Assignment 1: Metadata In Analog Writing
Essay Assignment #1: Metadata in Analog Writing A writer is an artist who communicates particular ideas through text.(Wikipedia) Sometimes, there is more behind the text rather than the text itself. Behind every piece of writing there is some sort of inspiration or reasoning as to why a writer wants to express a particular topic. There are many different reasons as to why writers decide to pick up their pen, typewriter, or computer and write. Some may have a specific assignment they need to complete and others may just write just to express their thoughts and theories. Throughout this course, we have read and analyzed numerous articles and essays describing different out looks on race, gender, and class. What
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Each author from these five readings: “White Privilege:Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”, by Peggy McIntosh, “Becoming Entrepreneurs: Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender at the Black Beauty Salon”, by Adia Harvey, “Chappals and Gym Shorts”, by Almas Sayeed, “Media Magic:Making Class Invisible”, by Gregory Mantsios, and lastly “The Great Gatsby” by F.Scott Fitzgerald, use their personal experience and interest to write a personal narrative, qualitative …show more content…
Not only by giving back, but also by helping them succeed from the tools that they already have, being either poor or wealthy. This essay, published in 1998 in “Race, Class and Gender in the United States”, is about how the media misinterprets the poor. Although, the readers were clearly able to see that Mantsios is a male, we do not know he is a Latin man who used to be poor himself. Since he once was poor, he knows first hand by experience, that poor people are not what the media put them out to be. “When the media does put a face on the poor, it is not likely to be a pretty one. The media will provide us with sensational stories about welfare cheats, drug addicts, and greedy panhandlers (almost always urban and Black).”(Mantsios 386) This essay has a great amount of quantitative data because actual facts are the easiest way to prove that the overall perception of poor people by the media is false. Mantsios collected data from experience and other published writings to back up his
Each author from these five readings: “White Privilege:Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”, by Peggy McIntosh, “Becoming Entrepreneurs: Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender at the Black Beauty Salon”, by Adia Harvey, “Chappals and Gym Shorts”, by Almas Sayeed, “Media Magic:Making Class Invisible”, by Gregory Mantsios, and lastly “The Great Gatsby” by F.Scott Fitzgerald, use their personal experience and interest to write a personal narrative, qualitative …show more content…
Not only by giving back, but also by helping them succeed from the tools that they already have, being either poor or wealthy. This essay, published in 1998 in “Race, Class and Gender in the United States”, is about how the media misinterprets the poor. Although, the readers were clearly able to see that Mantsios is a male, we do not know he is a Latin man who used to be poor himself. Since he once was poor, he knows first hand by experience, that poor people are not what the media put them out to be. “When the media does put a face on the poor, it is not likely to be a pretty one. The media will provide us with sensational stories about welfare cheats, drug addicts, and greedy panhandlers (almost always urban and Black).”(Mantsios 386) This essay has a great amount of quantitative data because actual facts are the easiest way to prove that the overall perception of poor people by the media is false. Mantsios collected data from experience and other published writings to back up his