Reading Article Reviews Samples For Students

Article Reflection

The article that will be reviewed is “Close Reading in Elementary Schools”. The article is about a qualitative research on close reading and how it can be adapted by elementary schools.

The hypothesis that is being tested is whether close reading is an appropriate instructional routine for elementary students. The research methodology used by the authors is the observation of teachers from different grade levels, who taught different subjects and who are willing to explore close reading. The results of the study reveal the key features that must be addressed if close reading is to be implemented in elementary ...

The writers in this article are trying to distinguish the words ‘skills’ and ‘strategies’ which are often confounded nowadays. A lot of people, according to the authors, either use both terms as synonyms of each other or connect them together which ruins the actual meaning of the words and the way they should be used in the vocabulary. The researchers have brought it up as a responsibility to differentiate the concepts of both the words so that both the words ‘reading skills and reading strategies’ can be effortlessly clarified by the educators .
According to the research, the term ‘reading ...

Reading Reflection:

“It All Just Clicked: A longitudinal Perspective on Transitions within University”
READING REFLECTION: TRANSITION TO COLLEGE 2
Reading Reflection: “It All Just Clicked: A longitudinal Perspective on Transitions within University”
The article I am read is a longitudinal study from a scholarly journal. The researchers were interested in the transition of students in a university educationally, socially and psychologically. They state, “Much of this has concentrated on the first year of university study, and has focused on investigating students’ knowledge of, and engagement with, a new learning community” (Hazel et al. 2014). The aim of this study was to follow ...

Article Summary

In the study A Study on the Development of Reading Skills of the Students Having Difficulty in Reading: Enrichment Reading Program, done by Hayati Akyol, Ahmet, Cakiroglu and Hayriye Gul Kuruyer, the researchers wanted to determine the difficulties students had in reading skills and what could happen if an enrichment program was introduced to help the students overcome their difficulties. The researchers used three students from the fifth grade who had difficulties in reading.
Before starting the exercise, the participants exhibited different levels of difficulties. Some could not write words properly during the dictation exercises, and also could ...

He elaborates that reading is value-addition. I have experienced the same flavor. More than once, I have had to repeat a word that evaded the ears of my listeners. I had used a term that most of them were not familiar with. I have realized that the more I read, the better I absorb vocabulary and practice. I can communicate effectively, and words flow easily from my mind to the mouth. The more you read the more words you have available to use in everyday conversations. Reading teaches you many new words and ways to use them in daily life. Good ...

The poem encompasses an issue pertaining to the unclear interpretations of her work titled Incubation: A Space for Monsters. The issue of confusion was addressed through poetry by describing analogies that best describes the meaning of the book’s context. The arguments presented in the reading include descriptions given to the different areas in the book such as comparing an excerpt from a George Clooney film with a female in red dress. The female character described in the reading embodies the characteristics of the reading, which non-familiar readers would find confusing. To conclude the argument about what the girl is doing ...

The human body still amazes me every time I encounter new things. When I was younger, I did not care of how my body in its smallest parts can react. What was important then was I eat whenever I am hungry. I drink water when I feel thirsty. I seek for a good past time when I get bored. I was never interested as to why was I feeling those things? Reading “Physiological and Neurological Needs” enlightened me on what is going on inside me that triggers what I feel.
I was hooked with the part of the reading ...

Summary: Reading Erasures and Making the Familiar Strange: Defamiliarizing Methods for Research in Formerly Colonized and Historically Oppressed Communities

Summary: Reading Erasures and Making the Familiar Strange: Defamiliarizing Methods for Research in Formerly Colonized and Historically Oppressed Communities

Purpose
- Kaomea’s first and foremost purpose through this article was to reveal how the educational system in Hawai’i and other previously colonized places, favours colonialist, indifferent, non-traditional and oppressive tendencies of schooling.
- The article tries to prove the prevailing disembodiment and demotivation of the kupana (meaning ancestral, traditional, of the forefathers) by the schooling system in Hawai’i and address the reasons for such developments
- The article tries to put forward the availability of ...

