Tag: Paper Writing

One example of a self-organized consumer protection method is
joining the American Association for Retired People.
posting and reading product reviews online.
subscribing to Consumer Reports magazine.
supporting government-run consumer regulations.
Don’t answer by pen paper

In the article ‘Banning Plastic Bags Is Great for the World Right? Not So Fast” by Ben Adler
1. This essay is divided into four sections: a four paragraph introduction, a section titled “Is Plastic Really Worse Than paper?” a section titled “Looking beyond Climate Change,” and a conclusion titled “It’s Complicated.” Write down the primary point of each section. What does each contribute to the essay as a whole.

Reference
https://www.henrymakow.com/000998.html
Question 1 20 points Save Answer Which of the following, if any, reasonably supports the claim that Makow’s site is not a reliable source for someone doing research about the affects of fatherlessness on daughters? O a. It is a .com and one can never get reliable information from .coms, only .edu’s or .orgs. O b. Only women have true authority on the topic of fatherless daughters. O C. He references a book that is dated from 1992. Only books written after 2000 should be taken seriously. O d. Makow is a conspiracy theorist and conspiracy theorists are never knowledgeable. O e. While Makow’s site may not be a reliable source of information, none of the above reasonably support this claim.
Question 2 20 points Save Answer Which of the following reasonably and best supports the claim that Makow’s site would not be a reliable resource for someone doing research about the affects of fatherlessness on daughters? O a. The site is not visually appealing. O b. There are advertisements and you can never get reliable information from a site that hosts ads. O c. Makow is a conservative. O d. Makow’s PhD is in English; he does not have a degree in psychology nor sociology, and shows an overt bias on the topic.
Question 3 20 points Save Answer Which of the following best supports the claim that Makow’s site is not a reliable source for someone researching the affects of fatherless on daughters? O a. The site does not pass the “CRAP” test. O b. Makow does not include enough quotations from Secunda’s book on the website. O c. None of the above adequately defend the assertion that his site is not credible
Question 4 20 points Save Answer The CRAP test stands for O a. Currency, Readability, Accuracy, and
Purpose/Point of View O b. Credibility, Reliability, Accuracy, and Popularity O c. Currency, Reliability,
Authority, and Prowess O d. Currency, Reliability, Authority, Purpose/Point of View
Question 5 20 points Save Answer If you were tasked to research the topic of how fatherlessness affects daughters, it would be wise to O a. Disregard everything from Makow’s site, including Victoria Secunda’s book. O b. Disregard everything on the site or the open web because only databases have reliable information. O c. Investigate Secunda’s book and a variety of other sources, including scholarly sources written by experts on the topic. O d. Only read sources written by women and feminists on this topic.

5. What the difference between news ‘source’ and news ‘beat’? Give a brief note on beat reporter
6. ”Journalists are gatekeepers of information”. Do you agree? Does this gatekeeping obstruct free flow of information?
7. Discuss the principles of news writing and its relevance to responsible journalism. Illustrate with examples
8. What is the difference between In-depth news story and feature stories? Discuss the difference with reference to the principles of feature writing. Illustrate with examples
9. Define news Discuss the main elements of news 10. What do you mean by news values? Is it added within the four walls of a news media? Illustrate your answer
11. Is the elements of news at least three are most important. Identify these elements with your explanation for importance.
12. Reporters are eyes and ears of a media organization. Do you subscribe to this view? Illustrate your answer giving the job of a reporter.
13. Explain the important features of column writing.
14. Discuss the difference between news as information, education, and entertainment with examples
15. Live coverage has made news a24 hours business. Discuss the elements of news in the context of globalized world
16. News about environment and other social problems should get more importance in news media. What is your opinion?
17. Recently there has been a spurt in specialized reporting. Do you agree? What are the major areas of specialized reporting generally found in the newspaper?
18. . . ”Interest is an important element of news”. Can this statement define news? Discuss with examples. 19. What do you understand by news values? Do they play significant role in selecting news for the newspaper? Explain.
20. Do you think news sources make news? Discuss with examples the importance of news sources in making news.
21. Describe the duties and functions of parliamentary correspondent.

