type of symbol attached to them. Brent Staples‚ author of “Just Walk on By‚” addresses this topic through his own personal experiences. Staples builds his persona through the use of rhetorical devices such as imagery and personal anecdotes. Additionally‚ the author uses pathos to further his message and express his thoughts on the interpretation of symbols in today’s world. Through his establishment of a persona and pathos‚ Staples shows his audience how people judge at a single glance based on the
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Staples’ “Black Men and Public Spaces” Strays Only Slightly Brent Staples’ “Black Men and Public Spaces” narrative is about his realization of the fear that black men instill in persons of non color and his attempts at lessening that fear. Staples’ essay begins him recalling a time where a white woman ran from him simply because he was black. He continues to explain that his intentions weren’t to cause her harm but had just happened to be walking behind her since
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Staples‚ in his narrative essay‚ “Just Walk on By: Black Man and Public Space” narrates a series of events when he was growing up. Staples purpose is to tell personal stories in chronological order of how he was viewed by society. Other people convey the idea of a black man as a dangerous man in society. By the work of other people stereotypes. He adopts a fearful but apathetic tone in order to appeal to what he is feeling by applying a set of rhetorical devices in his narrative essay to his readers
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products do not influence people to start using their product; rather they only boost the sales of their specific brand name in a market that already exists and remains relatively constant. In other words‚ “our ads do not make people start smoking‚ they just make current smokers think of Marlboro when they go to buy their cigarettes!” However‚ studies have proven that is not the case and advertisements do‚ in fact‚ play a role in influencing young people to start consuming these products. A prime example
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In “Just Walk on By” the author‚ Brent Staples‚ uses his real life experiences and gives a great explanation to how the blacks were mistreated during his lifetime. The stories that he tells in this article take place during the center of the Civil Rights Movement. He gives us several stories in this article of situations that he was put in. The first paragraph of his article really grabs the reader’s attention. He starts off with “My first victim was a woman white‚ well-dressed probably in her early
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statements in his story “Just Walk On By” that talks mainly about race or the color of one’s skin. He speaks about “current controversies surrounding racial profiling of criminals suspects” (Staples. 196). This means many people are investigated‚ they would stand for the color of their skin‚ ethnicity‚ and national origin. I have been put under the profiling category because of the color of my skin. Although people with black skin have a higher chance of getting profiled‚ I myself am a young man with brown
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A Rich Man’s Island: An In-depth Analysis of How the Expansion of Dubai Created an Exclusionary Space Environment Over the past twenty years‚ Dubai has grown massively. During the early 1990’s‚ Dubai was a desert area. It did not have many residents or businesses. However‚ within the past decade‚ the economy of Dubai‚ Emirate‚ which is considered the trade and tourism center for the Gulf region‚ has achieved a growth many cities see in a lifetime. At one point Dubai consisted of average middle
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Homework Questions for Sedimentary and Metamorphic Rocks Lecture 6-7 Use these questions to test your knowledge of Sedimentary and Metamorphic Rocks A. Short answer: 1. A rounded pebble would be a type of particle found in a ________. 2. Salt and other minerals that form when a body of water dries up are called ______________. 3. Sands are the size of detrital sediments larger than __________ and smaller than conglomerates and breccias.
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“Just Walk On By‚” by Brent Staples describes his life as an African American that is criticized and judged by the appearance the he reflects. He talks about the many different times in his life he experiences these act of racial profiling‚ and what he does to resolve these acts of discrimination. Through his passive calm tone he displays throughout his essay‚ he comes up with ways in which he changes him self in order for society to accept him. However‚ this is just one of many life stories that
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name Expos US 1 11 September 2013 Deepening the essay “Just walk on by” by Brent Staples In the front part of the essay “ Just walk on by”‚ Brent tells a few little stories which are talking about how bad racism is hurting him. He is hurting for racism as a child‚ as an adult‚ as a student and as a journalist. People are giving a mark of bad people on him. However‚ in the last paragraph‚ he “whistles melodies from Beethoven and Vivaldi....” (qtd. in Brent) and “Even steely New Yorkers
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