REHUGO+4

REHUGO 4

**REHUGO #1 Education**
 * CITATION**: Alexie, Sherman. “Superman and Me.” //The Language of Composition.// Renee H. Shea. Lawrence Scanlon. Robin Dissin Aufses. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008. 110-12. Print.


 * CATEGORY**: Education

In this reminiscent autobiography, Sherman Alexie expresses that his life was saved by reading many books, acquiring knowledge, even in the midst of a harsh life surrounded by people with broken dream in a Indian community through chronological order.
 * PRECIS**:

Although this was a short essay, this was very interesting and gave me a new perspective on Native Americans, being the most neglected and few in numbers. Ultimately, I enjoyed this short reading.
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**REHUGO #2 Work**
 * CITATION:** Washington, Booker T. “The Atlanta Exposition Address.” //The Language of Composition//. Renee H. Shea. Lawrence Scanlon. Robin Dissin Aufses. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008. 191-94. Print.


 * CATEGORY**: Work

In this scholarly speech, Booker T. Washington emphasizes that the U.S. should expand its mind- based workforce towards the African Americans through the use of deductive reasoning.
 * PRECIS:**

This was a little bit difficult to read, but it was still intriguing, similarly like LFBJ.
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**REHUGO #3 Community**
 * CITATION:** Quindlen, Anna. “Commencement Speech at Mount Holyoke College.” //The Language of Composition.// Renee H. Shea. Lawrence Scanlon. Robin Dissin Aufses. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008. 296-99. Print.


 * CATEGORY:** Community

In this passionate speech, Anna Quindlen justifies that students should not live up to expectations or particularly perfectionism, but find the center of themselves instead in order to achieve true success and does this by reasoning and personal experiences.
 * PRECIS:**

This piece was a lot easier to understand, because of the fact that the speaker was more recent and speaking in terms of helpful advice. It was very mind- opening as I read through this piece.
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**REHUGO #4 Gender**
 * CITATION:** Tannen, Deborah. “There is No Unmarked Woman.” //The Language of Composition.// Renee H. Shea. Lawrence Scanlon. Robin Dissin Aufses. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008. 388-92. Print.


 * CATEGORY:** Gender

In this thoughtful essay, Deborah Tannen evaluates that women are considered “marked” or psychologically readable as opposed to men who are “unmarked”, meaning outwardly unexpressive, through multiple explanations of examples.
 * PRECIS:**

The author was very interesting in this topic matter, but at the same time it was a little odd.
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**REHUGO # 5 Sports and Fitness**
 * CITATION:** Roosevelt, Theodore. “The Proper Place for Sports.” //The Language of Composition.// Renee H. Shea. Lawrence Scanlon. Robin Dissin Aufses. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008. 449-50. Print.


 * CATEGORY:** Sports and Fitness

In this colloquial letter, Theodore Roosevelt asserts that Ted, his son, should restrain his athletic commitments in order to let him focus on important matters by making many references and predicting possible outcomes.
 * PRECIS:**

This was an interesting perspective, seeing Roosevelt speak with his son. This showed more about him and his relationship with his son.
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**REHUGO # 6 Language**
 * CITATION**: Agosin, Marjorie. “ Always Living in Spanish.” //The Language of Composition//. Renee H. Shea. Lawrence Scanlon. Robin Dissin Aufses. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008. 556-58. Print.


 * CATEGORY:** Language

In this memoir, Marjorie Agosin affirms that through translation one can generally understand Agosin’s Spanish expression of writing, which is symbolic to her memories of her past homeland, Chile, in a illustrative manner.
 * PRECIS:**

I've read other instances when people’s life is characterized more accurately through their own language and this story also proposed this claim.
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