One Big Self Analysis

Throughout the centuries, there have been an infinite amount of literary works written by a sea of authors that write a variety of genres. All of these works are precious in their own way, and even if their theme is similar to that of another, the author always ads a bit of his/her own flare in order to make said literary creation unique in some way. William Wordsworth’s “London 1802” and Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “Douglass”, although quite similar in form and sentence structure, do add their own flare through the use of specific details. Through the use of these devices, the speakers show their disgust for the evil deeds humans do and

In Etheridge Knight's poem "Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane," he uses a fictional tale to describe the tyrannical elements of prisons while simultaneously conveying the oppression that those who defy authority face in society. Knight effectively utilizes imagery and analogies (implied or clearly stated) to appeal to the readers senses and draw them into the story (and ultimately the motif).

Julie Orringer, The author of “Note to Sixth-Grade Self”, describes a girl that has an issue with society at her school. The unknown character of is socially awkward and worries way too much about her surroundings . She is always worrying about the things that are going to happen in the future by talking to herself. She is always trying to fit into the others but she thinks about it more than she needs to. For example, at dance class, she is worried about where she is standing in line and not focusing on what Miss Miggie, The dance instructor is teaching them. The unknown character is socially awkward and worries too much about her surroundings because she wants to know where she is socially accepted along with her popularity.

Abstract: In Jimmy Santiago Baca’s book, A Place to Stand, prison isolation serves as a way for Baca to heal the wounds from his past and rediscover what he wants to do with the rest of his life. Initially, isolation is a destructive force, but over the course of his sentence, it becomes a positive, life-changing force for self-realization instead.

Specifically, the treatment of the many prisoners at the hands of the guards had really stood out to me. How handcuffs, leg-irons, strip searches, and comments such as “spread’m, Tonto” had become his day to day routine. In just a small section of the book, he shows the attitude that many guards take when dealing with people they are arresting or who are already incarcerated. They disrespect the inmates, not because they have to, but almost because they want to.

The distressing experience of operating as a prison guard in such a notorious penal facility as New York State’s Sing Sing Penitentiary is one that is unlikely to be desired by one not professionally committed to the execution of prison uniformity. However, the outstanding novel written by Tom Conover illustrates the encounters of a journalist who voluntarily plunged himself into the obscure universe of the men and women paid to spend the better portion of their lives behind prison barriers. In Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, Conover creates a noteworthy document resonating personal emotional occurrences that nonetheless suggest the cultural sensitivity of a true prison guard. From the standpoint of our studies

After reading the book I have gained a new understanding of what inmates think about in prison. Working in an institution, I have a certain cynical attitude at times with inmates and their requests.

John Wideman’s “Our Time” portrays a different side of a convicted felon that is often never seen. His brother Robbie was sentenced to life in prison after being involved in a murder and robbery. Writing a book about his brother was something he had never done before and shows a very interesting approach to getting the reader’s attention. Due to the fact that he had never written a book like this before Wideman had to overcome some obstacles he had never faced before. As Wideman began writing the book he realizes that he has a hard time grasping the fact that he is a successful novelist and his brother a felon. Throughout the passage Wideman speaks to the reader

At it’s heart, “Cell One” is a coming of age story about a young man learning to value mature, fair, nonviolent behavior as a form of communication and order as a way of life. Nnamabia has lived his entire life in a culture where vicious boys are the most popular, both in their Nigerian town and seemingly in American rap videos where gangs and other illegal behavior is regarded as a path to living a life full of fame and wealth. Being a typical adolescent boy, Nnamabia wants to seem like he’s part of the “in crowd” of the college campus and tries to make it seem like he is doing all the crime without actually taking on any risk. Once he is confronted with the consequences of his actions and kept in the corrupt prison, he realizes that the way he has been acting will get him killed or worse.

The gradual realization of his guilt in his history with the Party coincides with the gradual realization of his individuality, which he articulates as the grammatical fiction. The grammatical fiction is so christened due to its emphasis on the use of the first person singular, a concept shunned by the Party. After some time spent in his prison

In this world, there are two sides to everything. Whether it may be a message, a film or a novel, each platform of literature has two different windows. The first being the depiction of the author and the second being the interpretation of the audience. This concept is evident within both works this essay seeks to explore. In Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest, a charismatic criminal, Randle P. McMurphy is admitted to a state asylum due to his will of serving out of prison sentence in a mental hospital rather than the penitentiary. McMurphy brings in the outside world to the admitted patients after being legally declared insane through a condensed interview with a psychiatrist. He symbolizes freedom, life and the power of an

Six years turned him from flat-out angry to something more like constructively critical. He cast himself as the monitor of the prison regime. He was that eternally complaining customer who keeps returning to the restaurant anyway. His rage, scalding in the free world, cooled into a kind of nagging. He was Polunsky’s little gadfly: a reviewer of its food, a chronicler of what criminals led dignified than he did, an explainer of its overly bureaucratic processes. In his blog posts, he might disclose such things as the organogram of the prison, or the winding path that complaints followed, or the financial arrangement by which the county paid the state for keeping inmates until the death warrant was signed.”(Giridhardas

We are cultured to believe that we must continuously be following the rules that have been set before us and we must respect our elders because they know what is best and we obviously do not. Mihaly Csikszentmihayli, a Hungarian psychologist who graduated from Clarement and the author of “The Evolving Self”, wrote an article which discusses the need to recreate ourselves into the best person that we can be as well as the many struggles that we face in trying to achieve the perfect self. His essay recognizes our own individual uniqueness as we try to generate some sort of harmony amongst ourselves. Csikszentmihayli mentions many ideas about both of these factors while Barbara Mellix, who has a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and taught

I, (Michael Nisan) scored the highest on compromising for my conflict-handling style self-assessment. So far the whole team has scored the highest on compromising which shows why we’ve been working together without any issues. Being that I scored the highest on compromising this is will benefit my team because I am assertive and cooperative. I try my best to stay updated and notice every message anyone posts, and assertive to help just in case the team needs it. Since the whole team scored the highest on compromising, we seem to have a pretty open-minded team, so if any issue did arise we are able to address it directly rather than avoid it. Because we are willing to trade some needs to be more effective and willing to cooperate for the greater

The small, seaside town of Point Pleasant Borough, New Jersey is not exactly where one would expect to find many adventures. Leveling out at just under twenty thousand citizens, it is a mostly homogeneous population of white, Christian families. The kids I went to school with often referred to Point as “The Bubble,” meaning that nobody leaves our town; and the nickname holds true. My hometown is filled with families that have lived there for generations, families that everybody knows, because nobody leaves town. My family in particular is a prominent one in Point. My grandparents had nine children, so every teacher I’ve ever had has taught at least one or two Hanrahans before me. I am constantly asked things like, “Who's your dad?” or “Are