“I don’t hate cops; I hate the patterns of police brutality that systematically harasses and kills black people and other people of color with impunity…My love for humanity… enraged at systems that prevent people from flourishing and being free...my righteous anger at unjust system interpreted as hatred for individuals...more frustrating to see the oppressed suffer..those maladjusted to injustice remain silent.” Like Malcolm X‚ I don’t hate police. However‚ the actions of a few have depicted an
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Response Paper on Black Elk Speaks BB Nicholas Black Elk‚ Lakota visionary and healer communicates his painful conclusion to John G. Neihardt at the end of his interviews in the following way: “[…]The nation’s hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer‚ and the sacred tree is dead”(207). After he narrates the unspeakable tragedy of his nation‚ the concluding lines mark the tragic end of a personal life and that of a national
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refers to this as the Age of Oversharing in her essay “I Don’t Give a Tweet What You’re Doing‚” where she sarcastically dissects the controversies behind Twitter and how nearly fourteen million users have completely abandoned Twitter’s “initial function to serve as an information conduit between close friends and family” (233). Along with her beliefs of Twitter adding to our already compromised interpersonal skills she carries the tone of being bitter and harsh throughout her essay as she evaluates
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Optimistic Person What does optimism mean? Basically‚ it means focusing on the positive aspects of life. I consider myself to be an optimist because I always hope and expect events and plans‚ and everything surrounding me to turn out well‚ and that I look with a smile‚ positive attitude on the future. I’m absolutely sure that being optimistic is a lot better than being pessimistic. In my opinion‚ pessimism is disastrous. It ruins hope and possibilities. If a person is pessimistic‚ he doesn’t
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Personal Essay Black Elk Speaks Before reading Black Elk Speaks I thought that Native Americans were all the same they fought wars and rode around on horse. They either won or lost the wars they fought in and they all lived in teepees. I really didn’t have much knowledge on them. I’ve always know that they had a very deep spiritual connection to nature and their world around them but I didn’t know the reasons why. Before reading I didn’t think about things as much like the world and animals; I just thought
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their work‚ are “leaders of a new society” (Tate). Avant-garde artists of the cubist movement focused on alterations of form and innovative perspective. An advocate of the avant-garde‚ Gertrude Stein’s poems “A Carafe‚ That is a Blind Glass” and “If I Told Him‚ A Completed Portrait of Picasso” were heavily influenced by her personal life and the artistic movements of the time‚ as seen by the grammatical and psychological approaches she takes in her writing. Furthermore‚ through the selection of very
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Black Like me The book Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin is a moving true story of how a white man manages to experience what it is like to be a “Negro” or black person in the 1950s. The author did this social experiment by taking medication and dying his skin a deep brown. He wanted to really experience the challenges and changes a black man in this time would go through. By traveling through the far south‚ Griffin got a taste of what real life was for a Negro. The experiment starts in the
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Megan Ward Black Like Me Dialectical Journal Quotation From the Text Page Number Response “How else except by becoming a Negro could a white man hope to learn the truth? Though we lived side by side throughout the South communication between the two races had simply ceased to exist?” Pg. 1 Unless you become someone or maybe go through some of the same things they’ve experienced‚ you will never truly understand them. “I had tampered with the mystery of existence and I had lost the sense of my
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In Black is… Black Ain’t‚ the main character use this film to address issues of race‚ sexuality‚ racism‚ and tradition‚ while dealing with his own personal issue of having AIDS. Many prominent figures in the black community in the past and today have been known to address the matters of other no matter what they have going on personally. In the film‚ black tradition and black masculinity are two themes that stood out to me the most. Tradition and masculinity were two things in targeting the blacks
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controversy that activists are fighting for is homosexuals being able to fight in the armed forces openly. The policy of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell‚ or DADT‚ has allowed homosexuals to serve‚ but in secrecy. Many people believe this is the “fair” thing to do. However people such as‚ pop icon‚ Lady Gaga say “fundamentally it’s against all that we stand for as Americans.” (Gaga). Gaga said this on September 19‚ 2011 during a gay pride rally. Rallies like this show that this has been a major topic that has been
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