Communication and Technology – A Response Paper

Summary
Summarizing the three articles centers around the primary focus on "Industrial Society and Its Future" by Theodore Kaczynski making this one person's view of how technology in the modern world is restrictive on freedom the framework of all three articles authors' views. The claims of Kaczynski as well as Illich author of Tools of Conviviality, and Schumacher author of Small is Beautiful proclaims how modern technology continues ruining the planet's environment and humanity in general. The message of the Kaczynski article in particular, professes how this ongoing modern technology is the cause of countless types of humanity's ...

Summary

Reading the bible and getting meaning out of the passages is most probably one of the most complicated things for Christians. The bible has been mentioned as one of the most inspiring books and the most read. However, despite all the worth that is attached to the bible, many people still finds it hard to not only read it but also get the most out of it. In the article How to read the bible for all its Worth by Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart, they highlight some of the strategies that can be followed by a Christian to ...

In today's society people are motivated to become educated for different reasons. Malcolm X in "Homemade Education" was a smart street hustler. However, he could not express, or communicate effectively. Malcolm X was motivated when he met a fellow inmate named Bimbi where he then took control of his inability to read and write by putting his time in prison to good use. This motivation shows that you can get anywhere in life with determination as your watchword.
Bimbi was the type of person that Malcolm X admired; he was well spoken and could take control of any conversation. Malcolm ...

Introduction

Quantitative research is a systematic empirical study of a phenomenon using mathematical, statistical or computational techniques. Quantitative research seeks to investigate the relationship between a dependent variable and an independent variable or variables. This paper seeks to critique a quantitative study that employs an experimental approach. For this purpose, this paper chooses an article by Min Wang, Charles Perfetti and Ying Liu titled “Chinese-English Biliteracy Acquisition: Cross-Language and Writing System Transfer”

Summary of the Study

The study sought to investigate the relationship between cross-language and writing system in Biliteracy acquisition by students who were learning to read in two diverse writing systems- English and Chinese. To this ...

In his renowned 2008 article for The Atlantic Monthly, “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the internet is doing to our brains,” writer Nicholas Carr suggest that while Internet has helped today’s generation gain limitless amount of information at the click of a mouse, this easy access to information comes at a cost. Carr maintains that quick access to a large pool information results makes people skim information the contents quickly rather than carefully reading and conceptualizing the information. According to him, this results into shortened memory span, an increasing inability to concentrate or read long texts. As the internet increasingly becomes ...

Article Reflection

Article Reflection
The article that will be reviewed is “Using Higher Order Questioning to Accelerate Students’ Growth in Reading”. The main thesis of the article is about how teachers today are changing their reading instructions among their students to reflect higher level talk, writing and questioning. Teachers are now realizing the value of encouraging students to engage in higher level talk in discussing reading materials in their classes. Teachers have observed that students are gaining reading achievements since their introduction of higher order questioning. As opposed to instructions based on lower level questions and teacher-directed method of teaching, ...

For any foreign language learner it is essential to enrich their vocabulary. Holly B. Lane and Stephani A. Allan, who are the authors of the article "The Vocabulary Rich classroom: Modeling Sophisticated Word Use to Promote Word Consciousness and Vocabulary Growth" are deeply conveyed that one of the ways to awake word consciousness in students is to ask them to model new words.
In order to show that their ideas are true and effective, the authors give examples of two classes, where children learned new words and started to use them skillfully in their everyday life. Although the ...

“The Two Languages” is chapter 1 in Part I of book “Making Your Own Days” written by Kenneth Koch essentially “to say some clear and interesting things about poetry. The term “The Two Languages” is a metaphor for poetry identifying poetic language as its own language within language it’s written. While regarding poetry as a mysterious being that no one has quite been able to explain where and how it comes from, author Kenneth Koch invokes the ancient Greeks calling the Muse the source of poetry and others ascribing it to coming from some residually creative place in an unconscious ...

