Kiese Laymon is a Black man who was born and raised in the South, his experience growing up was one filled with many obstacles. Throughout his story his use of the appeals help to make his point. His use of chronological order in his article create a kind of consistency that is appealing to the reader, as he tells us of his whole life and his most important moments in it. He effectively appeals to our pathos through several major points of sadness, such as when his own mother pointed a gun at him. Many times as he grows up, there ar several questionable choices he makes thus appeal to our logos, which is an interesting way to go about this. I recognized a lot of what I have experienced growing up in the black community, for example the never…
Katie Makanya and Florence Nightingale both contrast the modern phenomenon of urban life with traditional life in the countryside. In Katie Makanya, Margaret McCord portrays the black South African life that Katie lives and how she has to adapt to the European culture during the years of colonization. Around the time of Katie Makanya’s childhood, South Africa was beginning to change rapidly due to the discovery of diamonds, which kept bringing Europeans into their territory causing their cultures and race to blend together.…
The Working Poor consists of numerous poor individuals that struggle to live in America. All of these individuals work hard but fail to find the success that America promises. One such family in America is the family of Tom and Kara King. Tom and Kara King’s family displays the hardships that a family can go through, but the ability to remain strong together by supporting each other.…
Places like these affect the life a child, and guide the child towards a stereotypical life. Not Dasani, she has a family that loves her, and lean on her for support. She is the anchor that keep the family together and sane. This is what Elliott is trying to explain. Family means everything and one will do the impossible to protect them, regardless of the situation at hand. With the family together there is no obstacle they can overcome. But there is only so much one can do especially at a young age. Dasani had to grow up quickly, giving her little time to live out her childhood. This is the problem with some current families. There are adults that are so irresponsible, and are not capable to caring for children. But the affection for one another is strong that keep them together. The author later quotes, “You’re not supposed to turn out like your mother.” The real question is; will Dasani grow up to be like her mother, or will she stay determine to fight for a better life of her own? Elliott wants her readers to know, that life in poverty is never easy. The choices are very limited and making the right choice is not clear for someone with…
Sugar was not a very well know product back in the late 1300s. However, sugar became a very popular ingredient when Columbus introduce sugar to the West Indies in 1493. After being introduced to other countries, sugar spread like wildfire, and was wanted everywhere. Of course, after sugar became popular, there was going to be a rise on merchants selling cane sugar. The sugar trade was driven by the higher demands of people, profit, and the slave trade.…
The vignette “The House on Mango Street” shows a serious issue; it discusses poverty and even though it was set in the 1960s, the issue, as shown by articles, is still relevant today. “The House on Mango Street” was written by Sandra Cisneros and is told from Esperanza, a girl struggling with poverty and is told through a series of vignettes. The two articles that will be referenced is “How Does Poverty Affect a Teen’s Lifestyle?” by Ayra Moore, and “Increasing the Minimum Wage Would Help Reduce Poverty” by Elise Gould. Poverty has always been a problem. In fact, 46.7 million people were in poverty in 2014. Out of that number, 33% of those people in poverty are under 18. Clearly, poverty is still a serious issue today that affects many people.…
What would it be like to have no personal identity? Human nature is fundamentally oriented toward self-acceptatance and self-understanding. Without these, one feels inadequate and lost. This is certainly the case for poor Biff Loman in “Death of a Salesman,” because Biff’s father Willy simply cannot accept him. Biff is forced to be someone he is not for so long that he loses his true self altogether. As a result, he falls into a despair he cannot understand the genesis of. Additionally, Willy ruins Biff’s future and character. Beyond all the other characters of the play, Willy hurts Biff the most because Willy attacks Biff’s fundamental identity.…
She is no pleader of causes, choosing rarely to comment on the race issue in her published poetry. Yet her biography reveals a wide acquaintance with civil rights leaders, literary dignitaries, lecturers, and other prominent citizens, black and white, who would appear as public speakers and/or artists in Lynchbu…
