Alex Brown English 1221.8 Dr. Bauer 25 April 2014 Racial Segregation Across the United States America faces racial discrimination and segregation. The issues are more prevalent in the South‚ but exist in the North as well. The abolition of slavery and the repealing of the Jim Crow Laws brought an end to the idea that African Americans are inferior from a political standpoint. Southern authors‚ Ernest Gaines and Toni Morrison‚ use their novels‚ A Lesson Before Dying and The Bluest Eye‚ to highlight
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Cited: Orbach‚ Susie. “Fat Is a Feminist Issue”. They Say/I Say With Readings. Gerald Graff‚ Cathy Berkenstein‚ Russel Durts‚ eds. New York; W.W. Norton & Company‚ 2012. 448-452. Print Freeman‚ Carrie‚ Merskin‚ Debra. “Having It His Way”. They Say/I Say With Readings. Gerald Graff‚ Cathy Berkenstein‚ Russel Durts‚ eds. New York; W.W. Norton & Company‚ 2012. 454-473. Print
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fantasy-themed works fall out of fashion every 20 or so years. They become a pedestal for "Hollywood morals" that can’t articulate themselves without moral convenience. I agree wholeheartedly with most of what you said‚ especially the part about Graff and Rackhams opinions on the xenocide. This is a major part of why I hated the movie: the tone is completely different by the end‚ and it fails to capture any of the complexity of the book.Anything I could say is said better in this essay: http://www4
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In his essay "Hidden Intellectualism‚" Gerald Graff argues that intellectualism is not something that can only be archived through proper education like school or college‚ but with subjects that people consider non academics as sports and cars. The writer considers "street smart" to those people who learn things outside of an academic environment‚ for example in the streets of their neighborhood. The writer argues that educators should let students decide on the subject that they are more interested
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Ali HassanEnder’s game essay 21 April 2013 Ender’s Game has many deep thoughts the reader can conclude. One of the important themes that the story has is the relationship between masculinity and femininity. I like to call the relationship between masculinity and femininity in Ender’s Game “the circulation of features”. This name derived from the description and changes in characters. At the beginning the story gives the typical features of men and women. Women are emotional‚ but men are cold-hearted
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Ender’s Game: A Simulation to Justify All Means Ender’s Game is author Orson Scott Card’s best-known work. The novel has sold over one million copies and is published worldwide (Whyte). The novel won the Hugo and Nebula award in 1986; science fiction’s most prestigious writing awards (University of Utah). In summary‚ the plot of the novel is a story about a young child‚ Ender Wiggin‚ taken away from his family by the International Fleet (a world order devoted to protecting the planet from space
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English Composition Aaron Hatfield Professor Skutar 28 September 2013 Aristotle’s two magnificent Children: Ethos the Spiritual Motivator‚ and Logos the Blunt Persuader Among the multiple appeals from Aristotle‚ there lies rhetorical analysis. Applying Aristotle’s appeals to present day advertisements breaks down all the aspects and qualities of each advertisement‚ thus identifying motive behind the color scheme to the emotion or lack of‚ behind the script. There are two different types of
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selected for training at the elite Battle School. After some deliberation‚ Ender accepts out of a sense of duty and a desire to escape from the torment he suffers at the hands of his sociopathic older brother Peter. At Battle School‚ the commander Hyrum Graff publicly recognizes Ender as the most intelligent attendee. This acknowledgment causes other students to resent Ender‚ isolating him from most of the other children. Ender soon ranks among the school’s elite child soldiers‚ eventually achieving the
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Who should be responsible for obesity? America is one of the richest‚ most technologically advanced and powerful country in the world‚ but it is also known as home to the most obese population in the world. It is because of the environment that is filled with fast food stores. As David Zinczenko says in his essay “Don’t Blame the Eater”‚ “Drive down any thoroughfare in America‚ and I guarantee you’ll see one of our country’s more than 13‚000 McDonald’s restaurants. Now‚ Drive back up the block
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persona‚ embracing new technologies‚ trying new tools and generally trying to prove his tech savvy‚ Hillary Clinton comes across in the FBI interviews as a disengages tech user who sees the communication tools as little more than a means to an end” (Graff). Some newspapers publish only the information their viewers want to read about which in Politico’s case is conservative. It is clear that organizations are trying to sell their newspapers and appeal to their readers by publishing the Clinton scandal
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