Us And Them By David Sedaris Jugment Of Others

The poem ‘Migrants by ‘Bruce Dawe ’should be included for the core text for journeying as it portrays journeying through the perceptions and experiences of a migrant group. This poem depicts feelings of ignorance and disrespectfulness encountered by the migrant group as they are treated with a lack of concern by people living in Australia.

In Larry Lankton’s text, “Beyond the Boundaries” we gradually enter an unknown world that is frightening yet filled with immense beauty for miles. Due to the copper mining industry, a gradual increase of working class men and their families start to migrate to the unknown world with unsteady emotion, yet hope for a prosperous new life. In “Beyond the Boundaries”, Lankton takes us on a journey on how the “world below” transformed the upper peninsula into a functional and accepted new part of the world.

The American Dream has never been available to minority citizens as easily as it is to American-born citizens. Affirmative action was first implemented around the year 1972, however it was not widely accepted or practiced. During this time society was just getting used to including women in higher education institutions so the concept of including minorities in higher education was almost non-existent. My Beloved World, by Sonia Sotomayor shows the challenges that a first generation, Puerto Rican, lower socioeconomic female had during this time. Through her autobiography she shows the struggles she faced throughout her life, focusing on her application to college, college experience and insight into her cultural background. My Beloved

“We don’t really care about diversity all that much in America” (132). In “People Like us” David Brooks takes a logical approach through examining the demographics of our neighborhoods, our educational institutions, and he touches on an emotional approach by having his audience examine their values; he does this with hopes of having his audience question their word choice for the American value diversity, and question if the way they are living their lives invites diversity.

In the beginning of this memoir Sedaris uses his fantasy to show how disconnected he is from his reality and family by using rhetorical devices and strategies like a mocking tone and analogy. First off, Sedaris describes his unthinkable dreams when he states, “I'm thinking of asking the servants to wax my change before placing it in the Chinese

Stephen’s father begins to notice all the time his son and Leka spend together talking, laughing, and enjoying each other’s company and so do the other pulp-cutters. They make ridiculous assumptions as to why Stephen and Leka spend so much time together, and they judge Leka, saying he is odd and has weird intentions just because he s from another country. Stephen s father orders his son to quit spending time with and talking to Leka because of the embarrassment it is causing him. At this moment Stephen feels scared and pressured by his father to obey because he is his father after all, and in the end he is convinced to distance himself from Leka. Although Stephen makes this decision that appears to show he‘s reverted to his old ways and beliefs of his father, we are given hope as we see Stephen still cares enough to wake Leka from a nightmare. Stephen grew up surrounded by men who believed they needed to be strong and fearless to be the best men they could be. He adopted these beliefs as his own because he didn’t know any better. When Leka began sharing his stories, Stephen was exposed to

Sedaris's father was very overprotective of his kids. He thought he knew everything and no one around him knew better. For any moment and any incident, he had a story from his own life. He would tell them to be careful with guns because once he shot out his best friend's eye. At Fourth

The book “The Other America”, written by Michael Harrington, describes poverty in America in the 1950s and 1960s, when America became one of the most affluent and advanced nations in the world. The book was written in 1962, and Harrington states that there were about 50,000,000 (about 25% of the total population) poor in America at that time. The author did extensive research with respect to the family income levels to derive the poverty numbers, and used his own observations and experiences to write this book. This book addresses the reasons for poverty, the nature of poverty, the culture of poverty, the blindness of Middle Class America with respect to poverty, and the responsibility of all Americans in addressing the issue of poverty in America.

"Battleground America," written by Jill Lepore, provides a strong history of guns and the way they have changed in the eyes of the American through the years. She proves her point with strong evidence throughout her article, sprinkling it with opinion and argument that is strongly supported. She presents her argument to convince her audience that the open availability of guns allows citizens to undeservingly purchase them by displaying the credibility in her sources, using negative connotations in her speech, and the strength and objectivity only a strong logos appeal can provide.

