Thousands of years after survival of the fittest human races depended upon instruments of warfare, the pen, a tool not designed for combat, was declared "mightier than the sword" by Benjamin Franklin (World of Quotes, 2003). Ironically it was one of the first human weapons, the sharpened stone, that was a precursor to pen and paper when it was used to etch drawings upon cave-wall dwellings (Bellis, 2004). Long use of these concrete implements forged abstractions of them. Pen and paper have been interiorized
Writing and Technology Believe it or not, writing takes place in almost all aspects of our everyday life. As a future teacher, it will be important that I have the best education to enhance my student’s writing. I will need to understand what type of learners my students are and how to accommodate writing based on each learner. Standards also play an important role in student writing, standards help guide students to the grade level in which they need to be. Various factors can impact a student’s
old and ruined thus altering the contents. This is a negative point because stories are lost and become illegible or unreadable through time. She mentions the quill, which can refer to writing, the quill pen in the following line. This line is ambiguous because the line can be negative or positive. In one perspective, the line can mean a quill pen decaying so no one can write which is a negative point. However, in another perspective this can mean people are
Chapter Eleven “All these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days, days & days.” —Hafez The morning was bright and clear. In other words, a perfect day to return home. Dylan felt awful slipping out of Salim’s cabin. He was working on his papers—Dylan didn’t know what exactly, but he was busy writing lists, referring to others, and generally working. There were the usual thirty or so men on the deck looking to their individual jobs, whether
the Galaxy, Peter Quill finds himself the quarry of relentless bounty hunters after he steals an orb wanted by Ronan, a powerful villain. To evade Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with four disparate rebels, Rocket Raccoon, treelike humanoid Groot, Enigmatic Gamora, and vengeance driven Drax the destroyer. But when he discovers the orbs true power and the cosmic threat it poses, Quill must rally his ragtag group to save the universe. On planet Earth, young Peter Quill sits in the waiting
image source Before 1894, pencils sharpeners were big and heavy, so carrying it about was a big issue. Some were mounted on the walls of a class room, while some were placed on the desk, despite the fact that these old school revolving sharpeners looked super cool and perplexing, they were cumbersome. A travelling writer or student couldn't carry it about. African-American inventor John Lee Love changed the way we see pencil sharpeners in 1894 when he invented the "Love Sharpener," the portable
The way a child learns to develop a motor skill can depend on various factors. For example, a child’s ability to jump can be influenced by genetics and by nature. People might argue that genetics are more important in determining how high the child will be able to jump. While others might argue that jumping is mainly determined by how you teach and train a child to jump. This is an example of the nature versus nurture debate. Although genes may play a role in developing a child’s skills. This paper
Easy Steps to Learn Calligraphy To learn Calligraphy is very essential to excel the writing; that is why we need to take it consideration and learn it carefully and attentively. So many people are fond of calligraphy and enjoy doing calligraphy, and it is not a matter of strange why they admire. In fact, Calligraphy is a charming tool for attract the spectacles for its artistic expression and a deeply satisfying personal device. However, if we comment that is so nice and say that we are not able
The Case Study titled “ “discusses in detail about the problems that the Company – Luxor Writing Instruments Private Limited has been facing specifically with regard to the customers and retailers which in turn are hampering the sales of the Parker brand of the Company. This study is carried out depending on the various data which are obtained mainly from primary sources (direct interview with retailers) and the secondary sources (the website of the company, books, and print media). To complete
Halt-Dismount! is an oil painting created by Frederic Remington. It can be viewed at the Stark Museum of Art in Orange, Texas. The Stark Museum has a large collection of western-themed art, and of the many pieces there, I found this work by Mr. Remington to be the most interesting. The work depicts a group of cavalrymen and scouts who have been surprised by what appears to be an ambush. The leader of the group is in the midst of calling a sudden halt of the moving column of men, while plumes of