English 9: Moment of Truth

  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Anglo-American Literature Icon:    Shirley Hardie Jackson  (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965)               - Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. Over the duration of her writing career, which spanned over two decades, she composed six novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories.   Born in San Francisco, California, Jackson attended Syracuse University in New York, where she became involved with the university's literary magazine and met her future husband Stanley Edgar Hyman. After they graduated, the couple moved to New York and began contributing to The New Yorker, with Jackson ...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Anglo-American Literature Icon:    Stephen King  (Born September 21, 1947)               - Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. Described as the "King of Horror", a play on his surname and a reference to his high standing in pop culture,[2] his books have sold more than 350 million copies,[3] and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. King has published 64 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and five non-fiction books.[4] He has also written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in book collection...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Anglo-American Literature Icon:    Daniel Gerhard Brown  (June 22, 1964)               - Dan Brown, (born June 22, 1964, Exeter, New Hampshire, U.S.), American author who wrote well-researched novels that centered on secret organizations and had intricate plots. He was best known for the Robert Langdon series, which notably included The Da Vinci Code (2003). -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   MAKING JUDGEMENT                 - The process of forming an opinion or evaluation by discerning and comparing careful judgment of the odds an opinion or estimate so formed is not worth doing in my...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   VALIDITY OF EVIDENCE    - Listening is one of the macro skills in English language. We listen to a lot of things every day, but not everything  we hear are true, correct and should be deemed trustworthy. Therefore, we need to learn to evaluate what we  hear and listen to and weigh its truthfulness and relevance. To be able to do that, we need the ability to judge  the validity of evidence listened to. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  EVIDENCE                -  is the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or a proposition is true or  valid. These may include data, facts, quotations, a...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Analytical Listening            - Analytical Listening is about the ability and the capacity to properly analyze what is being said. This not  only means understanding what the other person is saying and what they mean to say, but also being able to  divide difficult questions into separate parts to get to the core.            - Analytical listening is all about feeling and meaning. Sound gives us meaning and perspective in our  lives. For example, someone talking to you can say hello. On the surface it seems friendly, but the way they  say hello to you can convey a lot of different meanings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...