1. Who is the narrator? Where does the story take place? What time period? – How did you guess? The speaker of this piece is Scott Russell Sanders. The setting of the story is in Memphis‚ throughout his youth. The time period is in the course of slavery in the end of 1940s and 1950s. I came to this conclusion from the text when he stated “The first men‚ besides my father‚ I remembered seeing were black convicts and white guards‚ in the cotton field across the road from our farm on the outskirts
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Men We Carry in Our Minds” In Scott Russell Sanders essay titled “The Men We Carry in Our Minds”‚ Sanders supports his personal opinion on gender roles and inequality‚ which has been shaped by witnessing the struggles faced by two different socioeconomic classes. Throughout the essay‚ Sanders compares social issues faced by both wealthy and less fortunate men and women‚ as well as the unique problems faced by both genders. We begin a more in depth look into Sanders personal beliefs and history
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Scott Russell Sanders‚ author of Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World‚ believes that inhabiting places permanently benefits our society and community as a whole. In response to Salman Rushdie’s essay about the advantage of migrating‚ Sanders uses historical reference‚ and sarcasm to develop his perspective about moving. Firstly‚ not only does Sanders integrates historical reference into his writing to give the reader background‚ but also to show examples of times in history
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In "The Common Life" by the author Scott Russell talks about the relationship between society and individuals.Society is compared to a pack of animals.We must guided by each others.We should be united to make a better community in the environment.Scott states "withdraw from responsibility" which would be a disagreement.Taking a "withdraw" is not going to release them from the responsibility you have in life.For example‚whenever a doctor decides to take a some vacations there will sometimes be occasions
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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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Sometime the way people look at women‚ in a way‚ makes them objects/things. Scott Russell Sanders is analyzing why this happens‚ but also shows that he doesn’t agree to it. The strategies that sanders seem to use the most are illustration‚ references‚ questioning and also how his style of writing turns something complex into a simpler form. Almost a conversational way. By doing this he does get his points across and lets us understand his view as well as others. Sander starts off with an illustration
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I am Sorry… My best friend Robel was the smart student in engineering department of his University‚ he was scoring high all years until he graduated. For graduation day the university invited different engineering company and lot of other companies to open opportunity for the student to apply and get hire to one of those companies. Robel was the first student to got hired in one big industrial engineering company. Since he was excited to help his family he start working after a week
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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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trampled upon by him‚ but out of his side to be equal with him.” Men and women have extremely contrasting rules in our society. These gender roles are very apparent in the way we see ourselves as women‚ which is based on how we have been 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
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Sanders’ contends in his essay that American society has molded Americans into embracing anonymity and abandoning the "common life" and the social interaction that goes along with it. I completely agree with Sanders on this issue. It is truly a shame that the rate at which society is decomposing has grown so high. At many times throughout my young life I have already felt deeply disturbed by the lengths to which greed‚ envy‚ lust‚ and temptation drive so many of our nations individuals. Corruption
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