...offence. Shock. Anger. Don’t panic. Negative book reviews, especially those that are potentially malicious, are near the top list of nightmare scenarios for every writer. You have been putting your heart and soul into pursuing your passion. So it is understandable when you would like to act first in the face of negativity and have regrets later. Please don’t! Hold your tongue. It makes no difference if you won the Pulitzer Price, or if you teach English in high school classes, or how many books you have sold. Check it out, many negative reviews show up on Bestseller...
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...Sunny Herold Professor Moore History 132: Paper #2 2 December 2009 Shallow Babbitt George F. Babbitt is a text-book example of a conformist businessman whose life is based on appearance and material items. Lewis not only accurately portrays Babbitt as a symbol of the shady business world of the 1920’s, but also makes him a symbol of sympathy. Babbitt’s shallow fixations and arrogant behavior throughout the book reflect May Sinclair’s review of Babbitt as “a bundle of pompous negations, futilities, [and] preposterous vanities” (May Sinclair, “The Man from Main Street,” The New York Times, September 24, 1922). Although his character is criticized in such a negative light, his troubles are realistic and easy to relate to. Even with all of his amenities and thriving job, Babbitt is unhappy and fantasizes regularly. When Babbitt finally realizes his discontent and tries to change, he is shunned from the community. The setting of the novel is the 1920’s in a fictional city called Zenith, a typical booming town full of factories, hope, and skyscrapers. Lewis correctly depicts the time period after WWI, when business was booming and materialism was rampant. Everything was about industry and conforming. Everyone longed to have the best and most recent appliances and the best appearance. Therefore, there was a huge increase in consumer spending. Babbitt’s house in Floral Heights is described as being “right out of Cheerful Modern Houses for Medium Incomes” (Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt...
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...Advanced Biology 02/24/2012 Limulus Polyphemus also commonly known as the horseshoe crab is indeed one of the few “living” fossils here on Earth. The horseshoe crab has inhabited the planet long before humans. According to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (2010), they evolved in the shallow seas of the Paleozic Era (540-248 million years ago) alongside other arthropods. Soon after, around 200 million years ago during the Mezozoic Era, the shallow seas around Europe were considered the dispersal point for ancestors of our modern day horseshoe crab. Despite inhabiting the planet for so long, horseshoe crab body forms have changed very little over all of those years. First off, the obscure physical anatomy of the horseshoe crab is quite intriguing. Belonging to the phylum of arthropoda, horseshoe crabs are bottom dwelling organisms that have chelicerae (pincer-like appendages), five pairs of walking legs and book gills, and lack of jaws and antennae make horseshoe crabs more similar to spiders, ticks and scorpions than to true crabs. Within the diversity of arthropods, horseshoe crabs have their own class called Merostomata, meaning legs attached to the mouth. According to Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (2012), the thin spike-like tail of horseshoe crabs has given this species an unfavorable reputation. Many people view horseshoe crabs as dangerous animals because they have sharp tails. In reality, horseshoe crabs are harmless. Their tails...
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...individuals of having committed an offense. I will be sharing this article with the history professor in Sunderland University. Racial Profiling Component of Article The article that I will review and is related to this topic on racial profiling is named “Race and Justice: Wrongful Convictions of African American Men” is written by Feagin Joe. Precisely, this article mainly talks about how the African Americans tend to be wrongly convicted due to racial prejudice and discrimination (Feagin, 2013). In order to gather adequate...
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...Digital Media: A Better Way to Learn Educators and parents have legitimate concerns about the effects of the Digital Age on learning. Digital media has changed dramatically since the development of the Internet and improvement of wireless technology. John Palfrey, Professor of Law and Urs Gasser, Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, both employed by the prestigious Harvard Law School, have written about how the world has been reshaped because of this new digital world in Born Digital. They found that this period “is the most rapid period of technological transformation ever, at least, when it comes to information” (3). This transformation of digital media over the last twenty-five years and the introduction of tools like the iPad create a clutter of information that threaten the ability to think deeply and concentrate, which has made the current educational system obsolete and ineffective. This same technology can be utilized to create the school of the future, by improving learning in the Digital Age. Digital natives, ”born after 1980,” do not know the world without the Internet, cell phones, computers, tablets and everything else that networked digital technology has provided (Palfrey 1). They “study, work, write and interact with each other in ways that are very different from the ways” their parents and grandparents grew up. (Palfrey 2). Palfrey and Gasser found that digital natives are comfortable with this new technology and experts...
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...lawsuit, told from the points of view of each of the major characters, Anna, Kate, their brother Jessie, their parents Sarah and Brian, Campbell, and Anna's guardian ad litem, Julia, who turns out to have been Campbell's college girlfriend. On the audiobook, each character's portions is narrated by a different performer, which enhances the sense that these are genuinely different perspectives. The reader comes to understand the quandaries faced by Anna's parents, who love all their children but are forced to make impossible decisions by Kate's illness. Picoult's writing keeps the story moving along fast, and her style is smooth, almost slick. Each chapter starts out with a portentous quotation from a famous writer, and she crams the book full with flashbacks to emotionally powerful moments from the narrators' pasts. It is a work that might well work well in an undergraduate course on...
