The Reader Term Papers Samples For Students

In “looking for work” Gary Soto narrates a creative story of a nine-year old Mexican-American boy who wishes that his family was similar to white families which were renowned to be perfect. He used to see such families in the TV. The narration is detailed on the few instances when the boy is attracted to white families. He thought that for him to become the kind of person he wished for he had to become rich first. This gave him the idea to get a job first. The story puts it clear that the boy earned a quarter by being employed to handle ...

When reading a text, how important is the actual intent of the author? If a reader gleans a different meaning from a work than the author intended to include, is that viewpoint still valid? According to the Formalist school of literary criticism, the intentions of the author are irrelevant; as long as there is a concrete meaning to be gleaned from some interpretation of the text itself, it is valid. Formalism looks at the structure of a work itself to determine its meaning, regardless of whatever sociopolitical or narrative ends the author originally had in mind. In this light, the text takes precedence over the ...

When reading a text, how important is the actual intent of the author? If a reader gleans a different meaning from a work than the author intended to include, is that viewpoint still valid? According to the Formalist school of literary criticism, the intentions of the author are irrelevant; as long as there is a concrete meaning to be gleaned from some interpretation of the text itself, it is valid. Formalism looks at the structure of a work itself to determine its meaning, regardless of whatever sociopolitical or narrative ends the author originally had in mind. In this light, the text takes precedence over the ...

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The three digital texts are also similar in that; they are all dedicated to audiences with similar characteristics. For instance, the literary content of the texts is only completely accessible online, and may not serve its initial intended purpose if read as plain text. In addition, the audience to whom the texts are meant for, are also expected to possess some kind of computer literacy by for instance understanding the behaviour of hyperlinked texts like those featured in ‘Twelve Blue’, or an understanding of the need for visual speed and close attention while encoding the intended message from the ...

Every year in our country, women are faced with the loss of a child, during pregnancy, at birth, and shortly following delivery. Even in a country with extraordinary medical technology, there are countless newborn deaths for reasons that doctors cannot explain nor predict. These women are often overwhelmed with emotion, grief, and loss in the days, months, and years following the death of their child. “Making Memories: Trauma, Choice, and Consumer Culture in the Case of Pregnancy Loss," by Linda L. Layne, is a thought provoking article which uses first-hand accounts of the loss of a child and the preservation of the child’ ...

Camus’ “The Stranger” is brilliantly as it crafts Camus’s absurdist view of the world. The novel came out in 1942, and tells the story of Meursault’s , an emotionally detached, but amoral young man. Meursault does not believe in God. Camus shows the main character’s callous nature as he does not cry at his mother’s funeral and he kills a man he hardly knows. Due to his crime, the society sees Meursault as a threat to the society, and as such, he faced death. Nevertheless, he comes to understand the simple coldness of the world. He eventually finds ...

The Gothic genre of literature is a fascinating one, ostensibly drawing upon the fears of its era (mostly Victorian England) to tell tales of the grotesque and the supernatural. These tales in particular often focus on unconventional protagonists, the role of gender in relationships, and the violence that comes from crime, isolation, and alienation. There are many subgenres of Gothic fiction, one of the most prominent being Southern Gothic – Gothic tales that take place entirely in the American South. While both genres enjoy similar styles and concerns, their overall themes and applications deal with anxieties specific to their period; while ...

MCDONALD'S TWITTER CAMPAIGN AND H&M'S POTENTIAL COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

1. Introduction:
Rhetoric strategies have evolved and so have rhetorical strategies over the digital media. This paper focuses on two cases which are the McDonald Case and the H$M case. These two cases are analyzed using the various Rhetorical strategies that are commonly used by authors. This includes the description strategy, compare and contract strategy, division strategy, argumentation, process analysis and the exemplification strategy.
The content in each case provides a basis for this analysis, the first case is the McDonald campaign that backfired, this article narrates how a campaign by this company resulted into negative feedbacks and ...

In the text Time Out of Joint by Philip Kindred Dick there is inconvenient truth. The text is a Science Fiction written by a novelist who has written numerous outstanding and influential novels. Dick’s stories habitually dealt-with realism as delusion, Gnosticism, mad people, drugged-up individuals, individuals who seem mad but are in actual fact drugged-up, individuals who appear drugged-up who are actually mad, government schemes, malevolence corporations, eldritch abomination and simulacra. In Dick’s works there are twisted endings and revelations that splinters the world of a reader.

In the text Time Out of Joint, he uses a theme where he compares ...

Artists in various fields and media have often drawn inspiration from their fellow artists who work in different formats. For example, writers have often been influenced by music; and movies have often been based on novels or plays. In the 20th century, however, there was a very close alliance between writers and visual artists, both in American and in Europe. Modernist painters often developed friendships with modernist writers and poets, and modernist poets often used modern paintings as an inspiration for their poems. This trend continued in the second half of the twentieth century, as the post-modern or Beat ...

