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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Hi everyone‚ We will discuss the Staples-Office Depot case. How would you characterize the industry structure? Oligopoly Small number of big firms‚ with notable entry barriers‚ high competition and rising demand‚ competitive prices‚ present on national scale‚ efficient cost structure. 1. Are there barriers to entry that help maintain this structure? The broad present of actual market competitors‚ the cross price elasticity. Economies of scale‚ advertising‚ channels of distribution‚ purchasing
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My response to the title of the poem was a fifteen-year-old Latina girl becoming of age. Quinceanera can be compared to Sweet Sixteen or becoming eighteen-years-old all of which represent the transition into adulthood for a young lady. Traditionally a Quinceanera is celebrated among the Latino culture and catholic community. The poem demonstrates tone well using her emotions and feeling toward turning fifteen. This author takes her own experience and puts it into the poem. She describes the time
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many slaves were freed‚ unfortunately‚ many of them were treated as if they weren’t. In the excerpts from Twelve Years of a Slave and Betty Cofer‚ there is an opposition between how the slaves were treated along with the genesis of slavery‚ however‚ the dialect between the two pieces is similar. To begin‚ a difference between Twelve Years of a Slave and Betty Cofer was how the slaves were treated. In Twelve Years of a Slave‚ the narrator‚ who was Solomon Northup was revealed as a freed man‚ who was kidnapped
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does Staples describe himself? How is he sometimes seen by others? Staples describe himself as a harmless and well educate man; however‚ because of his height and looks‚ Staples is often perceive by others as threat to their wellbeing. 2- How is the complication and paradox of these situations expressed by the last sentence about Staples’s whistling classical music being the “equivalent of the cowbell that hikers wear when they know they are in bear country? The equivalent that Staples whistles
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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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In “Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space”‚ Brent Staples explains the impact he has on other people just for being an African American man. Writing for an audience of black men who have experienced discrimination. With a wise‚ inoffensive voice‚ but somewhat of a neutral tone‚ the author uses figurative language‚ writing techniques and diction to explain his purpose of writing this essay to explain to his readers of his past experience of being a black man in public
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Kitchen” and Brent Staples “Just Walk By: Black Men In A Public Space” is to bring attention to the way society has formed stereotypes based on gender and race. Even though each piece
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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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Jack Huston once said “Rule number one is ‘don’t get too attached to a character.’” He was talking about fictional characters‚ but the same can be said for real life. In the short story “American History‚” by Judith Ortiz Cofer‚ a girl named Elena becomes friends with a boy named Eugene‚ but she is devastated when she finds out that he will be moving soon. The moral of this story is not to get so emotionally attached to someone. Elena got so attached to Eugene because of how similar they are. She
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