They Say I Say Summary

The article “They Say I Say”written by Graff and Birkenstein discusses several ways to not only write academically but express thoughts in an academic manner. The first aspect talked about is how to write about what others are saying. This helps clarify what exactly the author is talking about. After you have stated what “they say”, you can state your own argument and tell what you agree with. Graff and Birkenstein also state that stating your own opinion as quickly as possible is also important; this gives the reader an understanding about the motivation of your argument is. In contrast to this article, the article “Agonism in the Academy: Surviving High Learning's Argument Culture” written by Deborah Tannen explains how agonism is like a

“Bad dude” is an article about Ms Rayos, who is innocent and has been living in the United states for twenty-one years and is known to the authorities at this point in phoenix. Furthermore, this article highlights some of the policies of the trump administration against immigrants and the atrocities of custom and enforcement agencies. Moreover, this article highlights the reaction from civil society against the deportation of MS Rayos and raises the concerns of all innocent immigrant families living in the united states for years.

In the article “Not Kidding Around” by Kurt Chirbas, he specifies that a push to make kindergarten mandatory is vital to the development of kids. Chirbas states that kindergarten was once intended as a soft entry into the school system, filled with finger painting and songs, kindergarten has become increasingly focused on academics. Kindergarten is now more activity geared toward reading, writing and math concepts. Educators say that students without it can be lost once they reach the classroom. The Education Commission of the States, a research group that tracks education policy, says that “Sixteen other states and the District of Columbia require kindergarten.”

In the article “Resist the internet” author Ross Douthat suggests that as a whole modern society relies too much on technology, and that we are addicted and should consider practicing some forms of technological temperance. Douthat recommends making cell phones more of a social taboo, adding boxes at restaurants to collect them in while patrons are eating, or discouraging their use during the several minutes preceding a formal business meeting. Douthat also suggests that kids under the age of 16 be banned from joining any form of video gaming networks. Douthat makes several points that I agree with, like the temperance on use of cellular devices at friendly or family outings or the deposit boxes at restaurants for the devices, however I strongly disagree with his idea of banning children and young teens from videogaming networks and the use of laptops in college lecture halls.

Kristen Schilts “Just one Of the Guys?” is a book that looks at transgender men in the workplace. Specifically, she focuses her study on inequality and how people are treated. It is well-known that many jobs treat men and women differently, but it is important to see if that continues when a person becomes transgender. In this case, she is looking at women born at birth that transition into men. She focuses her research in two different states; California and Texas. This is done because both states represent different beliefs. (California is more liberal, and Texas is more conservative). The research method Schilts used during this study was in depth interviews and observational data. This is important because it granted her access to their

The book I am reading is That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton. This book is in the first person point of view. In the beginning of the book it starts off by telling you about the two main characters of the story which are Mark and Bryon. The story is told by Bryon. Bryon and Mark consider each other to be brothers because Mark doesn’t really have a family. They live at home with Bryon’s mom. The two boys go to their friend Charlie’s bar all the time and the book introduces Charlie. Mark and Bryon are both under age and they are not supposed to be in the bar but Charlie lets them come in and buy some cokes. They owe Charlie money so they went to M&M. M&M is a friend of theirs.

The story is titled Good as New. s about a girl named Lauren and her father named martin. Lauren would board the school bus each morning with her father escorting her to go to the bus stop. On return after school Lauren would come back with a trail of blood and mysterious holes on her skin and forehead. This would surprise martin because he would thought everything was just a one day bullying event. The sad occurrence would recur again and again to the surprise of martin and eventually one day it become sever that martin did not have to go to work following a night of nursing his daughter and cleaning the bed sheets stained with blood the following morning(Shane, 2012)

My second example is read about in the chapter, Things You Realize. Miranda is sitting and watching the fourth graders violin recital, very bored she goes from looking at fellow classmates when she soon realizes something and comes in contact with another truth. She went from looking at Sal, to looking at Anne-Marie, then back to Sal, and finally Miranda stared at Julia. Miranda realized Julia was staring at Anne-Marie they way she was staring at Sal. Miranda thought to herself right then :

The blog is a series of snide comments towards a schools dress policy. The ruckus went main stream when a mother posted on social media's Facebook about why her daughter got sent home from school for violating school dress code. The mother is highly upset because the misunderstanding is taking time from her job and her daughters schooling. As a solution, the principal and the mother sat down to come up with an alternative resolution to the schools reputation and the student's well being as well as the parent's jobs.

