Category: Writing

Eat, Memory: Orange Crush
How did Li and her father’s attitude toward Tang  differ? Explain what each believe the powdered beverage represents. Cite evidence from the text to support your answer.

This is from the book outliers Please answer with detail
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Chapter Seven-The Ethnic Theory of Plane Crashes 1. What does the opening account of Korean Air flight 801 imply? 2. What is the most likely reason Gladwell quoted Korean president, Kim Dae-jung: “The issue of Korean Air is not a matter of an individual company but a matter of the whole country”? 3. Describe the rhetorical strategy Gladwell uses when explaining the primary causes of plane crashes. 4. Why does Gladwell discuss the nuclear incident on Three Mile Island? How does the fact that this passage is a footnote affect the main narrative? 5. Why does Gladwell quote Suren Ratwatte so extensively in this chapter? 6. How does Ratwatte’s anecdote about flying from Dubai to New York City contrast with Avianca flight 052 in terms of communication? 7. While analyzing the transcript from the Avianca flight, Gladwell says, “If it were not the prelude to a tragedy, their back-and-forth would resemble an Abbott and Costello routine.” What does he achieve through this use of dark humor in alluding to these comedians?
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In the short story “Araby” by James Joyce, the main character goes through a journey of self-discovery during his trip to the bazaar.
In an essay that is detailed and well ordered, explain what the main character learns about himself, as well as how the tone of the story reflects this learning. Keep in mind that authors establish the mood of their stories through the use of narration, diction, imagery, and language.

Read the text Revenge Of The Geeks and complete this worksheet. Make sure you answer every part of the question. Thank you.
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Revenge of the Geeks: Reasoning and Evidence Directions: Use the chart to identify the types of evidence Robbins uses and to evaluate its credibility and relevance. Claim Evidence Credibility Relevance (What is the main (Record at least 3) (Is the evidence (How is the evidence argument?) valid? Explain) connected to the claim? – Can be in your Explain) own words or pulled straight from the text (quotes). Often, people who were social outcasts, or “geeks” in high school, turn out to be more successful adults than the people who were popular in high school. Directions: Once completing the chart, answer the following questions. 1. (a) What does the author suggest that Taylor Swift, J.K. Rowling, and Tim Gunn had in common as high school students? (b) How are Taylor Swift, J.K. Rowling, and Tim Gunn similar as adults? (c) Why might the author have selected these examples? 2. (a) What does psychology professor Kathryn LaFontana say can make someone unpopular in high school? (b) How does the perception of qualities that make people different change from high school to adulthood? 3. (a) Review paragraph 10 to identify three skills or talents that the author believes outcasts develop in high school according to the author. (b) For % skill or talent you listed, explain how it may be useful later in life. 4. Review paragraph 16. Do you agree with the author’s statement that the worst part of a student outsider’s experience is the belief that he or she has done something wrong? Why or why not? 5. What techniques does Robbins use to develop her argument in “Revenge of the Geeks”
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The Breadwinner Chapter 3 – Pg 34-43, answer the questions from the story from chapter 3
1.list off three things the Taliban required of Afghan citizens that seem very extreme.
2.How do Parvana and her mother attempt to get her father out of prison and what is the result?
3.describe what you think of the decision by Parvana’s mother to approach the prison, what other options do you think were available?
4.”Helping Mother down the broken stairs was a little like helping Father, as the billowing burqa made it hard for her to see where she was going.” What does this passage imply about the impact of a burqa on the movement and daily activity of a woman? Why would the Taliban desire such an impact on women?

“learning how to become an online retailer is as simple as knowing what to sell and where to sell it” is an example of what part of an outline?
a. general purpose
b. specific purpose
c. thesis statement
d. transitions

How is Ulysses’ method for overcoming the cyclops an example of one (or more) of the seven characteristics of an epic hero?
Take a modern hero from film, literature, or television (
except
Batman) and identify one similarity and one difference. between them and Ulysses

According to Bruner, the creative person’s intention is:
A. crucial to the success of the “creative enterprise.”
B. of no consequence.
C. of little interest to the creative person himself.
D. banal.
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1O 11 12 13 An act that produces effectfve surprfse — this I shall take as the hallmark of a creative enterprise. The content of the surprise can be as various as the enterprises in which [people] are engaged. It may express itself in one’s dealings with children, in making love, in carrying on a business, in formulating physical theory, in painting a picture. I could not care less about the person’s intention, whether or not he intended to create. The road to banality is paved with creative intentions. Surprise is not easily defined. It is the unexpected that strikes one with wonder or astonishment. What is curious about effective surprise is that it need not be rare or infrequent or bizarre and is often none of these things. Effective surprises . . . seem rather to have the quality of obviousness about them when they occur, producing a shock of recognition following which there is no longer astonishment. It is like this with great formulae, as in that for the conservation of energy or for the brilliant insight that makes chemistry possible, the conservation of [11855.
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THEOLOGY (mortal sin and venial sin) Task: 1. Give 3 examples of mortal sin (scenarios) and explain each sin on how you are going to deal with the said scenario 2. Give 3 examples of venial sin (scenarios) and explain each sin on how you are going to deal with the said scenario

in chapter 13-15 in schmidts how Christianity changed the world, what is one idea, concept, point, piece of text, etc., that you found interesting (in a good way or a bad way—it could be something you agreed with or something you disagreed with).  Then reflect on it