Brent Staples’s “Just walk on by” was written to clarify how African-Americans like Staples go through stereotypes when in actually reality‚ shouldn’t be prejudged in the first place. He reminisces being perceived as dangerous just because of his skin color‚ and how this situation puts himself in endangerment. Staples arguers that people shouldn’t be so judgmentally and should get to know the person by the actions. He not only makes statements all through the text‚ but gives incidents of how his
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The essay is called Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space. The author of this essay is Brent Staples. This is about the experience Brent Staples had with walking at night and how women were always wary of men. The writer’s purpose with this essay is to show the violence that happens in Chicago. The tone of the essay is factual and direct. The audience for this essay is women and young men. This is easy to tell by how it’s worded. “In that first year‚ my first away from my hometown‚ I was to
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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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The Three Staples I was laying on the ground bleeding the crap outta my head. Wait i’m too far ahead let me rewind a bit (flashback). out side with the warm sunset and the cool breeze of fall elegantly blows in my face. My friends and i were playing from noon to 7-ish. We all had smiles across our faces as big as they could stretch. Running in circles and up and over‚ down and under random objects trying to escape the tagger who was my friend chase. The smiles we had began to fade as we obtained
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does Staples describe himself? How is he sometimes seen by others? Staples describe himself as a harmless and well educate man; however‚ because of his height and looks‚ Staples is often perceive by others as threat to their wellbeing. 2- How is the complication and paradox of these situations expressed by the last sentence about Staples’s whistling classical music being the “equivalent of the cowbell that hikers wear when they know they are in bear country? The equivalent that Staples whistles
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Just Walk On By In 1986‚ a 35 year old Brent Staples published Black Men and Public Spaces in Ms. Magazine. Through several personal experiences and analysis he discusses the causes and effects of the dangerous perception of black men. Displaying both perspectives of a white peoples’ fears‚ and a black man’s reaction‚ his essay opened the discussion for greater understanding. More importantly he reveals the mutual danger when “fear and weapons meet and they often do in urban America”‚ the “possibility
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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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The article I have chosen “ A Brother’s Murder” is by Brent Staples. I have chose this article because it is a moving subject. This article is about the day a brother looks back on this day happening to be the day he received the news of his brother’s death. This article starts off as a memory of this day and explains what happened and some of the things the brother was dealing with. “ It has been more than two years since my telephone rang with the news that my younger brother Blake just twenty-two
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Kitchen” and Brent Staples “Just Walk By: Black Men In A Public Space” is to bring attention to the way society has formed stereotypes based on gender and race. Even though each piece
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hand‚ the additional 100 sales staff members worked exclusively with corporate and small-business accounts by taking their orders through its catalog or website system. 3. Is the Staples/FleetBoston horizontal marketing effort a good idea? Why or why not? I think this is an excellent idea. A one stop shop. Staples can use the Fleet as another reason the targeted customer small-business comes through their doors. The odds are that if someone needs a business loan they are probably going to
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