roman’s blog

Don’t TNT Me, Bro
The moral logic of suicide bombing.
By William Saletan “Suicide bombers conducted 658 attacks around the world last year … more than double the number in any of the past 25 years … More than four-fifths of the suicide bombings over that period have occurred in the past seven years, the data show. The [...]

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To make the reader wonder who is “their” and why have their bones been lost? This effect makes his topic slightly more interesting now that you know a bit of what he’s going to talk about before he gives his reason’s why. Analysis
An “odd juxtapositions” is apparent when Eiseley talks about technology and robots [...]

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The general argument being made by author Francine Prose in her work I know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read is that American high school students are learning to hate literature. She writes, “my suspicion is that the reason why such texts are not used as often as I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings [...]

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 “The angel in the house is dead and no longer lives in the imaginations of either women or men.”
What the assertion above means is that the angel of the house who is, “a nineteenth century…self sacrificing heroine…” is gone and we as a culture of the modern world no longer feel her influencing our actions. [...]

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The argument being made in this video about global climate change is that the risks associated with taking no action against global warming (whether it is human caused or not) far outweighs the risks of taking action. Therefore, we as humans should do the responsible thing and do all we can to counter global warming, [...]

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3. I think Virginia means  that novelists’s want to remain undisturbed from their method of writing and even if that means not using their own thoughts and imagination. No i don’t agree because that defeats the purpose of writing fiction. A writer might want to be unconscious so to not draw any negative attention.
4. She means [...]

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Being a current student in high school and knowing many people that are academically oriented and gifted, I would have to disagree with Harris’s statement for some key reasons that I feel strongly about.
Its true, education is what you make of it because people pass and flunk out of the same classes all the time. [...]

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“The omnipresent box sitting somewhere in our homes, workplaces, and just about everywhere else has a much greater hold on our lives than we think.” – Corbett Trubey from The Argument Against TV
Television sets can be found practically anywhere today. With the average American youth spending around 1,500 hours watching television each year; it [...]

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1. To explain that Corn-pone opinions are not opinions derived from facts but from feelings that guide to self approval
2. In changing “I” to “we” Twain addresses the majority of people, not just himself or people he might know.
3. It adds to his argument because the black slave talks about conforming to the majority to [...]

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7. Denby’s central argument is that teen movies are cliche’ and misrepresent the atmosphere of real life high school. His secondary argument is that sometimes these interpertions of the movies can be true and have some truth to be found in them.
10. Denby supports his argument by saying, “…a few years go by, and a pale little nerd [...]

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