It is common to see the landlords of buildings in “up-and-coming areas” force low-income tenants to move out in order to make way for high-income tenants. Thus, displacing original residents. As wealthier residents move in to low-income neighborhoods, it would make sense if they spent more on local business to generate profit for them and the economy of their neighborhood. Unfortunately, that is a rare occurrence as businesses have a hard time catering to the needs of two different types of clientele, though they often try to do so. Likewise, new businesses that open up specifically to cater to the new residents bring new competition to the old ones, putting further strain on the local community. New businesses open to cater to the wealthier residents of the neighborhood and existing shops are forced to either change their practices to appeal to new residents and survive or stick with their old clientele and likely lose their business. An example such as this can be when communities are chosen to be locations for Whole Food stores. With such high prices, low-income individuals often suffer as their usual local grocery stores cannot compete and go out of business. In the film, it can be shown while one of the mothers was describing the area that many of the businesses in the area seem to cater to families that can afford to send their children to the expensive private school that neighbors the projects. Methods of education are changed. For example, the Avenue School which fosters readiness for international life. The accessibility to this school is extremely limited. The Avenue School “The World School” is located right across the street from the projects. Tuition for this institution costs over forty thousand dollars. In a neighborhood like the projects that type of money is unheard of, especially to spend that kind of money on the…
She calls upon the of a number of maids who works for her friends; Aibileen, Minny and Pascagoula in order to make her book a real like interpretation of the struggles they face on a daily bases. Jackson has a community that seems to be very racist and oblivious and close minded towards change and fait treatment towards citizens that reside there. The community seemingly split in two divided over an adequate racial line that has been passed down from generations to generations. Stern guidelines and regulations are put in place in order to separate the blacks and white. The writer gives us a glimpse of the Mississippian world back in the day and how maids were treated and the amount of racism and hatred that occurred in Jackson Mississippi. White Mississippians had been brought up and through social conditioning they had a mentality that prevented them to change their views and allow blacks to live the same luxury they had. Whites had more freedom blacks had, they allowed their communities to grow and flourish whereas blacks’ community became congested and overcrowded due to the restrictions preventing their community to grow “Jackson is just one white neighbourhood after the next” and “the coloured part of town be one big…
Narrator in “I Stand Here Ironing” holds a heavy heart of guilt for her lack of…
In her poem, she asks, “Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes?”. The past tense of the verb “did” indicates that in the past someone attempted to cause her breakdown and failure. She has been subject of one or more attacks against her strength and stamina, caused by other who wanted to see her fail. This indicates a society in which one never feels safe due to people constantly trying to bring others down. However, she moves past this horrible event and carries on. She has the strength to ignore these harsh attacks, but not everyone in society has this ability of persevere nice. Many people, due to the color of their skin, are victimized and abused whether mentally or physically in an atmosphere in which some are determined to bring another down. In society, race causes some people to move beyond rational thought and aim to harm others due to only the sole hatred of what they represent. In conclusion, race reveals the problem of emotional/physical abuse in an unsafe society in which one doesn’t feel comfortable due to the color of their…
She thinks she needs to be white and her town is so segregated that she does not believe that white people are real. When reciting a poem in front of the church congregation, she runs out because she forgot the lines and the children are laughing at her. After running out she explains that what her dress looks like and that she’ll look like a movie star that everyone would want to be and that she is only black because she “was really white and because a cruel stepmother… had turned her into a too-big Negro girl” (4). She doesn’t think she belongs and that she should be white, but won’t accept who she is. Also hasn’t experienced much outside real world life.…
"Africana Womanism: An Historical, Global Perspective for Women of African Descent" is an essay based on Africana Womanism and how it compares to white feminism. The essay was written by Clenora Hudson-Weems, an African American writer and literary critic. She was born in Oxford, Mississippi and she was raised in Memphis, Tennessee. I will compare Africana Womanism and Feminism and discuss the definition of the two the topics. Also I will discuss the important historical figures that are womanists. I think the issue is important because the common misconception is that a womanist and a feminist are the same thing but they are totally different. A womanist is more family oriented and feminists are dealing with the empowerment of themselves.…
Sister Carrie represents the many Americans who desire to escape poverty by seeking greener pastures. Like Dreiser’s family who constantly searched for economic stability after the fatal business loss of their uninsured woolen mill.…