1. What is the author’s central argument (thesis)?
In "Why We Have to Go Back to a 40-Hour Work Week to Keep Our Sanity," Sara Robinson effectively argues that human beings need to go back to the 40 hour work week, as opposed to the 55-60 hour weeks most Americans are working today. She argues that limiting workers' productivity to 40 hours a week guarantees more productive hours on the whole, as people get burned out and more exhausted as the hours go on past that magic number.
2. What evidence is presented to support the central ...

Institutional

Key Points from Cooper reading
The chapter 7 in cooper’s book examines the problem associated with upholding responsible behavior in the context of a manager. Firstly, Cooper broadens the chapter by widening the irresponsible behavior to comprise the traditional immoral conduct and the intentional poor work performance. Secondly, the chapter also focuses on the conflict that occurs between the internal and external controls as the major causes of the irresponsible behavior. Finally, the chapter also discusses on the major elements of the ethical conduct, and Cooper identifies four major elements that constitute ethical conduct.
The first element ...

The Relationship Between Reading Skills in Early English as a Foreign Language and Hungarian as a First Language:

Marianne Nikolov and Benö Csapó’s paper, The Relationship Between Reading Skills in Early English as a Foreign Language and Hungarian as a First Language, seeks to discover how Hungarian school children’s reading skills in English as their second language is affected by their proficiency in their first language as well as elements of the second language. The authors make use of two studies to explore this. The first study tests sixth and eighth graders’ reading proficiency in both Hungarian (L1) and English (L2). ...

Identification and definitions of major concepts

Listening is an important concept and mostly collaborates with listening concept. In order to interact well in the community, he or she must having listening and talking skills unless under a closed organization where people are not allowed to interact with the outside wild. In the used article, collaboration was the most important talking and listening activity focus. Students engaged in activities that required talking and listening or interacting. Such activities include discursions and presentations (Bearne, 2007).
In order to use all concepts, one must be able to talk and to listen. It is getting information from other parties ...

This article describes a study in which intrinsic motivation in students in regards to reading comprehension is studied. The study tested the idea that through presenting the students with situational interest, they would be able to create intrinsic motivation in the students, and therefore this would increase the students reading comprehension. For example, a student would do a simple lab experiment about chemical reactions and interest would be generated on this topic. The student would then read about the same types of chemical reactions. This student would then be able to form connections between the situation and the reading, and would gain ...

Article Summary

Article Summary
The premise of this article and the associated research study is that there is a gender gap in areas of reading and math that can, in part, be attributed to gender stereotypes. It understood that there is a significant gap between male and female performance on math assessments. What is not as significantly studied is the performance gap that exists in the area of reading. This is reported as being a surprising fact as the performance gap present in reading is far greater than the gap present in math.
According to information from the Organization for Economic ...

Why did you make this reading your Reading of Choice this week? What attracted you to it in the first place and what stood out for you now, when you’re done?
I chose this reading because the title caught my attention. I thought that any discussion of unequal childhoods would be interesting. Knowing that we all come from different childhoods, I was interested in which perspective the author would take in this reading. As I read the first couple of paragraphs, I was more drawn in to what the author wanted to explain.
What is the main conclusion ...

Reflections to journal articles

Language, language acquisition and language teaching are areas of interest that have engaged the attention of linguists, psychologists and educationists for centuries. Zest in research in these areas continues with new issues being raised as a consequence of development in technology and means of communication. While experts continue to discuss first and second language acquisition, the truth is that it is difficult to find an individual who uses one pure language. Increasing contacts between language communities in a global scenario have resulted in bilingualism and multilingualism. According to Kumar and Yunus, “No society speaks just ‘a language’ that is ‘pure’ in its ...

The prevalence of Internet use has often been the focus of various studies and articles. The benefits and probable harms of such advanced technology have been discussed in various platforms by various experts on various fields of study and the public. Among the large volume of works written in an aim to assess and weigh the effects of Internet is Nicholas Carr’s article titled Is Google Making Us Stupid which was published in the July-August 2008 issue of The Atlantic. Carr has written in length the probable negative effects of the Internet in people’s way of reading ...

