Popular Mechanics Learning Journal U6 PDF

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For this unit’s Learning Journal you will need at least two sources. First, you will pick any short story or article found by using the UoPeople Library or another online source. The story does not have to be the one you've read for this week. You will then utilize the UoPeople library to find one s...

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1. What is the title of the text? The narrative I picked is Popular Mechanics by Raymond Carver 2. How do you know the author's view? It refers to cases of disagreement between men and women in the marital home, which may sometimes develop into a problem that affects children and threatens their existence and future. 3. What is the evidence presented by the author to support ideas? The problems between couples are diverse and widespread. These problems can be approached in various ways and friendly high-end means, but the general nature of these problems is the resort to violence, humiliation, and contempt. The author stresses that primitive methods of problem-solving are the most popular and widespread among people. We see from the story that the writer did not give a name to the man, woman or child to indicate that this problem is a human problem at all times and places. Some evidence of this is the quality of the dialogue between men and women; the insults women have been making towards men as they prepare to leave, and also the direct resort to violence between men and women in their physical struggle for a child. 4. How do you know the evidence is valid? The writer did not tell us clearly what happened to the child or what happened to him after this fight. We do not know if one of the parents succeeded in acquiring the child. In the past, there are indications of what might happen to the baby when they "knocked down a flowerpot that hung behind the stove" (Carver,1981. para.21).

5. Do you know if the evidence is relevant? If yes, how? I think yes, for example, the reference to a broken flowerpot as if he were wondering would a child break like him? Family battles between father and mother destroy children physically and morally, erase confidence and cultivate in them a decade that may pass on to future generations. The behavior of the parents could not spare the child harm during their conflict, which the author ignored the cause of the conflict, which may be trivial, and also the author's reference in the latter that each of them stick to one of the arms of the child and try each of them through the struggle of force and end the story with the words "In this manner, the issue was decided" (Carver,1981. para.34). It means the conflict is over. This gives us signals and conclusions that the child may have been killed or torn in a fight between parents 6. Have you heard/read anything similar or dissimilar? What was it? I have not read something similar to the story before. However, in reality, I have seen cases where the kids been a victim of the divorce. The parents ignored the children needs and focused on their need, moved on with their life without considering what the children need to survive in this life. 7. Do you agree or disagree with the views expressed by the author? Why? I agree with the writer on the ideas he went into the story. There is a beautiful story in the book of Kings in the Torah tells the story of Solomon the Wise with two women each claiming to be her child. In the story, we find a wise solution to the problem when Solomon suggests that he will cut the child in half take each half of the child and thus resolve the dispute between the two women. Here the fake woman agrees immediately, and the real woman is afraid of the child and offers to abandon him in order to preserve his life. Here King Solomon knows the real woman from the fake woman and returns the child to his mother. In the writer's narrative, we do not find the culture of altruism of any of the parents ruled by absolute selfishness. At the beginning of the story, we find that the father wants to take with him the image of the

child, but the mother wants the child and his image. This behavior pushed the events forward and accelerated the conflict between parents and began to accuse each other without the slightest interest in the child and his life. During the dialogue, the parents shift from using the pronoun "him" when she said "Let go of him" (Carver,1981. para.32) to refer to the child and using "it" when the author described the mother feeling "She would have it, this baby" "(Carver,1981. para.23) indicating the baby turn to be an object one of them must have possessed him. That is, the child has been transformed from a living human being with his will and rights and in the future into something that is owned by parents and acquires it without the slightest consideration of his feelings or being a human being.

References: Carver, R. (1981). Popular Mechanics. Retrieved from http://www.tesltimes.com/pmech.html....