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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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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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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socialization‚ economic competition and social norms. For each cause he gives strong arguments based on historical facts or even actual facts and statistics which made his essay reliable. Studs Terkel’s essay “C.P. Ellis” is another kind of writing that can help us to understand the causes of prejudices. Terkel tells us the story of C.P. Ellis‚ a former Klansmen who claims he is no longer racist. C.P. Ellis is a white guy from a low-income class. The numerous misfortunes of his life will lead him
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On the surface‚ Ken Jackson and C.P. Ellis led remarkably similar lives. As Studs Terkel records their stories‚ it is noted that both are born into low-income families with alcoholic fathers‚ neither one cared for school‚ and both got into their own sorts of trouble‚ for Jackson gangs and prison‚ for Ellis the Klan. And both men end up in relatively similar places too‚ Jackson works with at-risk youth‚ Ellis with unions and workers‚ with the intention of bettering their communities and stopping
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Alyssa Krajewski 10/02/2012 Society and Global Diversity Race and Ethnicity The people of American are still fighting each day to get rid of the word prejudice. Prejudice is an unsupported generalization about a category of people. Being prejudice leads to stereotyping‚ this leads to racism. Why do people judge other people by the color of their skin? Why do they think their race is more superior? Black people are judged because they were once slaves; the fact that they were owned by white
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Audience Purpose and Tone Three possible entry points into assessing an essay—and important considerations for writers as well—are the identification of the essay’s audience‚ purpose and tone. “Audience” refers to the readership the writer is writing for—as best we can tell from reading it ourselves. An essay’s intended audience could be the entire world‚ or the entire English-reading population‚ or everyone in the United States‚ or readers of the Washington Post newspaper. It could be
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Record‚ eds. David Shi and Holly Mayer‚ Vol.2 (New York: W.W. Norton & Company‚ 2010)‚ 221. John Steinbeck‚ The Grapes of Wrath (New York: Penguin‚ 1939)‚ 1-4 From Meridel Le Sueur‚ “Women on the Breadlines‚” New Masses‚ 7‚ January 1932‚ pp From Studs Terkel‚ “Two Views of the Great Depression‚” Hard Times‚ pp. 82-83. In For the Record‚ eds. David Shi and Holly Mayer‚ Vol.2 (New York: W.W. Norton & Company‚ 2010)‚ 215. From “Text of the Inaugural Address: President for Vigorous Action‚” The New
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