Ann Raimes

I agree completely with Ann Raimes that there are many different things that identify who we are as a person. Just the way that we were raised by our parents and how we spent our time and who we hung out with have a massive effect on shaping who we are. These many things build us and make the foundation of what we believe in and our morals. So like she says there are a numerous of things that happen to us in our lives that shape us in different ways. But in the end everyone might be alike in some ways, but we are all our own person and we are unique from everyone else.

As for the reading critically and strategies portion of the article, she has made a numerous amount of valuable points that you should look at. She provides us with many different strategies and unique tools that we can use to better understand what we are reading and to help interpret it.

I actually just had to read a short excerpt from Plato in one of my classes and it was around 60 pages long and we were told that we were going to have a quiz about it the next time we met. It would have been very helpful for me to have already read this article before hand. I feel that if I would have done that then I might have been able to understand what I was reading a lot better, and understand what the author was getting at and maybe not miss some important information that I missed the first time reading it.