Brent Staples uses vivid language and rhetorical devices to express and convey the elements of fear‚ anger‚ and violence. We all make many decisions based on past experiences. That’s how we learn to avoid touching a hot stove burner for example. It’s also about how we learn to do things that bring us pleasure. So we all develop discriminating behavior‚ but when that discrimination is based purely on the color on that person’s skin‚ or his ethnicity‚ without knowing anything else about that person
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1865. Despite the different takes on the tale throughout time‚ there has always been a fundamental elegance and innocence in the fashion that offset the underlying dark themes of the story. While examining the original tale of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carol‚ there was immediate captivation with the fantasy that Alice represents. More specifically‚ I was fascinated by the tea party scene where Alice innocence was first imperiled to the complexities that wonderland held. As people altered and remade
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“The Art of Forgiveness” by Lewis Smedes is a book that got me thinking during the time I was reading it. Forgiveness is something that is hard to do‚ and especially if someone that did a big damage to your life. The objective that Lewis Smedes has for the people to learn how to forgive. By forgiving the person you don’t need to make the enemy your best friend‚ or it doesn’t make him in good terms with you. The author states “Each person’s healing follows the same basic script. This is why for
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In the article Black Men and Public Spaces‚ Brent Staples uses the persuasive appeals of ethos‚ pathos‚ and logos to prove to the audience that he‚ and many other black men can be victimized solely due to being falsely perceived as a threat. He manipulates logos by the experience he has faced through stories‚ Staples manages to prove his credibility by ethos and prove that he can be falsely judged and use pathos to make the audience feel pity and sorrow for him and other black men who are profiled
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not by personality. Black Lives Matter is a prevailing protest that has taken over everywhere. Brent Staple in “Black men and Public space”‚ he talks how he was basically trying to live a normal life but couldn’t because of his skin want like everyone else‚ he is trying to tell everyone who is or isn’t black now black people can’t really live a typical life as white people. In the story Staples talks about how women would get scared of him because he was black‚ “Her flight made me feel like an accomplice
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In the essay “Black Men and Public Spaces‚” written by Brent Staples‚ reflects the experiences‚ beliefs‚ and understandings of the reader through the use of chronological sense of organization‚ tone‚ and detail to prove how racial stereotypes force a change in one’s behavior‚ that can end up altering society’s perception of an individual. The chronological organization of this piece moves from confused to reflecting to understanding as the author reflects back onto his past. In the beginning‚ the
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Assessment Paper I assessed M.S. on 03/26/2018. M is a 4:0-year-old female client who had been referred to me by her preschool teacher for concerns about her intelligibility during conversational speech. M’s teacher reported that she understood M about 50 percent of the time‚ and that she is hardly understood by the children at preschool. These same children have begun to ostracize her because of her speech issues. M’s parents are concerned that she will not be ready for kindergarten socially or
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Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has entertained not only children but adults for over one hundred years. The tale has become a treasure of philosophers‚ literary critics‚ psychoanalysts‚ and linguists. It also has attracted Carroll’s fellow mathematicians and logicians. There appears to be something in Alice for everyone‚ and there are almost as many explanations of the work as there are commentators. It may be perhaps Carroll’s fantastical style of writing that entertains the reader
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In the Lewis and Clark expedition‚ they had a true journey‚ but one concept that affected the expedition greatly was the ecosystems that they went through. They had many different types of ecosystems and they had to learn to adapt to them‚ and they did completing the expedition. This is important because they discovered different types of ecosystems‚ and they also found easier ways to travel through these places. It also leads to more scientific research about the ecosystems‚ because it was the first
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