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Right to Fail Pgs. 166-168 DIRECTIONS: Read the article and fill in the chart below Characteristics and
Structural Elements of an Argument Audience The Hook The Claim Concessions and Refutations
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1.23 My Notes About the Author William Zinsser (1922-2015), American critic and writer, was born in New York and educated at Princeton. He wrote articles for many leading magazines and newspapers and authored 19 books. In perhaps his most famous book, On Writing Well, he preached brevity and writing concisely. He was known for his positive attitude and once deadpanned that he was “cursed with optimism.” Essay The Right to Fail by William Zinsser
I like “dropout” as an addition to the American language because it’s brief and it’s clear. What I don’t like is that we use it almost entirely as a dirty word.
We only apply it to people under twenty-one. Yet an adult who spends his days and nights watching mindless TV programs is more of a dropout than an eighteen-year-old who quits college, with its frequently mindless courses, to become, say, a VISTA volunteer. For the young, dropping out is often a way of dropping in.
To hold this opinion, however, is little short of treason in America. A boy or girl who leaves college is branded a failure-and the right to fail is one of the few freedoms that this country does not grant its citizens. The American dream is a dream of “getting ahead,” painted in strokes of gold wherever we look. Our advertisements and TV commercials are a hymn to material success, our magazine articles a toast to people who made it to the top. Smoke the right cigarette or drive the right car-so the ads imply-and girls will be swooning into your deodorized arms or caressing your expensive lapels. Happiness goes to the man who has the sweet smell of achievement. He is our national idol, and everybody else is our national fink.
I want to put in a word for the fink, especially the teen-age fink, because if we give him time to get through his finkdom-if we release him from the pressure of attaining certain goals by a certain age-he has a good chance of becoming our national idol, a Jefferson or a Thoreau, a Buckminster Fuller or an Adlai Stevenson, a man with a mind of his own. We need mavericks and dissenters and dreamers far more than we need junior vice presidents, but we paralyze them by insisting that every step be a step up to the next rung of the ladder. Yet in the fluid years of youth, the only way for boys and girls to find their proper road is often to take a hundred side trips, poking out in different directions, faltering, drawing back, and starting again.
“But what if we fail?” they ask, whispering the dreadful word across the Generation Gap to their parents, who are back home at the Establishment nursing their “middle-class values” and cultivating their “goal oriented society?” The parents whisper back: “Don’t!”
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What they should say is “Don’t be afraid to fail!” Failure isn’t fatal. Countless people have had a bout with it and come out stronger as a result. Many have even come out famous. History is strewn with eminent dropouts, ‘loners” who followed their own trail, not worrying about its odd twists and turns because they had faith in their own sense of direction. To read their biographies is always exhilarating, not only because they beat the system, but because their system was better than the one that they beat. Luckily, such rebels still turn up often enough to prove that individualism, though badly threatened, is not extinct. Much has been written, for instance, about the fitful scholastic career of Thomas P. F. Hoving, New York’s former Parks Commissioner and now director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hoving was a dropout’s dropout, entering and leaving schools as if they were motels, often at the request of the management. Still, he must have learned something during those unorthodox years, for he dropped in again at the top of his profession.
His case reminds me of another boyhood-that of Holden Caulfield in J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, the most popular literary hero of the postwar period. There is nothing accidental about the grip that this dropout continues to hold on the affections of an entire American generation. Nobody else, real or invented, has made such an engaging shambles of our “goal-oriented society,” so gratified our secret belief that the “phonies” are in power and the good guys up the creek. Whether Holden has also reached the top of his chosen field today is one of those speculations that delight fanciers of good fiction. I speculate that he has. Holden Caulfield, incidentally, is now thirty-six.
I’m not urging everyone to go out and fail just for the sheer therapy of it, or to quit college just to coddle some vague discontent. Obviously it’s better to succeed than to flop, and in general a long education is more helpful than a short one. (Thanks to my own education, for example, I can tell George Eliot from T. S. Eliot, I can handle the pluperfect tense in French, and I know that Caesar beat the Helvetii because he had enough frumentum.) I only mean that failure isn’t bad in itself, or success automatically good.
Fred Zinnemann, who has directed some of Hollywood’s most honored movies, was asked by a reporter, when A Man for All Seasons won every prize, about his previous film, Behold a Pale Horse, which was a box-office disaster. “I don’t feel any obligation to be successful,” Zinneman replied. “Success can be dangerous-you feel you know it all. I’ve learned a great deal from my failures.” A similar point was made by Richard Brooks about his ambitious money loser, Lord Jim. Recalling the three years of his life that went into it, talking almost with elation about the troubles that befell his unit in Cambodia, Brooks told me that he learned more about his craft from this considerable failure than from his many earlier hits.
It’s a point, of course, that applies throughout the arts. Writers, playwrights, painters and composers work in the expectation of periodic defeat, but they wouldn’t keep going back into the arena if they thought it was eminent: successful and the end of the world. It isn’t the end of the world. For an artist-and perhaps for anybody-it is the only way to grow.
Unit 1 . The American Dream
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Today’s younger generation seems to know that this is true, seems willing to take the risks in life that artists take in art. “Society,” needless to say, still has the upper hand-it sets the goals and condemns as a failure everybody who won’t play. But the dropouts and the hippies are not as afraid of failure as their parents and grandparents. This could mean, as their elders might say, that they are just plumb lazy, secure in the comforts of an affluent state. It could also mean, however, that they just don’t buy the old standards of success and are rapidly writing new ones.
Recently it was announced, for instance, that more than two hundred thousand Americans have inquired about service in VISTA (the domestic Peace Corps) and that, according to a Gallup survey, “more than 3 million American college students would serve VISTA in some capacity if given the opportunity.” This is hardly the road to riches or to an executive suite. Yet I have met many of these young volunteers, and they are not pining for traditional success. On the contrary, they appear more fulfilled than the average vice-president with a swimming pool.
Who is to say, then, if there is any right path to the top, or even to say what the top consists of? Obviously the colleges don’t have more than a partial answer-otherwise the young would not be so disaffected with an education that they consider vapid. Obviously business does not have the answer-otherwise the young would not be so scornful of its call to be an organization man.
The fact is, nobody has the answer, and the dawning awareness of this fact seems to me one of the best things happening in America today. Success and failure are again becoming individual visions, as they were when the country was younger, not rigid categories. Maybe we are learning again to cherish this right of every person to succeed on his own terms and to fail as often as necessary along the way.
Making Observations . What words does the author use to indicate his feelings? What idea captured your attention in this text? vapid: dull or boring