Reading is one of the most important activities that humankind has to offer. It has changed dramatically through the years, from different alphabets to manuscripts, printing and now the digital age. All of these changes have brought renovation and impulses to different aspects of reading, yet it has not gone out of style. In the last few years, many people have said that the printed book is dead, with the electronic book replacing it. However, Robert Darton in “Five Myths about the Information Age” correctly refutes this, arguing that the introduction of digital reading material has only modified what ...

Summary of the article

The article espouses on the importance of spelling in the comprehension of English as a Second Language. The article reports that spelling affects reading comprehension and effectiveness in the storage and recovery of information. The article also reports that the intent focusing on individual words may cause readers to lose the meaning at the start of the sentence as they get towards the end. This is established from a study carried out on English as second language students to establish whether there is a stronger relationship between specific spelling knowledge to reading performance than general spelling knowledge. In conclusion, the article recommends ...

A Summary and Response

This article discusses research into whether having the internet at home is good for children. It focuses around a study led by Linda Jackson, a Michigan State University psychologist. Jackson studied 140 city children as part of a study called HomeNetToo, which was set up to evaluate the effects of internet use on families with a low income (Packard, 2007). The children in the selected families were around 13 years old and were underachieving at school at the beginning of the study. Through providing each family with a free computer and internet access, recording the children’s internet use, and conducting regular interviews and ...

In the chapter entitled, “Maifa” Model of the Vessels”, of Donald Harper’s Early Chinese Medical Literature, the author discusses certain elements of the traditional Chinese medicine practice of reading one’s pulse to determine one’s ailments and, ultimately, cure one’s illness. As translated in this chapter, the term “vessel” seems to be used interchangeably to mean both blood flow and blood vein (Harper, 2009). According to the text, “mafia” refers to the methods that ancient Chinese sages or doctors used to “elucidate the structure of the body and classify the ailments that affect it” (Harper, 2009).
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In most occasions religion along with art research subjects centers on an understanding of the paintings that are holy topics. It is also seen that the majority of this paintings do talk about Christianity. This is because Christianity became the primary power that formed the European civilization after the classical archeological finds which later on encouraged artists as well as patrons to stir up the characters of this sacred inscrutability in visual provisions (“The National Gallery: Art and Religion par 1”). This paper is going to review an article concerning religion and art to explain more concerning the alternate ...

The purpose of the study

The purpose of this study as in the article is to assess the early literature and story reading skills championed by the parents at the early years of their basic education. The purpose of this study is also to know how the parents can involve themselves in their children education from their tender age. Though it is not the parents only who should involved in education education, they are considered crucial because they can influence the children because they spend most of the time with them. The other purpose is to assess how to continuously develop the children till ...

The first reading on the “Less for Less Yet" is important because it articulates the idea of creativity in the architectural field. It argues that the modernist has been having the problem concerning the beliefs held about the architectural ideas and how these ideas are being perceived in the society. It is important because it helps to identify and consider architecture as an idea of being creative in the society. The article puts across that the architectural creativity is the chief gift to society, and thus, it is important for the people to understand its importance. As compared to ...

The article under consideration views implications that modern technologies have for academic performance. The research question appears to be as follows: How do activities based on multitasking and activities that require focused attention relate to distractiblity? The authors have chosen Instant Messaging (IMing) and Nonelectronic Reading to conduct their research. They hypothesized that the more time is spent on IMing, the greater the difficulty is in concentrating on less externally stimulating tasks.
IMing has become an integral part of young people’s life, interfering with other important activities. This communication tool gives an opportunity to keep in touch with ...

In this paper, the study "A Longitudinal Examination of Stress Generation in Depressive and Anxiety Disorders” published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology will be discussed. First, an overview of the study will be presented. Second, key strengths and weakness of the study’s methods and procedures, as well as its results, will be argued. Third, a recommendation for how the study could be improved will be stated, and finally a conclusion will sum up the results of this review.
The study’s goal is to expand on existing research on stress. The study examines both interpersonal and non interpersonal ...

