According to chapter1 Label Us Angry, by Jeremiah Torres, this chapter has narrating about the kids name’s Carlos who a student in Polo Alto town. He got discriminate according to his race from a young white man. On the night that Carlos out to celebrate the pool hall with his friend. Due to the accident between Carlos and the white man, both of them pulled the car over, as that time Carlos got a bottle of mace, spraying it directly in his face. Fortunately, there is one woman drove around there and called the police for Carlos.
Lucille Parkinson McCarthy, author of the article, “A Stranger in Strange Lands: A College Student Writing Across the Curriculum”, conducted an experiment that followed one student over a twenty-one month period, through three separate college classes to record his behavioral changes in response to each of the class’s differences in their writing expectations. The purpose was to provide both student and professor a better understanding of the difficulties a student faces while adjusting to the different social and academic settings of each class. McCarthy chose to enter her study without any sort of hypothesis, therefore allowing herself an opportunity to better understand how each writing assignment related to the class specifically and “what
In A Change of Heart About Animals, author Jeremy Rifkin gives his penny for thought on the animal rights front. Rifkin states his beliefs firmly, citing evidence that supports his argument that like humans, animals are able to have emotional connections and are more like humans than we realize. However, Rifkin’s evidence swiftly begins to contradict his point. He expects humans to treat animals with equal rights without realizing animals wouldn’t be able to do the same. So, in Rifkin’s cute little imaginary world, would animals end up being superior to humans?
“ It’s dark where I am and I cannot find the light. There are shadows all around me and my heart is full of fright.” –Andy Jackson. Depression was overpowering Andy when he was facing adversity. Relationships affected Andy during crisis.
When considering Tiffany Hendrickson’s “Storming the Gates: Talking in Color”, I agree with the interconnections of cultural background, speech and race. We often stereotype the way we think a person’s voice should sound based off of their race. In Hendrickson’s essay she talked about how people can code-switch between SAE (Standard American English) and AAE (African-American English) in order to feel more comfortable in different environments. The purpose of this paper is to show the importance of code-switching and how our cultural surroundings relate to the sound of our voices.
Pulitzer prize-winning nature writer Annie Dillard, in her essay “Living Like Weasels”, claims that humans should adopt the weasels’ way of life, living purely from necessity. Dillard’s purpose is to advise people to live happy lives by focusing on their true passions. She adopts a didactic tone to explain to her readers that living out of instinct is the best way to live. To begin her essay, Dillard describes the wild weasels’ habits by posing a question to herself and her readers, “who knows what he thinks?” (1).
Nicole Thai 1603 Bajet - Blk 4 Expo 15 September 2014 Response to “A Change of Heart About Animals” by Jeremy Rifkin There has always been a hierarchy among the creatures of nature. Within this accepted hierarchy, humans have always deemed themselves superior to the animals we share the earth with.
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut was just as confusing as it was interesting. “Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either” (Vonnegut, 14) is the sentence that outlines the entire book and informs the reader of how this book is going to cause them to think about topics they would not frequently focus on; such as a religion being founded on lies, but people still believe in it, even though they know it is not true. This novel follows the journey of Jonah who somehow falls headfirst into the religion of Bokononism. This religion of lies was created by a man named Bokonon.
Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants describes self discovery of life, love, and the struggles of living in the middle of The Great Depression. She paints Jacob Jankowski's as a miserable elderly man in a nursing home telling the adventures of his youth in the circus; full of grief, abuse and love. There are two quotes, “When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It’s fate.” and, “Life is the most spectacular show on earth.”
The spirit of abstraction is the practice of conceiving of people as functions rather than human beings. An article, “The True Cause Of Cruelty” by Alex Lickerman, supports the idea that the spirit of abstraction is a part of human nature. A document, A Class Divided also provides evidence to support this theory. A fundamental point in the spirit of abstraction entails reducing someone’s humanity and turning them into a function. In A Class Divided, African americans were inferior during the time it was conducted.
nnie Dillard denominates her essay “In the Jungle” which gives meaning to how her essay is structured. Dillard describes the Ecuadorian Jungle from what she optically discerns and aurally perceives while being there. She is living in the jungle with two other Americans and four Ecuadorian guides. The essay takes place along the Napo River which is a source of life to all animals and many Indian villages that line its banks. Albeit the essay is mostly descriptive, it still has a purport.
Grief is abstract and there is no effective method that will heal it easily. This is portrayed in Helen Macdonald’s memoir, H is for Hawk, where she tells her story about her battle to cope with grief after the loss of her father. Throughout this book, Macdonald shares her struggles and relapses as she tries to get through these challenging times. To cope with grief, she turns to hawking because she feels this will be most effective. Helen soon becomes dependent on her hawk, Mable, and uses her to escape grief which leads her to feel like a hawk and loose her connection to humanity.
In “The Beast in the Jungle” by Henry James, the theme develops throughout the story to add a surprising twist at the end. The main character, John Marcher, is in a constant state of belief that something will happen in his life that will either change it for the better or worse. He really does not care which, he is just waiting for that defining moment throughout his entire life until his life is almost over. He then realizes that during his passive state of mind he has missed out on so many opportunities that he could have taken advantage of, one of the most important being love. May Bartram is reacquainted with Marcher and they talk about his secret and she decides to join him and witness this spectacular event that they now both believe
“Tale From the Jungle: Margaret Mead”, youtube videos, which was introduced by Professor Ana, humanities professor, are a six long clip video documentaries of the first anthropology’s discoveries ever brought to public, the Samoan civilization. This ‘Samoan civilization’ anthropology discovery was discovered by Mead Margaret, an American female anthropologist, and later by Derek Freeman, an Australian anthologist. According to Mead Margaret, an American female anthropologist, she believes that humans are influenced by nurture. On the other side, Derek Freeman, an Australian anthologist, opposes Mead Margaret’s idea. He believes that humans are influenced by nature.
Just like the person being hit, it is caught unaware and unable to defend itself from the massive green truck. The amount of damage being done to both the person and the car is