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...the fact that some Protestant societies presently have “immobilized” the arrangements of previous generations, some has opened up the reserved the system, and have tailored themselves swiftly to their surroundings. These subsequent assemblies more constantly mirror the brilliance of Protestantism, writes Dr. McGrath. His work is separated into three major segments. The 1st segment speaks to, “Origination,” [p. 15] tracks the record of the progress beginning with the German, Swiss, French, and English Reformers, particularly Luther along with Calvin, during the disputes of European traditions and accounts, to its development into the United States up throughout the 19th century. Essentially, the review is swift and frequently shallow. The 2nd segment, “Manifestation,” [p.197] reviews the main convictions and arrangements in use by Protestants. A variety of chapters speaks to the theological outlook of the Word of God, and important teachings concerning humanity and salvation, the church and...
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...different landforms that today embellish the island with its scenic beauty and rural character. Various geo-morphological processes have produced a varied surface landscape and coastline, restricted in accessibility where it controls the inhabitantsÕ lifestyle and their living. The Stratigraphy The origins of the Maltese archipelago can be traced to shallow marine carbonate sediments, superimposed phases of strike slip faulting and rifting and geo-morphological scars triggered by different climatic processes and complex tectonic repercussion of the advancing of the African and Eurasian plates towards each other.1 This group of limestone islands rest on the Malta-Hyblean platform, which is a wide shelf bridge that connects the Ragusa platform of southern Sicily and the Tripolitana platform of northern Libya.2 The Maltese stratum comprises hard massive sometimes-reefal tectonically competent coralline limestone, ductile fine-grained biomicrites and plastic marls and clays of tectonically incompetent behaviour.3 These sedimentary beds belong to the geologically recent mid-Tertiary period. The sediments settled in shallow marine waters and their deposition occurred in stages with five main geological strata, which differ in composition and structural resistance (Refer to Figure 1). . Figure 1: The stratigraphic column of the Maltese Islands (Source: Dr. Michael Hughes Clarke) The circulation of ocean...
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...BOOK REVIEW Emma is a classic novel written by Jane Austen in 1815, published by John Murray. Emma is an intelligent, upper class young woman who thinks she knows more than other people. She decides to use her knowledge to become a matchmaker for her new little friend, Harriet. Emma finds out that she doesn't know as much as she thinks she does; while she discovers she misread quite a few of her acquaintances. She discovers that she didn't even know herself as well as she thought. The Regency era was a time of great social, political, and even economic change. The upper class lived extravagantly and spent huge amounts on pomp and show which caused a tremendous drain of money and this lead to large scale poverty. Jane Austen's portrayal of England's class structure in 1816 presents the idea that there are three distinct social classes, the lower, middle and upper class. All three join together in harmony to create the essence of Highbury, however there is a little discrimination present. In the early part of this period the ballroom dancing was prevalent in high society parties. Jane Austen features balls in her novels quite often. CHARACTER OVERVIEW: Emma is a young, beautiful and rich girl and finds herself a bit smarter for her match-making habit. She is a feminist character and thinks that she’ll never marry. Mr.knightley is Emma’s neighbor and also her sister Isabelle’s brother-in-law. He is a very good friend and critic of Emma and found to be wise in decision...
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...Studies foreign A growing number of books, including The Shallows, argue that the internet and digital gadgets are making it harder for us to concentrate. The Pew Research Centre in America recently surveyed almost 2,500 teachers and found that 77% thought that the internet had a "mostly positive" impact on students' research work, while 87% felt modern technologies were creating an "easily distracted generation with short attention spans". But could this simply be the latest variation of 'the Elvis Hypothesis' – because something is new, popular with young people, and challenges existing hierarchies and traditions, it must be bad? Although some UK teachers might be inclined to agree with their American counterparts when faced with a class of restless smartphone-enabled year 10s, there appears to be no conclusive evidence that pupil attention spans are declining. Sue Honoré, an independent learning consultant who co-authored the 2009 report 'Generation Y: Inside Out' with Dr. Carina Paine Schofield, feels that there is still "a big question about how technology is impacting on the way we behave". She studied the behaviours of people born between 1982 and 2002 – particularly how they learn and work – and found "mixed results" in terms of attention spans. While young people are "undoubtedly capable of long periods of concentration", those who spend a lot of time alone using technology "tend to have less in the way of communication skills...
