The Hackerz: Homeless Boy's Life

This world is filled with many troubles including racism. Society often depicts whites as superior to blacks. However, this is not precise, because every race has both good and bad within it. The world is trying to break away from racism to become a better place for everyone around the world. Racism is not only about the color of one’s skin, it can impact individuals around the world due to their race or religion. The title of this novel is “Black and White” by Paul Volponi. In this coming of age story, two friends, Marcus Brown and Eddie Russo, who are black and white (respectively), are senior basketball stars at their high school. Marcus lives in community housing which is fraught with crime with a single mother. On the other hand, Eddie lives in a private house nearby where Marcus lives. Both Marcus and Eddie are in financial hardships and need to find easy money to cover their school and basketball fees. The two agree to start pulling robberies when they unintentionally shoot a black man. They are left in anxiety trying to avoid getting caught while trying to lead a normal life after the incident. They both end up going through the justice system, and Marcus must serve jail time while Eddie gets to go free. While all of this transpires, Marcus and Eddie manage to keep their friendship strong and overcome any barriers together. Any true friendship can overcome racial stereotypes put in place by society including the racial barrier between Blacks and Whites. The novel

The issues of race, gender, and class are all told through the real life stories of Ph.D psychologist, Brent Staples. He uses examples from his life to explain how he has been misjudged based on his looks. Staples uses various rhetorical devices in his essay, “Just Walk on By,” to address his argument. Throughout his story he argues that he is the victim when being discriminated against by specifically white women. The strategies used in his writing appeal to the audience because they expose a compelling argument, that blacks are constantly discriminated against, while still teaching discrimination and different stereotypes. The intended audience varies a wide spectrum. Both minorities and students ranging from high school to college are the audience of his essay. Students may benefit from his writing by learning new techniques of description, while still understanding his perspective on racial tensions. Staples argues that the predisposed stereotypes about blacks are false by using different rhetorical devices such as imagery, analogies, and sequences of threes to help further enhance his point to the readers.

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” This is a question that a lot of kids are asked when they are young, typically by adults. One of those kids is Logan LaPlante, a 13-year old boy that gives a speech in front of an audience, about Hackschooling. His speech “Hackschooling makes me happy” is a speech given at the University of Nevada that talks about a different educational approach compared to the typical school curriculum in a traditional school system. On that day, Logan gained the hearts of many, as he did his 11 minute speech. In his speech “Hackschooling makes me happy,” Logan LaPlante does an exceptional job convincing the audience on his thoughts about Hackschooling. He builds a pathos connection that allows him to relate with

When Red shows up the Indian is still in his garden and they decide to “take him down.” They grabbed some tools and Joe charged towards the Indian. Before he knew it he had fallen and when he looked back up the Indian was no longer in sight. That afternoon when the police showed up and Joe explained to him where the Indian was and how he was going to take him down earlier, but he tripped and fell in his attempt. The officer asked if the Indian looked familiar and Joe replied “no there aren’t any Indians around here” and his friend Red the corrected him by reminding him of some guys who come around on weekends. Joe replied “those old winos?” Joe and Red don’t know the Indians, but because they may have encountered some Indians that are drunks they make the assumption that the Indians that they see on the weekends picking up cans are winos. They are contributing to a negative conclusion of a particular group, yet they don’t even know any of them on a personal level.

Through the use of diction and exaggeration, Staples is able to create this intelligent and humorous persona for the listeners. Staples first starts by describing a white woman as a “victim” (543). He purposely starts his essay by appearing as a criminal sharing his stories of trouble. As the reader progresses through his essay, one can see that he continually becomes more complex and through with his word choice. This transition shows that audience that he never was a criminal, but a rather intelligent college student. Likewise, Staples uses this shift to show the audience that initial perceptions of people like him are generally wrong. He paints himself as a criminal, only to reveal his true self, like what most white people would do. This conveys his message because Staples showcases that black people are almost instantly seen as bad and scary, when they could be better than the person making the discriminating notes. Staples mentions how he and other blacks are quickly judged by everyone else. In one instance, upon entering a jewelry store, he is met by an “enormous red Doberman pinscher” (544). This use of exaggeration creates a humorous persona to Staples. The purposely description of the dog as enormous shows just how unnecessary the prejudice against African Americans really is. The humorous persona that Staples has conveys the message that people are too assimilated with the negative

The language needed to change this paradigm is seen as “sensitive and feminine” and using this language risks being “emasculated”. Black portrays men sympathetically, showing that he is not aggressive towards men, but rather understands the cause of the problem, and recognizes that it is not necessarily the fault of men. Instead, this “toxic masculinity” is the fault of old stereotypes and masculinity being “strength”and “aggression and competitiveness.”

