Blogpost #2: Is the writing effective, powerful, difficult, beautiful so far? What kind of language does the writer use? Give three examples from the text to support your analysis. Completed by Tuesday, May 20
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Chelsea Lakeberg
5/19/2014 12:14:48 am
My choice "Holocaust House" is a very effective and powerful book so far the vivid details used to enforce the moving imagery throughout the start of the book is remarkable. The author uses a standard formal language such as they are living the life day by day. Three examples from the text to support my analysis of effective detail would be "He put the case carefully and gently down in the middle of his bed and stepped back to look at it again." Another support would be "Crowley edged inside Sheila Alden's bedroom and backed against the wall in response to a guiding flick of Doan's revolver barrel." And last "He dropped the revolver in his coat pocket again and stepped over Kokomo. The cellar door was fastened with a patent bolt. Doan unlatched it and peered down a flight of steep wooden stairs that were lighted dimly from the kitchen behind him." These three examples form "Holocaust House" represent the authors word choice and exaggeration of detail to ensure the reader a vivid image of what is happening.
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Audrey Laker
5/19/2014 01:03:17 am
My book "Night" is really powerful I think. The beginning is a little slow but as the pace picks up it becomes more intriguing and interesting. The book gives a first hand account of what was done to those who were captured in the concentration camps and in detail describes there journey. Three examples would be "There are are a thousand gates leading into the orchard of mystical truth. Every human being has his own gate." Another example is "There they are your Germans!" A last example would be "But we had reached a station. Those who were next to the windows told us its name: "Auschwitz"
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Taylor Hoffman
5/19/2014 01:06:01 am
The writing style of Susan Cain is very informative due to its physiological topic. She uses a professional but still understandable language for her diverse readers and audience. Example of this would include, "One of the most interesting findings, echoed by later studies, was that the more creative people tended to be socially poised introverts", "The cooperative approach has politically progressive roots-the theory that students take ownership of their education when they learn from one another,", and "Psychologists usually offer three explanations for the failure of group brainstorming. The first is social loafing: in a group, some individuals tend to sit back and let others do the work.". Through the examples one can see how well Cain explains and idealizes the language used to remain intelligent while detailing what she is discussing .
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Delanie Miller
5/19/2014 01:09:12 am
My book "Lance Armstrong its Not About The Bike" is very powerful and beautiful! Through his writing you can see his love for riding when he says "Its a war between cyclists and big trucks. I've been hit so many times I've lost count." He uses strong imagery when talking about all the scars on his body, "I've got marbled scars on both arms, and discolored scars up and down both of my legs" He also makes you feel like you were there at the times he is talking about. When he says "One minute I was pedaling along the highway, and the next a blast of hot air hits you. You taste the acrid, oily exhaust in the roof of your mouth." appeals to paths throughout the entire story.. well what I have read so far. He also appeals to ethos when he is establishing himself while talking about his cancer. He wants to make sure the readers realize reality and don't just see him as a hero, when he is not "storybook material." Also appeals to logos when giving facts about his cancer, example: at 25 he was given a 40 percent chance to survive.
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Brent
5/19/2014 01:13:45 am
In the book "Freakonomics" Steven D. Levitt writes with a powerful aura that almost forces you to question everything that you thought you knew about any one single topic. Levitt keeps things simple and easily understandable, then throws facts and statistics into the mix that a person can't help but think, "what else he will take apart at the base and reconstruct it in a different perspective?" These examples are only a few of the bizarre facts within this book. “If you both own a gun and a swimming pool in your backyard, the swimming pool is about 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.” This quote leaves the person to think long and hard about the possibilities behind how a swimming pool could be worse for a child rather than a gun. “After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a bad investment. But it's fun and relatively cheap: for the price of a ticket, you buy the right to fantasize how you'd spend the winnings - much as you get to fantasize that your vote will have some impact on policy.” “The conventional wisdom is often wrong.” This quote is the one that got me thinking about how deep this book will go into explanation for seemingly simple topics.
