It always starts off the same way. I’m driving down this dirt road by myself. There’s a streetlight somewhere that follows me‚ but I don’t know where it’s coming from. The road is endless‚ and I can’t really see anything besides the road and the trees. Then after what feels like an hour of driving‚ I see someone on the side of the road. I drive past them‚ because you know‚ picking up hitch hikers is bad‚ even in dreams. Then the next thing I know‚ they’re on my windshield‚ screaming at me and shit
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“Just Walk On By‚” by Brent Staples describes his life as an African American that is criticized and judged by the appearance the he reflects. He talks about the many different times in his life he experiences these act of racial profiling‚ and what he does to resolve these acts of discrimination. Through his passive calm tone he displays throughout his essay‚ he comes up with ways in which he changes him self in order for society to accept him. However‚ this is just one of many life stories that
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Staples has many accurate statements in his story “Just Walk On By” that talks mainly about race or the color of one’s skin. He speaks about “current controversies surrounding racial profiling of criminals suspects” (Staples. 196). This means many people are investigated‚ they would stand for the color of their skin‚ ethnicity‚ and national origin. I have been put under the profiling category because of the color of my skin. Although people with black skin have a higher chance of getting profiled
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Brent Staples’s “Just walk on by” was written to clarify how African-Americans like Staples go through stereotypes when in actually reality‚ shouldn’t be prejudged in the first place. He reminisces being perceived as dangerous just because of his skin color‚ and how this situation puts himself in endangerment. Staples arguers that people shouldn’t be so judgmentally and should get to know the person by the actions. He not only makes statements all through the text‚ but gives incidents of how his
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The film Eye on the Prize: Episode IV: No Easy Walk gives an insight of African Americans and their fight for Civil Rights. The film marker exhibits the hardship African Americans and some whites in American went through to get rights for all. The film uplift the African American community to get what they wanted and not to stop until it was achieved. They wanted equal opportunity like any other whites in American and the same jobs positions as them. The film marker was sympathetic to the civil
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Summer Assignment Reaching a destination‚ one is overcome with a vast and irreplaceable sense of accomplishment‚ achievement‚ and overwhelming rush of pride. What makes these feelings so worthwhile? Throughout both A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson and Its Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong‚ characters experience significant journeys‚ which help them discover value‚ patience‚ and new forms of strength. It is these traits‚ gained along the way‚ that become more important
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The United States: A Cautionary Tale Jose Enrique Rodo’s essay Ariel is a call to the people of Latin America to recognize that they face a great fork in the road of their development. Down one path is the way the United States has taken with its pursuits of material comforts and progress for the sake of progress. Down the other lays the potential Latin America has to be something better than that‚ an opportunity to not only emulate the great ancient societies of Athens and Rome‚ but also improve
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On the side walk bleeding by Evan Hunter is a story of a boy’s mistake of joining a gang. A boy called Andy that is 16 years old joined a gang called the royals. There are many risks in beings in this gang‚ including “The Guardians”. The reason for his death. Andy was stabbed. He was stabbed because he was a part of this gang. This short story gives a deep and sad response to me because of how young this boy who just died was. “The jacket was a stupid meaningless thing that was robbing him of his
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A Walk to the Jetty by Jamaica Kincaid and Ile by Eugene O’Neill‚ both include a strong-willed main character who makes a life changing decision over the course of the story. In their respective stories‚ Annie John and Captain Keeney both channel their ambition into sacrifice; leaving themselves and their audiences to question- is it worth it? Annie aspires to improve the quality of her life by leaving her family and the island she calls home to become a nurse in England. Annie admits outright that
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Moving states‚ meeting a lunatic‚ and losing your mother‚ turns out to be more valuable than meeting your mother‚ learning the truth‚ and knowing why your father had a bizarre relationship with a woman Sal believes is a murderer. Throughout the novel‚Walk Two Moons‚ by Sharon Creech‚ Sal the main character and her father move from their farm in Bybanks‚ Kentucky‚ to an unknown place to them in Euclid‚ Ohio. Once they reach Euclid‚ Sal learns that her father met a woman‚ not just any woman‚ a woman by
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