Class A Summary of Scott Russell Sanders’ “The Men We Carry in Our Minds” In Scott Russell Sanders’ essay‚ “The Men We Carry in Our Minds”‚ he indicates his perspective through discussing the issues that exist between sex and social class. Sanders’ depicts his thoughts through narration which allows him to portray his own life experiences to support his viewpoint. Sanders’ thesis is fundamentally based on the lives of men “who’ve been discredited” (Sanders 292) and how their lives have been
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Russell Sanders tells his story about growing up with an alcoholic father. Sanders family go through many obstacles because of their father. His fathers drinking problems made Sanders shame and guilt because the main character felt like it was his fault that his father was drinking and wanted to save his father from his drinking habits. Sanders uses imagery and diction to tell the reader about growing up with an alcoholic father and what consequences it had in his life. Growing up Sanders felt fear
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References: James Brown. Retrieved from http://chronicle.augusta.com/life/people/2011-11-12/carl-sanders-last-governor-augusta Carl Sanders: Last governor from Augusta. Retrieved from http://chronicle.augusta.com/life/people/2011-11-12/carl-sanders-last-governor-augusta
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Scott Russell Sanders‚ he discusses his own view on the gender roles. Sanders grew up in a lower class environment where men worked hard and labored with their bodies. He states that “The bodies of the men I knew were twisted and maimed” (p.1). He also states how men worked hard and physically suffered from all the responsibilities that had to be done for their families. On the other hand‚ Sanders shares his view on how women lived easier lives than the men he grew up with. Sanders view on gender
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of its misuse are serious and life threatening. In Scott Sander’s “Under the Influence: Paying the Price of My Father’s Booze‚” Sanders pays and continues to pay for his father’s drinking problem by having feelings of guilt and anger for him after he dies. Throughout this essay‚ Sanders also shows alcoholism as a social problem rather than an individual problem. Sanders recalls that a main source of his father’s drinking problem was from a cinderblock place called Sly’s. After getting some gas and
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This legislation Bernie Sanders is attempting to pass is attracting countless young adults that are striving to get an education‚ which creates this topic to be extremely controversial and popular within both the Democratic and Republican population in America today. “The bill would eliminate the $70 billion dollar tuition costs at all 4-year public colleges and universities” and “lower interest rates on federal student loans‚ give graduates a chance to refinance existing loans at lower rates‚ and
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Throughout the centuries‚ composers have endeavored to capture human emotions in their work. Nowhere is this struggle more evident than in the works of operatic composers‚ who tailor their music to forcefully convey the poetry for which they write. An invaluable tool to these composers is harmonic language‚ helping to express desires and forces of good and evil underneath the plain and simple language of the text. Harmonic language encompasses several aspects of music‚ including the major or minor
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This election cycle has been a wild ride‚ surprising many observers. This was indeed the year of the anti-establishment candidates. Both Bernie Sanders and Donald J. Trump found success in their campaigns even though they were considered political outsiders. The 2016 election drew to a close on November 8. Republican candidate Donald J. Trump defeated Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in a landslide victory by winning 290 electoral votes as well as the Republicans controlling the House and Senate
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question remains how should a man look at a woman? In the passage‚ Looking at Women written by Scott Russell Sanders‚ he uses different examples to demonstrate the connection between how women present themselves and how they are viewed by men. The following rhetorical strategies are being used by Sanders to make his argument: begging the question‚ causal relationship‚ and backing. Sanders uses begging the question when he describes his first sexually attracting experience at the age of eleven. Him
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Sanders’ primary appeal is pathos‚ and he uses it in various ways to illustrate his purpose. Firstly‚ his diction demonstrates use of pathos‚ because the author incorporates words with emotional contexts and meanings such as “seductive”‚ “unglamorous”‚ “tolerance”‚ and “respect”. Second of all‚ Sanders connects with the reader and their feelings through the use and repetition of personal pronouns‚ especially “we”‚ “our”‚ and “you”. On the same note‚ the author employs words such as “people”‚ “human”
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