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November 25, 2019 Language impacts everything we do. How we convey our feelings to others, how we think, how we see- how we do anything. If you don’t speak the same language as someone, it’s very difficult to get what you want to say across the barrier because it’s so frustrating and I would say …
November 14, 2019 Before: Though science is valuable and should be held in high regards, the arts should be held to the same standards given their importance in understanding the self and all the emotions that come with the self. In “Necessary Edges: Art, Empathy, and Education”, Ma stresses the importance of STEAM education in …
November 7, 2019 For this assignment, I decided to read chapter eleven, or “Using the Templates to Revise”. Yes, the whole point of revision is really to focus on something specific but considering I don’t have a complete essay to reread and edit, I thought it would be best to read a chapter based on …
November 5, 2019 Overall, you have a decent essay. I can clearly see your ideas and how you want to support them, but I’m a little lost in the where you are supporting them. The organization of this essay is a little rough. Some sentences are almost a mini paragraph by themselves, while others are …
November 1, 2019 Intro: The increasing anxiety in teenagers is a serious public health issue that’s consuming the youth of today. With the balance of art and science working in unison, we can change how we deal with anxiety and how teenagers’ can deal with their own anxiety. Paragraph/Claim 1: Both Jonah Lehrer and Yo-Yo …
October 29, 2019 In the New York Times Magazine, writer Benoit Denizet-Lewis posted an article on October 11, 2017. In “Why are more American teenagers than ever suffering from severe anxiety?”, Lewis interviews several teenagers, research psychologists, counselors, medical specialists, professors, authors, and several others about the extreme increase of teenagers with severe anxiety. In this …
October 28, 2019 However, the evidence I have cited does not fairly represent the opposing viewpoint. Many scientists and artists alike will say that science needs to keep its place on the left and art needs to keep its place on the right, not join in the middle. Yes, over the centuries science has proven …
October 24, 2019 TREAC: With today’s ever-changing society and use of technology, the connection between the science and arts is weakening. The biggest concern is that we’re losing the ability to connect abstract thought with concrete terms. For example, in “The Future of Science … Is Art?”, Jonah Lehrer discusses that there’s a gap between …
October 22, 2019 The surrounding context of this essay is that the author is a world renown cellist- a.k.a. Yo-Yo Ma. The essay was originally published in the World Post, an online news and blog site created through a partnership between liberal news aggregator the Huffington Post and nonpartisan think tank the Berggruen Institute on Governance. This essay …
October 18, 2019 Throughout the last essay I wrote, I used the word “metaphor” many many times. I guess a pattern that I can see is repetition of what I’m arguing. In a few places, I could find where I used transitions words and pointing words, but those were less frequent than the amount of …
