Hard Way On Purpose

Columbus, Ohio is a well-known capital city often frequented by eager tourist or rival spectators who become entranced in the overwhelming atmosphere often associated with the Ohio State Buckeyes; the 2015 nationally undisputed college football champions. Also, Columbus is home to the other easily recognized sports teams, restaurants, and other points of interest, such as: the Columbus Blue Jackets, Franklin Park Conservatory, and Thurman’s Grill just to name a few. Naturally, Columbus, Ohio would appear to be a desired utopia to visit, if not build a life filled with children and white picket fences. However, every beautiful rose has the thorn in the stem. Unfortunately, the image of a prosperous and safe community is being destroyed by

The intended audience could be for older teenagers to young adults because the way the book is written with a form of intimacy and is informal. The use of jokes in between gives a sense of intimacy that makes the audience feel like Gladwell is talking to them as he uses jokes such as, “Slope, as I’m sure you remember (or, more accurately, as I’ll bet you don’t remember; I certainly didn’t” (240). The book also connects with the audience because while reading the book, the reader would feel like they still have an opportunity to be successful even if they are not a genius as Gladwell emphasizes that, “We are so caught in the myths of the best and brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth” (269).

South Street Philadelphia’s sidewalk’s safety is not determined by the strangers shuffling in and out of the area, but instead by the local residents and community members who live there. Based on my personal observations, the biggest asset to South Street in regard to safety and overall quality of the area are the locals who reside there. This idea of community investment relating to the safety of a street is presented in Jane Jacob’s novel The Death and Life of Great American Cities and is one of her ideas that is accurately displayed throughout South Street. By examining the various ways people interact in different areas and shops on South Street, I was able to evaluate what aspects of her writing proved to be beneficial to the overall safety of the area.

While reading a well written story I am conscious of the atmosphere the author creates through the particular style they choose to use. As a reader, I am able to admire the way in which the writer presents their characters and setting, and be conscious of the overall voice used in their writing. The "voice" used in the writing is often the most obvious aspect of an author's style to detect. The author's "voice" is the way

Reading the book, The Other Side of the River, by Alex Kotlowitz, the author writes about the relationship between two towns in Michigan, and the death of a young boy named Eric McGinnis. The two towns, Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, are called the “Twin Cities”, but are ironically not related in any way. St. Joseph is 95 percent white, while Benton Harbor is impoverished and is 92 percent black. Throughout the book Kotlowitz questions the residents from both towns and how they are affected by the environment around them. The author also starts with the climax on the first page of the book – the death of Eric, and uses this as an technique to tell the story of the disagreements between the two towns.

Many times the writing style of the book at time felt distracting, confusing, and even frustrating. For example, whenever Rediker would refer to a quote

In “To Read like a Writer” Mike Bunns introduces how writing is “a series of choices” with an account of his past as an employee at a theatre. As he was trying to concentrate on his reading, he had an epiphany that literary works are all “a series of choices”(Bunns 72). He then transitions to his main claim of how reading like a writer allows for the reader to determine whether or not to adopt the same style as the piece that the text may have. He breaks this down into subsections that readers need to observe before they tackle the writing, such as context, genre, and publication. Additionally, he points out the necessity to makes notes while reading the

Having your own style of writing is better than copying someone else’s way of writing. Writing in a specific format can be frustrating, such as essays because it’s uninteresting when writing the way a paper’s assigned repetitively. A book or paper differs when it comes to social media. Books can captivate the reader but social media fascinates a person who can stay on for hours. On websites, such as Facebook, arguments arouse in the comment section over a video or someone who post a status. Many people interact with each other with vulgar, joyful, and sorrowful comments. This is an example where tones can changes depending on a

Growing up in the dangerous rugged projects was rough as a child. A neighborhood you would want your children growing up in. Every morning as the bright yellow sun settled on “Jamestown” the apartment complex we lived in. We knew that is was another glorious day filled with something new and maybe dangerous. Around every beat down apartment building you could find an anxious group of teens playing an intense game of dice, smoking some strong marijuana that smelled like a skunk, and even drunk older guys hitting on the younger girls in the neighborhood. The strong, but yet, poor-hardworking families had to work many jobs just support a household of three. Nobody had the luxury of driving a brand new car, nor a cheap used car. In fact, not many

I will be reviewing Edward Abbey’s memoir during his time spent in southern Utah. In his book, Desert Solitaire, Abbey illustrates how the Arches National Monument evolves throughout time and including the time he spends there working as a park ranger and observing the change throughout his adventures. The two thematic concepts I will be incorporating onto his memoir are the urbanization and development lenses. Throughout his memoir, Abbey ties in many thematic concepts to each other, but only addressing to these two lenses will give a better description. Thus both urbanization and development do play a role in the main point Abbey portrays in Desert Solitaire. In the beginning of his memoir, Abbey shares his own opinion, in which he uses to give a very descriptive explanation on why urbanization and development are both hazardous but also carry benefits to places like Arches Mountains. Abbey gets his point down and uses his time in Utah to back up his argument.

Southeast Oakville, filled with houses that look so similar you can’t tell which one is yours, filled with large yards and swimming pools, tiny dogs walking with their jogging mothers. Next to the shining city of Toronto, we’re the town people drive by, stopping for Tims and gas on the way to a big show. Making the city seem so much larger, so much better than the mess of tree-lined streets, Oakville is an introductory town. Most people know the lifecycle that you are born with in Oakville; living with your parents in a higher-upper class house, itching to move away, coming back after university and finding a job, eventually settling down. It seems like we are all stuck in this purgatory here, unless we find a holy excuse to leave, and even then most people won’t take the plunge. For now, more and more people are being hypnotized, stepping to the depths of Oakville.

Looking at the expansive gray sky, feeling the crisp cold air blowing in my face, and watching the snow forming on the ground, reminds me why I left here in my teens. The summers are great, usually light wind, warm temperatures, and the fresh smell of a pending storm. Coming back for a visit, has shown me I made the right decision, when I went to California to study architecture, and stayed after college. Looking over at the vintage houses, probably built during the early 1900’s, I cannot imagine a strip mall or high-rise settling nearby. Studying Mr. Jones’s repair shop, it’s almost like god placed it here when he created the earth. Some things do not seem to change.

Before the 20th Century, literature was pretty straightforward; the narrators were reliable, the timelines were linear, and the perspective was clear, but then somebody got the idea to mix it up. This is how we got books such as The Great Gatsby and one of our class texts, Orlando. For some, this was a startling and uncomfortable transition from what used to be considered the, “normal” format which was very up front in terms of structure and voice. Others found it to be more exciting and, while it was still weird and unsettling for those people, it forced people to think more about what the books were trying to communicate, instead of just being handed the message; they had to work for it. This has become one of the leading reasons that societies are encouraged to read; if you read a book that forces you to think, your mind becomes stronger and this promotes an increase in intelligence and creativity.

It wasn’t like this small town was any sort of final destination, I told myself. I had invested a lot of hope into the idea of a fresh start, but not all of it. I had that desperate teenage need to escape, and thought of Ohio as a place to get away. I thought of it as a new life. A place to get away from the cramped stairwells, up to cramped apartments. A place to get away from the display case of city life. A place to get away from the clouds, those clouds that filled the sky. And so what? I told myself. So what if this isn’t the promised land? So what if you didn’t know what you liked about that place until you lost it? It’s still different, and It’s still not a final destination, right?

Literature and linguistic aesthetics are two phase of a single paper, without one other has