The book‚ The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness‚ by Michelle Alexander‚ has a few different themes. The themes that stuck out to me from both readings and lectures are ignorance and denial‚ and the failure of colorblindness. The central theme of Alexander’s book is basically that the American system of mass incarceration is a systematic effort to ostracize people of color just like the old Jim Crow laws did in the 19th and 20th centuries. The present-day prisons make it
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“Cross” by Langston Hughes “I wonder where I’m gonna die‚ / Being neither white nor black?” (11-12) These are the last two lines of “Cross” a poem by Langston Hughes that describes the experience of a mixed-race person. The poem is written in stanzas with a rhyme scheme of ABCB. The speaker expresses the frustration and grief that a half-black and half-white person has and the struggles to accept and understand their ethnic identity‚ offering stereotype in a world where black people and white people
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TED Video #4 In Brene Brown’s TED talk‚ she shares the findings of her lengthy qualitative research‚ a massive collection of interviews including a colorful rendition of her own personal struggles‚ on the idea of human connection which she states “fundamentally expanded her perception” and has “changed the way she lives‚ loves‚ works and parents”. Her touching account of her personal struggles with this research centers on her views of vulnerability‚ which Brown summarizes as our “ability to empathize
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Salvation by Langston Hughes In Langston Hughes’ story "Salvation‚" the author describes his first encounter within the church in regards to him being saved from sin. At the young age of thirteen‚ Hughes is waiting to see Jesus appear before him -as a sign of a religious epiphany- but nothing seems to happen. In which case‚ he truly experiences religion for the first time in his life. Hughes adopts a sarcastic‚ mocking‚ and cynical tone because he suggests the church to be an ironic
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between the Jim Crow and the new American justice system? The new American justice system was believed to be a refined version of the previous Jim crow that promised equality and liberty to all races. The term “Jim crow” refers to the practice of segregating people in the Us The New Jim Crow was published during the year 2010‚ it is a book written by Michelle alexander‚ a credible well known American rights litigator and legal scholar and is best known for this book (The New Jim Crow). She is a professor
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November 20th a speech was delivered by Ted Cruz as a reaction to another one of Obama’s actions. This speech is a modern American version of Cicero’s In Catilinam‚ a speech which was uttered by Cicero against the traitor Catiline who planned to overthrow Rome and seize control. Cruz only made use of the first fourth of the first in a group of three speeches‚ since he only needed that mch to make his point and as everyone knows‚ Cicero is extremely long winded. Ted did not change much‚ only adding two
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I watched Sheryl Sandburg’s Ted talk and read this article. After watching the Ted talk I thought she brought up a lot of interesting facts and I did not think she left anything out. After reading the article though I changed my mind. Even though Sandburg did have good arguments I felt as though she left out entire groups of women. Not everyone has the opportunity to even go to school in some developing countries because they are female. How can she say women need to try harder if some never get
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The Case Study of Ted Bundy Theresa Matson PSY410 November 7‚ 2011 Nichelle J. Gause‚ LPC‚ NCC The Case Study of Ted Bundy Ted Bundy was a charismatic‚ handsome person‚ while at the same time he was a pathological liar and one of the country’s worst serial killers. His life was headed for trouble from very early on‚ an unstable home life‚ interest in crimes‚ killing and sexual assault‚ and feeling alone and forgotten. His low socioeconomic status was cause for concern for him and his
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Jim crow laws Jim crow laws is a law that was made so that blacks and whites had equal rights. For example‚ blacks couldn’t use the buses‚ hospitals entrances‚ and text books. What this means is that blacks couldn’t have the same rights as whites till this law created. Even with the Jim crow law‚ whites still believed that is was wrong for blacks to have equal rights as them. In (springboard) book on pages 196-199‚ paragraph 2 it states “buses all passenger stations in this state operated by any
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I never knew what Ted Talk was before this class. I was amazed of how many short but very power presentations they have. Almost all of their speakers are well knowledgeable about the topics they presenting‚ and they all have personal experiences related to their topics. All the presenters used different techniques to keep their audience engaged in their topics. Some were asking their audience questions. Others were showing images to keep their full attention. It is very hard to keep someone’s full
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