Commonalities In A Young Men's Story

As discussed in a recent essay by Saul Kaplan “The Plight of Young Males”, there is a serious academic gender achievement gap in the United States and as I will discuss, around the world. Young women are doing significantly better than young men, and the results are shocking. In the latest census, males make up 51 percent of the total U.S. population between the ages of 18-24. Yet only 40 percent of today’s college students are men. Since 1982, more American women than men have received bachelor’s degrees. In the last ten years, two million more women graduated from college than men. As Kaplan reveals, the average eleventh-grade boy writes at the level of the average eighth-grade girl. He also states that women dominate high school honor rolls and now make up more than 70 percent of class valedictorians. Kaplan says, “I am happy to see women succeeding. But can we really afford for our country’s young men to fall so far behind,” (733)?

The message I believe it was trying to portray is men, white or black share the same goals, fear, determination and pride. This film I’m sure was made for maximum profits just because of the actors that appeared in it, but this movie was remarkably accurate.

This is proof that there is racial discrimination in law enforcement that affects police brutality. This also reinforces the culture of people of color being less human than white people, which takes its roots all the way back to slavery in America. When slavery was still prevalent in the United States, white people believed that black people(slaves), did not feel pain like they felt pain. After slavery was abolished, black people were still strongly regarded as inferior to white people and white people still saw them as wild creatures rather than human beings. White people saw themselves superior to every other race of people, so it was common for them to mistreat other races that weren’t white. This mindset is not as strong as it was in the past but, it is still strong enough to affect the choices police officers make during interactions with people of color. As a result of discrimination at the police level, many people have turned to court system’s to reach justice.

This video showed the public how the police brutally beat a man that was defenseless. The video spread ramped around the whole news community and a title of the LAPD became known as the most hated cops in America. In LA, there was a problem with racial profiling and police brutality but the blacks were never able to prove the police’s wrong doing. With the video, the blacks felt that this could be an open door to showing the world how the LAPD really acted.

In the United States, cultural divide is evident almost everywhere you go. Police are often the ones blamed for divide. In the past couple of years, many African American men have been killed by police in streets across America. With most of the cops being white, the black community has linked these killings to racism. Black groups have become furious with these killings. African Americans are taking a stand against police and racism on an everyday basis. We see these stands being taken place on social media and TV. Although most people would look at this video thinking it’s about speaking out against police, I see a different message. The music video by Big Sean, “One Man Can Change The World”, demonstrates an inspirational impact somebody can have on social issues.

Most people who see this without doing their own research on what really happened just assume that the story being said is the story that is true. The easiest way to figure out where people get their information from on this subject can be done by just asking them what they think of it. I did an interview with Sophia Trejo and asked her, "What do you think about police brutality?" Her response could not have done a better job at exposing the truth. She said that the amount of police brutality cases is too much. She does not like the police because of these cases and because of what they all do to minorities, specifically African Americans. She says that the media covers so many cases and that it is amazing how many police officers "get away" with all of these beatings. Most people say the same thing and most people do not like their fellow police officers because of it. The main piece of information I received from this explanation was that media covers so many cases of police brutality. The keyword being media. That statement alone shows where she receives all of her information. The sad part is that most United States citizens use the media as their main, and most of the time, their only source of news. Essentially what occurs is people become blind followers to the source of their news. A trusting

This showed the beginning of the attack and the acts of hate against colored people. This also showed how limited and short the lives of colored people could be during these times because white supremacy would not allow them to thrive making their lives miserable and filled with living in the shadows.

As I witnessed the videos and sound recordings of the police killings of these Black youth: Trayvon Martin, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice and Darnisha Harris, I, too, lost hope for racial equality and developed a fear of law enforcement that still exists to this day. These emotions are quite common amongst Black youth, yet the presence of such is

The claims are supported by the evidence stated that shows more than 15 black man are killed by the police, and how few white man are even touched. The claims will definitely captivate the audience's attention because they are backed up and the sad realities of the life we're living.

I was fourteen when I first became aware of black struggles, particularly in the United States. An innocent, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was fatally shot by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman. Martin was shot plainly because he was Black and yet, Zimmerman walked away a free man on the grounds of self-defense. His death had ignited something in me. A teenage boy was murdered because an ignorant, racist and self-glorified man had garnered the sympathy of the justice system. Truthfully, this was only a nudge to the direction. As sad it is, I was still naïve. However, with every bullet that pierced through each innocent black body, the systemic racism that had targeted the Black community for centuries had made itself known to me. More

Energy is one of the single most important concepts to keep in mind when writing, it can make even the most insignificant occurrences interesting. Energy plays with the reader’s senses combining subject matter, leaps/ spacing and words into one to create a fascinating piece of work. “Good writers choose a topic they know a lot about—relationships, travel, growing up, bedrooms, hotels, restaurants, the synagogue on 42nd Street—and they trust that they will discover things about the topic as they work.” (Sellers 71) Rick Moody author of “Boys” has taken a relatable topic the process of growing up and has turned a thirty year frame into a condensed

The two questions in the introduction were '[w]ho makes the first step for the end of racial segregation with the help of sit-ins? And by what is that action inspired?' James Lawson is the one, who inspire those young students. Lawson explains them, that love is also a weapon to end racial segregation. He tells his students, that they can beaten and humiliated if they use his strategy. His words are quite provocative. But the students are so focused to achieve the aim of ending racial segregation, that they take the consequences. These young black activists do not want to give up until there comes the point that racial segregation ends, and everyone has equal rights. The movie shows the bravery, the motivation and the ambition, the students have, from day one to the end. And there is nothing that will stop

In the light of, the director makes good points through the whole movie about what they went through. I like this movie because it gives me more information of the people who were involved or who were there during that time. Like, Ann Lee Coper (Oprah Winfrey), Martin Luther King (David Oyelowo), and the rest of the people who help fight for African Americans to be able to vote. The movie also shows the difficult and the happy time they went through. Even the problems with their family. No matter what’s going on, they were still focus and full invested in having freedom. What I learned from this movie was that they did not let all the obstacles of what they went through mess up their main goal because of that I am able to take those lesson for my

Short stories can share themes, motifs, symbols, consequences, and plot lines, even if there is never any intention to share a common element between the stories. The stories can be written close together or in different decades and still be linked to the one another. They can also be worlds apart with different meanings in the end, but that does not stop them from having similar ideas expressed within them. The following three stories, “Lagoon” by Joseph Conrad, “The Rocking Horse Winner” by DH Lawrence, and “The Lady in the Looking Glass” by Virginia Woolf, are three totally different stories that share common threads that make them the stories that they are.