“Too Dumb for Complex Texts” Essay 1 In Mark Bauerlein’s “Too Dumb For Complex Text” Mark talks about how multitasking teens will find it demanding to read intricate texts. Mark implies that listening to music or watching TV makes it difficult to read college level texts, and that High School Students who do this are not at college level. High school students should have at least 1 assignment where the use of Google or anything digital is forbidden and only the use of books and basic research tools
Question: Two key problems for sound studies are the questions of noise and silence. What are some traditional ways of understanding these concepts? How might these understandings be problematic? Modernity caused in immense developments in all aspect of humanity. Science and technology made things and work easier for people nowadays. Medicine became advanced that there are now many cure to various diseases. Much more, people have found new ways on how to produce sound, store it, and even reproduce
The question “what is literature?” doesn’t seem like a difficult question but after thinking about it for a few minutes what is the true meaning of literature? If you googled that question it would tell you that literature is written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit. What written works are considered superior or lasting artistic merit? I believe that literature is imaginative, non-factual but in some ways factual, and it makes changes in the soul of an individual
killer in the late 1950’s and gets the readers of this intriguing story to analyze the passage. She keeps the readers guessing by her use of figurative and allegorical levels, attracting the powerful story and drawing her inquisitive audience. In this essay I will be arguing the controversial interpretation of the short story of a teen named Connie, and If she’s living a nightmare or a reality by
“Clear your head, dammit!” I scold myself. Of course, this only further adds noise to my internal dialogue. Dialogue? Monologue? Dialogue. No…Monologue. And so it goes in my head; there is no silence, there is no rest. Everything is processed and analyzed until any meaningful insight has evaporated in a “steam of consciousness.” But this can be tamed. As I struggle to write my observation journal, attempting to keep a totally impartial and unfiltered lens in my mind, I can tell myself to focus just
Drunk and Distracted Driving Essay Drunk and distracted driving is a very serious problem in today’s society. There have been many laws made that have restricted the use of alcohol and distracting objects such as cell phones and other handheld devices. Most of these laws have helped, but most people still break them and believe they are good at texting and driving, or able to drink and drive but are not. Distracted driving can cause greater impairment than being drunk and driving. More than 7