Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 31st, 2009 No Comments »
2: In the first paragraph, the female villian is portrayed as strong, powerful, and also very graceful. This is quite the opposite of the portrayal of the male villian in paragraph 2. This character is described as slow, stupid, and immature. These differences in description suggest that in film and other media, women are shown [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 16th, 2009 No Comments »
The main claim of the article “The Autumn of the Multitaskers” is that multitasking through the use of technology and other devices can create negative affects and should be stopped.
Section 1: The claim is that the changes in technology that have taken place over the years have had a negative affect on people’s well-being. He [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 12th, 2009 No Comments »
The general argument made by Susan Jacoby in her article “How dumb can we get?” is that in America today, we don’t value intellectualism or education as highly as we should, and in some cases we are proud of our ignorance. She writes, “Americans are in serious intellectual trouble-in danger of losing our hard-won cultural [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
The purpose of any inaugural address given by a President is to inform the country of the changes the President plans to make while in office. JFK’s inaugural address is no different. However, because his speech was given during the time of the Cold War while the country was going through turmoil and the attainment [...]
