Darya Fedorova

The article “Back to books: the joy of slow reading” written by John Miedema is devoted to the discussion of the value of the influence of the way of reading on the people’s mood. First, the author draws the readers’ attention to the fact that slow reading “cuts stress, improves comprehension, and increases empathy”. Then he analyzes that last decade was a time for transformation for readers – books became electronic. He gives an example of how bookstores suffer from it and try not to close by supplementing their book sales with gifts and electronics. He also emphasizes that e-books now can track the speed of reading. He author suggests that books became “shorter” because of this and he pays attention to the fact that people feel the phantom pain when they go back to the real books. Then he argues that not all texts deserves slow reading. For example, the internet articles. Finally, he says that slow reading method is more suitable for the real books and the choice of this will remove...

Louise Tickle, a freelance journalist, starts an article with a story about an invitation that had dropped into her inbox. She was asked to give a lecture to the charity Family Rights Group. After receiving that, she was worried about not only writing a mini-dissertation, but also the confidence in her voice. Despite the fact that Louise used to have different talks with other people as a journalist, she was sure that her voice sounds a bit thin and high, even a bit girly.   Suddenly, she discovered that this problem is not unique. In history of world broadcasting, there has been lots of prejudice about women’s voices. For example, in UK women weren’t allowed to read television news on national programmes until 1975. According to the Daily Express and the Sunday Dispatch, women’s voices don’t have enough strength in their voices to articulate their opinions. Even if women could give public speaking they were under pressure because their voices were too tough.   To s...

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