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    to grapple with the concept of “spoilers” and how learning these spoilers shifts how these communities process and evaluate knowledge. To understand Jenkins’s point, it is necessary to define what a knowledge community is. According to Jenkins, knowledge

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    The Black Suitcase Roger Jenkins, friendly neighbor, hard working, and always traveling around with the black suitcase. It was late one evening as Roger came home after many long hours of work, taking off his gloves and jacket, throwing them to the side. He shuffled off to his dimly lit room where his clothes were piled high from the ground, the light flickering at its last stages before burning out. He laid down, staring up at the ceiling, hearing voices in his head instructing him that he must

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    It’s more than difficult living in a drug-plagued, impoverished community. These places are often ignored, but just as important as anywhere else. The film Moonlight, directed by Barry Jenkins, is meant to demonstrate the hardships of living in a difficult community. Thematically, it highlights the already difficult nature of being black in modern America, while simultaneously showing the hardship of also being gay in said tough community. The film is comprised into three acts surrounding the development

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    Through the depiction of Chiron and his struggle in the film Moonlight Jenkins shows that the system one lives in and the internal self results in domination against oneself. Chiron the protagonist of the film is considered weak and fragile in comparison to his classmates and the people in his community and thus Chiron is targeted by his peers and even within his own household. In Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks it is argued that the black man plays a part in their own domination by constantly

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    Different forces push characters in stories to behave as per them. This idea is well illustrated in Will F. Jenkins’ “The Night Drive.” The fear, suspicion and revenge of Madge and Mr. Tabor are some of the ways that they were driven by the same force, hence pushing them into action during their night travel through treacherous darkness. When Mr. Tabor asks Madge to take his niece Eunice with her, she offers him her service out of duty and a sense of fellowship at the start. Her knowledge about what

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    Washington Post Sally Jenkins writes a column titled “rather than pay athletes, show them respect”. Jenkins talks about the age old question of “should college athletes be paid?”. She wants us to consider who college athletes really are and to see that they are worth our respect and much more. Jenkins starts off by having us ask ourselves what we really think about the players on the field. Do they really deserve to be at a university, or, if they are just here for our entertainment. Jenkins refers to a study

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    Melancholy”, a film by Barry Jenkins, uses the story of a young African-American couple learning about each other to explore how Jenkins himself feels about San Francisco’s reputation for beauty and inclusion. The film starts with the main characters, Micah and Joanne, waking up the morning after a drunken one-night stand and realizing that they do not know much about each other. Micah manages to beguile a reluctant Joanne into spending the day together in San Francisco. Jenkins uses picturesque and diverse

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    In the story “The Fallen Angels” the character is Jenkins he is a soldier in the story he is the main character who dies in the story. In the story Jenkins was assigned to Alpha Company.(Myers pg25). He has a bad weakness in the story. Jenkins was always afraid of fighting when he was at war. That ain't for regular ration (Myers pg17).In the story no one remembers who Jenkins is in the story and they forget who he is after his death. Jenkins is a member of the same squad as Perry and Peewee

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    educational, or socially isolating. Henry Jenkins, the director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has a broad experience and has done a lot of research in the video game industry. In his article, “Reality Bytes”, Henry Jenkins argues in favor of video games by using the rhetorical strategies of appeal to the authority, appealing to societal values and creating a credible ethos and appeal to the opposition. Jenkins counters stereotypes or common assumptions

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    “Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins” demonstrates the underlying dynamics between the Jenkins family as the children are all in the young adult stage. The family constellation of the Jenkins household encompasses Papa and Mama Jenkins who are the patriarch and matriarch of the family. This family system also consist of three children Otis, Roscoe, and Betty, and two cousin who are Clyde Stub and Reggie Jenkins. To celebrate this the auspicious occasion of their parent’s 50th wedding anniversary, the

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