Answer to Question #313873 in English for Cleo

Question

1. How does reading and writing in various disciplines (Science, Mathematics, History, Literature) converge "between" and "across" in terms structure, grammar, and the like. Provide examples.

2. Scenario: While reading the How I met My Husband by Alice Munroe, there is a specific line that struck and made you think of. The line goes as:

Till it came to me one day there were women doing this with their lives, all over. There were women just waiting and waiting by mail-boxes for one letter or another. I imagined me making this journey day after day and year after year, and my hair starting to go gray, and I thought, I was never made to go on like that. So I stopped meeting the mail if there were women all through life waiting, and women buy and not waiting, I knew which I had to be. Even though there might be things the second kind of women have to pass up.and never know about, it still is better.

— What is the central idea/ theme? Justify your answer.

Answer 1

1] A wide reading of literature and nonfiction to gather new ideas and insights about the natural and social world and solid instruction in the disciplines the sciences, the social sciences, mathematics, and the humanities.

The polar opposite position, which might best be labelled a utilitarian view of reading, writing, and language, contends that from the outset of kindergarten, educators should engage children in a systematic quest to make sense of their world through deep engagement with the big ideas that have puzzled humankind for centuries. These are, of course, the very ideas that prompted humans to develop the disciplinary tools we use to understand and improve the natural and social world in which we live. Proponents of the utilitarian view argue that students will need to use, and hence refine, their reading and writing skills as they seek information to better understand and shape their worlds. Once students feel the need to learn to read, it will be much easier to teach students the lower-level skills needed to transform print into meaning. A side benefit is that students will have learned an important lesson about the purpose of reading—that it is always about making meaning and critiquing information on the way to acquiring knowledge.

2] Central theme is love is patient.