Summary: Evaluation During Reading

The article Evaluation During Reading talks about how to evaluate the material that will be used for a research. It gives key ideas on how to identify if it’s a good source and how to read the pre-face. Some of the key ideas to identify if the sources is appropriate for you are:

Paraphasing Exercise 3

Paraphrase: On his essay So That Nobody Has To Go To School If They Don’t Want To, Roger Sipher conclude that mandatory attendance law for children is decreasing the education quality because neither the motivated students are receiving the high level education that is required for America. He proposes the abolishment of mandatory attendance to solve this situation. (Sipher, Roger)

Paraphrasing Exercise 2

1. According to Jacques Cousteau the Antartic is the source of cold for our planet as the Sun is the sourse for heat. The water that comes from the north(antartica) mixes with the water from the tropic and this way all of the surface water in the atmosphere is cooled, but this cycle might be ruined because of human activity.

2. The twenties was a period for change, classical music was changed for jazz with and men like Louis Armostrong and Count Basie became heroes in the genre; organized crime ruled the city while the police seem to be incapable of doing anything. Drinking was illegal but that didn’t stop anyone from drinking because everyone seemed to know in which local bar the liquor was available, the flapper was also born during this time period and according to this 'article', this represented "America's break from the past" (Kathleen Yancey, English 102 Supplemental Guide '1989').

3. More than 1000 deaths occur each year from bike accidents and that three-fourths are head injuries. Half of the people who are killed in cycling accidents are children who still go to school. Wearing a helmet might save your life. If one crashes or has an accident and is using a helmet ,85 percent of any head injury is reduced because it absorbs the shock and creates a head cushion.

4. Matisse's art takes the viewer's eyes to nirvana, magically making him/her envision themselves in it. He shows his art as if everything was there, real, almost as if you could smell the objects he drew. A drawing of his, known as "The Casbah Gate," shows in detail the reality of the people and their homes coexisting with that of a "sultan's palace (Plagens, Peter). Matisse manages to capture every little detail, every movement of every character, and we can tell what time of the day it is by the way he colors the sky. From Peter Plagens, "Bright Lights." Newsweek (26 March 1990): 50.

5. The Sears Tower is one of the greatest skyscraper eingineering achievement made by man, but where could this leave the quest fot the worlds largest building?
Engineer William LeMessurier has designed a skyscraper twice the size of that of the Sears Tower and architect Robert Sobel claims that a 500 story building can be built, so maybe the architects and engineers have not left their goal for the world's tallest bulding.

Hamlet must sing...

The song that I think would express what Hamlet is was feeling in act three in his “To Be or Not To Be” speech would be Adams song by Blink 182. I think that this song identifies what Hamlet feel because most of the lyrics talk about how lonely a person is feeling and how their world has become meaningless at such young age. Hamlet has nothing else to look forward to now that his father is dead and his mother remarried his uncle and the lyrics are also expressing this “The world was wide, too late to try.” We can also relate the song with how Hamlet is feeling with this sentence “I'm too depressed, To go on You'll be sorry when I'm gone” because Hamlet was also very depressed and angry with everyone around him.


Adams Song (Blink 182)
I never thought I'd,
I'd die alone
I laughed the loudest, who'd have known?
I traced the cord back to the wall
No wonder it was never plugged in at all

I took my time,
I hurried up
The choice was mine, I didn't think enough
I'm too depressed, To go on
You'll be sorry when I'm gone

I never conquered, rarely came
16 just held such better days
Days when I still felt alive
We couldn't wait to get outside
The world was wide, too late to try
The tour was over, we'd survived
I couldn't wait till I got home
To pass the time in my room alone

I never thought I'd die alone
Another six months I'll be unknown
Give all my things to all my friends
You'll never step foot in my room again

You'll close it off,You'll board it up
Remember the time that I spilled the cup
Of apple juice in the hall
Please tell mom this is not her fault

I never conquered, rarely came
16 just held such better days
Days when I still felt alive
We couldn't wait to get outside
The world was wide, too late to try
The tour was over, we'd survived
I couldn't wait till I got home
To pass the time in my room alone

I never conquered, rarely came
Tomorrow holds such better days
Days when I can still feel alive
When I cant wait to get outside
The world is wide, the time goes by
The tour is over, I survived
I can't wait till I get home
To pass the time in my room alone

Paraphrasing Exercies

The answers for the exercises:
- Unacceptable
- Unacceptable
- Unacceptable
- Acceptable

The Soccer War, The real conflict

In these pages Kapuscinski arrives to Latin Aamerica. He narrates his whole trip very precisely and describes the awkwardness he felt with all of the useless things he found in America that in Africa didn’t exist. I really liked this chapter because not only he describes so well every detail of his new adventure but also he proves to be an excellent writer. When I first heard the title of the book I imagined that it had to relate to soccer but I never would have guessed that it really was about a soccer war. When we started reading about Ben Bella and everything that was happening in Algeria I though that the title didn’t have anything to do with the book, but then Kapuscinski surprised us all.
Before I didn’t know anything about the war that was going on between Honduras and El Salvador but after reading this chapter I became aware of the conflict between these two countries over land and how a soccer tournament lead to a “war”. Also in this chapter Kapuscinski reveals to the reader what an adventurous person he is. He risks his life in the conflict between these two countries just so he can let Poland and the rest of the world know what is happening in Central America. His description of what was going on between the border of Honduras and El Salvador was so precise and intense, as I read these pages I felt like if I was there with Kapuscinski.
"In reality a soldier sees no further than his own nose, has his eyes full of sand or sweat, shoots at random and clings to the ground like a mole." (pg 180)

The Soccer War (pg. 120-147)

The second chapter of The Soccer seemed to be starting rather slow. There hasn’t been much action until Kapuscinski comes into actions. Kapuscinsk goes through a lot of action in this chapter, especially when he seemed to encounter a possible death. "I was in the hands of UPGA activists. They must have been smoking hashish because their eyes were mad and they did not look fully conscious… I could feel three knife-points against my back and I saw several machetes aimed at my head. Two activists stood a few steps away, pointing their guns at me in case I tried to get away. I was surrounded. Around me I could see sweaty faces with jumpy glances; I could see knives and gun barrels.” (pg 131) This is a very important part in the book not only because Kapuscinski encounters death but also because this is a twisting point in the book, here the action seems to have begun.
Also is these pages we meet the real Kapuscinski, an adventurous journalist he doesn’t seem to fear anything.
“My boss treated me with patience and understanding. He tolerated my adventures and my pathological lack of discipline. At my most irresponsible I would suddenly break contact with… as a last resort, send telegrams to various embassies. Once, when I showed up in Bamako, our embassy there showed me a telegram: 'Should Kapuscinski happen to show up in your territory, please inform PAP through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' (pg 141)." With this quote the reader can understand Kapuscinskis way of thinking and how he likes to live his life. This chapter besides being the starting point for the action in the book is an introduction to Kapuscinski’s life.