Awkward relations

The first article talks about the relationship between America and Saudi Arabia and describes how they depend on each other in certain matters. America has its troops in the Gulf and depends on the Saudi oil. The Saudi also rely on the “American might” as the Arab spring caused alarm and dismay in Arabia. The author defined how the relationship between the two countries is a complex one as both of them depend on each other reasons. On the other hand, the author also mentioned the problems within both countries that might lead to other internal political problems. I would ...

Question 1

In reference to the two articles, teachers have the possibility of enhancing their students' text processing by facilitating their capacity to read and thus interact effectively with the text also referred to as comprehending the text and its content. Comprehension of text by students can be facilitated by teachers by teaching them on building vocabulary words, decoding skills, assisting the depict fluency in their reading, involve in text self responses and finally help the strengthen their background knowledge (Kintsch, 1998).

Question 2

I will choose vocabulary.com as it contains different kinds of words as addressed by the article as one of ...

- The postmodernism that defines the current society has lost the sense of religion and has became more focused on the “self”, which defines an individualized spirituality, entrenched in the scientific developments and in three aspects that are specific to the western world’s universalizing tendencies: economy, politics and cultural. Each of these social spheres are representative for the individual’s interests in the nowadays society and in this context social work is also seen in Mel Gray’s work as stepping away from its focus towards religion into adapting to a much more scientific approach, becoming a science in itself.
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Analysis and Response to “Stepping Stories”

The writer of the narrative essay, Kimberly Parker, details the extraordinary academic successes of her students during the first two years of her high school teaching career, and she concludes by asserting that her students’ exemplary successes can be replicated. Although Parker’s essay may be considered primarily narrative in its style and structure, it has very strong argumentative qualities; furthermore, the essay converts to full argumentation toward its conclusion. The principal argument that Parker makes in regards to setting the academic bar higher, encouraging the students, and their subsequently succeeding is analogous to the famous line from the classic ...

The main ideas of the theoretical reading focus on the material and the way building are made. They focus on the methods of cladding that meant to provide shelter and protection. The focus is to keep in mind that the needs and durability of each building are different and what may be suitable for one may not be so for the other. Different buildings have failed because of various problems and therefore raise different questions. Every material used in architecture carries its own definition and worth. The principle of cladding is an important one in the vocabulary of every ...

Marketing strategy is essential to the success of a firm since it enables it to sell its products to the market. It is essential to undertake market research to determine the appropriate marketing strategy for the firm. The following paper analyzes an article on Uber drivers to determine the issues addressed by the article.

Question 1: A brief description of the main ideas covered by the article

The article addresses the technological advances made by Uber to ensure that it has increased its market share. For instance, Uber has ensured quick access to its services through a phone App that enables the user of the App to determine if he or she ...

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It is important to note that there is some similarity in the way the two pieces of writings have been written. However, there is some contrast between the two. The similarity comes in the way that the concept in the two stories is the same. The two authors refer to the same thing, but with different ideas. For instance, the two authors give out the views or reasons as to why they write. The difference comes in the sense that even though they are referring to the same concept, one author has lifted some ideas from the other ...

1. Briefly articulate the main ideas of the theoretical reading(s). The goal here is not a litany or summary of the article(s), but to demonstrate your critical understanding and interpretation of the main thesis.
The article discusses the growing concern that has been given to the impact that people have had on the environment and the effect that this has on the perceived relationship between man and nature. The article goes on to indicate that there is a needed shift in the view that people have with nature. This is due to the effect that this view ...

Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summaries
For any business professional to succeed and become a competent and successful professional, he must possess good communication skills. Communication skills such as written communication, oral communication, and interpersonal communication are necessary to survive in today’s competitive era. The same fact also stands true for accounting professionals. According to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), communication skills are and will remain in future as important a skill as any other professional skill. AICPA lists “effective business writing” as a necessary skill for competence in public accounting. Unfortunately, some of the entry level accountants do ...

Problem

What is the problem the study was conducted to research?
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a global health issue. There is an increase in type 2 diabetes in African-Americans. Lack of knowledge in lifestyle and treatment interventions has led to the increase of T2DM in African-Americans. Type 2 Diabetes is a leading cause of blindness, renal diseases and lower limb amputations. African-Americans having T2DM also suffer from high blood pressure and low glycemic levels in blood.

