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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Although published over thirty years apart‚ the poems “I‚ Too‚ Sing America” by Langston Hughes and “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou both address racial issues. Hughes published his poem in 1945 when racial segregation was still common place‚ and Jim Crow laws were still in effect. Meanwhile Angelou’s poem was published a generation later in 1978 when Jim Crow laws had been overturned but racial tensions were still high. Although both poems are about the plight of black people in America‚ their messages
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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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The majority of people believe life is complicated‚ but realistically‚ they just need a more simplistic mindset. In Robert Fulghum’s All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten‚ Fulghum takes our “complicated” lives and breaks them down to terms as basic as Kindergarten. As the title suggests‚ he explains that one of the simplest years of our lives teaches us the most important concepts. His instructions include cleaning up after your own mess‚ living a balanced life‚ and sticking together.
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Summary Vs. Paraphrase Summary involves restating every main idea from the original piece while also paying attention to the proportion of the original. That is‚ if one third of the original essay was devoted to a particular topic‚ then one third of one’s summary should also be devoted to that same topic. When summarizing‚ one must capture every main idea presented from the original but do it in a fraction of the original space. That’s why summary is so useful. Paraphrase‚ on the other hand
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Trevor Sherman ENGL 1023 Dr. Lee 3-6-13 HW #3 “My Papa’s Waltz” The smell of whiskey on her dads breathe made her dizzy‚ but she still clinched to him like death even though it was not easy. They danced around until the pans on the kitchen cabinet slid off making mom very unhappy to where she could not unfrown her face. She was held by her dad’s hands that was battered on one knuckle‚ still continuing the unique waltz her ear was scrapped by a buckle on every missed step. She was still clinging
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Strange Person I know | | I have a strange neighbour whom I meet only in the evenings when she comes home from work. I find her odd because of what she wears every day to work - a frilly and feathery purple hat! It did not matter what clothes she wore on that day or if the colour of her clothes matched her hat because she would still wear it‚ rain or shine.When I first saw her‚ I could not help laughing rudely because the purple hat lookedridiculous on her head. My friends and I would tease her
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man that I know 1 The Wisest man that I know Amanda Andrus Psy 220 December 23‚2012 Instructor: Sara Kassabian Running Head: The wisest man that I know 2 Abstract: This paper is talking about the characteristics of wisdom which is possessed by the chosen individual that I have picked as my main topic‚ the attributes that make this individual wise‚ the attributes that I have developed
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you know you were destined for something? When you were in grade school‚ high school or college? It’s possible‚ you have not found it yet‚ or maybe you are like me and it was immediate. Something so built into your body‚ your DNA‚ your life that it is like the color of your hair. My focus was set early and remains clear‚ I am exactly who I am suppose to be. The first word for many are Mom or Dad‚ mine was ball. I remember seeing my cousins with a bat and ball and it was the first thing that I can
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that all I have to do is to write down as much as I can see through a one inch picture frame.” This one-inch picture frame takes her back to when her older brother‚ who was ten at the time‚ was trying to finish a report on birds that was due the next day but had had over three months to work on. Her brother sat in the kitchen table crying‚ surrounded by the unopened books‚ desperately worried about not having enough time to get it done. Her father sat down beside him and said “Bird by bird‚ buddy.
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