1. What does it mean to look at the world sociologically? On what issues do sociologists tend to focus and how? Every person on this planet is a part of a society; whether he or she likes it or not it comes with being on this earth. It comes with the package of being alive and involved in life, there is no way to avoid it. Societies are not uniform throughout the world - they are unique in the way they are designed, organized, and ran making one tremendously different from another. With the large…

understand it. So, I am also going to start the topic from the basics. Who are Nagros? The writer is always using the word “Nagro”, what does it mean by this word “Nagro”?. According to the basic definitions, the Nagros are the people with black skins. It may also be said that those people who have their ancestry or the black appearance are called the Nagros. Summary The writer wants to point out the problems faced by these people in the real world and the most important to notify is the educational…

Within Gloria Naylor’s “The Women of Brewster Place” and Amiri Baraka’s “Dutchman”, there is a heavy emphasis on society. Particularly how society influences interaction not just among African Americans, but interactions among whites and African Americans as seen is Baraka’s “Dutchman.” However, both novels also continue to portray a reoccurring theme that has been prevalent within this course, which is the struggle of African American’s in society. Throughout both works, society plays a large…

Maintenance items: 31 Pre-Contemplation- What does that mean? I would explain to Justin that individuals in the pre-contemplation stage of change are not even thinking about changing their drinking or drug behavior. They may not see it as a problem, or they think that others who point out the problem are exaggerating (Grohol, J. M., 2006, February 13). Contemplation – What does that mean? I would also give him the knowledge of each of the four and what the meaning is. Individuals in this stage…

While reading the story of “Black Men and Public Space” by Brent Staples and “Mommy, What Does ‘Nigger’ Mean?” by Gloria Naylor, it became clear that people of color suffer from this ignorant mindset of others. It got to a point in which people of color did not know how to react or even look, while walking down the street, such as Staples. Other commonalities perceive people of color had faced were attaching the word ‘Nigger’ to people of color, or mistaken a Black male as a criminal. All of these examples…

Names and Titles in Gloria Naylor's novel, Mommy, What Does Nigger Mean "Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power." (Naylor 344) A name is a mark of classification, a basis for self identity. Able to elevate or annihilate a persons' perception of herself and the surrounding society, these designations can uplift, joke, chide, mock, insult, degrade. "Society" implies the people and the atmosphere encompassing an individual in her daily life…

Loss of Innocence in Cullen's Incident and Naylor’s Mommy, What Does "Nigger" Mean? Unfortunately, a question that many African Americans have to ask in childhood is "Mommy, what does nigger mean?," and the answer to this question depicts the racism that still thrives in America (345). Both Gloria Naylor’s "'Mommy, What Does "Nigger" Mean?'" and Countee Cullen's "Incident" demonstrate how a word like "nigger" destroys a child’s innocence and initiates the child into a world of racism. Though…

Barber, Patrick 2 APEL III 14 November 2014 Mommy What Does Nigger Mean by Gloria Naylor Being a Chink by Christine Leong Questions on Meaning 1. Naylor believes that written language is inferior to spoken language because it cannot capture the essence of life. For example Naylor writes “I consider the written word inferior to the spoken, and much of the frustration experienced by novelists is the awareness that whatever we manage to capture even in the most transcendent passages…

What does it mean to be a mother? Everyone has a mother in the sense that everyone was born to a woman. The first word of almost every infant is mother: "mère", "madre", "mommy", "ma", or "mum." However, what it means to be a mother in the sense to parent a child is very different than simply giving birth. To me, a mother is a woman who parents a child, not simply gives birth to an infant. Parenting requires a balance of strength and discipline with love, a love so powerful the mother is willing…

A Descriptive Analysis of Nigger: The Meaning of a Word by Gloria Naylor What is the rhetor’s purpose? In the essay “Nigger: the meaning of a word” Gloria Naylor discusses the essence of a word and how it can mean different things to different people in a myriad of situations. Depending on race, gender, societal status and age Naylor outlines how a word like ‘nigger’ can have different meanings within one’s own environment. Naylor discusses how a word can go from having a positive to a negative…