culture‚ including social class and religion (Parrillo 516). This is a very interesting piece because C. P. Ellis describes that‚ "… we hated each other. Up to that point‚ we didn’t know each other. We didn’t know we had things in common" (qtd in Terkel). Here Ellis reveals Ann Atwater was sad because her daughter was being bullied at her school by teachers. Same thing was happening with Ellis son‚ he was rejected at his school by teachers because his father was working together with an African American
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An interview between Studs Terkel and Roberto Acuna titled “Roberto Acuna Talks About Farm workers”discusses the unfair and poor treatment of laborers working in the fields‚ and how Acuna begs for the feudal system to be changed. Acuna implies that the mistreatment of the workers
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Life has become a quest: a quest for grades‚ a quest for money‚ and a quest for identity. Starting at a young age society conditions us to join this quest and sadly few people question the intentions of it. Similar to Yellow and Stripe in Hope for Flowers by Trina Paulus‚ we are constantly on a mission to get to the top of the pillar‚ to the top of society. It begins in school where we learn to compete with our fellow classmates to get the best grades‚ to get into the best colleges‚ to get the
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Cited: Terkel‚ Studs. "Stephen Cruz." Rereading America. Eds. Gary Colombo‚ Robert Cullen‚ and Bonnie Lisle. Boston: Bedford/ St. Alger‚ Horatio. “From Ragged Dick.” Rereading America. Eds. Gary Colombo‚ Robert Cullen‚ and Bonnie Lisle. Boston: Bedford/ St. Ganga
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Greavu 1 John Greavu WRIT 1301 Mr. Anderson 13 DEC 2011 Major Paper #4: Self Assessment: Turning “I Hate You” Into “Thank You” Throughout my life‚ for some reason or another‚ my writing has always been one of my weakest academic areas. At a very young age‚ through a series of many tests at doctors’ offices and local universities‚ I was told that I was three things‚ ADHD‚ OCD‚ and finally “gifted”. In addition to being hyper‚ having a very short attention span‚ and being obsessive-compulsive about
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hANdout tWo The WPA The Work Projects Administration (WPA)‚ originally called the Works Progress Administration‚ was the largest government agency established to fight unemployment during the Great Depression. From its inception in 1935 as part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal‚ the agency was responsible for refurbishing America’s road infrastructure‚ erecting buildings and bridges‚ improving airports‚ developing the arts‚ and giving millions of its employees an honest wage and a job
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Can People Change Over Time? “I didn’t know who to blame. I tried to find somebody. I began to blame it on black people.” These are the words of C.P. Ellis‚ a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan‚ as he described his way of thinking to Studs Terkel in “C.P. Ellis” (400). “C.P. Ellis” has many similarities with Vincent Parrillo’s theories of prejudice in his essay “Causes of Prejudice” (384). Parrillo explains that the causes of prejudice are psychological and sociological. Parrillo describes three
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Comment resolved Document region. 98765432112345678 Studs Terkel once said‚ “Why are we born? We are born eventually to die‚ of course. But what happens between the time we are born‚ and the time we die? We are born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.” Being a dreamer means that you have no boundaries for your thoughts and actions. In other words‚ you do what you want to do‚ no matter what anyone tells you. Being a realist means that you think that you can’t do whatever you want‚ because
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Jazz by Ken Burns “JAZZ” is a documentary by Ken Burns released 2001 that focuses on the creation and development of jazz‚ America’s “greatest cultural achievement.” The first episodes entitled‚ “Gumbo‚ Beginnings to 1917” and “The Gift (1917-1924)‚ explain the early growth of jazz as it originates in New Orleans and its expands to Chicago and New York during the Jazz Age. In assessing the first two episodes of Ken Burns’ 2001 documentary‚ "JAZZ‚" this essay will explore the history of jazz‚
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research endeavors‚ I was able to establish that Parillo’s theory on frustration as the best that accounted for Ellis’s racism and for his eventual transformation. The essay “C.P. Ellis” by Studs Terkel is another piece of research that looks to establish a detailed analysis of the causes of racism and prejudice. Terkel narrates the story of C.P. Ellis who is a former Klansmen that claims he no longer depicts racism. From the essay‚ we understand that Ellis is a white man hailing from the low-income class
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