movie based on a book is shortened and distorted from its original book to appeal more audiences since a movie appeals more to popular‚ general audiences. It is no exception for Powwow Highway‚ written by David Seals and was later made in movie. One of perspective review article‚ Easin’s on Down the Powwow Highway(s)‚ by Rodney Simard focuses on difference between the film and original novel. It reveals several important points: intensification of Indian stereotype‚ westernized women roles and the
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Brent Staples‚ the author of Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A’s‚ is a contributor to the New York Times Newspaper. The article was made in 1998 in the Times. The thesis is explicit and states that due to competitors‚ degrees have decreased in value and grade inflation is occurring. He uses an example of a college university to show how it is happening. Staples then goes into more detail about the topic saying that students and parents get their money’s worth when they get good grades. In
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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 hunching toward
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Walk on By In the essay Just walk on by‚ author Brent Staples shares his experiences of living with the prejudged notion that he is someone to be feared because he is different from his peers. Brent Staples grew up in the small town of Chester‚ Pennsylvania where he was an outsider. He caught on to something that most of his friends probably had never thought about before or even felt that they had the right to think about. Somewhere along the line of his child hood Staples chose to rise above
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stated by the author about interstates and for most cases its true. Interstates bypass all the towns‚ cities‚ and highways that people would not notice unless they drove on the highways instead of the interstate. Interstates are long‚ mostly straight‚ flat roads that lead from one place to another. On the interstate‚ semis loom over you like giant beast‚ cascading you and your entire car in a shadow as it rides by. Certain towns‚ shops‚ or cultures can only be found on blue highways‚ roads written in
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gained many valuable results such as Martin Luther King Jr. (Letter from Birmingham Jail)‚ James Balwin (Stranger in the village) and so forth. Brent Staples was one of them with Growing up in Black and White which won the Anisfield-Wolff Book Award in 1995. Beside that‚ "Black Men and Public Space" was also his interesting work with numerous rhetorical uses adding more effects in describing his experience on more than one occasion in his life: being perceived as a criminal simply based on his "unwieldy
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In the article Black Men and Public Spaces‚ Brent Staples uses the persuasive appeals of ethos‚ pathos‚ and logos to prove to the audience that he‚ and many other black men can be victimized solely due to being falsely perceived as a threat. He manipulates logos by the experience he has faced through stories‚ Staples manages to prove his credibility by ethos and prove that he can be falsely judged and use pathos to make the audience feel pity and sorrow for him and other black men who are profiled
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Just Walk On By In 1986‚ a 35 year old Brent Staples published Black Men and Public Spaces in Ms. Magazine. Through several personal experiences and analysis he discusses the causes and effects of the dangerous perception of black men. Displaying both perspectives of a white peoples’ fears‚ and a black man’s reaction‚ his essay opened the discussion for greater understanding. More importantly he reveals the mutual danger when “fear and weapons meet and they often do in urban America”‚ the “possibility
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The article 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
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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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