Booesman's Monologue

When Stanley first got to Camp Green Lake he was timid, apprehensive, and hesitant, but now he’s dauntless, sympathetic, and worthy.

The pearl, in my opinion, was not evil, it was bait. It lured bystanders in as a test. It reminds be of the trails to get to heaven; it was made to entice the greedy and selfish so they may be punished. Those who can keep away the destructive thinking of power and riches get rewarded. It was a standard to leech out the sinners.

The emancipation proclamation was Abraham Lincoln 's presidential declaration that changed the legal status of slaves from “slave” to “free.” Baldwin’s letter “My dungeon shook” was written in 1963, the hundredth anniversary of the emancipation Proclamation. The significance of the timing of this letter is that he believes that “the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon.” With regard to time he is saying that there has not been much black progress, instead this progress has only begun. He believes the emancipation gave the illusion that the African Americans were free, but it did not fulfill the cause of bringing equality about. Instead, this gave white people the ability to ignore or overlook the injustices that the African Americans faced.

Inhumane degeneration of colored people by human trafficking had once lasted for two centuries in America. Those trafficked by white people became slaves sold in auditions were strained and were commonly abused by their masters. Slaves were compelled to perform vigorous labor everyday for seven years in hope for a day that their master will release them. Benjamin Banneker was a son of a former slave who had wrote a letter to ex-US Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson in hope for Jefferson to take role in part of abrogating enslavement. Although Banneker was born as a free man, his determination of resolving servitude had brought himself to construct a letter to Jefferson. Through the use of emotional diction, tone, and religious allusion, Banneker emphasizes his passion for freeing slaves of America.

Additionally, it was primarily for the free blacks in the United States. This address, and many like it in this time, is filled with many juxtapositions, which contrast each other. For example, the speaker calls them country men which generally has a positive connation, and evokes feelings of pride and belongings. However, then in the next sentence the speaker says that they do not belong in America because they are not treated like citizens. However, this is important because this is how America was for these black men who were free. They were free but they still had no political rights. They were free while their brethren were held in captivity. It is important to note that these this individual highlights the hypocrisy, that in the 21st century we can also see. The hypocrisy of the founders who used such sophisticated and liberating language to justify their freeness but does not include the African American men and women of this time period. It is interesting to see that men of this time period shared some of the same ideas as the 21st century about this time

Thurman moves deftly through varying experiences demonstrating the dehumanizing effects of segregation. He reflects upon the structure of a society that was chained and bound like the demoniac of the Gerasenes. The same evil that was necessary to restrict African Americans was the same evil that restricted the oppressors. Thurman recalls looking upon white people as ones without morals. “They were not read out of the human race, they simply did not belong to it in the first place” (Thurman, p. 3). As a boy he recognized that the white boy could express his hostility, but Thurman was not allowed vent his anger. He describes black behavior as being frozen while white behavior remained fluid.

If we think of Slavery we think of it as an event in our history that degrading blacks, and only blacks. We, at least I don’t think of it as effecting whites, but if we look at the two authors Baldwin and Coats we see slavery and racism can be viewed on a whole different level. Blocking out stereotypes Coates and Baldwin give us an inside look on what it was actually like like to own or to be a slave. Baldwin, talks about the effects of slavery on a micro level, and talks about how it affects people individually, and how even if someone doesn’t believe in it, they can be taken over by the idea of racism without realizing it; how racism can even affect the white man, saying that you can become the monster that you hate. . Coates, on

I have been in a number of programs and extracurricular activities at Lincoln H.S. that helped me define my career goals and challenged me to the fullest. As I finish my journey from High School, I began to slowly realize that their was nothing tangible I had offered to this community, but I what I did offer was myself. Being on the Mustang Varsity team there was always this one person who showed me how to be the best tennis player. His name was David Dinh. David had shown me that their was more to tennis than winning the game, it was about having fun with your teammates/coaches and building relationships with others through a simple rally. His leadership skills and enthusiasm for this sport had influence my own perspective of

Well, here I am. I’m at Yokeman Regional Medical Center. Thanks to the skull fracture and the sprain on my leg, I’ll be here for a bit. They gave me just the right amount of pain medication so it’s just a numbing feeling. I’m expected to do some physical therapy for a bit after the release me. I feel fine, relieved actually that this is all over. It’s been four days since that horrible night where my old science teacher tried to kill me. Speaking of which, I had a nice talk with my mom about her past this morning, and how it almost got me killed. Now, she refuses to leave my side. Randy is in jail, not the local jail, he got transported to the big house in Phoenix. The rotting corpses, and the bodies from the old church, only one of them died, but it was all overdose. Randy was growing the mushrooms in the church and giving them out to the people who were willing enough to join his little cult. He created that cult in memory of Robin, not the one he killed, but the one he remembered from High School. You

Himes brought light to the abuse African Americans went through during World War II when their race limited their chance of equality. Himes illustrated African American’s desire to protest racism. This is seen when Bob realizes he will never reach true equality. Himes also warned the black culture when Bob takes his girlfriend, Alice’s advice to “adjust themselves to the limit of their race” (p

Throughout the entire history of the United States, there has never been a more controversial subject than that of slavery. The ways we’ve mishandled fellow Americans and treated them as inferior beings cannot be forgotten. Benjamin Banneker was a child of some of these slaves. In his letter to the president at the time, Thomas Jefferson, Banneker uses rhetorical strategies - high-level diction, repetition, and syntax - to argue against slavery and hopefully change Jefferson's view on the unforgettable subject. Banneker’s use of high-level diction primarily establishes his ethos.

This text is an excerpt from Chapter 13 of Richard Wright’s Black Boy. Richard currently values his money, pride and dignity, his pride and dignity stopped him from conforming. Richard is still in the South where blacks are mistreated, and discriminated but plans to move to the North. This passage occurs while he contemplates his options in the South. Richard realizes he has no options in the South so he wants to move to the North. The author informs the readers that adjusting to the norm in the South is like death.

Tonight’s the night I die, it was a good five years for life but not it is about to come crashing down on me, I think as I lay in my spiderman bed in terror of what is behind my closet doors. The one door being slightly opened creates a window to a new scary world, the boogey world. Mama and Daddy tried to hide it from me but my older brother Tommy told me about the boogeyman that lives in the closest. I have no one else I can trust in the house, if Tommy didn’t tell me about the boogeyman then I would probably be it’s midnight snack. Now I can protect myself, I throw my blankets over my head and create a fort so me and my fellow soldiers can discuss our plan to survive. Mr. Cuddly had the idea to just hide under the blankets till morning,

Richard is discovering some of the many terrible acts that white people are doing to affect his life and the life of those he loves. Richard witnesses white people threatening black people using violence as a method of getting their way, or showing that they’re more powerful. Richard’s uncle is killed and he soon finds out why: “ Uncle Hoskins had been killed by the white men who had long coveted his flouchering liquor business. He had been threatened with death threats and warned

He argues that Melville wrote a moral tale, not an abolitionist story. At the end of the essay, Schiffman contradicts himself by proclaiming that Babo's head being "unabashed" as Benito Cereno, the slave trader, "follow[s] his leader" is an indictment of slavery.