He sees how the Tomkeys’ have a strong communication within their family and are not afraid to live their beliefs, “… the Tomkey’s were forced to talk during dinner… they were not ashamed that a camera would have found them uninteresting” (Sedaris 3). The Tomkey’s presents how they have pride to not pay attention to nuisance around them but themselves. Sedaris later discovers how the Tomkey’s beliefs are realistic and leads to a good healthy family lifestyle, unlike his family. Sedaris talks about how the Tomkey’s inspired Sedaris to change his point of view towards society and family, “Wonder about the Tomkey Family had made me feel generous.” Sedaris learns that his own family is unhealthy and somewhat abusive compare to the Tomkey’s family. Sedaris will change this bad habit in his family and admits the Tomkey’s way of living is the ideal belief. In general, Sedaris in the end respects the Tomkey’s family since they aren’t corrupted by idealistic

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.

You cant steal a culture was written by John McWorter. He is writing this paper to a general audience, or anyone interested about culture appropriation. Jon McWorter is an american studies teacher at Columbia University. McWorter connected with the topic because he sees the problem everyday. His arguments strongly written, and he is trying to explain that everyone thinks culture appropriations wrong, but its just a normal thing. His opinion is clearly stated that culture appropriation is fine. People are jus taking it the wrong way. It should be flattery not offending. McWorter states his thesis statement in the first sentence. He uses logos to explain his essay. He gives a lot of examples of where culture appropriation is used in the wrong way, or taken the wrong way. Like when he references Harlem and Miley Cyrus. The main one was when White gay men imitate black women. I thought the essay was very convincing, not just because I agree that culture appropriation isn 't a bad thing but,because of the great references.

In his essay “The Country Just over the Fence,” Paul Theroux describes his trip to Nogales, Mexico. He begins his essay by illustrating the physical appearance of the wall separating Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Mexico. He calls it “an unintentional masterpiece”. Theroux feels the wall is somewhat informal. He discovers that crossing the border into Mexico is not too difficult itself. He marvels over the appearance of the wall and also the underlying call to action it places on a person, “Do you go through, or stay home?” Theroux decided he needed to see for himself. After deciding to cross the border, he met many different people. They told him about the celebrations that used to be held between the two neighboring towns which are now divided by the wall. Theroux also met people who had attempted to cross the border illegally into America only to get sent back to Mexico. On his adventure, Theroux also learned about all the medical tourists who travel to the country for cheaper treatments, specifically dentistry. I am interested in discussing Theroux’s presentation of the his decision to cross the border, the people he met, and the medical tourism Nogales, Mexico draws in.

The phrase, “We the people”, holds a lot of meaning to American citizens. As the first three words of the United States Constitution, it signifies a core value intended to act as a unifying factor in America’s democratic society: popular sovereignty. This is the idea of a majority rules, or to put more simply, the one with the most votes wins. The U.S. system of government relies upon the fact that the American people are capable of coming together to make informed decisions about matters that will ultimately better the lives of everyone. Despite this, however, there are certain instances in which a minority group will impose on or have more influence than the majority group. This phenomenon occurs all the time in politics, as politicians tend to regard the predilections of small groups of citizens as opposed to the general populace.

Amiri Baraka was an African- American poet, activist and even a scholar. He was formerly known as leroi jones, born on October the 7,1934 in New Jersey.After being in the forces for three years he joined in s movement motivated by the famous malcolm X, after the death of malcolm leroi soon became Amiri Baraka.Baraka attended howard university , earning his degree in english in nineteen-fifty-four, but was later discharged on an dishonorable charge.¨After he moved to Manhattan there he attended columbia university becoming a prominent artist.¨(biography.com) In nineteen-sixty-four Baraka published his first major collection of poetry. Preface to a Twenty , Volume Suicide Notes; Soon after followed his play The dutchman¨(essayforum.com), which showed racial tensions and american blacks.Later Baraka became identified with Black Nationalist poetry and literature scenes , he later died on january 9, 2014 at the age of seventy-nine.