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...COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is designed to enrich the students’ experiences in developing and utilizing appropriate technology to facilitate learning. It shall also provide exposure and hands-on opportunities in the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Field Study 3 can be anchored on the following Professional education subject: * Educational Technology 1 * Educational Technology 2 GENERAL OBJECTIVES 1. Select the teaching materials that best suit the needs of the learners 2. Apply the principles of developing instructional materials 3. Develop and utilize instructional materials appropriate to a chosen subject area Acknowledgement I just want to express my heartfelt gratitude to those who were so generous with their time and expertise: To our Almighty God for the knowledge, strength and wisdom. His guidance leads me to select the most desirable way to success. To my parents who provided me their financial support, love, moral values and advices. To Prof. Dominic Dizon,MAEd as my mentor for my Field Study 3. I really appreciate your utmost effort in facilitating and checking my errors. Thank you for molding us to be competent and knowledgeable about Technology in the Learning Environment. I am so grateful to have you as my mentor and I feel so blessed. To Ms. Shienna Mae Eramis for your cooperation and to your students who also gave their cooperation. I wish...
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...Cover letter Professor Hickman, My letter is in response to the writing assignment on the core reading. I chose Mike Rose’s “I Just Wanna be Average”. I am hopeful my writing will provide you with a summary and response as directed in writing project 1. My peer review by one classmate was quite helpful. In her review she stated which sentences, and where to find them, that needed the most help. She commented on the fact they were hard to follow and confusing. She also pointed out that I needed to elaborate more on the summary. I only mentioned Ken, a classmate from the excerpt, once in my paper. I need to introduce him in my summary to understand my reference in the conclusion. I should also explain more of Mike and Jack MacFarland’s relationship and why that reference is so important to this story. She mentioned, I should use more quotes and details in my response to back up my opinion. My second review was not very helpful. That peer review was vague. It echoed the first review without a lot of details that will help better my paper. I made an effort to revise my paper. I incorporated my peers review into it. I gave more details about the relationship between MacFarland and Mike. I also included Ken into my summary to help with the confusion of who he is. I also reworded sentences that were confusing. I’m hoping my revised final draft will give insight into this excerpt by Mike Rose. Ashley Reuzenaar Professor Hickman English 111 05D 2 September 2015 Summary and...
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...the Wild Summary Into the Wild is a film adaptation of the book by the same name by Jon Krakauer based on a true story. Christopher McCandless is a young man, who does not believe in the need of material goods. After graduating from high school with high grades, he refuses to live his normal everyday life. He donates all of his savings and leaves his home and family without telling anybody. He leaves with his old car and burns his remaining money. He goes by the name Alexander Supertramp and starts his primitive life on the road heading for Alaska. During his travel he works different places and encounters hippies, Danes and the retired Ron, who helps him reaching his destination. His family is desperate to hear from him, though he does not care. When he is living in Alaska he has all the skills and experiences to live on his own. Review Into the Wild is a movie that leaves you pensive and reflective by the deeper meaning behind Chris’ choice of living. You become emotional by his believe in nature and God, and his conviction of no need of material goods. The question throughout the story is: is he just stupid or is he brave? He seems to be the perfect ideal by not following the norms in the society and his way of remaining unaffected of the society is very inspiring. Chris wants to be happy, but his parents’ impact on him is leading him to this way of living, because they are unhappy. Their happiness is shallow and that is what he does not want to end up with. He is rebellious...
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...The Killernet? In Nick Carr’s book; The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, Carr talks about instrumentalism and how the world views technology. According to both David Sarnoff and James Carey “technology is technology”. This is the most widely held view of technology today that I also agree with. Both Sarnoff and Carey downplay technology and argue compelling arguments against the over exaggerated power people give to it. In Carr’s book, instrumentalists are described as “the people who, like David Sarnoff, downplay the power of technology, believing tools to be neutral artifacts, entirely subservient to the conscious wishes of their users.” The name instrumentalist itself describes their view; that technology is just an instrument used to help one exceed in their abilities. There is also historic evidence that points to the instrumentalist’s outlook. For example; the Japanese preserved their traditional samurai culture by banning the use of firearms in their country for two centuries and this proved to be affective! Another example used in Carr’s book is North America. The religious community for the Amish rejected the use of motor cars and other modern technologies. It seems all throughout history many different cultures have shied away or put some kind of restrictions on the use of certain tools. It all is not a foreign concept and has proved successful. So why should it be any different in this case, we are not any better than our ancestors or our history...
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...consolidating savage parody with social examination. It fixates on, in the expressions of pundit J. Hillis Miller (citing from the character Bella Wilfer in the book), "cash, cash, cash, and what cash can make of life." In the opening sections a body is found in the Thames and recognized as that of John Harmon, a young fellow as of late came back to London to get his legacy. Were he alive, his dad's will would oblige him to wed Bella Wilfer, a delightful, soldier of fortune young lady whom he had never met. Rather, the cash goes to the regular workers Boffins, and the impacts spread into different...
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