continue with the battle. The poem ends with the narrator assuring us that the brown/dark faced...
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...leaflet uses not only how the writing is spaced out but also a picture to illustrate what it’s attempting to achieve. This picture depicts a cigar smoking overweight businessman hiding behind the face of Ronald McDonald, who is the businesses’ mascot. The stereotypically evil portrayal of a corrupt businessman is chosen carefully to infuriate readers and catch their attention. This is then done further by the use of headings for each separate paragraph that include sentences such as “EXPLOITING WORKERS” that are meant as attention grabbers. Each heading states something negative about McDonald’s through the use of verbs that give the feeling that they are doing harmful things to the world at this very moment such as “EXPLOITING, ROBBING, DAMAGING” etc. This serves to make the situation feel direr and more urgent. Finally the appearance of the leaflet itself is that of a cheap, poorly recycled piece of paper Grisel 2that indicates a lack of proper funding and unprofessionalism which is in direct contrast to the nature of the writing and sends mixed messages to the reader. In short the layout of the leaflet is intended to connect with the reader and draw them into the rest of the...
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...such as Arab, Spanish and Japanese, networking is essential because they prefer to conduct business with people they know or with associated people they know. When the United States decided to help the people of Kuwait defend themselves against Iraq in 1992, the U.S ambassador to the United Nations called in other ambassadors within his network for their concurrence. I choose to arrange my sentence in accordance of the theory put forth in the article from Weeks titled the best memo you’ll ever write. The article lays the foundation by stating that readers are content driven, time pressed and decision focused and like writing that is clear, simple and direct. The article further explains that the content driven reader prefers language that simply carries ideas, information and the relationship among them. To appeal to this audience you must logically order and present your ideas. The opening of the memo must tell the reader why they are reading the memo. The pyramid principle theorizes that an effective introduction is achieved by...
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...Explore the effects Shakespeare was trying to achieve by creating a character like Lady Macbeth. What reactions might the reader have of Lady Macbeth? Shakespeare portrayed Lady Macbeth in many ways in different situations. However, readers would believe her to be manipulative, scheming, deceptive, ruthless and going down the path of evil for power and position overall. Creating the character Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare has made her the catalyst, (including the witches) as Macbeths evildoings and leading towards the downfall of him and herself. He has made her a very significant part of the play. This is because she is always with Macbeth telling him what she thinks he should do, and structuring the deed. When he calls off the whole plan of killing Duncan therefore not gaining full power, Lady Macbeth has the confidence to call her husband a coward and ridicule his masculinity in order to persuade him to commit the murder. She challenges his feelings of guilt and pity for Duncan and replaces them with malicious and spiteful feelings. This shows Lady Macbeth can go to extremes as she has the courage to question his coward-ness and masculinity. The readers can admire or look down on her ruthlessness and her power in the relationship. Also her persuasive skills. Not only taunting him, but using her femininity to her advantage as she sexually touches him while persuading him. Shakespeare has achieved to make Lady Macbeth unique as most wives wouldn’t argue with their husbands however...
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