Just Walk On By Argument

A noticable interesting topic about the story is the way Liberty acts. It seems Ayn Rand, the author, has something against women even though she is a woman herself. The meaning of this is, the women out there that act like girls and only care about fashion and themselves is what is being spoken of. The literary element that is being focased on deals with this issue. This essay will focas on the story "Anthem" written by Ayn Rand containing the literary element of character.

The book goes through Jeannette’s life exposing the mistakes she, her siblings, and her parents made to become the family they were. As her life grows older, Jeannette finds herself in more responsible positions in the world, with editing school newspapers, to writing columns in a small New York newspaper outlet. Her troubles have raised the issue of stereotyping, a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. Due to her status in her childhood, it was not hard for her to fit in with the other members of the poor community. “Dinitia explained that I was with her and that I was good people. The women looked at one another and shrugged.” (Walls 191) The quote talks about how members of the black community in Welch accepted Jeannette to go swimming with them in the morning hours before the white people went in the afternoon. The people who knew Dinita, Jeannette’s friend, knew that Dinita was trustworthy, and let Jeannette pass. This relates to the thesis because it shows how she was accepted amongst the people who were

In a carefully worded essay I will discuss the aspect of ‘race’ as a hindrance to the

Scrolling through the possible essays to assess, it didn’t take long to find one that was eye catching. A Title by the name of Walking While Black by Garnette Cadogen caught my attention for obvious reasons. Cadogen depicts one of the terrors black men risk enduring every day in the United States. Cadogen’s storyline, techniques and informal language enables readers to connect to his story. The beginning of the essay takes us where his love for walking begins-his hometown Kingston, Jamaica. He creates a storyline, starting from his last night strolls in his hometown and walking us through how he ended up in the New York City being slammed against a cop car by a handful of policemen interrogating him.

Scrolling through the possible essays, it didn’t take long to find one that was eye catching. Walking While Black, by Garnette Cadogan, caught my attention for obvious reasons. The author takes a personal story that shows his interests-walking that is very current and understandable to most audiences. Cadogan depicts one of the terrors black men risk enduring everyday life in the United States. Cadogan’s storyline, quotes and informal language assist readers to reach a sense of connection with his experiences. The beginning of the essay takes us where his love of walking begins-his hometown Kingston, Jamaica. The storyline, starting from his late night strolls in his hometown, Cadogan walks us through how he ended up in the New York City

The essay begins by talking about when Staples ended up walking behind a woman on a Chicago street. At this instance, her pace began to increase until, finally, she was sprinting away from him. In the beginning paragraphs, he introduces words such as “victim” and “mean”. By doing this, a vivid picture is easily formed in the mind of the reader of when he came up behind this lady on the street. The situation was displayed in a way that made the reader suspect that something was going to do happen to her. As the passage continues, Staples beings to change this picture and starts to pull emotion from the reader. "It was in the echo of that terrified woman's footfalls, that I first began to know the unwieldy inheritance I'd come into - the ability to alter public space in ugly ways." (205) This newly expressed feeling is a prime example of Staples beginning to draw an emotional response from his audience. He is able to

In Kiese Laymon “How to Slowly Kill yourselves and others in America” and Brent Staples “Black Men and Public Spaces” both essays deal with being an African American man but the authors respond in a different ways. At one point in history being an African American wasn’t always the easiest but two Authors shared their stories about the experiences they had which were very different. Although the color of their skin is the same and how they treated was as well both authors take different precaution’s to handle the situations they were in to persuade the audience on how to deal with the effects of racism. Both authors show their hidden message through the actions presented throughout the essays. Laymon`s casual tone and will to fight make

During the time period that the article was written, violence was beginning to become an issue in many large, urban cities. In Krystal Miller 's article, she begins her first paragraph by going into detail about how a young girl by the name of Melchishaua Person is awarded with expensive clothes by her mother for making good grades. Furthermore into the section, she discusses how many students do not feel that any harm will be done to them, as it will be done to others instead. Towards the end of her first section, Miller states that much abuse and violence is occurring to students due to the clothes and accessories they may own or wear. While she does do a great job discussing the violence brought upon by the dress codes issue, more detail into how the students reacted could have been better. Her next section further discusses how students began to have a tendency to protest the authority of many officials in the more urban cities such as New York and Los Angeles. Miller 's third and final section is mainly based on the consequences that the violators had to face. While doing so, she discusses the many opinions of

Text E1 is titled just walk on by, written by Brent Staples. He was born in Chester Pennsylvania and was an author/editorial for the new york times. The text is an essay and was written in 1986 while the major events of racial profiling and brutality were a big issue. Throughout Brent's life, as an African-American, he lived with being discriminated and verbally abused by other races for example, whites. In the text he tells the how he feels when people run away from him or how he feels when whites are afraid because they see a black man nearby. Brent discusses how it is “abnormal” to be black in where he lived. In order to be respected in that town you have to look, dress and even talk like the white people do. He talks about how he has

The reading by Moraga was extremely important because we need to realize that we were not always these conditioned linear thinkers or writers. Moraga points out that our years of education in these institutions, institutions not made for us, have created this sense of amnesia about who we are and who we can become. We have tried so hard to forget our stories, myths, and culture so that we can be accepted and not marginalized. We do not realize that this is what society aims to do, a complete erasure of the narratives of

! The essay ́s structure is very persuasive. There is repetition that starts each body paragraph, such as “Poverty is getting up in the morning...” in the second paragraph, “Poverty is

This relates to his purpose of writing his essay because in the essay his father is treated differently based on the color of his skin rather than what skills and abilities he posses in the workplace.

What society thinks about yourself becomes important when you feel that people treat you in a different way. It is not about what you do, it is about how society judge you. In the article, “Beast of Burden” by Sunaura Taylor we have a story of a disable person who narrates how was her life since her childhood until now. On the other hand, there is another article, “The Arab Woman And I” by Mona Fayad which tells us about a lady who had to experience the opinions of others, society suppose her to be someone even when she does not want. The authors include examples, personal experience and rhetorical strategies to give us a better understanding. This text provides information of how is that society is the one who had been involved with the fears of people as time goes by.

Then, we consider the aspect of posing an argument. As in any arguments, a premise is significantly weakened when factors are affected by personal opinions, judgments and experiences. When using the first person narrative, the fact that its structure relies on the use of words relating to ones self, an argument can be significantly weakened. In this case, since it is the protagonist expressing her own ideas/ rebelling against racism, her stand is significantly weakened. Comparatively, in “A sense of Shame”, the idea of multiple people taking a stand does help to bring about a much more stronger idea of “social norm” and “making a stand”. However, when used correctly, the first person

The film I have chosen to explore the micro features on is The Pianist (2002) which is directed by Roman Polanski. Polanski assures that the audience gets a sense of belonging to that period of history and gets to explore the theme of discrimination through the characters life risking challenges that they face throughout the film. This micro essay will explore the following features, framing and camera movement in a 5 minute sequence.