Within just a few pages, Douglass established his powerful argument, while more than one- fourth of the novel contains examples of gruesome events such as slaves being beaten, battered, and even killed. Through these horrific events, readers are made to cringe, envisioning what it was like to go through the hardships of slavery. By using an extensive amount of appeal, the reader becomes emotional to the horrors of slavery, and the reprimandings that slaves received. On page 22, Douglass recalls a former slave who was his wife’s cousin, who was beaten so brutally that she was actually killed. For someone to be sold into slavery, against their will, and then killed simply because she fell asleep due to previous nights lack of sleep, is absolutely unimaginable, and is seen as evil to any reader, regardless of age. This story is an example of Douglass establishment of pathos, and how he appeals to the reader’s emotions in his argument against slavery. Douglass appeals to pathos again on page 59 when he recalls a beating he was given by his new master, Mr. Covey. Douglass uses vivid details referring to the blood that would drip down his back, and the whip, which would cause ridges on his flesh. By using these vivid examples, the reader feels as if the actions are being performed on them, and that their raw flesh is being whipped. Douglass logically…
In the excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Douglass’s sad tone helps the reader understand the effect that his literacy had on his thoughts and feelings toward slavery. Douglass describes how his mistress had given him “the inch” that he needed to learn to read and how he used bread to convince the little white children to teach him. He soon found the knowledge of how horrible his enslavers were. “In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity” (Douglass 120-121). This quote describes how he is depressed because he had learned the truth of his enslaves and wished that he would forget the truth. Although learning to read was a great ability he had acquired, it was a curse that led…
Films that claim the statement, “based on a true story” intend to make all of the pictured events as accurate as possible. While depicting a historic moment can be incredible hard, it can be even harder when the original script is constructed upon a lie. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is a movie based the life of the man responsible for creating a genre of television in which we capitalize on today, but also for creating an autobiography so far- fetched that it appears to be true. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind presents a look into the fabricated double life of Chuck Barris.…
The teacher appreciates multiple perspectives and conveys to learners how knowledge is developed from the vantage point of the knower.…
Sometimes evil should not be searched up within people around you but inside yourself. The story “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson, reflects the beliefs and thoughts of an old Lady who believes her small town is being turned to an evil town, though that’s not the reality. So she decides to send anonymous letters to the people within the town to stop spreading of the so called “evil”. The…
Always Smiling, always is a piece is by Russell Noto created in 2014, and is located on the first floor of the Jen library. This piece jumped out at me for many reasons; it had this complex and thought out color scheme, you had light and happy colors in one and then ominous dark colors to really pop out against the white wall background, and with it consisting of two parts you had to do a double take to ponder if they were just obscenely close, or if these very different works of art were actually one whole in the greater layout of everything. After you get to spend some time truly appreciating this piece the overall idea of how people feel we must hide certain emotions becomes more and…
According to www.drugabuse.gov, it is estimated that fifty two million people with at least twenty percent being twelve or older, have used prescription drugs for nonmedical reasons at least once in their lifetimes. Some of the more commonly known drugs include Adderall, prescription painkillers and Xanax. These are the medications I will be researching and informing about, but there are definitely a lot more than three. Many people are prescribed and use these drugs as directed by a professional, but many also don’t. Adolescents often share or sell their medications to those who are not prescribed, and have no other way of receiving them. Constant misuse can lead to many health problems, and in extreme cases even death. Besides the abuse,…
At the beginning of the play, Othello is a respected noble figure, he clearly shows his love for Desdemona and takes his job seriously. “Keep up your bright swords...” this quote shows how Othello started off as a strong and calm character.…
In the book, A Man Without Words, Susan Schaller takes an interpreting job at a community college in Los Angeles, California. On her first day, she finds a young man named Ildefonso who is around 27 years old with his arms tucked in and his head following the each student as they passed. Schaller sits with the young man and tries to talk to him, thinking that everyone in the room could understand sign language. Schaller learns that Ildefonso, an illegal alien from rural Mexico, deaf since birth had no concept of language—signed, spoken, or written. At first, when Schaller would sign to him, he simply mimicked her signs, which frustrated them both. After working with…
This narrative begins with the childhood of Frederick Douglass and ends with his adventures as an abolitionist. He gives insight into his personal recollections of his first awareness of what it meant to be a slave, from his own experiences and his experience as a witness to the brutality of one human being upon another human being. He allows readers through his words to have a front row seat to the world of slavery and the main objective of slavery supporters to dehumanize and oppress another race and culture. The goal of his prose is to raise awareness of the cruelty of man upon the backs of blacks, which subsequently he hoped would end…
Walt Whitman praises the fact that he is able to trust his neighbor, even if his neighbor is a runaway slave. Although “[t]he runaway slave came to [his] house and stopt outside [and Whitman] heard his motions crackling the twigs of the woodpile”, Whitman still “went where he sat…
Allowing your past opens up boundaries like never before. Therefore, one must accept his or her experiences, and puts them to daily uses. In memoir Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Houston reflects on her departure from the internment camp and accepts her new identity as a survivor. After enduring many obstacles of the camp, former experiences guide her to new life.…
When the poem is first read, Smith’s tone creates a comic mood that seems to be completely opposite of the main theme. The text depicts a man who is misunderstood by others, as they think that he is waving his arms to say hello when he is in fact, signaling for help while drowning. Because misinterpretation in our body language has been a common source of jokes for a long time, the title of the poem inevitably carries a somewhat comical connotation. In addition, the contrast between the two meanings, saying hello and asking for help while drowning, of the speaker’s action is so big that it seems even unrealistic, therefore less serious. The usage of colloquial language such as “poor chap” (5) and “Oh, no no no,” (9) adds to the effect by giving the impression that the whole poem is a casual anecdote with jokes between friends.…
Since the beginning of mankind, humans have categorized and confined each other into specific groups with standards impossible to fulfill. In the process of reducing people to basic labels, we dehumanize them and transform the human race as a whole into a population of “other”. Everyone is guilty of otherness, differing from societal norms, but if so, why does the thought of otherness leave such a bitter taste in our mouths? In the articles “Between the Sexes a Great divide” by Anna Quindlen and “Being a Man” by Paul Theroux, both authors address the concept of otherness through the prospect of gender difference; but while Theroux uses several generalizations and a bitter tone which creates more divide, Quindlen offers up a solution to the great divide which is to do the dance, to take the first step to bridge the gaping gap between men and women and embrace the difference with open arms.…
This book was mainly about a guy named Charles “Chick”. After his mother passed away, he began to drift and soon he started drinking, money became a problem and he constantly fought with his wife, and over time, their marriage collapsed. He hits rock bottom after discovering that he won’t be invited to his only daughter’s marriage. And one night, he decided to kill himself.…