Introduction One of the salient features of the film, The Avengers, is the clever dialogue exchanges between the characters. As far as movie scripts are concerned, The Avengers is, perhaps, one of those that have the wittiest lines. Despite the fact that the plots are quite predictable, the movie with its clean graphics and witty dialogue exchanges is purely entertaining. Created by Marvel Studios in 2012, The Avengers materialized Marvel’s plan to join some of their marketable comic book…
Bell hooks used a variety of strategies and techniques to attract her audience in her book: introduction to teaching and transgress. This paper will focus on the chapter on education as the practice of freedom. The strategies and techniques portrayed in this chapter include drawing readers with the first sentence, strategic formatting, short paragraphs, clear writing and a conversational tone (Hohenshel and Hand, 36). The chapter starts off with Bell Hook explaining why she was preoccupied by…
I have been observing a Spanish 1 class at Faith Christian School. For the teaching lesson, I chose to use a reader called Asi Leemos. It is a reader that the school purchased two years ago to try and improve reading comprehension. The reader is broken up in three units that follow the vocabulary and grammar lessons that are typical to a level 1 classroom. The reader is a collection of chapters that tell about two high school students. It tells about their personal information, school lives…
When it comes down to reading, it sounds very exhausting and long suffering. Most of the people who likes to read, they must be fascinated about new idea and enjoys reading. Reading can be very challenging for those who doesn’t enjoy reading or doesn’t like demand of time in focusing on bunch of words. There is much easier way to read or shortcut of reading long readings. If the readers want to know about a book without having to read page by page, read has a shortcut to way to briefly…
Reading the WOR version after reading the RRA version changed my view of Rodrigues home life and the environment he grew up in. Before reading the WOR version, the theme of the essay represented the challenges in the lack of authority from his parents in regards to education. At the beginning stages of his road to the scholar student, the nuns at his private school became the figure of authority. He was embarrassed by the lack of education his parents had compared to his figures of authority,…
In this didactic piece Canadian Medicare: We Need It and We Can Keep It by Duckett and Peetoom, the authors delved into aspects of Canadian medicare that need to be refurbished to ensure the system remains sustainable. The book describes medicare in the past and how healthcare around it has changed, inevitably meaning medicare needs changes as well. The main goal the authors depict for medicare is the idea that “the right person enables the right care in the right setting, on time, every time”…
Life, death, and reincarnation are the recurring theme of the most notable poem “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” by Emily Dickinson. Throughout the poem Dickinson traces her descent sanity into madness which has made the poem terrifying for both the speaker and the reader. At the beginning of the poem, Dickinson has express her feeling of grief and pain through the use of an extended metaphor, “felt a funeral in the brain” and in rest of the poem, she lives a life, passes away, and reborn again…
Annie Murphy Paul builds an argument to persuade her audience of the importance of deep reading. Paul talks about different people that proven her argument to show how deep reading is effective. Deep reading is as opposed to the often superficial reading we do on the web which is an endangered practice, one we ought to take steps to preserve as we would a historic building or a significant work of art. She has supported her argument by different people who have done studies of how important…
Tough! Was written in 1993 by one of Canada’s most creative playwrights, George F walker. It was shown to young adults of that time as a cautionary story and is now portrayed as entertainment. Walker’s only play that is for “young audiences” is set in a city park, where three working class teenagers meet. The characters are Tina, Jill and Bobby. Tina confronts Bobby for cheating on her as he had been caught messing around with another girl at a party, and is backed by her tough friend, Jill.…
Why We Read in The Inksect The Inksect is a brilliant piece of sci-fi filmmaking written and directed by Pablo Calvillo. It takes place in a dystopian world in which books have been banned and humans have been reduced to cockroaches. The books are being burned and it is only through the aid of a group of writers, artists, and ex scientists that an attempt to obtain the books is even made. This group is cleverly called the Inksect and it focuses mainly on one specific cockroach named Pike.…