english language

National University of Computer & Emerging SciencesPresentation On English Language

Topic of presentation:• Introduction of Authors & Essays

1.“Once Unique,Soon a Place,Like any Other” by “Abe Whaley”

2. “What’s in a Name” by “Henry Louis Gates Jr” 3. “Subway Station” by “Gilbert Highet”

• Structure of selected Paragraphs from these Essays

Group E:

• Group Members M Mehran Sunny 12L-4461 Shehroz 12L-4464 Shahbaz Khan 12L-4471 Ali Adnan 12L-4458

“Once Unique,Soon a Place,Like any Other” by “Abe Whaley”

• Abe Whaley“A big thank you to all my haters”North Cackalack, USA

He was born in sevierville , tennessee , in 1989.

He received his BS degree from Logistics and his master’s of public administration in 2007, both from the university of Tennessee

He is currentely a Doctrol student . He has written a number of articles on

Environmental issues. His essay (Once Unique,Soon a Place,Like

any Other) first appeared in Newsweek on November 14,2005.

Thesis of “Once Unique,Soon a Place,Like any Other”

“using the power of nature is stronger and more fulfilling than any industrial thing”

“What’s in a Name” by “Henry Louis Gates Jr”

• Henry Louis Gates Born on September 16, 1950 (age 62)

Keyser, West Virginia, U.S Occupation: Author, documentary filmmaker,

essayist, literary critic, professor Nationality: American  He serves as the Alphonse Fletcher 

University Professor at Harvard University, where he is director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.

Essay “What’s in a Name” excerpted from a long article published in fall 1989 issue of Dissent Magazine.

Thesis of “What’s in a Name”

“He informs people of some of the problems that still go on today with African-American, and helps us learn where and when to take a stand. Taking a stand at the right time can lead other …”

“Subway Station” by “Gilbert Highet”

• Gilbert Highet Born in Scotland (June 22, 1906 – January 20,

1978)  Gilbert Highet is best known as a mid-20th-

century teacher of the humanities in the United States

He married with well-known novelist Helen MacInnes in 1932.

devoted most of his energy to teaching, he also aspired to raise the level of mass culture and achieved broader influence by publishing essays and books

Essay “Subway Station” is taken from his book “Talent and Geniuses”(1957).

Thesis of “Subway Station”

“When a place, or situation, or person is not what I expected, or even not what I’m interested in, that place or person still has value. Everything has its own form of beauty and value, even if it’s not obvious right away”

Paragraph from “Once Unique , Soon a Place like any other”

Paragraph number 3.

• “The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where my family lived before 1933,and Dollywood, Dolly Parton’s theme park, draw year round crowds.

New home construction has been climbing steadily for years, and the rental housing market , mostly overnight log-cabin outfits ,has exploded. It seems that no ridge is too steep, no mountaintop too high, no creek too pristine to bulldoze and build on.”

Explanation by Shehroz

This paragraph is an extended form of the main idea. Its main aim is to provide a contrast of the earlier, beautiful place, that it used to be, with the new bad look.

Thesis Statement:“ It seems that no ridge is too steep, no mountaintop too high, no creek too pristine to bulldoze and build on.”

The current new look is so crowded with buildings that the old unique look i.e. the ridges, mountains and creeks seem no more prominent.

Supporting details:

1. THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK AND DOLLYWOOD WERE ATTRACTION TO CROWDS.

2. AS THE HOUSING MARKET BULGED OUT OVERNIGHT, THE AREA HAS BECOME FLAT AND THE INTEGRITY OF THE PLACE IS LOST.

Paragraph from “What’s in a Name” Paragraph Number 4

• Mr. Wilson was a very quiet man, whose strongly,brooding, silent manner

Seemed designed to scare off any overtures of friendship,even from white people.He was larish,as was one third of our village .My father always spoke to him,and for reasons that we never did understand,he always spoke to my father.“Hello, Mr.Wilson,” I heared my father say.“Hello, George.”

Supporting Details:

A very quiet manHe was IrishFather’s Friend“Hello George”

Paragraph from “Subway Station” Paragraph number 1

• “Standing in a subway station, I began to appreciate the place—almost to enjoy it. First of all, I looked at the lighting: a row of meager electric bulbs, unscreened, yellow coated with filth, stretched toward the black mouth of the tunnel, as though it were a bolt …………………”

Explanation by Ali Adnan

• Thesis Statement:

“Standing in the subway station, I began to appreciate the place--almost to enjoy it.”

Supporting Details:

LightingWalls and CeilingFloor and TracksRoofAdvertisement posters

Conclusion:

“ ACTUALLY THIS ESSAY IS ABOUT OBSERVENCE AND EXPERIENCE.SO, WE SHOULD ALSO OBSERVE THINGS AND TAKE THEM IN SOME OTHER WAY.AND THATS ALL !...”