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The author takes a personal story that shows his interests-walking that is very current and understandable to all audiences. Cadogen starts the essay with 2 effective quotes that summarizes the issues in the essay. One is lyrics from musician Fats Waller: “My only sin is my skin. What did I do, to be so black and blue?” The other: “Manhattan’s streets I saunter’d, pondering”, by Walt Whitman. Quotes used should be paid close attention to, especially if it comes before the writing itself. Trying to assess each quote individually I make understanding of the words and look up the person who is being quoted, then I assess the quotes together and infer what might the article be about. This shows a light on the author’s interest. The two quotes alone come from two completely

Solnit starts out by saying “Freedom to walk is not much use without someplace to go” (Solnit page 262). Solnit starts out by saying our early ancestors used to walk miles in order to obtain food, find romance or communicate. Solnit claims that the average American walking radius has decreased to “a quarter of a mile” (Sonlit page 264) In modern America we prefer to drive to our friends house rather than walk. We spent time more time on social media sites rather face to face communication. As of 2010 the New York Times have announced that the average Americans walk approximately half a mile a day. When I first came to Riverside from Norcal I used to live in motel 6. I have spent four hours a day for three weeks walking getting to know the school and city. Just as Henry David Thoreau said in “Walking,” walking can symbolize a path taken or history that was and now is. This lack of exercise leads to health issues such as diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, type two diabetes, stroke

The second reason is the narrator knows he should have appreciated his brother more. Although Doodle did his best to make his brother proud, it was never good enough for the narrator. The narrator wanted to force him to be like a normal, healthy person. Once Doodle learns how to walk, the narrator is too swollen with pride and wants to teach Doodle to run, swim, and many other complicated tasks. The narrator should have valued Doodle more. It was already extraordinary that Doodle even got to walk. That should have been good enough for him. Unfortunately, the narrator kept on pushing him and pushing him.

In the movie ““A Walk to Remember”,”, starring Shane West and Mandy Moore, the opening scene is located in a North Carolina small town where the well-liked and rebellious juvenile Landon Carter is approached with the possibility of being put out of his school because he and his friends have left proof of drinking which is illegal on the varsity grounds, which have gone on to seriously injure another student as the prank went wrong. The principal of school provides Landon with the option or selection of being removed for school for his actions by helping fellow students and taking part in part of the formal school play. As he is participating in these functions, Landon meets another student Jamie Sullivan, a lady he has been keen on since preschool and as she additionally is native minister's girl. Since he is one most popular people in the school, he has hardly noticed Jamie, who mainly wears the usual dresses and has only a couple sweaters. Jamie is mainly considered as weird nobody is social connected with. She never wears make-up nor does she like to draw people to herself.

In many communities, walking ‘behavior’ does appear to be unusual, because it looks so uncommon, despite the natural physiological aspect of walking. Riding in a car is seen as more normal, just like a robotic policeman is seen as more normal in the Bradbury story. Today, people do still walk, but often on a moving conveyor belt at the gym, rather in a real environment. This takes people away from nature and a sense of being part of something larger than themselves.

On “A Plague of Tics” While traditionally keeping a light hearted and comical collection of essays in Naked David Sedaris takes a serious in turn in a “A Plague of Tics”. In is matter-of-fact essay, “A Plague of Tics”, uses personification and diction to demonstrate what it is like to live with mental illness which allows those who live a “normal” life to fully understand the impacts of living with mental illness. David Sedaris takes on the perspective of living with mental illness while being ridiculed by peers. “Take me off it whispered” (Sedaris 7). By including personification Sedaris is able to assert the lack of control the boy has over his tics creating the effect that the tics order him around and dictate his actions.

A Closer Walk is a film made by Robert Bilheimer, and it looks into the effects of AIDS on all those infected by the virus of HIV/AIDs all throughout the world. He focuses on those who are more likely to become infected by the virus woman, children, individuals in Africa and India and then he also talks about drug users in Ukraine and how more and more individuals are getting sick because they are sharing needles. The portion I found most intriguing was how these woman and children who are sick are the poorest of the poor are they are a minority such as the African American population in America. They cannot receive treatment because no one will give it to them unless someone else in an industrialized country pays for the treatment. Olivia

In “Walking and the Suburbanized Psyche,” the author, Rebecca Solnit, argues that the development of suburbanization has been the primary problem as to why our modern society continues to devalue the significance and impact of walking. Suburbanization hasn’t only changed the way we travel from one place to another, but it has also changed the way we communicate amongst each other and with ourselves. Walking is looked down upon and has been seen as a symbol of low status. This has led people to exterminate the use of walking in their daily lives. However, even if someone would like to walk to their destination they can’t due to the fact that places are shaping their roads to accommodate to the excess use of cars. I agree with Solnit that walking has a positive impact towards our bodies, our world, and our imagination.

I utterly disagree with Solnit’s ideology, “Otherwise the individual 's imagination will be bulldozed over to the chain store outlets of consumers ' appetite, true crime, titillation, and celebrity crisis”. The one way I 'd relish taking a walk would be with pleasant company. If you 're hand in hand with your partner appreciating the scenery together that changes the ambiance of the walk. Yet what changes actual the mood of it is the person you 're with and not the actual walk because you can be doing anything else but instead you 're with pleasant company therefore it doesn 't matter what you 're doing. Likewise, when people voice they will only be pleased when they reach a certain point in their life; what if you never get to that point? Does that mean you 'll never be satisfied? Solnit classifies walking the same

By stating his personal opinion here at the beginning of the essay, Graff boosts his pathos by being straight forward and stating his stance on this issue straight away.

In the early 1800’s, walking was idolized by many. The transcendentalists movement was in full swing, people who believed that nature was key to keeping spirits pure and

Throughout the text “Solitary Stroller and the City,” author Rebecca Solnit explores the complex relationships between the walking individual and living in the city. The title brings together three central ideas; walking, the city, and solitariness as an individual.. These three central ideas are tied together and used to reveal deeper meanings and relationships within the text. When analyzing Solnit’s work, the reader is left to identify a complex relationship between the central ideas and how the geography of a city influences all the three of the central ideas. Solnit makes claims throughout the text that are strongly suggestive of a relationship between the ability to walk and its derivability based on the “when” and “where” concepts. The geography and or location can be explored through the comparison of rural walking versus urban walking, the comparison between the cities of London and New York, and the solitariness associated with the geography and structure in one city versus another. Spanning the entire text is the idea that the city influences the walker and their individualism among the crowd, or their perception of solitude. Solnit compares London walkers and New York walkers, exploring how their different geographical locations define their city as a whole as well as the individual. Geography plays a crucial role in one 's idea of solitude and individualism.

“Thoreau walking” was written by Henry David Thoreau who has abundant of love for nature and walking. I believe “Thoreau walking” to be such a great lecture that instantly grab your attention and pull you in as you read it. The more you read you become more and more interested. In addition, I believe everyone may have a different interpretation and understanding to Thoreau lecture and that what makes it so great. I found myself reading the lecture couples of time to have my own understanding of what Thoreau is saying and what he meant in each line. Furthermore, Thoreau does not only talk about his love for nature and walking he also expresses his opinion about problems that are going on around him and in the society, that he did not

“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner […] the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that futher outdoor exercise was now out of the question” (7).

The Giving Tree is a sentimental poem by Shel Silverstein. The main lesson of this poem revolves around absolute selflessness, it’s evident. However, despite this essential, meaningful teaching, there are other underlying themes that are just as influential, if not more. These other lessons, perhaps, are vital to a happy life. The Giving Tree preaches around ideas like: going barefoot, just being there for someone, and that happiness is a place between too much and too little.