Tina Bell English 5001 28 May 2009 Advertising Awareness One lazy Saturday afternoon, I sat relaxing in my living room watching a favorite television program. I soon became irritated by the consistent interruption of the commercials. Approximately fifteen commercials appeared…
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Paul Stoller
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Tina Bell English 5870 Dr. Devries 12 May 2009 Commentary 10 “The way in which we choose to write is an ethical issue” (Pryer 10). When I read this line from Pryer’s article two week’s ago, I thought it summed…
Emig
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Tina Bell English 5001 9 May 2009 Commentary I have always written the given assignment and then doubled the time it took me to calculate how quickly my most experienced might need to finish the writing assignment. I do this…
Power
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Tina Bell English 5870 4 May 2009 Power The struggle for power is everywhere. I can point to drastic examples such as slavery, child abuse, and animal cruelty, but I can also see examples of this struggle in the prison…
Can Old Dogs Learn New Tricks?
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Tina Bell English 5870 28 April 2009 Commentary 8 “There is an assumption that if an ethnographic account is engaging, it cannot be scientific” (Sunstein 192). The argument as to what constitutes scientific research brought up in Sunstein’s article is…
Commentary Week 9
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Tina Bell English 5001 23 April 2009 Commentary Week 9 Paul Kei Matsuda published his article, “Composition Studies and ESL Writing: A Disciplinary Division of Labor,” in 1999, and the topic as to the best methods for teaching English as…
Commentary Week 10
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Tina Bell English 5001 23 April 2009 Commentary Week 10 “Rhetoric sees itself not as creating a balance between theory and practice, but rather as ‘inhabiting a kind of productive unease’” (1). Given Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s view of rhetoric, it…
Commentary 7
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Tina Bell English 5870 21 April 2009 Commentary 7 I do not really understand what Michel Foucault is saying. Well, this is not exactly true. I think I understand a substantial portion of what he is saying, but I am…
Acceptance
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Tina Bell English 5001 Week 8 Acceptance Approximately fifteen years ago, I taught a student, Anthony, who had anger control issues. His father was in prison for murder and his mother was a drug addict. He lived on welfare. He…
Change
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Tina Bell English 5001 2 April 2009 Commentary Week 7 Our lives, our world is becoming more global with every passing day. Technology has given us avenues of connection we could only dream of before today, and every day brings…