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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Oriana Perkins
5/19/2014 01:00:12 am
The writing in A Mighty Long Way is very powerful the author sends a message of hardships and determination through it. The writer uses simplistic language to allow the reader to connect and understand the situation forming around the author. "Now I was terrified. We were on the run from something, but what?" "We rushed through a set of large double doors,which closed quickly behind us and shut out the light." "Wild and erroneous reports about students being beaten and bloodied had even made it to the airwaves."
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Andrew Sampson
5/19/2014 02:04:07 am
The writing in this book definitely effective in showing how swift and ruthless the mafia was. The author also does a good job in showing how much power the mafia had in their community. The parts of the book that are told by Henry Hill tend to use Mafioso verbiage.
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Kennedy Korn
5/19/2014 03:20:36 am
The writing in Lance Armstrong's It's Not About the Bike My Journey Back to Life is extremely effective and very powerful. He addresses his many accomplishments not only by stating them in a boring list, but creates a story of how cancer did not get in his way of succeeding. His writing is very motivational and he appeals to many ethos and pathos to connect himself and the readers.
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Tanner McElroy
5/19/2014 03:23:04 am
The writing in Lone Survivor is unbelievably vivid, and in depth. Marcus Luttrell writes about what they had to go through during the Navy SEAL training and I feel like I'm there experiencing it with him. "That's six miles every day just to find something to eat, nothing to do with our regular training runs, which often added up to another eight miles" "Each time, I was ordered to go straight to the ice cold Pacific then come out and roll in the sand" "I got kind of stuck about forty-five feet off the ground, arms and legs spreadeagled"
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Johnny Perry
5/19/2014 03:24:14 am
The book 'Night" is very good so far, the author is exceptional at setting the mood in the book. While doing this he uses rhetorical questions throughout the whole story to give the reader and ideal of whats going to happen next. The language helps the reader get an ideal of how rough it really was during the Nazi Era in Germany.
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Nick Griffin
5/19/2014 03:25:58 am
In his book "Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage", Alfred Lansing uses strong and thorough descriptions to empower his writing.
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Kelsea Schloemer
5/19/2014 03:29:32 am
The writing throughout, The Day After He Left for Iraq, is very powerful and beautiful. Within her writing I can feel what she was feeling during her experience as well as putting her experience into book form; it's very emotional.
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Kristen Jansen
5/19/2014 03:42:28 am
So far in the book, Outliers, Gladwell uses a powerful word choice and statistically significant data to entertain the reader. He tells stories of success through examples and explanations and makes the reader think about the true meaning of success by showing hidden patterns and details in stories.
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Kaly Snow
5/19/2014 03:44:46 am
The writing in "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell is extremely argumentative and effective. Gladwell is successful in analyzing and discussing his argument through various degrees of evidence, he even uses charts to support his writing. By doing so, his writing becomes more powerful and convinces the reader to believe his topic. Gladwell combines the method of both logos and pathos, then uses descriptive language to support himself.
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Katie Urban
5/19/2014 11:00:10 am
Carlotta Walls LaNier writes from a first person perspective in order to create an atmosphere where it is easy to understand the emotions she went through as a member of the Little Rock Nine.
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Courtney New
5/19/2014 11:26:15 am
The writing in Susan Cain's novel, "Quiet" is very informal, but there is a strong use of diction as well. It's almost like a large, one-sided conversation, or a speech. There are large words and even words that I've never heard of, but they are used properly and in context. The writing truly speaks to me, as an introvert. It explains some of my behavior and says it's perfectly normal. Cain states, “The highly sensitive [introverted] tend to be philosophical or spiritual in their orientation, rather than materialistic or hedonistic..." Overall, the tone is comforting, as seen in the quotes, “Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured.” and “There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.” Cain also uses an example of an introvert that represented a company in a legal issue, and completely shocked me when she stated that it was actually her. Her writing is a combination of her stories and facts about introverts from history; it's very interesting to read.
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bekah
5/19/2014 11:42:03 am
The writing in Twelve Years a Slave is quiet powerful, and the author uses highly sophisticated language in the novel. 1) "Works of fiction, professing to portray its features in their more pleasing as well as more repugnant aspects, have been circulated to an extent unprecedented, and, as I understand, have created a fruitful topic of comment and discussion." 2) "Still he plied the lash without stint soon my poor body, until it seemed that the lacerated flesh was stripped from my bones at ever stroke." 3) "Throwing herself on the floor, and encircling the children in her arms, she poured forth such touching words as only maternal love and kindness can suggest."
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Michal Beth
5/20/2014 12:00:05 am
The writing in "Killing Jesus" is very informative, but still suspenseful, like a novel. 1) "The walled city of some eighty thousand residents packed into less than a single square mile.." 2) "It is better to be Herod's pig than his son." 3) "...king of the Jews or not, the infant must die."
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Hayley Pearson
5/20/2014 09:51:03 am
The writing in "Heaven is for Real" is very powerful and effective. Todd Burpo explains all these intense situations dealing with his little boy being sick and his writing really makes you feel what he is feeling.
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Olivia Bryant
5/20/2014 12:49:02 pm
The writing in my book, "Columbine" is very powerful and effective. the author's diction allows the reader to place themselves in the moments before, during, and after the shootings took place, as well as give detail's as to who the killers were, and their distinct personalities. It's almost eerie to read, however a great book. A couple examples are:
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Emily Strochinsky
5/20/2014 01:51:45 pm
The writing in "Heaven is For Real" so far is powerful, thought provoking, and personal. Burpo uses strong imagery in order to put readers inside his amazing story.
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Carissa Craft
5/21/2014 02:22:51 am
So far, David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell, is somewhat powerful. I say somewhat because it is difficult to follow along with the writing because it drags on and on about stories of people facing their giants, however several aspects of the information provided is useless. When the author does make his point, the writing is very effective considering he uses rhetorical questioning, appeal to logic, and biblical allusion to create a connection between those who faced their giants and David when he faced Goliath.
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Derek Knabe
5/21/2014 03:40:45 am
The author (Blake Mycoskie) writes with powerful and inspiring words, chapters riddled with humor and lighthearted jokes, but at the same time a serious take on the start-up business industry and the process in which his own company has flourished.
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Jon Graf
5/21/2014 03:48:41 am
The writing in "Columbine" is very powerful and moving, as the author often goes into vivid detail; to the point where I almost feel like I'm living through this tragedy with him.
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Taylor Kaake
5/22/2014 03:42:22 am
The writing Lewis uses is pretty simple, and does a good job of conveying the situation to the readers.
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Troy Campbell
5/22/2014 12:28:18 pm
so far in this book "Wise Guy" it is very effective in its writing style, there has to been a "soft spot" as with normal books that tend to lose my interest, this book just keeps me very intrigued around every corner, the explicitly of this book is very appealing to me for obvious reasons, 1.) "Bobby the dentist (so named because he always knocked teeth out when he punched anyone)"
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