Colson Whitehead

Education has become one of the biggest money making distributors out there in America for profit. Throughout my journey in the education field and attending school, I’ve learned many of the best practices of how children should be taught. Becoming an educator has become simplistic and simpleminded due to the changes in how the curriculum is implemented into the classrooms. Today’s society is taking education for granted. Education is a basic human right and helps build the development of children

“Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life” (Alfred North Whitehead). Throughout life, individuals unknowingly symbolize objects and even other individuals who affiliate with them. Over time, they will begin to see other individuals as what they represent rather than who they are, which becomes an important aspect throughout the rest of their lives. In the novel, The Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, the characters of Ralph

William Golding Lord of the Flies Character Symbolization “Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life” (Alfred North Whitehead). Throughout life, individuals unknowingly symbolize objects and even other individuals who affiliate with them. Over time, they will begin to see other individuals as what they represent rather than who they are, which becomes an important aspect throughout the rest of their lives. In the novel, The Lord of

The events that occurred on the 20th of January in the year 2000 on the Seton Hall University campus were truly tragic. Although the reason of the dormitory fire was because of a prank that had gone very wrong that does not change the heart breaking statistics it carried with it afterwards. This event changed the lives of both the people directly involved and the people who were close to those involved as well as caused enormous changes to the community surrounding the incident. Leading up to the

In Colson Whitehead’s ingenious piece of literary work, The Underground Railroad, the term from which the title is taken from, is no mere metaphor. Instead, the concept that gave hope to many slaves and brought fear into several slave-owners, takes on a physical form, with engineers and conductors operating the secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern states. While the title of the novel implies that the work mainly focuses on the pre-Civil War era-- of African American enslavement

In Colson Whitehead’s thought-provoking piece The Loser Edit, the author introduces the contrasting ideas of “loser edits” and “winner edits”, names given to the processes used by TV producers in order to make winners and losers make sense to the audience. Particularly in paragraphs seven through twenty, Whitehead’s usage of rhetorical strategies--namely rhetorical questions and syntax-- effectively establishes and develops his position on both “edits”. By using the aforestated rhetorical tools,

where the politics are occurring isn’t so familiar: The Department of Elevator Inspectors. The author, Colson Whitehead, uses many literary devices throughout the novel to show how important different aspects of elevators are. One of these devices is personification, which is a literary device in which human attributes and qualities are given to nonhuman or inanimate objects. Colson Whitehead uses personification in The Intuitionist to build imagery so the reader can connect more to the object

written by Colson Whitehead, is a historical fiction novel that unravels the reality of African American progress in the shadow of systemic oppression. The story follows the protagonist, Cora, who escapes the chains of slavery and learns to navigate the outside world. However, much to her surprise, the world beyond the plantation is still full of injustice and riddled with systemic oppression, proving that captivity is not defined by physical confinement. Through a third-person narrative, Whitehead utilizes

bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.” (Whitehead 117) Practices during slavery which include but not limited to forced sterilization, phrenology, and various experiments are the underpinnings that are the likely consequences of African American distrust in the health care system. In an attempt to highlight white pseudoscience, Colson Whitehead successfully develops and shows the causal relationship that caused the distrust and how this distrust

During the Pre-Civil War era in America, many Africans become enslaved. They were taken from their homes in Africa, packed densely onto ships and transported across the Atlantic to Southern America. White Americans bought these Africans, including children, to work on crop plantations or do housework. ("Africans Arrive in North America") Countless slaves tried to escape the southern slave states to the anti-slavery northern states. A number of slaves even went as far as Canada to be free of the harsh