name Expos US 1 11 September 2013 Deepening the essay “Just walk on by” by Brent Staples In the front part of the essay “ Just walk on by”‚ Brent tells a few little stories which are talking about how bad racism is hurting him. He is hurting for racism as a child‚ as an adult‚ as a student and as a journalist. People are giving a mark of bad people on him. However‚ in the last paragraph‚ he “whistles melodies from Beethoven and Vivaldi....” (qtd. in Brent) and “Even steely New Yorkers
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the author of five best-selling books to include‚ The Grand Design‚ co-authored with Stephen Hawking‚ Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior‚ and his book The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives which was short-listed for the Royal Society book award. The title The Drunkard’s Walk comes from the mathematical term describing random motion‚ such as paths‚ molecules follow as they fly through space‚ incessantly bumping‚ and being bumped by‚ their sister molecules. The
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In A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home‚ Sue Halpern writes about her experience training her Labradoodle Pransky for animal assisted therapy. Pransky is about seven years old when the process starts. Halpern thought it would be a good idea because her husband was working more‚ her daughter was in school‚ and Pransky is very bored sitting at home all day. The audience senses Halpern’s enthusiasm transition into apprehension when she learns the extent of the training during the six weeks needed to become
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In the essay‚ “The New Immorality”‚ Joseph Wood Krutch argues that in today’s time‚ humans are becoming increasingly immoral creatures. This claim can be exemplified by the behavior of students‚ teachers‚ politicians‚ business people‚ celebrities‚ and countless others. Krutch believes that although people claim to be honorable‚ the majority of their actions say otherwise. People no longer care if the acts they commit are immoral because they often only care if it is beneficial to themselves. As times
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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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toadstool wood’ describes a woodland at twilight. Everything is quiet and dark. Reeves describes the woods as if it is hoary and inactive‚ I know this because in the poem he says ‘mouldy’. He also says ‘arching sprays of bramble’ which means there would be alot of cultivation as well in the wood. On the other the poem‚ ‘stopping by Woods on a snowy evening’ has the setting of a man on horse back stopping by the woods for a rest when he is on a long journey. Frost describes these woods as if it is
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A Walk in a Forest I noticed as I stood in an open field‚ that there was a path‚ seeming to go into a forest. I followed the path into the forest‚ the evergreen trees reached high into the sky and the birds chirped as they perched in them. Through the trees you could barely see the grey‚ cloudy sky and fell the little bit of water still falling from the trees. Little droplets of water dripped off the pine needles and fell to the ground. The ground under the tall evergreens‚ was sound
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appearance‚ at age four‚ as an extra in ’Happy Land’ in 1943. I was picked after a production company had come to Santa Rosa‚ and spotted her for the role of ’crying baby’. In 1946 RKO Pictures changes my name to Natalie Wood. I took dancing lessons as soon as I could walk‚ and‚ by 1947‚ in supporting roles in films such as ’Miracle on 34th St’‚ I earned up to $1‚000 per week. As a child star‚ I appeared in no less than 18 films in the late 1940s and early 1950s. When I was 17 years old‚ I
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The movie I chose was “Walk the Line”. The biography chronicles the early lives of Johnny and June Carter Cash and the struggles they dealt with in their personal lives and careers. Johnny (or J.R. as he was originally named) was one of Ray and Carrie Cash’s seven children and grew up on a poor cotton farm in rural Arkansas. As the movie begins‚ it introduces the viewer to Johnny’s mother‚ who taught him to sing gospel songs‚ his father‚ who was a heavy drinker and verbally abusive at times to
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