Questions for Active Reading (p. 371 and 385)

Page 371
I believe that the technique of reading the first and last paragraphs in an some-what effective way to get fast and easy information out of an essy or writing, because an effective writer will write their important arguments in those two paragraphs. It is important to know that Lightman is a scientist because his theory of the Earth and its shape would be different than his fellow scientists. An artist or social worker may or may not agree on the shape of Earth although the one that has more rescources to come to a decision like this one is indeed the scientist. In the examples his lighthearted tone was a sarcastic term that shows that he is jealous or has envy towards what others did and what he could not accomplish.

Page 385
Facts that Gould provesd and can be used as evidence to support the theory of evolution are," Perfection covers the tracks of past history, and past history the evidence of descent is our mark of evolution. Lies exposed in the imperfections that record a hitory of descent fossils that are not common, and should not be. Evidence of this can be found in Paragraphs seventeen and eighteen. The sets up his1981 essay by explaining and or showing something that is really important for him and for the person that was in this part of history along with him.