He Marched Into Class By David Sedaris Summary

In one instance, the speaker claims the students “sweat the final in the park”, read “disorganized essays”, and when the bell rings everyone “zigzags” in the streets. Although it is humorous how he mocks the students’ tendencies, Collins belittles his students, thus leading the audience to conclude that Collins’ has a negative portrayal of his students. Similarly, Collins’ diction is specifically chosen to criticize his one failure of a student who “brushes her hair like a machine”, implying she has no emotion. Collins even mocks the students who enjoyed creative writing, for their interest in school did not assist them to find a purpose in life and have resulted to playing the “lute”.

People base their judgement of others through the way they talk, act, dress, and live. In the memoir Us and Them by David Sedaris, young Sedaris wants to know how the Tomkeys, his neighbors, live their lives without a television. His curiosity causes him to spy on the family during the day and night. Even though the Tomkeys may seem strange and not “normal,” Sedaris learns that he, himself, is not a perfect individual either. Sedaris uses allusions, irony, and first person point of view to deliver his message that people need to stop judging others and look at themselves instead.

During the Civil Rights Era, many black power movements strived to prevent the New Jim Crow from happening. The black man was being oppressed during segregation and treated like animals. The white supremacy, only visualize African Americans as slaves, people who should not be a part of the United States. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X drove men and women to fight for his or her rights. However, that was not enough to stop the white supremacy from oppressing African Americans. The Civil Rights movement did put an end to public segregation. It did not put not put an end to the laws being made by the government, which is dominated by the white race. In the book, The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander discussed how the Civil Rights and black power movements helped African Americans gain their equal rights, but did not help to gain political power. Mass Incarceration is where the African Americans’ lives end because of the social structure created by the government. Blacks are mostly in the lower class because after the Great Depression, Roosevelt only created laws for whites. This allowed the white community to build and move out the cities into better neighborhoods. Leaving the black community behind. The government placed businesses and built big buildings to keep all the blacks in one place. Base on how the black community was viewed as a race and social status, gives this race a higher chance of being behind bars.

Conversely, some writers have a rare style of writing that the reader may find it difficult to understand the premise of the writer (Kim,166). For example, Cha starts the book on an unpromising note that can repel a reader especially when they find it uninteresting. For example, the use of foreign languages in a single setting can only attract multilingual people since they can comprehend the information that the author wants to pass. In this context, the author uses French language in a form of writing that can be understood as dictation (Cha, 1). In some instances, she mentions groans and bared noises that can be equated to a character speaking. Evidently, the author spells out Inverted commas and full stops and provides translation to English subsequently. At some point, there is direct translation or mistranslation in distinct paragraphs, and this is of assistance to the reader as they can recollect the information to grasp the

Michelle Alexander’s the new Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness examine the Jim Crow practices post slavery and the mass incarceration of African-American. The creation of Jim Crows laws were used as a tool to promote segregation among the minority and white American. Michelle Alexander’s the new Jim Crow Mass takes a look at Jim Crow laws and policies were put into place to block the social progression African-American from the post-slavery to the civil rights movement. Fast-forward to 2008 the election of Barack Obama certified that African-Americans were no longer viewed as second-class citizens instead African-Americans are equal to their white counterparts. However, Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander tries to advance intellectual dialogue regarding mass incarceration in the United States. Alexander does this by carrying out a historical analysis of the process in which the correctional system controls African Americans through intentionally selected, and systematically sanctioned legal limits. In fact, the United States incarceration rate is not at peak by coincidence. Moreover, it is not coincidental that Black men and women make up the majority of this number. According to Alexander, this problem is a consequence of the “New Jim Crow” rules, which use racial stratification to eliminate black individuals in the legal sense. Black people and a small number of the Hispanic community face racial stratified laws when they face the justice system. This paper will support the claims that race is a major factor in the incarceration of black men in the United States, which includes the Jim Crow system, the slave system and the drag war. This process will also involve analyzing of some of the arguments presented within the book.