Most Americans have no clue whatsoever about what it is to be gay. Mostly, they opposed gay marriages out of darkness and ignorance. The argument is always centered on the belief that the family as understood in the western context consisted of a man and woman. The woman brings the feminine qualities responsible for nurturing, care, and motherhood. The father on the other hand, is in charge security of the family. This role extended to the provision of necessities for the well-being of children and the wife. In conventional understanding, sex is an act that united females and males in ...

The Aesthetics of Nature and of Language

Greenpeace? Friends of the Earth? Eco-warriors? What can they possibly have in common with an eccentric Californian fruit farmer of Scottish extraction? Or, to put it another way, when you turn the faucet, do you ever wonder where your water comes from? If you live in the San Francisco Bay area, then your water probably comes from Hetch Hetchy, which is located in the Yosemite National Park. Its strikingly unusual name comes from the indigenous people of the area and was used to describe the edible grass that grows there. The valley runs parallel to the Yosemite River Valley ...

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The Battle of Red Cliffs is part of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which is a historical novel written by Luo Guanzhong (Luo, Roberts and Luo). The stories tell of the years at the end of the reign of the Han Dynasty and the period of the Three Kingdoms starting in 169-280 (Gutenberg). The story is one that contains elements of history, mythology and legend. Even though there are hundreds of characters in the story, the story primarily focuses on Cao Wei, Shu Han and Eastern Wu and the struggles of these states to gain dominance (Luo, Roberts ...

Website URL: http://www.depressionalliance.org/

Created and maintained by: Depression Alliance is the leading UK charity for people affected by depression

Three thinks I liked on this website:
- Easy language and comprehensive information,
- Interactive tone of web page content,
- Nice categorization of the topic ‘depression’
This website has easy language for a complex subject like psychology. Even a layman can understand and analyze his/her condition by reading simple instructions and guidelines given on this website. The language of the website is interactive in nature. It makes one feel like they are talking to some known person or friend and not reading a lifeless page on some website. The interactive tone of website makes ...

The Brothers Grimm are responsible for some of the most famous fairy tales that are still read to children to this day. Although many of the fairy tales have been sanitized and changed for today’s children, the original stories are still masterworks of literature, often referenced and alluded to in other pieces of fiction and nonfiction. In “Rapunzel,” “Hans and Gretel,” and “The Little Peasant,” the Brothers Grimm utilize different types of symbolism, but regardless of the type and purpose of the symbolism, they use symbols that are easily grasped by the reader and serve to further the ...

The Worn Path short story is a captivating short story, in which Eudora Welty narrates about the journey the old woman Phoenix Jackson to the doctor, for her ill grandchild’s medication. While the short story might be linked to Welty’s personal life, the story generally uses symbolism and other literal terms to portray the troubles and challenges that guardians go through and sacrifices they have to take so that their loved ones can live comfortably.
The initial parts of the story describe Phoenix Jackson’s physical appearance and the environment that surrounds her as she walks along ...

Remembering life through tastes. This seems to be the essence of “Climbing the Mango trees – A Memoir of a Childhood Indian”. Traditionalism and local Indian events are shared through the pages of this book, which creates the impression of a happy, normal family, a family much entrenched in the Indian values. Nevertheless, as in any family, first of all, the one presented here, the author’s family displays feelings of love, protection, and sharing among each other. For any of these feelings, and many others that exhibit out of this book, the author found associations with different food spices of dishes.
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The use of grammar offers a better understanding of the language to the small learners. The use of pictures to aid in the learning process for small children also offers a better understanding because it draws the attention of the students towards the learning materials. Grammar helps people, and especially the learners to interpret the various meanings presented by any material in a given cultural setting (Rushton, 2011). The level of the teachers’ level of knowledge of any language is of very great importance to his or her small learners. In most cases, the grammar representation needs a higher ...

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Two Graph Delayed ID Lead: NEHBS Strongman for 11 years, Scholarship Awardee, and a dedicated family man. Dr. Keith Cooper argues for a healthier world.
Summary Lead: NEHBS Executive Director Dr. Keith Cooper to share knowledge about safe and systematic blood transfusions to the New England medical community. (Word count: 21)
Generic Boilerplate: Founded in 1953, the NEHBS is the world’s largest health organization and leader in the blood research; the organization has invested more than $360 million to fund blood research to combat deadly illnesses and infections. In the previous year alone, NEHBS had made 10, 000 ...

A Comparative Study of Pragmatic Properties of the English and Chinese Language

Introduction
Just like humans and knowledge, language is able to evolve. The question to consider is that are these changes good or bad? The establishment of a language take years to perfect and right now, no language in this world is flawless. Two best examples are two of the most spoken language in the world Chinese and English. Fact Monster (2014) uploaded a list of the most spoken language in the world, Chinese took the top spot with over 1,197,000,000 speakers around the world. English only came in third with 335,000,000 after Spanish.
One ...

