Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing Unable to get official permission to interview and write about correctional officers‚ Ted Conover‚ author of the book Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing‚ "got in" by applying for a correctional officer position. After training‚ he and his fellow rookies‚ known as "newjacks‚" were randomly assigned to Sing Sing‚ one of the country’s most famous -- and infamous -- prisons. Sing Sing‚ a maximum-security male prison‚ was built in 1828 by prisoners themselves‚ kept at their task
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Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing The distressing experience of operating as a prison guard in such a notorious penal facility as New York State’s Sing Sing Penitentiary is one that is unlikely to be desired by one not professionally committed to the execution of prison uniformity. However‚ the outstanding novel written by Tom Conover illustrates the encounters of a journalist who voluntarily plunged himself into the obscure universe of the men and women paid to spend the better portion of their lives
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Ted Conover‚ a journalist who served as a prison guard for his book Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing‚ found that even though pets were prohibited in Sing Sing‚ the inmates managed to keep animals. One convict kept a cat; another even made a home for a large spider. Pets offered inmates the opportunity to care for something‚ and the two meanings of "care" are responsibility and love-the key building blocks of rehabilitation. Prison disconnects people. Sometimes it disconnects prisoners from criminal
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings follows Marguerite’s (called "My" or "Maya" by her brother) life from the age of three to seventeen and the struggles she faces – particularly with racism – in the Southern United States. Abandoned by their parents‚ Maya and her older brother Bailey are sent to live with their paternal grandmother (Momma) and crippled uncle (Uncle Willie) in Stamps‚ Arkansas. Maya and Bailey are haunted by their parents’ abandonment throughout the book – they travel alone and are labeled
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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings‚ by Maya Angelou‚ is an autobiography that opens in 1931‚ Stamps‚ Arkansas‚ and follows Marguerite Johnson (Maya Angelou) throughout her years of growing up. Starting when she first arrived to live her grandma‚ to when she moved to San Fransisco to be reunited with her mother‚ She encounters many experiences‚ good and bad‚ that mold her into who she is in adulthood. This book is more than just the outward journey of her life‚ it involves what she instinctively knew
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“I saw only her power and strength...Her voice was soft only because she chose to keep it so¨ (Angelou 46). This person who Maya Angelou is referring to in her autobiography‚ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‚ is Annie Henderson‚ Angelou’s southern grandmother. She is also known as Momma. As we follow Angelou’s coming-of-age story living back and forth between her divorced parents and Momma in Stamps‚ Arkansas‚ Momma unfolds to us as being strong on the inside without having to use words to convey
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with their own experiences and insights. An example of this is the relationship between the poem “Sympathy‚” the memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‚ and the novel Speak. The title of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings comes from the repeating line in the poem “Sympathy.” In the novel Speak‚ the author made references to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and the author of the memoir. Among the three works‚ there is a common theme. All three works have the theme of fighting for freedom. The three
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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings In the novel "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"‚ published in 1969‚ Maya Angelou wrote her autobiography full of emotions and surprises. The author‚ the protagonist‚ is a very interesting character that I’m going to present you. I’m going to present you this woman who had many hardships in her lifetime‚ and had the courage to write it. During her childhood‚ Maya Angelou suffers from her appearance‚ from her displacement which she qualifies as "unnecessary insults"
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1) Summary of Character Traits <br> a) School smart (Maya is smart. When she moves to San Francisco from Stamps‚ Arkansas‚ she is skipped a grade.) <br> b) Caring sister (she always talks of her devotion to Baily) <br> c) Determined (she wants to get a job with the streetcar company and she keeps bugging them until they finally give her a job) <br> d) Proud (she lives with the junkyard kids instead of going back to her father’s; she slaps Dolores for calling her mother a whore) <br>2)
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arctica POEM I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings The free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wings in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing. The caged bird sings with fearful trill of the things unknown but longed for still
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