The Weed

The main character of this story is Argoori. What makes her worth writing about is that she seems really nice and what makes her unique is that she seems to have many beliefs. The conflict of this story is that at first Argoori thought that learning how to read and write was a sin for women.She also said that she couldn't take any sweet from men because it brings weed. Then she told a story to her husband of what had happened to her friend. After that, she told her husband to teach her how to read and write. Her husband asked her why if she used to think that was a sin. He then asked her if she had drank any tea or milk and she said no that she had only drank milk. Then her husband found out that Ram Tara had fetched her that milk. The story ends with Argoori saying to curse her because she had gotten sweets from a man. A word that I didn't know was prerogative. I found out that it means a right or privileged exclusive to a particular individual or class.

7 Tips to Fight Deadly Feeling of Boredom

The structure that this article has to organize the order of information is chronological order. I think that it's chronological order because it describes step by step each tip. The tone of this article seems positive and helpful, because it's talking about how to make a boring situation become less boring. The article talks about 7 tips. These tips are basically saying if you keep doing things the get you bored, then you might get interested in it, if you keep on doing it. Thinking things in different ways and  bringing a book can also make you feel less bored.  These tips are for those people that are bored and don't want to be bored. The 7 tips are:

• Put the word “meditation” after the activity that’s boring you. 
• If something is boring for two minutes, do it for four minutes. If it’s still boring, do it for eight minutes, then sixteen, and so on. Eventually you discover that it’s not boring at all. 
• Take the perspective of a journalist or scientist. Really study what’s around you. What are people wearing, what do the interiors of buildings look like, what noises do you hear?
• Have a mental escape route planned. Think about something delightful or uplifting 
• Look for a way to feel grateful. It’s a lot better to be bored while waiting in a doctor’s office than to be in an agony of suspense about your test results.
•  Consider: “Am I the boring one?
• Always bring a book

This article was actually interesting to me because many times I feel bored and don't want to be bored. These tips might actually work. I never thought thinking stuff in a different way could make me feel less bored, until I read this article. This could be helpful to other people because many people in there everyday life get in situations is which they get either bored or impatient. These tips can help them get their minds off of negative things and think of other positive things, while waiting and not get bored. 

Say what? Better hearing takes practice

I think the structure that organizes this article is spatial order. First it give the description then examples and last illustrations. The tone of the article seems that the author agrees with what she is writing about. The article is explaining that scientist think that part of the problem of hearing loss has to do with our brains. Age related hearing loss can come from disappearance of sensory cells in the inner ear. As people grow older their brains slow down. One side affect is that they can't process fast-moving parts of speech. Most likely they can't process consonants in the beginning of words such as "b," "p," "g," and "d." In the article it says that "As we get older our brains slow down, a natural part of aging call neural slowing." "Having conversation in a nosy restaurant can be difficult, and for elderly people often impossible." "But with a little practice, the brain can learn to hear above the din, a new study suggest. This means that elderly people that can't hear well can go to classes and learn how to hear better. I think this was a good article because I didn't know you could hear better by going to classes. 

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Televison make lonely people feel less lonely

The organization structure of this article is from the most important information to the least important information. The tone of this passage sounds like the author was very interested in what she was talking about. The author seemed like she agreed with the information about that television makes lonely people less lonely. She put more information about the positive side and just two sentences about the negative side. The article is about that scientists think that watching television makes lonely people feel less lonely. Psychologist have the idea of “social surrogacy” to explain that television can take up the same role as friends and family. In a study, psychologist found out that lonely people are more likely to watch their favorite tv show when they’re lonely, and they feel less lonely during the show. Scientists think that lonely people are most likely to enjoy positive tv shows. If you go online and read comments of tv shows, that people comment “worst show ever” negative comments like that,  are probably satisfied with their life. Lonely people might have better connection with tv show characters or tv shows then people that already have a lot of people in their life.

I think that the article was very interesting. I never thought that television can make people less lonely. But I honestly don’t think television can have the same role as family. It can probably have the same role as friends I guess. Reading this article might make lonely people consider watching tv when they’re lonely.

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