In the excerpt from the novel Under The Feet Of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes Estrella goes through a character development from a feeling of ambivalence about school and her teachers to an understanding why she must go through the process of a foreign language. The author does this by using figurative language, diction, and tone.

Adriane Lentz-Smith wrote the book called the Freedom of Struggles, Who is an associate Professor of History at Duke University. Adriane had studied history and African American studies. She was successful in everything Adriane did, she had many goals to achieve. One of the goals were to get across one point about how war world 1 and African Americans goes to Europe with American expeditionary forces in World War 1. How the story was a critical movement in the book “freedom of struggles”. Adriane was an aggressive and powerful writer and wanted everyone to hear her story on African Americans going to war, how back in time it interferes with the Europe civilians an African troops she illustrates an mobilized generation.

However, Richard believes that students taught in their family's native language are socially disadvantaged due to the delay of learning English in the earlier years of childhood. Parts of the audience may not be able to relate to Richard's struggles of the language barrier between his parents and his older siblings as well as himself, but the audience may feel empathy towards the memoir. Some may have objections to the approach the nuns took towards Richard's parents on the slow progress of the children adapting to the English language. The tone of the author is best described through the word melancholy due to his constant longing to hear his family speak their native language during dinner or just throughout the

The book, The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander is about the mass incarceration of African Americans in the criminal justice system. It depicts individuals who were arrested on drug crimes. Because these individuals are labeled as criminals, it becomes difficult for them to find work, housing, and public assistance. (Alexander, 2010) The themes in this book include denial and ignorance, racism and violence, and drugs.

Rhetorical Analysis: “Me Talk Pretty One Day” In David Sedaris’s essay “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” the writer describes his experiences as a 41 year old learner in France with his classmates and teacher. Sedaris shares with readers a humorous story of the challenging obstacles he faced while learning the French language. Though Sedaris did not quite understand his French teacher’s direction initially, eventually the writer became receptive to the teacher’s peculiar techniques. The writer uses various rhetorical devices, such as irony to explain the teacher’s unique style of teaching.

The phrase, “We the people”, holds a lot of meaning to American citizens. As the first three words of the United States Constitution, it signifies a core value intended to act as a unifying factor in America’s democratic society: popular sovereignty. This is the idea of a majority rules, or to put more simply, the one with the most votes wins. The U.S. system of government relies upon the fact that the American people are capable of coming together to make informed decisions about matters that will ultimately better the lives of everyone. Despite this, however, there are certain instances in which a minority group will impose on or have more influence than the majority group. This phenomenon occurs all the time in politics, as politicians tend to regard the predilections of small groups of citizens as opposed to the general populace.

This poem dramatizes the conflict that arises when an individual seeks to find meaning in life. It attempts to uncover the supposed illusion that knowledge produces answers. The speaker begins in a subconscious state of inferiority and loneliness when a man of great understanding comes to give him advice and to show him the way to find hope. The speaker experiences an extreme joy to have a man of such great knowledge come alongside him to help to navigate life’s journey. Quickly the peculiar pair begins to run forward, but: “Soon, too soon, were we / Where my eyes were useless” (5-6). Realizing that he is now completely lost and fully dependent on the mercy of his learned guide, the speaker continues to grasp the hand of his supposed saviour. In the final line the speaker hears his newly found friend and only source of life cry out in emotionless tone: “I am lost” (9). In this way, the speaker understands and declares the despair and emptiness of trusting in human knowledge as a way to understanding life. Ultimately, the poet uses the speaker to state his personal worldview of nihilism.

and value systems. Dead Man's Path is set in Nigeria in 1949. It is on

12 Years a Slave is the memoir of Solomon Northup, a free man that was rebranded as a slave in 1841 when he was tricked by two men he believed were helping him. Fights against the injustices of slavery using intelligence, never giving up hope and relying on faith through his music he survives the experiences and lives to tell the tale. With the tears of joy after being reunited with his family after twelve long years, Solomon Northup wrote the novel of his experiences as a slave and published it one year after regaining his freedom.