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Courtney McCarthy
5/19/2014 09:05:01 am
In the book "Quiet," so far, the writing is very informative. The author uses a lot of research to back up her information on introverts and extroverts. Some examples of this can be seen when mentioning her finding from famous psychologists Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, and many more. Susan Cain also mentions that "psychologists usually offer three explanations for the failure of group brainstorming. The first is social loafing: in a group, some individuals tend to sit back and let others do the work," and by listing the qualities that differentiate introverts form extroverts. Through these examples, it is easy for the reader to see the importance of introverts.
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Trevor Ryan
5/19/2014 09:49:59 am
Malala Yousafzai is a very descriptive writer, she provides a deep and thorough analysis of every situation and environment. Malala uses high levels of description during the time of the flood where she says "When the waters receded they found their home and school destroyed...entirely caked in thick, foul-smelling mud", "In the winter everything was white snow, long icicles hanging from the roofs like daggers, which we loved to snap off" and "Children in the refugee camps were even given school textbooks by an American University...it included examples such as...If out of 10 Russian Infidels, 5 are killed by one Muslim, 5 would be left". Her descriptions have entirely changed my perception of Pakistan as well as our foreign influence on other countries.
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Lindsey Schumann
5/19/2014 12:26:58 pm
In my book, Night, the language used is very effective and powerful. He uses lines such as "there they are your Germans!", "children cried for water", and "We had arrived- at Birkenau, reception center for Auschwitz." These lines build up the intensity of what was actually experienced during this time to build for what is coming
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Hannah Binkley
5/19/2014 12:37:05 pm
The book "Night" is written with a lot of detail and is very informative. The author uses a lot of detail to explain how awful living through the Holocaust was by using his journey. One example is "Our terror was about to burst the sides of the train." Another example is "The heat, the thirst, the pestilential stench, the suffocating lack of air- these were as nothing compared with these screams which tore us to shreds." One last example would be "You're going to be burned. Frizzled away. Turned into ashes." These examples are very detailed with the use of imagery. Imagery in these examples help readers picture how and where he was living.
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Anna Schneider
5/19/2014 12:37:08 pm
In the book, "A Mighty Long Way" the author uses very descriptive and informative language. Due to Carlotta having personally experienced these certain events herself, she is able to give vivid detail as to what she felt and what she experienced when dealing with the integration at an all white kids high school. "I distinctly remember his using the word our. The girls weren't just white; they were his. They were special. I was stunned." Here the author explains to us her emotions after hearing that the black boys attending Central High School were not permitted to talk to the white girls. It is clear In her words how surprised she felt considering she knew how well behaved the black male students were and even nervous for them if the boys were to accidentally bump into a white girl. "It never even occurred to me as I grew up to question, even in my mind, why colored folks could go to the park only on certain days, why we had to climb to the back of the bus, or why stopping at a gas station to use the bathroom in in the most areas of the South wasn't even an option." Here the author gives descriptive details of the kinds of restrictions black people faced. "The next morning, September 4, I popped out of bed without hesitation. It was really going to happen, I thought. The anticipation of walking up those regal steps into Central made each moment seem to tick by slowly." This quote here represents the anticipation the author feels when awaiting her arrival at Central High school. Even though there have been threats of violence she is eager as ever to receive the highest level of education she possibly can just like her mama and father always taught her to do,
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Eric Siegel
5/19/2014 12:38:10 pm
In "A Long Way Gone" Ishmael Beah is able to use vivid images created from his writing style that is a combination of powerful, beautiful, horrific, terror, that keeps the reader on the edge of their seat. Beah uses a very contemporary langues but his ability to mold sentences and paragraphs allows his story to jump off the page and entrance his audience into his past.
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Max Schoenung
5/19/2014 01:23:33 pm
Due to the importance of th Holocaust Elie Wiesel writes with a powerful and effective tone. Some of these example could be " Faster! Faster! Get on with you, lazy swine!" Yelled the Hungarian police." "Look! Look at it! A terrible fire! Mercy! Oh that fire!" And "An iron door with this inscription over it: Work is liberty!"
