!. Highlighting:
Simply a referential mark in your text. Although this seems simple enough, the thought behind your highlights is extremely important to you. After awhile, you will see certain common threads in your own thoughts as well as the author's. In this sense, you are exploring self through the text's "other." You learn who you are in relation to the text at hand.
2. Annotation
Another point of reference. Annotation is generally marginal notation--nothing elaborate, just a reminder of why you thought the passage was important enough to highlight in the first place. But, again, your annotation keeps you aligned with an emerging agenda--each time you annotate, you explain to yourself why certain parts of the text are important to you while others are not. You reinforce your position.
3. Paraphrase/Summary
This is the ability to put in your own language the thoughts of an "expert" or professional who might apply exclusive professional language (jargon, buzz words). Paraphrasing is, essentially, a form of self-explanation in conjunction with a positive sort of language-play. By changing the language and retaining the gist of an object text, you may realize the importance of language patterns and the ability of language to include or exclude. Putting it in your own words makes it your own. Summary is another form of "trimming down" a text to its essential "message" (or in many instances what you SEE as the essential message). It is another way to control text and sharpen your own critical abilities.
4. Synthesis
Synthesis is the putting together of specific parts of texts you have studied, annotated, paraphrased and summarized. Here is where your own critical agenda takes full form. By keeping an eye on your own prize, you can synthesize the parts of your various texts into a viable support group designed to back up a predesigned thesis (but, we must keep in mind that in the process of researching an agenda, we might well discover a new unavoidable twist). The whole IV step process from highlight to synthesis might be seen as a taking apart and reordering of an object text to suit your own needs--a means of controlling a text and rendering it secondary to your own primary agenda.
It would be nice but unfortunately its impossible to do. Switzerland is one of the few countries in the world who has been able to pull off avoiding war but even they were close to being invaded by Hitler in WW2 even though they claimed to be neutral. If you make war inhumane & out law it you would also prohibit yourself to defend itself. There will always be war there will always be greed there will always be reasons one country finds to attack another & more often then not a smaller one at that but still there will always be war. banning war would be like saying you should have doors on your house because their made of wood that would ultimately invite crime to your house in some form or another while at the same time living you little option in stopping it when it came. You don't have to start a war to be pulled into it & any involvement would lead to or contribute to inhumane things. If german invaded Switzerland & they fought back it would take Germany longer to take over delaying the victory most predicted & extending the time civilians could be hurt or killed fighting. While if they roll over & gave up they'd end up like France who still suffered even after giving up. So either way they would have suffered & had inhumane things done.
Science literature is often held back by facts, where you can express yourself, like an expository essay since they are held back by facts as well. Plain fiction is all up to the author with nothing holding them back, like an argumentative essay would be since it’s opinionated.
The reason why "good vs. evil" is a universal theme is because there are always two forces at work one for good and one for evil and for every good/evil thing there is an evil/good thing that will go up against each other until the end of time or at least until one of them is defeated, but then another good/evil thing will appear to take it place.
Example 1:
Your in high school and there is a bully and you try to stop the bully from hurting others. This makes you the good force and the bully the evil force (he/she doesn't have to be "evil" per-say just bad or mean will do).
