My noodle

Virginia Woolf’s Profession for Women is a paper in which she talks of the cliché stereotypical woman who affected her writing.  Now when “stereotypical” is stated, it means women who would cook, clean, and make huge efforts to make their husbands happy.  She speaks about writing reviews for men’s articles and men’s papers, and how the angel, or the stereotypical woman, would write [...]

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1. In paragraph 6, Csikszentmihalyi gives children a rather odd name, comparing them to something.  What is the name, and what does he mean by that?
2.  What technices does Csikszentmihalyi use to make his argument more clear in paragraphs 5-9?
3.  How does the use of latin words in paragraph 19 help his argument?
(Done in groups in class)
4.  In [...]

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Discussion Q 3 
3. When Woolf asserts that a novelist should be “unconscious” she means the reader has to understand how they think.  To understand the author, you must understand the facts.  I’m really not sure if someone who writes fiction is unconscious, because fiction takes a lot of imagination.  By being “unconscious” it allows the conscious reader to take [...]

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As I watched the youtube video posted on the blog for the third time, I realized if I hadn’t found a hole by now, I wasn’t going to.  Though I know there is a hole, I could not make the connection so I decided to argue it anyway.  I believe this man does a great [...]

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Her rhetorical strategy is to go more in depth and explain by using examples, which makes it easier to understand.  These exaples help Talbot’s point of view.
By applying personal experiences it helps her credibility. By applying her own experiences into the mix, the article become more personal, and readers can relate a lot easier.
Valedictorians, Parents ofvaledictorians, people who [...]

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Support example 1
In my mother’s Health magazine there is an article inside titled “Allergy Relief: Now Blooming.”  In it, it speaks on different discoveries that help relieve alergies.  In the 3rd paragrpah it talks about how James Dillard MD, a medical director of Columbia Univerisity’s Rosenthal Center for Completmentary and Alternative Medicine, says that acupuncture [...]

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Discussion Q’s 1-2
1. I do not believe this is the case.  Reading back in elementary school was fun.  Now highschool reading is just the opposite of fun, and love is totally absent. So saying love for reading is born and nurtured in a highschool English class is a false statement.
2. I would somewhat agree on this [...]

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1. The effect of presenting imagery before exposition has, is the fact that it makes a more clear presentation of his idea to the audience, giving it more meaning.  It emphasizes the imagery to make it easier to understand.
 2.  In paragraph four he compares machines to the human body, saying it is all joints and [...]

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Once a man sped five miles over the speed limit.  The following day, he slowly crept through a stop sign.  The next day he decided to run a red light when he saw there was no one around.  Soon he was weaving through traffic at 100 miles an hour.  Within the next day he was high jacking [...]

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1. To feel as if I am in a new world, I would need to see something advance, like “Dogs being hired at McDonald’s.”  That would make me feel like I am in a new world.
2. I believe its similar to the fish that hangs onthe shark and cleans it skin, and the shark returns [...]

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