Part IV is perhaps the most important part of René Descartes’ Discourse on the Method. This part of the Discourse contains a description of the results of Descartes’ meditations following the method that had been previously established by him. In contrast, earlier when Descartes was doubtful, he had taken upon himself to act conclusively and definitively. Now he acts oppositely, and considers everything that may in anyway be doubtful as false. He does this to be certain that the things he holds on to are impossible to doubt. He completely gives up all sensory knowledge because the senses are prone ...

Robert Pickering "Bo" Burnham is an American poet, actor, comedian, musician and singer-songwriter. Bo Burnham was born on 21st August 1990. His writing of satirical and comedic songs using a politically incorrect slant has made him receive fame worldwide, mostly due to YouTube where his songs has been viewed many times. Burnham graduated in 2008 from St. John’s Preparatory School. In his time in school, he was involved in all the campus ministry and theatre program. He received lots of recognition from his teachers, with the assistant principle, claiming that he was destined to make himself a name.
Burhman’ ...

The book entitled ‘RANT’ presents an oral biography of Buster Casey, a man who became very famous. Buster Casey is the protagonist of Chunk Palahniuk, an author with a huge reputation in wring tamer novels. It is a three hundred and nineteen page oral history book published by Doubleday publishers on 1 may 2007. It falls under novel-satire genre of literature told in English oral biography form. The novel begins and immediately the reader identifies the main character, Buster Casey Landru, also known as “RANT”. He is a deceased man whom various individuals in the entire story discuses the Buster’s life memories ...

Literature

Thesis: Symbolism and figures of speech in Orwell’s Animal Farm
i. Use of similes, metaphors and symbols in Animal Farm

A. A summary of Orwell’s Animal Farm

B. Setting of Animal Farm
C. Napoleon and Snowball
1. Figures of speech in Animal Farm

Introduction

Animal Farm by George Orwell is one of the best works of the author. Each character in Animal Farm stands for an important character of the Russian Revolution. Fascism, communism and animalism are displayed as illusions applied by the pigs, in order to satiate their greed for power. The book is a political allegory of the then Soviet Union’s ...

ABSTRACT

Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games tells the tale of young tribute Katniss Everdeen, who is forced into a state-sanctioned spectator sport where she must kill her fellow teenagers for the entertainment of the authoritarian Capitol. In The Hunger Games, the character of Katniss Everdeen distinguishes herself from other female protagonists in children's fiction in many ways. These differences will be discussed at length, mostly through the lens of the treatment of romantic relationships with regards to the protagonist in children's fiction. Through analysis of the primary text and the surrounding scholarly literature, The Hunger Games is shown to be an ...

Introduction

It can be said that editors function as “gatekeepers”. By deciding which submitted works are rejected and which are passed through for publication, they could be seen as being in a position to shape cultural, political and social thinking, merely by “filtering” the total spectrum of published material from which peoples’ views and opinions are formed.
Given that situation exists, how does an editor deal with it? Are the editor’s responsibilities to the readers, or to his/her employer, to a combination of the two, or to himself/herself? Surely an editor has a responsibility to all of these; the difficulty is ...

In Reading the Romance, Janice Radway elucidates on the role of romantic fiction in women’s life. Radway specifically focuses on the middle class women who lead a hectic life, maintaining their household, looking after children and most of all working on their marriage. Somewhere along the way, Radway describes, they feel so exhausted by everything that they require a tremendous boost to their spirit. They find that much needed spirit upholstering and a boost in the romantic novels.
In the introduction of her book, Radway has mentioned four letters of different women who appreciate a good romantic novel and how they “ ...

St. Augustine of Hippo was born on November 13, 354 in Thagaste; known today as the Souk Ahras in Algeria, a Roman provincial city in Africa. Augustine was educated since he was 11 in Madaurus, found at least 19 miles south of Thagaste. He received education from Madaurus despite its background as a pagan Roman city. It was Augustine’s mother Monica whom taught him the basics of Christian education and enrolled him in a Catholic school. Upon his childhood and his awareness while being with fellow Christians, he understood three things and kept it very close to his heart: the Divine ...

‘Will Increasing Alcohol Availability by Lowering the Minimum Legal Drinking Age Decrease Drinking and Related Consequences among Youth?’ is an article by Henry Wechsler and Toben Nelson that was published in the American Journal of Public Health in 2010. These two authors’ aim was to find out whether reducing the minimum legal drinking age among the youth would help in reducing the observed increase in underage drinking. “ … during the intervening 25 years there have been periodic efforts to lower the minimum legal drinking age…..” (Wechsler and Nelson 986). The two authors have used different styles to come up ...