Response to Shame by Dick Gregory i As I was reading the writer’s background I found out that he was a comedian and I automatically assumed that this story was going to be funny and I was wrong. Throughout the story‚ he tried to appeal to the reader that he was poor. He liked Helene so much so he thought he had to top the money to what Helene gave to community chest. He thought his teacher think he’s stupid and couldn’t do anything. He thought the shirts he was wearing was white folks’ shirt
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Response to “Eleven” “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros is a story about a girl and her insecurities of wearing an ugly sweater that she is accused of owning by her teacher. The overall purpose of this memoir is to share her experience with the readers so that they will be more aware and will not have to go through the traumatic experience like she did. When the teacher asks the class whose sweater it is‚ someone says it is hers. The teacher put the sweater on her desk and when she tried to get rid of it
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Response to Schoolsville My first thoughts after reading Schoolsville‚ by Billy Collins‚ as a whole‚ were of the movie {proof}. {proof} is about a mathematician who‚ as he grew older‚ slowly lost his mind. After reading the first few stanzas I thought either the person in the poem is Schizophrenic or simply reminiscing. However‚ when I came upon the second to last stanza‚ I understood the story. The second to last stanza reads; Needless to say‚ I am the mayor. I live in the white colonial
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Arthur Johnson Western Letters – Professor Fayard Response Essay 2 10/29/12 Arthur Johnson Western Letters – Fayard 10/29/12 Response Essay #2 Francois-Marie Arouet De Voltaire shows in many instances in Candide that he does not buy into the idea of the Enlightenment. With Voltaire’s simple mockery of the idea of a perfect world with a perfectly good God‚ it is evident that he does not appreciate the idea that everything happens for a reason. Despite Voltaire holding these extremely negative
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Personal response. Nurzaida Syaza Zawawi IB 95 I would strongly disagree with the statement “uniforms interfere with students’ freedom of self expression” as I am positive that uniform would somehow trigger students to excel academically. Students are teenagers who tend to be fashion-victims and their desire to be up-to-date with the flow of fashion would never fade away. Hence‚ they may be less likely to take school seriously as most of them are keen to look good rather than to have fantastic
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Melvin Williams Professor Hadden Cultural Psychology March 31‚ 2015 Movie Response: Jesus Camp In the documentary Jesus Camp young children are shown in their native environment to have very close relationships with the Lord. Jesus Camp focuses on young white evangelical Christians from the heartland of America who are all being home schooled by their mothers and taught to be zealous soldiers in God’s army fighting the Devil and the morally bankrupt and godless secular culture in what is called
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in a student’s life. Sean Coughlan provides a wide range of statistics on students being affected in their performance in school by the lack of sleep‚ which makes this paper more trust worthy. Although sleep deprivation could be reversed‚ Coughlan lacks informing the readers of the effects in the long term and how it can be reversed significantly. In “ Lack of Sleep Blights Pupils’ Education “ Sean Coughlan conveys a wide spread problem happening along all students in school. He presents the
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Response Paper: Antigone‚ “A&P‚” and “Good Fellows” In reading the stories‚ it was hard for me to decide and choose what exactly I wanted to focus on. But after brainstorming common themes and comparing the plots‚ I narrowed my focus to choice making and what it meant for the characters in the stories. I noticed that making choices and dealing with the “consequences” and aftermath of these choices were prominent in the stories: Antigone by Sophocles‚ and “A&P” by John Updike. In Antigone
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Immediate responses: After reading All the Way for the first time I immediately recognized its historical importance‚ even if it wasn’t in the light I‚ personally‚ would have liked it in. I couldn’t help myself but notice the racism‚ which I think I was actively looking for. One of the subplots focuses on MLK and his quest to get a Voting Rights Act‚ or in other words LBJ’s decisive handling of the african american population and his party. In the play‚ this game called politics‚ there are a number
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Josh Fuentes Ms. Apshaga English 4 April 2012 Critical response The article "The Wife-Beater" by Gayle Rosenwald Smith appeared in the newspapers‚ Chicago Tribune‚ and the Philadelphia Inquirer. The article states her view on the term “wife beater”‚ and the blindness of youth under the age of 25. In this article‚ she also explains that the sleeveless undershirt is not the problem; just the term is what bothers her. The author hates how the name upsets her and how folks under the
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