Rahat Hossain  English 110  Professor Vicars                                           Response to Amy Tan’s “Mothers Tongue”          The purpose of the writing mimics the title of the essay. The English language in our modern-day classrooms has been hallowed down to answering a bunch of bubbles on a scantron, using specific phrases from passages, and focusing more on comprehension of what is being read than expressing any creative ideas. This idea that language is the cornerstone for expressing incredibly rich ideas is even stated by Amy Tran when she says “I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language—the way it can …

    Question 1. Conduct a Toulmin analysis of Woolf’s essay. What is her claim? What are her reasons to support that claim? What are the warrants that underlie the claim?  – Her claims center around the futility of Life. The constant reminder of the death of the Moth reflects Virginia’s own views on her death. Combining these together I believe she is talking about the futility of life in the face of absolute death. This is supported by the line “But, as I stretched out a pencil, meant to help him to right himself, it came over me that the failure …

ATM Rahat Hossain  Professor Vicars English 110                                      AI: The Rise of the Machines        There’s an old fable in the scientific community that is as follows, a group of scientists finally finish their lifetime’s worth of work building the most advanced form of Artificial intelligence in the world and input that consciousness into a computer. The first question they asked the computer was “Is there a God?”. Suddenly a bolt of lightning cut off the power supply of the computer and it replied: “There is now”. This story symbolizes the fear of AI gaining full autonomy to the point it is …

ATM Rahat Hossain English 110  Professor Brittany Vicars                                                       Narrative Essay     Oh my lord, I had to read in front of the class AGAIN. There were only 6 people ahead of me and 15 minutes left till the period ended. In the best-case scenario, I had to read at the very end, but even then it would be like the worst for last.“OK class we will be doing read-aloud now so please get ready and turn to page 34,” the teacher said. I looked frantically across the room as the blood began to rush through the top of my head. …

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