Travis Alexander and the Beautiful Killer Sitting in a cell hundreds of miles away is a woman of small stature who is considered rather good-looking by today's standards. So innocent she seems, but don’t be fooled, for she is responsible for one of the most infamous and scandalous murders of the twenty-first century, the murder of Travis Alexander. This murder was exactly what the world wanted to read about. It was a murder of passion, lust, and betrayal committed by a beautiful woman. In the beginning stages it seemed so transparent, but the deeper America dove it became clear there was much more going on than met the eye.
The text of this article is a classroom discussion in a type of journal post or memoir type of writing posted on a blog. This article was in the eighteenth and nineteenth century back in the slavery times. Chernoh Sesay Jr, the writer of this post, which was about Freddie Gray, an African American who was shot by Caucasian police officers, posted it online about what his class discuss about. While posting this article, people responded to him about how they felt in the class discussion. So, the reader of this will be the people who responded.
In my poem “Silence,” I attempted to broach a few of the prevalent issues affecting American culture regarding police brutality that has been widespread throughout the country as of recently. Using Sor Juana’s “Poem 92” as inspiration, I aimed to emulate her poem structure, and style of using Juvenalian satire. While I feel that my poem met a portion of the criteria to be considered Juvenalian satire, I believe that my poem lacks the strong ironic humor necessary to completely be considered as true satire.
In his new song "16 shots" Vic Mensa pays tribute to Laquan McDonald who was shot and killed 16 times by police officer Jason Van Dyke. This song was released to shed light on the sensitive topic of racial tension and police brutality that is sweeping the nation . Take a listen and tell us what you think about "16 shots" and if you feel it helps people understand the perspective of the people ? "The FUTURE Is HERE!!"
Similar to Randall’s poem, in “Hard Rock Returns to Prison” imagery shows the struggle of being a proud African American during the civil rights movement. Hard rock is described as, “Split purple lips, lumped ears, welts above / His yellow eyes, and one long scar that cut / across his template” (Knight lines 3-5). The description of Hard Rock makes the reader visualize a much wounded individual. Hard Rock’s description shows if that if does not agree with you he will let you know, making him fearful. The scars on his body show his indifference to physical pain and refusal to live to the current standards of a racist time period.
These songs in the playlist symbolize a chronological order of events and are build up songs leading up to the Kent State Shooting. The legacy of the Kent State Shooting and the anti-war songs is that we should all think thrice before we get into a fight and we should all give peace a
She mentions that every time her daughter is near a police officer, she can only think of “the way her brother's blood splattered into her skirt” and how the “the officer who took her brother's life looked her in the eye and pointed his gun at her”. Danna also recalls how she received her daughter’s phone call “between sounds of sobs and sirens” informing her of her son’s passing. Tying back to pathos, these illustrations of their suffering create sympathy in the reader for the same reason as before; to convince the public that police brutality is atrocious. Taking everything into account, Danna is successful in conveying her message against police brutality and its significance as an issue. With the use of rhetorical devices such as anecdote, pathos, and imagery, she is able to support her argument and persuade the audience to visualize the issue from her
Wise Blood and The Catholicism By Reem Abbas 43380421 Flannery O’Connor is one of the greatest Southern writers during the twentieth century. She is considered as a faithful and a good Christian writer. In her fiction, she never neglects her Catholic concerns. The large respect for O'Connor’s religion appears in most of her literary works.
Each trail is analyzed and summed up in a manner intelligible to an audience who doesn’t require any complex lexicons. Her way of engaging the audience with interesting questions keeps anyone from skimming through the content. The statement “Regardless of the cause, the result was the same for Samuel DuBose, Sylville Smith, and Philando Castile -- none of them survived” shows that the act of firings is unnecessary. She is anxious about similar incidents which bring disturbance in the order. Her style of word choice is simple and precise to the story.
I think that the point of the poem of FreeQuency’s poem is awareness, so that everyone that reads her poem will for a second be able to step into the shoes of minorities in America; the result of her poem would launch people to try to use their own white privilege and begin to speak up for a group of people that have continually been oppressed by different means in America. I think the issues that FreeQuency addresses in her poem needs to continue to be talked about and in the center of the media so we keep the conversation going. Police brutality has been happening for a long time and our access to technology has only brought the problem to the light recently. It’s important to keep the conversation going so that we can begin to change the system and that these issues that are holding FreeQuency back from having a child won’t be a problem anymore.
Floyd says, “You don’t have to be in Chicago for them to arrest you for nothing. They arrested me in Pittsburgh. I ain’t done nothing but walk down the street” (Wilson 28). African Americans were targeted in every city by the vagrancy laws. Floyd pushes aside his fears and pushes to reach his dreams as a musician despite the
Music is the most significant of symbols in Oates short story to the point that it is dedicated to Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan was a popular singer of the 1960’s and many of his songs spoke out in favor of the civil rights movement and anti-war movement, perhaps Oates felt inspired by his work when she created this story. Considered a window to the soul, music plays a large role as the backdrop of the story. Throughout the entire story, the type of music and the songs playing are listed such as at the dinner and Bobby King’s radio station playing in Arnold Friend’s car. These types of music are conflicting as the music in the dinner is described as “background music like music at a church service” and the station in Arnold’s car is “hard, fast, shrieking songs” (pg 1056-1058).
The article, “A Letter to My City” written by Troy Wiggins for the Memphis Flyer in July of 2017 expands on the issue of the increasing number of deaths of black people in the city of Memphis. Wiggins is a life-long Memphian who is not only concerned with the issue, but also lives in fear of the issue himself. Because Wiggins lives within the city, he is exposed to the white supremacy and police brutality that is taking place in Memphis every day and uses his writing to share his opinions on the matter. Over seventy five percent of the deaths within Memphis (which already has a higher than average death rate) every year are black men. Wiggins writing in “A Letter to My City” effectively uses repetition, compares the issue at hand to millennial trends, and expresses his ideas by using everyday sights for Memphians.
There are countless songs in the world that people listen to, but do not understand. Even if they hear the song on the radio every morning, or it is the number one song on their playlist, they may not truly comprehend the song unless they carefully listen to the lyrics. “Billie Jean” is an example; thousands of people around the world dance to the song in parties and listen to it in the car, but don’t know what the performer is singing about. “Billie Jean” is a song about a man who is accused of having a child with a woman. Based on many factors the singers incorporate into the song, listeners can make assumptions on whet “Billie Jean” is about; whether it is right or wrong.
In Tupac and My Non- Thug Life Jenée Desmond writes a vividly narrated story about a well-known rapper Tupac Shukar and how she relates her image and identity connection with the former rapper. Raised in the white suburb town and the only black high school cheerleader Tupac 's music and lyrics helped her get through her interracial blend as an African American teen. Jenée expresses her emotions toward her former icon as a teen girl. In the contribution to his death, Jenée Recalls vivid descriptions of her obsession with her image through her teen-hood, when his passing accrued Jenée recollects her past and explains her vivid descriptions when he passed away. She described the moment of his death a tragic moment.
