Chapter Three Summary Slater introduces chapter three with telling us that David Rosenhan was greatly ill towards the end of his life. Slater later tells us that Rosenhan and eight of his friends fake they’re way into different mental hospitals just by saying “I’m hearing things”. In fact, Slater wanted to see how the psychiatrist can see the sane from insane. Later, Robert Spitzer gave Rosenhan rude criticism about his experiment.
Serpico, the New York City cop who couldn’t be bought by nobody. Serpico is a book that tells a story about a cop that works in New York, that wouldn’t take any brides from anybody and who had to deal with a very corrupt police department. There was a big gambling problem going on in New York and there was nothing being done about it so Serpico being such an honest cop decided he would try to get rid of the problem. In the following book report over Serpico, by Peter Maas, I will summarize the book’s contents and give my thoughts over the book.
Victor Rios begins chapter six by describing the way the Latino boys he studied used masculinity as a rehabilitative tool. He describes how the boys are constantly “questioning” each other’s manhood as a way of proving their own masculinity. “The boys’ social relations with one another and with community members were saturated with expressions and discourses of manhood” (pg.125). Rios continues to describe the affects criminalization and its gendered practices has influenced these young boy’s mentality of what it means to be masculine. In chapter six, the author explains that although the boys had easy access to weapons, they rarely used them because of their clear understanding the consequences associated with such violence.
Bryan Stevenson’s a black man from a poor family in Delaware grew up to be a lawyer, whose legal career was focused on helping marginalized people wrongly convicted or punitively sentenced for non-homicidal crimes. This work of literature was mostly focused on his account of the injustices, blatant racism and discrimination that the Criminal Justice System inflicted on the poor marginalized people of Alabama and other southern states. Stevenson presented a variety of cases throughout the book, however his main focus was on the case of Walter McMillian, a Black man falsely convicted of murder and was sentenced to death in Alabama in the 1980’s. Stevenson was the founder of Equal Justice Initiative, an organization that provides legal representation
Danielle L. McGuire’s At the Dark End of the Street, “an important, original contribution to civil rights historiography”, discusses the topic of rape and sexual assault towards African American women, and how this played a major role in causing the civil rights movement (Dailey 491). Chapter by chapter, another person's story is told, from the rape of Recy Taylor to the court case of Joan Little, while including the significance of Rosa Parks and various organizations in fighting for the victims of unjust brutality. The sole purpose of creating this novel was to discuss a topic no other historian has discussed before, because according to McGuire they have all been skipping over a topic that would change the view of the civil rights movement.
x What did you think about the concepts presented in Chapter 12, in Brown, regarding the role of parents? Did you agree or disagree? Which one of the concepts presented is something you could apply to your coaching situation currently? Your posting is worth 10 points.
Author Dee Brown presents a factual as well as an emotional version of the relationship among the Indians, the American settlers, and the U.S. government. The massacre at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota on December 29, 1890, provides the backdrop for the narrative. In his introduction, Brown states the reason for his work. Thousands of accounts about life in the American West of the late nineteenth century were written. Stories are told of the traders, ranchers, wagon trains, gunfighters, and gold-seekers.
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, wrote this book to scavenge the documentary record in an attempt to show Lincoln as a revolutionary centralizer who used national sovereignty to establish corporate-mercantilist control at the expense of open economic liberty. Through lots of research and careful documentation, DiLorenzo describes the sixteenth president as a man who devoted his political career to revolutionizing the American form of government from one that was very limited in choice and highly dispersed as the Founding Fathers intended, to a highly centralized, activist state. Americans consider Lincoln to be the greatest president in history. His legend as the greatest president has created hundreds of books, a national holiday, and a monument in Washington,
In the beginning of the book, Hayes states, “There are fundamentally two ways you can experience the police in America: as the people you call when there’s a problem, the nice man in uniform who pats a toddler’s head and has an easy smile for the old lady as she buys her coffee. For others, the police are the people who are called on them. They are the ominous knock on the door, the sudden flashlight in the face, the barked orders. Depending on who you are, the sight of an officer can produce either a warm sense of safety and contentment or a plummeting feeling of terror.” (Hayes, 2017, p. 1-2)
This book stunk and not in a good way, and I rate this book 1 out of 4 stars. The book consisted of a list of things that were stinky in the boy’s room; there was no plot or real change in the main character or progression of a plot. There was no educational value in the plot, and for exploring rhyme, there are far better choices that are more likely to maintain a child’s attention. The book starts out by naming things that stink and how they came to be in that area, like in the book or in the boy’s room.
Eric Packer (Robert Pattison) is a billionaire young broker. In the book he’s described as someone cold and frivolous. In a chaotic day, he decides to travel around the city in his super technological limousine. He spends all day trying to get a haircut, and ends up at the salon of the poor neighborhood in which he grew up. The same day he decides to invest all his money, and all the money of the people who trusted him, in a risky bet against the yen.
The film 13th is a documentary that explains how the prison systems are another form of slavery and is built to effect colored individuals and colored communities. The film identifies and explained a loop hole in the 13th amendment, which banned slavery. The loop in the amendment is that slavery and involuntary servitude is illegal unless a person is convicted of a crime. This clause in the amendment led to the first prison boom in America and mass incarceration. This film opened my eyes to underlying aspects of things that I have had previous knowledge about.
In Sandra Cisneros's essay entitled with “ Eleven”, she tried to convey a girl who is at the age of eleven traumatized by a power struggle with her teacher through simple diction. In the essay, she explained that Mrs. Price insisted and kept yelling at her to put the sweater “right now” with “no more nonsense”, and Rachel believed that her teacher was “always right”. The diction in these instances suggests that there is absolute authority where a child like her has no voice in an adult world. She also chose a great descriptive words to describe the red sweater such as “ all itchy and full of germs that aren’t mine”. Those words stress the fact that how disgusting the sweaterter was and how she was intolerable of it.
An eleven year old girl is confused as the owner of an ugly red sweater on her birthday. Her birthday is ruined by the unfortunate spectacle. In the short story “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros, the author characterizes Rachel as a young girl that is miserable and embarrassed. In the median of the story, Rachel exhibits anguish and distress.
“ My Grandfather cried, waving his ever-present pipe as we listened, They’re going to hand this country over to that crazy Austrian”. Chapter 1. This quote us said by Alfon’s grandfather during the first chapter. This quote is important because in the beginning before the war and holocaust the people of Germany where extremely happy with Hitler's choices that helped improve Germany’s economy and also lower the percentage of unemployment. These changes happened as a result of the start of World War two.