Analysis: By utilizing a rhetorical question, the author brings attention to the complicated issue of race and causes the reader to stop and think for a moment about

In the story Dave is a seventeen year old black boy who worked for a white male to get money and help his family. At the time of the story there was racism against the black people. In the story the part of the racism is that a black boy was working for a white male. Dave’s family does not have much money because they are not a white family and cannot get a good paying job. Also that when Dave was in the field and the older men were laughing at him and making fun of him. Racism was a problem back in this time and it still is today.

The word hacking, usually associated with information technology, is a term used for the development of creative solutions for a problem by someone in a non-professional environment. With the introduction of personal computers and the internet, anyone could create solutions to problems in computer science. This led to the emergence of “hacker culture”, leading to the decentralization of computer industry (Hicks, 2014).

From the beginning of the story, we are shown racial inequalities. Ellison introduces us to our character who is a broke and hungry African American economically struggling to save his lady friend’s, Laura’s, life. The protagonist “got no birth certificate to

This is a story about an african american who would be the greatest basketball player ever to play basketball. This man was named tyrone johnson he was born in 1977 in Harlem New York and he had four brothers jerome , tyler, chris, james but tyrone fell in love with basketball at the age of 5. He would go to the park every single night and shoot 10 3´s in a row before he would go home. When he was 13 he was already 6´0 he played at this tournament and when he played he scored 23 points and got 14 rebounds and 11 assist. Everyone was surprised and wondering where did this guy come from because it was his first time playing against real people. There was a coach there and wondering why didn't he play basketball and talked to him about joining the high school basketball team at the age of 13 but

In order to validate a lack of tension, Steve decides to tell a joke about a prison where a black man tells a white man to “bend over ‘cause Mommy’s gonna fuck you in the ass” (Norris, 190). However, this joke ends up revealing the true discomfort in the room as Tom states that “[he’s] gay” and Kathy states that her “sister was raped” (Norris, 192). Steve tells this joke in order to prove a lack of discomfort, as he does not want to appear disturbed by conversations regarding racism. Instead, Steve wants to validate the progressiveness of society by proving that there is nothing uncomfortable in him telling a racist joke. However, this idealized progressiveness and comfort is nonexistent within the situation. Therefore, despite his goal to conceal racial tension and discomfort, Steve’s joke ends up increasing the conflict between characters, as it brings offense to most of the characters. Tom and Kathy have deep personal connections to Steve’s joke. Therefore, they become offended as Steve makes light of serious subjects that pertain to their lives, increasing and exposing the true tension within the room. Despite Steve’s goal to conceal racial tension, his joke ends up augmenting the discomfort in the situation. In response to Steve’s racist joke, Kevin makes a joke about white men claiming that it takes “one” white man “to hold the light bulb while the rest of ‘em screw the entire world” (Norris, 193). To this joke, Steve responds by claiming “so?!! You think I’m ‘offended’? I can do this all day” (Norris, 193). Kevin tries to diffuse the tension caused by Steve’s joke with another racist joke. In making a racist joke targeted towards white men, Kevin hopes to equate the offense taken between white and black characters, ending any further hostility or tension

So, Mr. Griffin had a multistage process done on his body so that the pigment of his skin would appear darker. After many treatments of ultraviolet light and tablet pills, Mr. Griffin had become a black man. After Mr. Griffin’s transformation was complete, he immersed himself into the black community. Mr. Griffin was not prepared for what would happen to him once in the black life. While Mr. Griffin traveled to different places in the south he met numerous people, both black and white. Some people were friendly while others were quite hostile.

Adam Segal’s “The Hacked World Order” reveals many prevalent issues in today’s technologically centered society. Starting at Year Zero, June 2012 to June 2013, the battle over cyberspace witnessed world-changing cyberattacks. This was accomplished due to the fact that nearly 75% of the world’s population has easy access to a mobile phone, and the Internet connects nearly 40% of the total human population, which is nearly 2.7 billion people. With that being said, cyberattacks are becoming a more realistic form of terror.

The disagreements described between the friend and the author, embody their distain for one another as well as distain for what the other represents while presenting their inability to gain independence from one another. The friend accuses the author of being a monkey in terms of how he is dressed and offers him one of his many suits, symbolizing the author’s own self distain and attempted rectification of the defect. The author returns this criticism by describing the friend as “really [making] himself look like a monkey” when he was dancing. Other arguments continue to display the struggle between the part of the author that wants to assimilate and fit in with the predominantly white culture and the side that wishes to be exactly who he is and do as he likes. One such altercation arises from the shame the friend feels when in the company of the author because of his bad behavior and requests he deny their friendship if asked. The excuse of bad behavior in conjunction with the friend’s previously stated views of Africans or black people indicate that he thinks that such behavior is African and he does not wish to be associated with it as