Reading

The major characteristics of my preferred learning style is working in groups with others or working alone where I can be by myself, somewhere peaceful. I prefer to work visually. Writing things become boring to me, so I have to do little drawings, or visually see what something is for me to understand it better….

The twentieth-century population explosion combined with a rapid escalation in human consumption, magnifies humanity’s impact on the Earth. Adjectives such as “calamitous’ and “catastrophic” are often used to describe this impact. 3. Why is Earth often called the Blue Planet? A. Because 70 percent of its surface discovered by water, and views from space are…

Many students often shy away from reading. This could be due to the fact that they might find it to be boring or they do not get any meaning from text that they read. For these reasons they might consider reading a waste of their time. Therefore, the teacher must take advantage of the many…

I have had the experience of observing a group of fifth grade students in an inner city elementary school struggle with reading.Out of 425 students at this school, 150 of them are reading at their expected level.To deal with this problem, the school has trained its teachers to be able to teach the Wilson Reading…

In the book, Ways of Reading, the authors Bartholomae and Petrosky outline what they describe as a “strong reader”. They characterize the attributes that collectively contribute to this title and then talk about the relations between a strong reader and a strong writer. The perspectives that Bartholomae and Petrosky discuss on ideas and textual analysis…

One of the underpinning ideas for its enduring presence in the curriculum is the belief that putting learners Into touch with “original” news texts found in Western newspapers would (A) enrich language input in learning, which, at least theoretically, could maximize the chance Of successful language learning; and (B) provide a chance for learners to…

In his philosophical etude, Stephen Jay Gould refers to the role which creativity may play for the emergence of the major scientific ideas. In his view, inductivism reduces science to dry operations, while eurekaism turns science into a kind of intrinsic mystery (Gould 542). The aim of Gould’s essay is to depict both as the…

Medicine had enquired the dread infectious diseases that once cut swathes through entire populations. Not to enjoy luxuries that Louis XIV couldn’t have imagined now was evidence of intolerable poverty. Yet even as technology liberated us from want (though not, of course, from desire), political schemes of secular salvation ?communism and Nazism?unleashed a barbarism that,…

The article “Girl Moved To Tears By ‘Of Mice and Men’ Cliffs Notes” from The Onion is a satirical passage criticizing students and the way they read assigned novels; by not actually reading it but by looking at someone else’s notes on it. The literary element of satire uses irony, sarcasm, parody, hyperbole, or other…

Reading Response I definitely think the subject of the story is about the fear of the unknown. When you swim in a pool you can see the bottom and everything else that is in the pool. But why are so many people afraid of swimming in open water? Humans fear what they do not understand…