Why is the problem an important one for nursing to research?

Diabetes has become a serious health issue among the public. Registered nurses should have latest knowledge about different interventions for diabetes. The article is ...

The state of writing in the U.S. has been on an upward trend for such a long time. The schools in this country have been under pressure lately to produce better readers and writers from their students. There has been increased lobbying by concerned parties on the need for schools and teachers in particular to be accountable for effective literacy instruction. The main reason for this need for public accountability is due to the increased dissatisfaction with literacy in schools. The trends in writing research, writing instruction and writing assessment have been changing ever since.
Skilled writing involves procreative ...

Reading: Learning and the Importance of Knowing: Student Perspectives on Centralising Indigenous Knowledge in their Preparation as Teachers

Question: What is the importance of knowledge in understanding the indigenous perspectives on the social practices of racism, dominant cultures superiority, ignorance and the blame factor?

Reading: The Challenge to Deculturalisation: Discourses of Ethnicity in the Schooling of Indigenous Children in Australia and the USA

Ethnicity is a phenomenon that surfaces in different institutions worldwide. The education sector is among these institutions. In the United States and Australia, indigenous children are susceptible to ethnicity in their schooling. The discourses of this ethnicity are significant to the schooling of these children. Settler societies in Australia and the USA evoked differential opinions concerning indigenous populations and incoming populations. In most cases, these opinions and invasions disrupted the organizations and operations of ...

Harold A. Herzog

Assignment

Research Question or Problem

Is the use of animals in biomedical and behavioral research unethical?
Introduction
The ‘introduction section’ of this article gives a thorough and relevant review of literature. It gives the reader an idea about different philosophies concerning animal rights and experimentation. It also identifies the population using animals for research and leaves answered questions for the research and endeavor on this topic. A total of twelve references have been cited in the introduction and a few (such as Singer, 1975) appear at several places.
Ethical treatment of animals has been raised as an issue since the last quarter ...

The article, “Predicting Human Brain Activity Associated with the Meanings of Nouns” was written by Tom M. Mitchel, Svetlana V. Shinkareva and their five associates. The article was published in Science in May 2008. It outlined a computational program that predicted which parts of the brain were stimulated and would respond to certain words and images, or certain stimuli. I found several concepts of the article very interesting. For example, the basis of the article’s studies was founded on creating a computational framework subject to linguistics. In layman terms, a grid of the mind was drawn up, based on nouns. Scientists ...

Response Paper on a Cultural Studies Approach to Technological Culture

The readings covered this week dealt on the perceptions and judgments associated with technology and culture. My interest in technology is unquestionable and this week reading has given me a chance to explore the relationship the relationships pertaining to this phenomenon. According to technology and culture is of interest because it combines the human perspectives of what technology enables people to execute in everyday lives including the perceptions and judgments of how such undertakings affect them. The book provides a thorough analysis of causality, agency, articulation and assemblage, space, identity, politics, and globalization. All these features illustrate a relationship between technology and ...

This paper gives a reader’s guide for the course work. It gives an analysis of the political influences on the conservation of national parks and building of dams. For a very long time, the United Stats of America (USA) has faced a lot of problems as far as its environmental conservation is concerned.
First and foremost, it is important to agree with the presenter for arguing that the National Parks and the designated wildernesses are some of the most important preservationist class of land in the country. Whereas some National Parks are located within the designated wildernesses, some designated wildernesses ...

Research entails formulating a thesis statement and providing evidence to the facts put forward by the statement. In order to do the research, I had to do some rhetorical reading before engaging into rhetorical writing. While writing the research paper on ESL community analysis, I engaged in multiple drafting and proofreading, I also applied the various rhetorical styles such as font arrangement, grammar effects and diction.
The role of rhetoric research and writing is to motivate the student or the writer in his work, my previous research is no exception either (Martin, N. 38). The purpose of the paper ...

