In the article “Auto Liberation‚” by author Brent Knutson‚ he discusses his reasoning as to why “American speed limits are unnecessarily restrictive‚ but also they infringe on the personal freedoms of American citizens” (Knutson 620). In other words he claims that American speed limits violate our freedom. Knutson’s main argument is mostly based off of his experience while driving in Germany. “On Germany’s autobahns‚ people normally drive in excess of 80 miles per hour. Yet‚ these German superhighways
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Red Grief People use literary devices in their speech every day. However‚ few people know what they’re called. In his short story “The Whirligig of Life” O Henry demonstrates five common examples of literary devices. The first example of figurative language is in the very beginning of the excerpt‚ “The Ransom of Red Chief”. O Henry ironically uses the simile “as flat as a flannel cake” to describe the town of Summit. The irony is that the flat town of Summit doesn’t contain a single summit. The
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thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself.” Twenty-five years after Martin Luther King‚ Jr. gave his Nobel Lecture‚ Brent Staples wrote “A Brother’s Murder” describing the circumstances of growing up in a heavily poor‚ heavily black neighborhood (Staples 505). The acts of violence in the small neighborhood in Chester‚ Pennsylvania are not related to the acts of racism
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stereotypes featured in And Then There Were None. Miss Emily Brent is one of the stock characters because she is described as “the prim older lady” in various situations by many different characters. The first reason Emily Brent is considered a stock character is because her personality is a stereotype. She is an older woman who had a strict upbringing which causes her to have many old-fashioned beliefs. “In a non-smoking carriage‚ Miss Emily Brent sat very upright as was her custom… she did not approve
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Luc Brubaker Professor Kovak English 110 Reading Journal 9 12 November 2012 Reading Journal 4‚ Prompt 4 “At dark‚ shadowy intersections‚ I could cross in front of a car stopped at a traffic light and elicit the thunk‚ thunk‚ thunk‚ thunk of the driver - black‚ white‚ male‚ or female - hammering down the door locks(Staples 34).” Throughout the whole essay‚ Staples gives different examples of how society views him as a menace without even actually knowing him. A lot of the people he encounters are
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(AGG) According to the author Francois Crepeau‚ there is a refugee camp in southwest Algeria that is fully equipped and supplied by international assistance‚ but this is not always the case for every camp around the world. (BS-1) Staples describes how refugees have many conflicts in the novel and it is then proven to be true in the article Refugee Camps. (BS-2) The novel shows how living in a refugee camp can affect how a girl will reunite with her brother and father. (BS-3) The author also uses
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Luc Brubaker Professor Kovak English 110 Reading Journal 4 23 September 2012 Reading Journal 4‚ Prompt 4 “At dark‚ shadowy intersections‚ I could cross in front of a car stopped at a traffic light and elicit the thunk‚ thunk‚ thunk‚ thunk of the driver - black‚ white‚ male‚ or female - hammering down the door locks.” Throughout the whole essay‚ Staples gives different examples of how society views him as a menace without even actually knowing him. A lot of the people he encounters are quick to
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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 hunching toward nighttimes
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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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Valeria Blanco Dr. Lynn Fauth English 101 20 January 2011 Just Walk on By In the essay Just walk on by‚ author Brent Staples shares his experiences of living with the prejudged notion that he is someone to be feared because he is different from his peers. Brent Staples grew up in the small town of Chester‚ Pennsylvania where he was an outsider. He caught on to something that most of his friends probably had never thought about before or even felt that they had the right to think about
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