Reading Ourselves and the World Around Us
1. I think that Manguel believes that meanings come from people. At the beginning of the reading, Manguel describes how he learned to read. He went into great detail of how the boy from the book, was used to recognize the word boy. This is an example of how he used his personal meanings and interpretations to learn to recognize and read words.
2. Yes, I agree with Manguel because there are many different ways to read something. I believe that reading is when you analyze something, then make your own interpretation of what you see in front of you. I think that he was correct by the approach that he used to define reading. There are many ways to read, but interpreting words is just the most common form of reading.
3. I think Manguel learned to read by using visual cues. He used shapes, black lines, and white spaces to help jog his memory of words that he had previously saw. He would allow these images to help form an interpretation of the words in front of him, which he defines as reading.
1. The most important moment in the rise of Manguel’s literacy was when he read the billboard sign. This was a very important moment because he was no longer recognizing and recalling images that he had seen before, but he was applying previous knowledge to a new situation. He used the prior
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There are many different forms of reading that are involved with being a radiology tech. First, I must be able to read my patient’s body language. It is very important to know how to read body language because I may actually harm my patient if I misread their body language. I would also have to read the X-ray results. Misinterpreting the lab results could lead to misdiagnosis, incorrect treatment, or could make the initial problem worse. Therefore, reading is an essential aspect of my future career as a radiology technician, but I must make sure that I am accurate to avoid future issues with the
Radiologic technology is a satisfying and rewarding career. It is a technical and refined science. As a radiological technologist, there are many essential duties and responsibilities that have to be fulfilled in order to be a good one. First of all, radiological technologists have to maintain a well-mannered and professional behavior when gathering information. They have to assure their patients that they are in good hands therefore; they give patients the uppermost quality of care and services. Second of all, the main responsibility of a healthcare provider is to keep all knowledge of a patient’s health record confidential or secluded. That means radiological technologists cannot talk about patients at home or with friends and classmates
Ever since he bought his first book he said it changed his life. According to the passage he viewed the books as,”...a chance to see the world without leaving home.” He says that reading a book is not the same as reading a text. He thinks not enough people read books and too many read and use social media. “Books, to me, were powerful and transformational.”is another of his views in the text.
I"The Importance of the Act of Reading" by Paulo Freire, describes the importance of the act of reading beyond numerous experiences in his life as a child, a teenager, and an adult. Freire begins his article by taking readers back to where he was born, in his home city Recife, Brazil. He uses very itemized imagery to describe the trees, the house and the atmosphere of where he grew up and how the text, words, and letters were incarnated in the series of things, objects, and signs. He describes the trees, the house and the atmosphere of where he grew up and how the text, words, and letters were incarnated in the series of things, objects, and
According to “Why We Read: The University, the Humanities, and the Province of Literature," Richter illustrates why literature should be studied in the first place. David Richter is an English professor who was very dedicated to his job. In this article, he had five section: English Literature as an Object of Study, The Era of Grand Theory and Cultural Wars, Reading Liberation; Teaching as a Propaganda, The Function of English at the Present Time and After the Culture Wars: The Problem of Disciplinary. The founder of English Adam Smith was not English at all but a Scottish polymath who taught English lectures in 1748 and 1751. The author goes on to explain all the knowledge about how literature became so important. He used those reference
Along in with the author’s use of metaphors is the frequent use of imagery. In this reading, it is simple to envision the scenes as the different scenarios are explained and the audience can easily picture Staples in the places he is describing and also the people he comes across. Perhaps the most powerful and memorable imagery is provided in the author’s description of people’s different reactions and faces when they come into contact with him. Actions speak volumes and an immediate change of facial expression is possibly one of the
From this point, he concludes that literature is concerned with symbolic action, that literary or mythological characters are typical, and that the world of poet imagery is “totally symbolic” (p. 75). He then moves to the principle of “literature as a whole” (p. 49): “you don’t just read one poem or novel after another, but enter into a complete world of which every work of literature forms a part” (p. 69). Hence there is a progressive element in the study and teaching of literature: as we read more works, we become able to generalize from our experience of literature.
Reading: Locates, understands, and interprets written information in prose and documents--including manuals, graphs, and schedules--to perform tasks; learns from text by determining the main idea or essential message; identifies relevant details, facts and specifications; infers or locates the meaning of unknown or technical vocabulary; and judges the accuracy, appropriateness, style, and plausibility of reports, proposals, or theories of other writers.( 134 USDOL)
Knowledge is a powerful thing. Knowledge can give a person an advantage in many aspects of life. Knowledge can help an individual get a job, it can help someone get ahead in a class and it can help an individual understand what happens around them and why. In the excerpt from the novel Under the Feet of Jesus, Helena Maria Viramontes describes how and why Estrella began to read. Viramontes uses selection of detail, figurative language and tone to describe Estrella’s development from being puzzled and vitriolic to being educated and astute.
The strategies that the author tried to present description of the character by saying that he just explain how well he did in school and the studies that he joined. Next the author, tells us about being the hospital and Indian restaurant. The author is trying to show that he wants to engage audience by giving away hints of his struggles so he can make it sound more interesting. Some passages are found in chapter one and page three “my suffering left me sad and gloomy”, “[His] majors were religious studies and zoology”, and “[His] life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at [his] side to remind me…’” (Martel, 5). In these two verses, it shows the narration of how the main character struggled by not giving up and still maintained to get his education.
By adopting these, a more familiar atmosphere can be created where a radiographer knows what is expected of him and who is he working with. This will help in minimizing the risk factor and improving efficiency(NHS National reporting and learning service 2008).( National Patient Safety Agency, 2009).
Yes, Manguel uses an anecdotal to begin his essay along with repetition so as to keep the reader’s attention and also has a good conclusion. It is his personal experience of him having an epiphany when he realized he knew how to read at the age of four. He goes on about how the symbols on the page began to actually mean something to him. This was where it was getting interesting as every person has a different perspective of analyzing. He is also using techniques to capture the reader’s attention
There are not any gasps in the knowledge base and the author seems to be well informed about communication in radiography, from first view the content of abstract is well organised with clear rationale aims to perform a qualitative study (Bassett,2004).
In Manguel's personal narrative-style essay, Manguel mentions many forms of reading. The different styles of reading Manguel mentions fall into three different forms such as, observation, translation, and sensation. Examples that fall under observation include, the astronomer reading the map of stars; the japananese architecht reading the land, and the dancer reading the choreographer's notations. Translation is not mentioned very often, but some examples would include the fortune teller reading the ancient marks on the tortoise shell, the psychiatrist helping patients read their dreams, and the oran-player reading varoius strands of musical notes. Sensational examples would include, the weaver reading the intricate design of a carpet being
The wise man in the story Melchizedek tells Santiago imparts to the reader a significant truth about life: he tells the audience that they mustn’t lose focus of their Personal
In another context, specifically concerned with reading as a process, american literary critic and theorist Robert Scholes, adds the metaphor of a two-dimensional circle composed of “centrifugal and centripetal postures” (Scholes 1989: 8) to the one-dimensional straight line made of backwards and forwards. But he does not discard the latter, although he thinks that the circle “covers a lot more territory.” (8) Instead, he argues that reading is “dialectical”, meaning