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Rachel Silber
5/20/2014 06:22:28 am
In "Seabiscuit", Hillenbrand's writing is very effective. Even though the story took place back in the 1920s and 1930s, she writes in a way that makes it sound like it was yesterday. She writes in an informal and colloquial way to convey this recent tone. One example is: "The world of bug-boy jockeys was populated mostly by teenagers who had run away or been orphaned or whose families had come upon hard times, as Pollard's had" (pg. 55). Another example of Hillenbrand bringing back the past through her connection with it is with sentences like this: "They called the scale 'the Oracle,' and they lived in slavery to it" (pg. 66). Lastly, "If Pollard was the jester, Woolf was the king" (pg.86).
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Kaitlyn Armentrout
5/20/2014 06:44:06 am
In "Something For Joey" the author's writing is very effective trying to get the audience to feel Joey's and his family's pain and agony of his situation. The author has a very powerful yet caring tone and word choice to make the writing even more effective and to show great detail to every moment. "On this late November afternoon, the street unseasonably warm even under the shade...." "Medicine is still an inexact art". " 'I have a daughter his age,' Mrs. Frome said. It was explanation enough."
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Molly doyle
5/20/2014 11:01:30 am
My book "Heaven is For Real" is a very powerful. The authors writing style is very effective. The author talks about things that happened to Colton when he visited heaven which were spectacular. Colton asks his mom you had a baby die in your tummy, didn’t you?” His mother had suffered a miscarriage years before and Colton's parents had not told him about it. “There’s just no way he could have known,” Mr. Burpo said. This book can reveal a lot about ourselves. I find this story very inspirational and may give those hope who are questioning their religion.
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Brett Smith
5/20/2014 11:27:31 am
In "Into the Wild", Krakauer is very straightforward in the way he presents the information of McCandless's story. The language he uses is very concise and easy to understand. With these two aspects, his writing seems to take a journalistic approach.
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Nick Galbraith
5/20/2014 11:50:07 am
In the book "Endurance" the author Alfred Lansing uses a very vivid and strong language. In the first chapter he wrote "Ordinarily, any activity of the sort would have drive the dogs mad with excitement, but somehow they seemed to sense that something extraordinary was going on. Not one fight broke out...". An example of the vividness is "The temperature was 8 1/2 degrees below zero, and a light southerly wind was blowing. Overhead, the twilight sky was clear." This was set to show that the peacefulness of the scene really meant something very depressing, the crushing of the ship between the ice. The Third example is his use of " She...she...she." He referred to the ship as a she and when ever there was a sound it was "She moaned" or "She retched in a series of convulsive jerks accompanied by anguished outcries".
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Holly Butler
5/21/2014 01:55:40 am
The writing style in "Heaven is For Real" is very effective and powerful. The author puts a lot of emotion behind his words as the story is something that happened to him and his family. The audience is able to put themselves in his place and imagine going through such tragedy with your child. Examples of his emotion are "If surgery was what the doctor ordered, that's the path we would walk. We'd get through it, as a family." (page 11) this shows the emotion and the key purpose of sticking together as a family.
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Ellie Cunningham
5/21/2014 02:15:37 am
The book I'm reading, Night, is a first hand account from a boy living through the Holocaust. It is a powerful and intriguing story about a boy and his father's experience at concentration camps. The language used by the author is powerful and shows how deeply the journey affected him physically and emotionally.
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Zach Guthier
5/21/2014 09:37:32 am
The writing in "Night" is very powerful by the way the author uses emotional appeal. His writing is effective when he talks about the difficulties with the Holocaust. One example in the book is when the pus came out of the bottom of his foot during surgery in the concentration camp. He is very descriptive when describing his emotions dealing with the situation. Another example is when he describes his father's death. It was very well written explaining every vivid detail he could remember about his death. The repetition used when reminding the reader of the lack of bread and soup he got showed how awful the conditions were in the camps.
