A Personal Review Of Stephen Cross's 'Preface'

　　In the essay “Reading and Thought”, Dwight MacDonlad talked about the kind of poor reading people are attached to in modern society. MacDonald believed reading materials such as Times and New York Times are too overwhelming for the readers. Readers tend to skim through the reading materials because most of the reading do not have any connections with their daily lives. Moreover, MacDoanld claimed that the readings people do these days are not thoughtful. The readings are rather irrelevant toward the readers. It is because the journalists to produce dull pieces of readings which are meant to be skimmed through without having too much thoughts involved. As the journalists do not have much consideration of the materials they produced. To the journalists the readings they produce are just a series of news that should be read driftly and left behind with no thoughful idea needed to be informed. These effects caused modern society to have a poor reading habits because people do not reflect and give time to think about the readings they did. Readers casually accept the readings even though they do not have provide any resourceful information for the readers.

Explore the ways the writer presents relationships between characters in the text you have studied.

Steve has a conscience because he thinks about things like he is a monster and he can hear himself when he says that. He has a conscience because of all the things that he had done that was bad. He can’t ever forget about it so it keeps jumping in his head so he says in his conscience. Another reason that he has a conscience is that he hears himself in his head that keeps saying that he is a monster for all the bad things that he had done.

The New York Times Poetry Pairing ‘The Properly Scholarly Attitude’ explores the idea of traditional schooling being suffocating to many students. Adelaide Crapsey’s poem “The Properly Scholarly Attitude” speaks of her feelings of resentment towards the expectations of society to learn a certain way. In the excerpt from the New York Times Article by Hanna Kozlowska about free play for children, she writes about a concept of learning called unschooling. In both pieces they suggest that traditional methods of education may not be the best for all children.

“What inspired me to become journalist is I was always was a pretty good writer. I wanted to write in a field where work would be consistent and I could play a part in spotlighting things that needed to be discuss in society.” stated Hooley. Journalism became Hooley’s life and

Steve was rushed to two different intensive care units within the hospital, each time getting assigned new physicians that were responsible for his care. Steve was no longer in the care of Elias and the rest of his team, so they returned to the dozens of patients they had waiting. “In the rush to see our new patients, one person’s care never made it onto the problem list: Steve’s

Generally there are two types of people in the world, the virtuous or the opposite, malicious. Malicious people tend to be evil and awful. Someone evil is harmful and marked with anger or irritability. Evil people are more prone to avoid friendships due to their selfishness. Evil or awful people tend to be self-centered and liars. They may cause harm physically as well as mentally. A virtuous or great person is someone who tends to be high moraled and replyable. This kind of person tends to have a lot of friends or be popular. John Knowles’s book, A Separate Piece, expresses these types of people. A Separate Piece is a flashback of an older boy returning to his school, Devon. The older boy’s name was Gene Forrester. He discussed his most memorable and awful moments. The author revealed Gene’s personality by how he treated his friends. Gene was academically inclined. He worked really hard to maintain his good grades. Finny, Gene’s friend and roommate, is the total opposite. Unlike Gene, Finny was an athlete and didn’t have to work hard for his skills. It came to him naturally. Finny was a good person, on the other hand, Gene was an evil person.

George Sherston, the main character of Sherston’s Progress, is a curious mentality for the reader to decipher. As a victim of Shell Shock, (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) he is persistently grappling with understanding his own mind and this becomes the task of the reader as well. Due to this omnipresent task, one becomes a psychoanalyst of George. The only difference between Rivers and the reader is that Rivers actually interacts with George while the reader can only sit back and watch. I will be investigating the first section of the book to better understand the character Rivers.

The definition of civilization or whether a culture is considered civilized or not has been argued throughout the course of history. Groups such as the Mongols, the ethnic groups surrounding the Roman Empire, and just about every group of people not part of a large, unified, strong empire in ancient history especially, has been thought of by their “superior” empire peoples as barbaric and uncivilized. Through the comparison of Tacitus’s Germania, and Sima Qian’s Account of the Xiongnu, it has been established that Tacitus paints a the Germans as a simple, and barbaric uncivilized group of people, whereas Sima Qian looks at the Xingu as barbarians, but respects them as a power a bit more. This is in regards to how children are trained, military tactics used, traditional family life, and the availability and use of resources of these certain ethnic groups. Although there are some similarities between Tacitus and Sima Qian’s portrayal of different ethnic groups, there were also some distinct differences between the ways both authors portrayed their enemy neighbors. Specifically, Sima Qian does not try to show his bias of superiority of the Han Chinese Empire as much as Tacitus’s more blatant belief that the Roman Empire is far superior to the Germanic tribes in the north. Stronger groups tend to look down on the weaker groups over the course of history, and while I don’t find any civilization mentioned in these readings to be necessarily

"He wondered whether his toes were warm or numb." It should have worried him. When he lit the last fire, his flesh burned. He knew because "he could smell it." He could not even feel his hands burning. The man thought it was "curious that one should have to use his eyes to find where his hands were." Eventually, no amount of running or thrashing can awaken the feeling in his body.

In Dwight MacDonald’s Reading and Though, he disagrees with Henry Luce’s Idea of functional curiosity. Luce coined the term “functional curiosity,” meaning “the kind of searching, hungry interest in what is happening everywhere.” MacDonald’s opinion of functional curiosity is that it only encourages practice in reading rather than giving beneficial information. He considers today’s literature as flimsy and overwhelming. MacDonald assumes that all reading done in today’s society is “shallow thinking.” I agree with MacDonald that there is a great amount of mediocre literature floating around, but he does not take into account the technological advancements, the lifestyles of people today, and students.

These gifts “would make things easier because he worked hard his whole life.” This was the

The author Stanley Gordon West uses believable characterization by showing it in his character's physical features, their inner thoughts, and their personality. Steve Holland’s description as a character is realistic and has a lot of his personality and inner thoughts in the book. Calvin Gant describes his best friend Steve as a wild, mysterious guy. He also thinks, “He looked like a college kid-with his wire-rim glasses he looked real smart and had terrible grades” (West 3). Steve enjoys pulling little pranks on adults in his life but you wouldn’t know when, which makes him a mysterious guy. When Steve was in sixth grade, “he got polio and his right leg kind of shriveled and ended up shorter than his other leg and it was really skinny, he

The decision to be a broadcaster at E. W. Scripps School of Journalism because E. W. Scripps is committed to provide an education that insists professional excellence,

In the book of The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat, by Steven Lukes (whom will be referred to as “Lukes” from now), the professor is sent out to find the best possible world. The essay will include a discussion on which society will best work in South Africa. In the current society, Communitarian and Libertarian systems are already evident, whereas Utilitarian rule is not. Utilitaria encourages people to be helpful and contribute to society; everyone is treated equally, hence creating an overall sense of purpose (ConnectUS, 2017). Furthermore, the Utilitarian system encourages people to look at the broader picture when it comes to society. Happiness is a key feature in the utilitarian society, as overall happiness is measured