So What Are You, Anyway By Lawrence Hill

In the student essay “It’s Hard Enough Being Me” written by Anna Lisa Raya, the author portrays herself as a credible source for understanding the role of identity in an educational setting. Raya then appeals to an audience of Latinos and other minorities through her emotions such as stating, “I had never questioned who I was or where I was from” (Raya 121). In the end, she resolves the life-longing issues of identity crisis and cultural shock by staying true to herself and “Soy yo and no one else…Punto” (Raya 122). The author asserts the idea of “not only experienced culture shock, but for the first time I had to define myself according to the broad term “Latina”” (Raya 121) throughout the essay. Raya then appeals to her audience through

In this article the author, Howard Rheingold, describes his experience when he decided to visit the amish communities. There he discussed why they put self-imposed rules upon themselves. He realized it was not because they resented technology, the Amish love fancy barbeques and electric saws, but they saw that in the “english” world, people are being separated from their community. The amish decided they would try their hardest to avoid this separation caused by technological advances, “Look Who's Talking” by Howard Rheingold, convinces the reader to analyze the pros and cons of technology; to decide whether or not certain devices are beneficial towards people and their community.

She’s at a car repair shop getting her car fixed. Instead of her needing extra sanitizer to kill germs, she needed an extra set of hands to help her with the baby while she pays the man for his services. She then tells the mechanic “Here can you hold him” and just hands the baby to him. He takes the baby and play with him as he kicks his little legs. Even though she didn’t know him nor trust him, she did at that moment because she needed help with the baby and wasn’t really worrying about putting sanitizer on the man half of body because she was in a rush and ready to go. Dirty hands and all, she had respect for him to help her out. She had to respect and trust him in that moment because she needed

Essayist and novelist, Brent Staples, in his essay "Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space" describes the accusatory altering effects of racial profiling and stereotyping occurring within the cities of Chicago. Staples purpose is to express to the reader the shift of the atmosphere when a black man enters a room. He creates an accusatory tone to show that he's an innocent man incriminated of committing crimes due to his ethnicity. Staples states “the ability to alter public space in ugly ways” he builds credibility by allowing readers to speculate on racial profiling through his personal experiences and appealing his readers with both logic and emotion to support his viewpoint.

     Mrs. Sommers is a middle aged timid mother of a handful of children, and is apparently not well to do anymore after her husband’s death; Not that she probably ever was, but more so than her luck would have it now. She is small framed with tattered old clothes, as if she hasn’t been able to purchase

In chapter 2 entitled “Living is for Everyone,” Davidson presents Jimmy Teyechea, a cancer fighter who has shown the readers an important yet neglected issue of the life on the border. The health problems found among the people who live in the borderland has raised questions of industrial contaminations since various cases of cancer happened. The waste disposal from the factories has apparently become a big issue and the fact that “properly disposing hazardous waste cost several hundred dollars a barrel” (62) opens an interstice to some irresponsible acts which in the long run pollute the environment and affect people’s health. With LIFE, an organization he formed with other cancer victim, Jimmy tries to look for the answer of the mystery within

Often times, people say "you can 't understand another person 's experience until you walk a mile in their shoes.” When I first opened the nonfiction book Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin, I had high hopes, however it did not live up to my expectations. Griffin went through doing blackface for while, and claimed that he knew what it was like to be black, however he still does not understand what it is truly like to be a minority. Minorities are not allowed to switch their color on or off. There aren’t days where we are allowed to decide if we want to be White or Black, Mexican, or Asian. Although yes, he did experience racial discrimination and was involved in incidents that were clearly unjust, he still does not know what it 's like to be truly black. It is wrong for Griffin to be viewed as a hero for doing this, when all he did was use blackface and put paint on his face for 6 weeks. Although yes, he did bring to light what was hapening to black people at the time, giving someone a pat on the back for being a decent human being is wrong. Why isn’t a black scholar, or a black person who showed the injusticies of the time being celebrated and widely read about like Griffin? Why is that white people only listen to other white people?

“So it goes”: Three simple words that have a comforting connotation of the reality of death. The phrase “So it goes” is used 106 times in Slaughterhouse Five. Every time death is mentioned, the incident is followed by this phrase. The phrase “So it goes” is a reminder that death happens to everyone at some point. The phrase refers to death in an equalizing way. No matter whether it is a massacre of many people or the death of a single person, the phrase “So it goes” applies. It could be death by warfare, accident, or by intention, and the narrator still applies the phrase “So it goes.”

At this point Mrs Birling feels “distressed” and tries to pass of what she did “I didn’t know”. The inspector is quite rude to Mrs Birling “do you want me to tell you-in plain words” and has to really prompt her to talk about what she did “Aren’t you?” “As what then?” this shows that Mrs Birling is a very proud woman and does not feel that any of her actions were wrong.

“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.

describing the lover as a betrayer and the “novelty song with sex interest” which includes infatuation due to physical features such as face, hair, eyes, body,etc. Most Troubadours composed their own music and paired them with their original lyrics, which demonstrated their ability of being creative. However, some Troubadours used existing melodies to accompany their lyrics. Bruno Mars by name of Peter Gene Hernandez is a famous American pop singer in the modern era. Mars’s hit single “Just the Way You Are” was a success and he won the Grammy Award for the Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 2011. Like the Troubadours, Mars wrote this song but not alone, by himself, instead he has a team known as “The Smeezingtons.”

Up to this point, the reader might think the young wife was an innocent youth, singing and dancing her way through life, wearing white dresses and driving her older husband crazy. But there is a dark side to her personality too.

The election of Barack Obama as the 56th president of the United States raised many hopes that the “Black struggles” was finally over. For conservatives, Obama victory reassured their beliefs that there was no longer such thing as racism and that every American had equal rights and opportunity to pursue the American dream. While many people have come to believe that all races have equal rights in America, Tim Wise argues in his documentary “White Like Me” that not only does racism and unconscious racial bias still exist, but that also White Americans are unable to simply relate to the variety of forms racism and inequality Blacks experience. This is mainly because of the privileges they get as the “default.” While Wise explores the variety forms of racism and inequality today such as unconscious racism, Black poverty, unemployment, inadequate education system, and prison system, the articles by the New York Times Editorial Board, the Human Rights Watch (HRW), and Adam Liptak further explore some the disparities in the criminal justice system. Ana Swanson points out in her article, “The Stubborn Persistence of Black-White Inequality, 50 Years after Selma” that while the “U.S. has made big strides towards equal rights,” significant gaps still remains between the two races. With the Supreme Court striking down a “portion of the Voting Rights Act that stopped discriminatory voting laws from going into effect in areas of the country with histories of disenfranchisement,” civil

She realises that she has been living with a stranger, since the whole marriage is a charade to fulfil the expectations of Victorian society.

Showcasing feminism in a direct manner in a way that we do not see often. Portraying a tough image with an emotionless expression instead of the stereotypical “womanly” manner in a kitchen. While, we can see that Carol White in Safe struggles to communicate with people, always hesitant and not speaking in full sentences. Saying “maybe, “I guess” and “ yes.” She is seen; even in her own home she could not express herself freely. More so revealing how she feels deep inside. Similarly, Martha shows a straight face without revealing any emotions. In the scene where she asks her maid for milk she even had to say “leche” in Spanish. Moreover, when she tried to have an impromptu perm, she suffers from a nosebleed instead. She puts a mask thinking everything is going to to be fine. However in a scene when she says, "Where am I?" in her bedroom. It shows how she is feeling on the inside. Having no sense of identity and