A raisin in the sun
Ruth Younger Age: Character traits (at least 5 adjectives): What is Ruth’s dream? Evidence of dream (quotation) What’s the obstacle to achieving her dream? Evidence of obstacle (quotation):
Beneatha Younger Age: Character traits (at least 5 adjectives): What is Beneatha’s dream? Evidence of dream (quotation): What’s the obstacle to achieving her dream? Evidence of obstacle (quotation):

My Old Home By: Lu Hsun Comprehension Check & Text Questions COMPREHENSION CHECK My Old Home Lu Hsun DIRECTIONS: Complete the following items after you finish your first read. 1. How does the speaker feel as he approaches his old home, which he left twenty years before? We did not feel like that was his old him It was different then he remembered 2. Why is the speaker returning to his old home? 3. Who is the character Jun-tu? into is servent who used to work for LU Hsun 4. Who is the older woman whom the speaker does not at first recognize? 5. How does the speaker act when Jun-tu finally visits him? 6. What do the speaker and his mother decide to do for Jun-tu? 7. What do the speaker and his family do at the end of the story? 8. To confirm your understanding, write a summary of “My Old Home.”

Does all human suffering call imperatively for a cure?
A life entirely free of suffering would be pleasanter, but would it still be human?
Is our vulnerability essential to our human identities and our human dignity?
Do you think that Frida Kahlo’s suffering affected her art? If so, in what way(s)?
How do you feel about Frida Kahlo’s style of art?
Select one painting from the “Masterpieces of Frida Kahlo” tab on fridakahlo.org and discuss how Kahlo gives visual form to her personal feelings in the image you select.

Using the short story, Lacrimosa by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and the character Ramon, what are 3 types of figurative language used in the story, and 3 quotes from the story, and what does this reveal about the character/theme?