José A. Lorenzo Matos INGL 3104 – L91 1/29/15 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH PROF. GLADYS CRUZ‚ ENGLISH 3104 “Doing Time in the Thirteenth Chair” - Scott Russell Sanders Legal Terms/Vocabulary 1. Prosecutor - a person instigating prosecution (carrying on legal proceedings against a person) in a criminal proceeding. 2. Juror - one of a group of persons sworn to deliver a verdict in a case submitted to them; member of a jury. 3. Defendant - the attorney representing the defendant in a lawsuit or criminal
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Influence” by Scott Russell Sanders Scott Russell Sanders’ narrative essay “Under the Influence” is a piece about his experiences with his alcoholic father. To describe these experiences‚ Sanders uses animalistic diction‚ asyndeton‚ and explains how his father’s disease creates insecurities in himself. Sanders’ purpose is to describe life with an alcoholic in order to demonstrate the effects and devastation in correlation with the “disease”. Using negative connotation‚ Sanders creates animal-like
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Workaholics and alcoholics have few differences‚ but are similar in many ways. In Scott Russell Sander ’s essay‚ "Under the Influence"‚ he shows how children of alcoholic parents suffer from self-blame and how such blame can affect them for the rest of their life. Sanders illustrates the troubles he experienced as a young boy due to his fathers drinking problem. Scott blamed himself for his father ’s addiction to alcohol. Whenever Scott became older‚ he then dealt with an addiction to work‚ as his father had
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A feminist is a theory of the political‚ economic‚ and social equality of the sexes. Russell Scott Sanders‚ “The Men We Carry in Our Minds‚” discusses his personal observation of the conflict of gender equality that grew in his mind after seeing the harsh lives of his surrounding class of people. It deals with the problems that exist between sex and social class issues. He reveals that the men in this class had no choice over their own destiny in life. Their only ways of making money to barely survive
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Scott Russel Sanders’s Buckeye is a memoir‚ in which the author reminisces about his late father. He fondly recalls his father’s attachment to buckeyes‚ believing that it would help him overcome arthritis. He highlights his love for his father and the land he once lived on by using vivid sensory details. Throughout the story‚ Sanders describes events and surroundings with specific details that bring readers into the story‚ allowing them to watch it unfold as if they were there with the author. His
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Scott Russell Sanders in his essay "looking at Women" has his views shaped by the people he is surrounded by. This trend is apparent even in his early child hood. He continues this trend thru early adulthood. Well into adult hood this trend show it self through his actions‚ and through the quotes that he chooses. Sanders forms his opinions from the opinions of others in this essay‚ and demonstrates thoroughly. Two people‚ the first of which is a friend‚ affect Sanders first realization of sexuality
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Minds‚ Scott Sanders explains his thoughts on gender equality as a boy‚ and how his views change when he realizes the problem is not with gender inequality but about problems with social class. In a conversation with a friend‚ Sander believes that women have a harder life than men because women are trying to prove their equality. This conversation makes Sanders think about the men he knew as a young boy‚ they worked back-breaking jobs and died young because they were worn out. As a child Sanders was
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treated and the actions taken toward equality. Scott Russel Sanders expresses his views on the problems that exist between gender roles and social class issues during his childhood. Sanders narrates to us what he witnessed in his childhood and how his views developed and changed through the story. During his childhood‚ Sanders observed the harsh lives and poor conditions of his surrounding group of people. Moreover‚ Sanders believed that men in his time had no choice of their future‚ in fact‚ he
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from the constant hassle of society. These people wish to roam incognito without having to be responsible for anyone but themselves. This divorce from human relationship can become dangerous for the person as well as the surrounding people. Scott Russell Sanders makes a good point that‚ “...if we make a career of being unaccountable‚ we have lost something essential to our humanity‚ and we may well become a burden or threat to those around us.” The nicest thing about getting away from it all is
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