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Maddie Brass
5/21/2014 12:37:34 pm
In the writing from the book Heaven is For Real, Todd Burpo is very effective in his writing. For being a dad who is also a preacher, not a writer Todd is very powerful when describing his sons experience word for word with deep detail in his texts, he doesn't use big words it's written in a way for everyday people to read it like its reality or simply having a normal conversation Here are a couple examples {1} "Everybody's got wings," Colton said. Wings huh? "Did you have wings?" I asked. "Yeah but mine weren't very big." He looked a little glum when he said this. {2} Jesus said, "unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whomever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven." {3} question in the book ... What is childlike humility? "It is the opposite of ignorance - it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard." ... These were some of my favorite quotes and writing throughout the book. So simple yet so understanding and meaningful.
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Adam Kroeger
5/23/2014 01:05:08 am
Victor Frankl's writing is powerful. It evokes a feeling of intense sadness, followed by a feeling of relief as the war comes to an end. Frankl illuminates some of the horrors that took place during World War II. Frankl also uses his writing to explain some of the psychological phenomenons he encounters, later writing various journals about his discoveries.
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Melissa Caster
5/23/2014 01:16:30 am
A Long Way Gone uses developed language for a story about a boy that was a soldier in Africa. For example, Ishmael Beah uses words like "attentively" and "eerie." However he also uses words that are native to his home country like "lappei" which is a big cotton cloth that women wrap around their waist, or words like "leweh" which means rice pasta. The complex mixture of his advanced vocabulary and his sense of home create an interestingly perfect balance of language.
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Michelle Caster
5/25/2014 09:15:32 am
The book Night is a powerful piece to read. Elie writes about such cruel and unusual punishment people place on other races and religions. The type of writing style he uses is choppy and rather to the point than beating around the bush or elaborating too much. Such lack of detail helps Elie not relate to the vivid stories he is writing about. Some examples would be, #1 The old man again whispered something, let out a rattle, and died amid the general indifference. His son searched him, took the bread, and began to devour it. (short, choppy sentences) #2 Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe(Elie is stating the obvious, with his writing he is blunt) #3 Open rooms everywhere. Gaping doors and windows looked out into the void (Elie describes the emptying of the Jewish ghetto, his writing is to the point, literal)
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Kayeigh Hummeldorf
5/29/2014 12:28:45 am
My book "Night" is very emotional and has extremely powerful diction. One example of the language was on page 31 when he compared the synagogue to a train station. "The synagogue was like a huge station: luggage and tears. The altar was broken, the hangings torn down, the walls bare. there were so many of us that we could scarcely breathe..." The next example is when Moche told Elie's father I warned you "From that moment, everything happened very quickly. The race toward death had begun. The first step: Jews would not be allowed to leave their houses for three days- on pain of death". (page 20)
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Kayleigh Hummeldorf
5/29/2014 12:52:26 am
My book "Night" is very emotional and has extremely powerful diction. One example of the language was on page 31 when he compared the synagogue to a train station. "The synagogue was like a huge station: luggage and tears. The altar was broken, the hangings torn down, the walls bare. there were so many of us that we could scarcely breathe..." The next example is when Moche told Elie's father I warned you "From that moment, everything happened very quickly. The race toward death had begun. The first step: Jews would not be allowed to leave their houses for three days- on pain of death". (page 20) The last example is when Elie witnesses all the people he has known leaving to be "deported". "One by one they passed in front of me, teachers, friends, others, all those I had been afraid of, all those I once could have laughed at, all those I had lived with over the years. They went by, fallen, dragging their packs, dragging their lives, deserting their homes, the years of their childhood, cringing like beaten dogs.(page 26)
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Richard SLattery
6/4/2014 09:14:21 pm
My book has very technical so far being systematic, and sometimes difficult sometimes using examples of computer code to elaborate on its ideas such as
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