1. Analyse the writers’ use of passive verb construction and repetition in the following examples: a. We are made kind by being kind. Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 77 Passive verb construction is used when the author wants to hide the identity of the subject. Thus, by using "we" it opens up the statement to a broad audience and will refer to we as people rather than a certain group of individuals. Additionally, the repetition of "kind" emphasises the wor...

Question: Have you experienced an important shift in perspective on anything? After having been told how valuable a good education is for many years it makes you tired of having to reach this concept of being well educated. I understand education is helpful for building a career in this age; however, the pressure of being obligated to therefore study difficult content is exhausting. (1) Up until two years ago, if I was asked what I wanted to be in the future, I would reply with "an engineer and...

What about The God of Carnage would be interesting to explore further? Argument: the professions have shaped their personalities. Example: pg. 65 (Alain) "We only care about our own feelings" (Alain) "You're the same breed. You're part of the same category of women - committed, problem-solving. That's not what we like about women, what we like about women is sexuality, wildness, hormones." Notes: Alain is a work-oriented lawyer. All his phone calls during the play were with men. During...

Please write a response to the article. What do you think about Boghossian's arguments? How does it affect your ideas about next year? Feel free to see this as a broad assignment - write/explain/argue about whatever the article made you think about. In the letter where Boghossian addressed his distress and frustration about the educational system, he shared interesting arguments when confronting moral ideologues, cultural appropriation, and the freedom to question. The first argument that Bogho...

(page -; -) - 1. -? ... 2. -? ... (page 78; syntax) "He slowly ventured into the pond. The bottom was deep, soft clay, he sank in, and the water clasped dead cold round his legs." D. H. Lawrence, "The Horse-Dealer's Daughter" 1. What effect does sentence length have on this passage? Sentence 1 is a short sentence which sets the scene and sentence 2 is a long sentence which describes the scene using tactile images. The tactile images are used when describe the clay and water. An examp...

What caught your attention this year? What are you interested in at the moment? This can be a story, an event, a hobby, skill, relationship...anything. Focus on one thing only and try to write as clearly and concisely as possible. Topic: Figma During the summer I spent one week doing an internship at the company, Oqton, where I was introduced to the web-based app Figma. Specifically it is a "web-based graphics editing and user interface design app" (Theme Junkie). This app is what I have found...

"The Chronicle of Higher Education" published an article, which is more like an essay, "The Shadow Scholar" on November 12, 2010, written by Ed Dante. 'Ed Dante' is a pseudonym that an anonymous person uses for public appearances. Ed Dante writes about his experiences and personal opinion on the educational system when working as a shadow scholar, as the title of the article already presented, which implies to be someone who writes scholarly papers for students in exchange for money, which is a ...

Little Red Riding Hood by Philip Pullman had an interesting effect on me. The original story written in the 17th-century is a story that I will continuously remember because of its simple moral trying to pioneer “caution against rape”. I think this is a very important moral because it is an event that occurs globally to lots of women and this action also strikes fear and creates a lack of confidence in women in their surroundings. But what I found interesting about Pullman’s version of this stor...

After the event that occurred at the parking lot on page 194, Tara seemed to isolate the event entirely after she received apologies from Shane, which came to her surprise. She had written in her journal that it was a “misunderstanding” and that “If I’d asked him to stop, he would have”, in Shane’s defence, as if her denial would justify his actions as morally right. Meanwhile, only a day prior, she had written down a detailed account of what she remembered of the event, saying that she didn’t w...