'Hypocrisy In We Wear The Mask' By Paul Laurence Dunbar

“ The only way to stop racism is to stop talking about it.” was Morgan Freeman’s suggestion. This solution would work with many people who don’t even talk about it. If we didn’t talk about it, we wouldn’t have this problem with racism. I have to agree with Freeman about not talking about racism.

“These people had no ritual for the washing away of sins. It is another trait we inherited from them, and it has helped to discipline us as well as to breed hypocrisy among us.” (19) These words, which were written by Arthur Miller in 1953, in the description of John Proctor, have given us the explanation of the hypocrisy we have today and will remain within us for a long, perpetual time ahead.

What are some ways that we welcome back ex cons into society if we do at all? What help determined our attitude towards these incrassated victims whether they are guilty or not? These are questions and situations that sociologist take time to research in society. This is mainly done because it affects society in some sort of way and it’s their job to find out why things happen and how can we help better the problems. Most offenders are from a lower income society or belong to an oppress group. The victims of coarse are the people who the harm is being done to, which by law there are consequences for their action. The problem, that leave one thinking is the kind of crimes people committed, or some may not commit any at all, probably just at the wrong place at the wrong time and they still happen to receive harsh penalty, being stigmatize as a criminal on record causing them to struggle in society.

Anthem, the futuristic novel pinned by Ayn Rand in 1937 gives light to a very scary place and time. This writing expressed her views and beliefs that the United States would be repeating a dark place of its history. Setting the preface where slavery and dictatorship was once more the social norm. As with most forward thinkers their thoughts and ideas are concerned extreme and not given the validity they deserve until future generation look back into the past. History and human behavior always repeats itself.

In the 1950s to the 1960s, there were 3,959 lynching of black men, women and children, the brutal deaths took place in only 12 states in the south of America. All of which were mainly because of racism. Melba Pattilo Beals wrote Warriors Don’t Cry to share her experience of racism when integrating into Central High. This book is to show the harsh reality of the suffering African Americans had to go through when battling racism. It shows that you should do what is right even if it is against society’s standards. In the novel, Warriors Don’t Cry, the importance of historical events greatly impacts the course of the story and the lives of the people in it.

Have you ever wanted to answer a question in class because you know the correct answer and want everyone in class to know you were right? This feeling of acceptance pushes you to learn more and further your success. A similar feeling is shown by Equality in Anthem. Yes you help your class out by giving the right answer, but you also feel a sense of pride and want to continue giving correct answers. Just like benefitting the class with the right answer, the benefit Equality gives mankind is helpful, but in reality he is really focused on gaining knowledge.

White privilege is the societal privileges that specifically benefit white people. White privilege is why white people can get pulled over by the police and escape a ticket with just a smile and apology. White privilege is also why whites are in charge of a company and they see a black person, they bypass the application. Whites carry a certain privilege not available to people of color. Marilyn Frye describes how whiteness is a form social and political power.

Some fall in love with literature early in life and continue a deep passion for it throughout time. I on the other hand cannot say the same. When I began reading like most it was simple works intended for young minds, often those types of reading lack much substance and I lacked interest. Later, I began to enjoy books that the mind to different places. I began to have an interest in dystopian fiction.

“Anthem” by Ayn Rand, is a story about the meaning behind self development of a person’s own thoughts. Ayn Rand was born February 2, 1905 in Saint petersburg, Russia. She is a novelist,philosopher, and screenwriter.

Frederick Douglass was born in Talbot County, Maryland in 1817 as a slave due to his mother’s status. During his life he had faced many cruelties by his masters and failures escaping slavery. When he finally escaped slavery, he wrote an autobiography called My Bondage and My Freedom, which was published in 1855. This book impacted society by bringing realization on how slavery was inhumane, and needed to be abolished. Also, this book was so inspiring and successful, it had an abundant of reprinted copies in different translations.

When a person thinks of education, he/she thinks of something they get as a kid growing up. It is something they choose to do, something that is fun, something they use to earn social status and more money. But what if it was something that was required to survive? What if learning to read or write was a death sentence instead of an asset? What if education led to something better or something much worst? Reading, The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, by Frederick Douglass; highlights key points about slavery, religion, and education. It focuses on the struggles of illiteracy in slaves and how it was used as a mechanism for management and restraint. Douglass proves how education empowers and instills strength in himself as well as other slaves to escape and realize their self-worth. The literature talks about Douglass’ beginnings, his road to education, and his escape to the north as an educated man. Douglass also sheds light on slavery and how slaves were treated and how they were manipulated and controlled by their very own ignorance. In The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, Slave owners and distributors treated slaves like livestock, kept them in line by the use of religion and brutality, and made sure they stayed ignorant and uneducated to the slave industry 's benefit. Slaves were nothing more than property; sometimes treated worse than animals.

“We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.” Sometimes people can use mask’s to change how they look, feel, and what they think. Everyone has their own mask that they use so that other people do not judge them on who they are. People also mask themselves if they do not think they meet any standards that other people have. It is more beneficial than harmful to mask yourself.

The most effective and influential thing an author can do while writing about war, is in some way channeling the reader's emotions. By doing this, it should interest the reader further because it will make them feel more affiliated with the text. In pieces of writing about war that we have read this year, all of the different authors use different methods in their writing. The three most compelling examples out of all the pieces of literature that we have covered this year would be, a quote out of All Quiet on the Western Front, Fallen Angels, and “Why am I Opposed to the War in Vietnam” a speech by Martin Luther King Jr. These all channel the reader's emotions very effectively.

In “Beyond Vietnam - A Time to Break the Silence,” Martin Luther King Jr. conveys a strong stance against the injustice and violence of the Vietnam War. He believes the Vietnam War is devastating the hopes of the poor and brutally highlighting inequality in America; he implores the reader to take action in the form of protest against these issues. To bolster his argument, King adroitly employs personal anecdotes, forced teaming, and comparisons to sway his readers.

Justice is the process result of using law to fairly judge and punish a crime or a criminal. Injustice is the lack of fairness and justice. Martin Luther King Jr. led the civil rights movement. This movement was a mass popular movement to secure equal access and opportunities for the basic privileges and rights of U.S. citizenship to all the people living in America. The act was active between 1955 and 1968. King was famous for using nonviolent resistance to overcome injustice, and he never got tired of trying to end segregation laws. In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail because he and others were protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama. A court had ordered that King could not hold protests in Birmingham. While King was in jail, he wrote a letter, “Letter From Birmingham Jail”, to the newspaper explaining why he had broken the law. In the book, “Antigone” by Sophocles, similar events had happened to the main character, Antigone. Creon, the king of Thebes, had ordered for no one to mourn over the death of Polynices, son of Oedipus (the former king of Thebes who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother), there was to be no type of burial or prayers for him. If anyone was to try and touch the body of Polynices there was to be sentenced to death. Antigone played a bigger role than Creon in that she defied the law and started the whole play’s chain of events, eventually leading to nearly everyone’s death. Regardless Ismene’s, her sister, warning to listen to the king’s edict, Antigone gave her brother a burial, prayers and poured ritual wine on the corpse. Martin Luther King Jr. and Antigone both had fought for something they believed in, something that went against the law and both were punished for their ‘crime’.