Culture and religion are great influences on art, although the Narrator lacks the sense of them. The setting and surroundings have no cultural nor religious significance. As the narrator stated “I guess I don’t believe in it. In anything. Sometimes it’s hard you know what i’m saying?” answering Roberts question on whether he was religious.

The author studies how the preferences of humans to turn their head to the right, rather than to the left, since birth may influence the way they foster their visual development. This effect on visual development may, in turn, impact other forms of right-sidedness. The author presents his observations of head-turning behaviors of kissing couples to claim that humans have the right-sided head-turning preference from birth to adulthood. The author aims to further establish the notion that the head-turning asymmetry may explain various right-sided asymmetries. The data was gathered through observing the initial head movements of kissing couples in public areas. After collecting the data, the author performed a chi-squared test with one degree of freedom at a 5 percent significance level. Based on this test, the author concludes that the data collected is

In the article “When Your Punctuation Says It All (!)” the author, Jessica Bennett, speaks of the increasing amount of emotion being shown through grammar and punctuation rather than through “audible tone” (Bennett 1). The author addresses teens up to people in their twenties specifically referring to people she has interviewed such as “Tessa Lyons, a 25-year-old” (Bennett 4) as well as statics like, “39 percent of college students punctuate the end of texts” (Bennett 3). She does this because they are her audience. They are the ones texting and placing this extra weight on their punctuation and would be most affected by the ideas and observations of the author. Bennett writes in order to inform them of what texting and instant messaging has transformed our language into and the new meanings grammar has been burdened with. She tells us about the time that she dated a

The real mothers in The Help were obviously the maids. They basically raise the children since birth. They do all the back work. They feed the children, bathe the children, potty train them. They do all the things biological mothers should be doing. Between the arguments of the Jackson housewives and the snide comments exchanged at the bridge table, the book only shows tender moments occurring between the maids and the children who they look after. Despite their love for the children, they often to grow up to be just like their mothers, the maids say: overtly racist, demeaning, and smug towards the

In chapter four of Practices of Looking, it discusses the concept of “realism and perspective”. In the history of visual culture, many realisms, motives and meanings are put together in familiar conversations (for example linear perspectives). Many art movements have incorporated, in some way, components of realism. But sometimes ignoring other components that strongly went with realism sometime labeled as trickery or illusionism (for example, perspective). Also, in visual culture, realism makes the viewer see any image in anyway we portray it. Art is used to devote the making of things and event all around the world, so it is an idea that, us as viewers, can read/see art and it’s history and see the relationship between the ways we see it and how it’s form is represented and taken throughout it’s history. Realism helped us as viewers depict the new art in today’s world and perspective has a part within realism. In modern day, we are fascinated with what we believe is real and what we believe is not real, we make it real.

Blake begins this Memorable Fancy with the description of how knowledge is passed down. Everything is normal it seems until he makes a satirical comment about the sixth chamber. Blake is commenting on the belief that man took God’s words and put them into a book of rules and facts. He feels that these books were not what God truly intended for His creations and that they produce the two types of man. Blake believes that God designed man to be sensual beings with desires, but the “Devourers,” or organized religion, tells man to deny themselves of their desire, to repress it and blindly follow. He deems that these blind followers who tell everyone what they should be doing, are actually the weak ones. They deny themselves of their own desires in order to shun others for being brave enough to think for themselves. These are the polar opposites invented by many. There is Heaven, the people who follow