Summary

Osteoporosis is a bone thinning condition that threatens the lives of 44 million Americans (International Osteoporosis Foundation, IOF). Currently, 10 million Americans are suffering from the condition with 68% of them being women (IOF). Against the backdrop of these disturbing statistics, an article in the NaturalNews.com by Sherry Baker, recommends the use of Green Tea in place of prescription drugs to naturally prevent and Treat Osteoporosis.

The article presents statistics relating to the prevalence of osteoporosis by indicating that more than 34 million people have low bone density and are thus at high risk of suffering from osteoporosis. The article ...

The purpose of the study

The purpose of this study as expressed by Muller is to analyze the role and the importance of parents to their children education and how to handle gender disparities. This study is done so as to know how the parents involve themselves in the children education at the early age or when they are young and during their adolescence (Muller, 1998). It is also to find out whether the parents are the only ones who influence the children special education or teachers to play a crucial role. It is also to find out whether the parents meet the education requirement ...

Sociology is the study of society, of the relationships between individuals, of the rules governing social lives, but also of how to break the rules (Babbie, 1994). The analyzed reading suggests that is no single perspective that is true or representative regarding all these aspects, and paradigms such as interactionism, functionalism or conflict are only several approaches through which they can be analyzed (Barbie, 1994). The article “An idea Whose Time Has Come” questions the validity of many of the mass media information fed to individuals on a daily basis and challenges the authority of rules, demonstrating that nowadays, ...

In the book, Edward Weisband and Courtney Thomas have discussed political culture, its application as well as the different aspects related to it. According to the authors, a political culture refers to all the factors that enable the thriving of a particular political system. In fact, the practices, the values, the beliefs, and the shared systems, all contribute to the formation of a political system that defines an administration. In as much as most people believe that such a culture is naturally formed, this notion is not true because it takes many years to develop fully and take strong ...

Janet Byron Anderson, the author of The Vocabula Review, discusses the merits and demerits of using a semi-colon in literature. In her article, The Enigmatic Semicolon, Anderson starts by describing the fascination human beings have over hybrid beasts and mythology. She uses the mermaid, a sensuous woman with muscular fish resemblance below. According to myth, the mermaid lures sailors with lovely songs, which makes them forget what they are doing and jump off the deck only to drown. Similarly, the semicolon tends to have comparable psychological influence, whereby a writer feels the urge to use it but fears that ...

Chapter 6 Reading Response

Chapter 6 Reading Response
According to the norms of the Western world, people recognize themselves as “human beings”. The other inhabitants of the earth are called “living things”. Though both animals and humans are organisms, people are considered to be persons, thus, more than just organisms. This is one of the paradoxes of the modern science. In this chapter Ingold argues that the anthropocentric view on the world is not the only possible. He writes about Ojibwa and their perception of the environment in order to restore “restoring human beings to the organic lifeworld in a way that does ...

Chapter 7 Reading Response

Chapter 7 Reading Response
Art is an important part of the human life. It is often believed that the art has developed from the cave images of animal. Also, it is said that people painted or carved animals because they were amazed by their appearance. The Ingold argues that the conventional views on this issue are false. This chapter was written in order to show the origins of animal depictions based on the difference between animism and totemism. The chapter is important because it reveals the truth about the art.
In this chapter the author provided an insight into ...

Essentially, the study revolves around the consequences of using social networking sites, specifically Facebook. Several earlier studies suggest that Internet use was associated with depressive symptoms and other negative mental health problems. However, there were also recent studies suggesting that Internet use was associated with positive effects. The researchers (Feinstein et al., 2013) proposed that the general quality of interactions while using social networking sites is a bigger factor affecting the mental health than the amount of time spent using the social networking sites. The researchers hypothesized that negative social comparison while using Facebook would be associated with increases ...

Both the articles demonstrate the essence of gender equality and human or national security. Reading the two articles I noticed several relevant information regarding (1) gender branding, population racism, human security, and (2) the gender equality and neoliberal governmentality. In the advertorial genre, the description presented in the article about the Kenneth Cole’s photos and text, it made the theme of security as a way of fashion. I commend the way Cole expressed the gendered codes of fashion through photos and texts. It links the idea from national security to human security. In a visual way, it shows ...