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    Brent Staples’ A Brother’s Murder A belief I feel very strongly about proposes that all problems faced by our society have solutions. If this belief is true‚ why do problems still face us today? The answer could be a result of either laziness by the people in our society in finding these solutions or just the fact that there are too many problems to solve. Maybe this belief I have is too far out of reach to be true. On the other hand‚ Brent Staples‚ a well-respected writer‚ seems to share this

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    gave his Nobel Lecture‚ Brent Staples wrote “A Brother’s Murder” describing the circumstances of growing up in a heavily poor‚ heavily black neighborhood (Staples 505). The acts of violence in the small neighborhood in Chester‚ Pennsylvania are not related to the acts of racism around “their hood.” The narrator describes how one could get stuck in the rubble of the violent drama‚ like his brother Blake‚ and how one can avoid it completely‚ like the narrator did. Staples elaborates on the conditions

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    I have chosen “ A Brother’s Murder” is by Brent Staples. I have chose this article because it is a moving subject. This article is about the day a brother looks back on this day happening to be the day he received the news of his brother’s death. This article starts off as a memory of this day and explains what happened and some of the things the brother was dealing with. “ It has been more than two years since my telephone rang with the news that my younger brother Blake just twenty-two years old

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    Prejudices in Our World Both Brent Staples in “Black Men and Public Places” and Judith Cofer in “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria” seem to be illustrating the prejudices some people have. They both explain how the way they look gets them treated by others. Brent Staples‚ because he is black in perceived as a criminal; Judith Cofer is a Latina and is mistaken for a waitress. Both stories give numerous examples of prejudice. In addition‚ each writer has a larger purpose

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    Public Space‚"� Brent Staples demonstrates how a stereotype on race and sex can intervene with one another. Each point‚ whether a narrative or remark‚ can have positive and negative outcomes on the audience Staples is trying to enlighten. His thesis‚ the ability to alter public space through racial stereotypes‚ affected him as well as many other persons of his stature and skin color. It not only influenced lives of people like Staples‚ but infringed onto the "victims"� of Staples and others like

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    web‚ I found out some very informative information about the life of Brent Staples. Brent Staples was an intelligent man‚ not just an ordinary man from Chester‚ Pennsylvania. He earned various degrees as different universities and colleges like a BA from Widener University in 1973‚ and a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1977. He was a professor of psychology at various universities in the states. Writing is one of Staples’ specialties and he has been a reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times and the

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    Brent Staples wrote an essay about “What Adolescents miss when we let them grow up in Cyberspace.” In the beginning Staples describes the father of his 10th grade heartthrob. He insinuates that he is a fearsome steelworker who struck terror in the hearts of 15-year old boys. Whenever they would talk on the phone‚ her father would cut the conversation short. Now he has to make a choice to give up or show up at the front door. This is the first sustained encounter with an adult outside of his family

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    Brent Staples; Fight Against The Destiny Everyday millions of people; young and old‚ rich and poor are getting up with the sunshine glittering in their eyes and start in their days with different concerns‚ in different moods. Each of them is just living out their lives with the destiny that has been set for them. It is interesting how life starts differently for each of us. Some may be born rich‚ handsome or super intelligent‚ while the others may be born poor‚ disabled or as orphans. Some may

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    B_r_e_n_t_ _S_t_a_p_l_e_s_‚_ _“J_u_s_t_ _W_a_l_k_ _o_n_ _B_y_” _ My first victim was a woman—white‚ well dressed‚ probably in her early twenties. I came upon her late one evening on a deserted street in Hyde Park‚ a relatively affluent neighborhood in an otherwise mean‚ impoverished section of Chicago. As I swung onto the avenue behind her‚ there seemed to be a discreet‚ uninflammatory distance between us. Not so. She cast back a worried glance. To her‚ the youngish black man—a broad six feet two

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    First analytical essay The night world In “Black Men and Public Space‚” Brent Staples makes the most interesting idea that‚ people look – always – to black men as a threat‚ they see every dark skinned youth as an incoming danger‚ and that is what Staples implies in his essay. He also explains when he was young‚ people looked at him as a mugger or‚ a rapist or even worse. So‚ throughout his essay we can see Staples’ realization of the fact that‚ people – rarely - change their prospective about

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