These are all characteristics one can find in his poem “Hysteria.” In “Hysteria,” Martinez criticizes Americans for their superficiality while also rebelling and showing his confusion toward the culture. The primary critique Martinez makes in “Hysteria” is how Americans’ superficiality blinds them from what is important. He is able to make this criticism by juxtaposing different images to reveal his criticism indirectly. The first images that the reader is exposed to is of a reporter and poet from Chicago who focused much of his attention reporting on the serious and local issues of Chicago. This reporter and poet is Carl Sandburg.
Even though there were negative effects, his assassination also led to positive immediate effects such as the Poor People’s Campaign, and the improvement of the Civil Rights Act 1968. The long term impacts of his death were the social improvement of the Civil Rights Act 1968, the African-Americans are now being respected, and the effect of Martin Luther King Day. After the assassination Martin Luther King his supporters showed grief and rage towards his death. The outpouring grief and rage led to the 1968 Chicago riot. The riot started in the black ghetto on the west side of Chicago.
This also shows the contrast of the two worlds, with the high buildings and bright lights of Manhattan in contrast with the dark world of the docks. Joey’s jacket becomes a mantle, a symbol of defiance that handed on those who stand up to the corrupt union. The jacket is first given to Dugan who like Joey testifies to the Crime Commission about the corruption on the waterfront. After he dies, it is returned to Edie who gives it to Terry. This creates suspense as it can be foretold that Terry will too testify.
When he got more and more involved with the tribune during these times as a police reporter, Riis worked and wrote about the some of the most dangerous slums of the city. “The slum is the measure of civilization”, he said. Jacob Riis believes that the slums of a city is what defines it, and measures out the potential that the city had; the worst the slum, the worst the civilization. Through his own experiences in the poorhouses, and witnessing the conditions of the poor in the city slums, he decided to make a difference for them. Jacob Riis wanted to show the world that the United States had
Sensory imagery in "the knives of light", demonstrate the torture of the rays of light spearing down at the homeless victims of meth. As the prays of the metho, they fear their weakness of bright lights relating our imagination to vampires, along the slightly sheltered walls, alone and cold. The alliteration in "dead dark moon", resembles the feelings of the metho drinker, and distinguishes the death he feels inside. Wright effectively convinces us through the lively language and sensory images of the impact of the pain of metho and the suffering he endures every day as an outcast of society. Pain and suffering are clearly the outcome of metho, Wright is successful in creating the reality of suffering the effects of metho, hence the poem "Metho
Other significant sociological concepts can be identified as the main character behaviors tend to be politically motivated to stay in power. The simplest concepts observed while watching Boss lies in the show's depiction of the midwest culture of the windy city Chicago. The introduction of the show features a clips of people of different races, statues, and monuments located in Chicago all being covered by the shows themes song playing “Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down” which may or may not depict a religious reference of some sort in relationship to the show. However it does give evidence of possibility of a Christian background. The introduction also show the use of the cities technology showing the cities metro railing in use.
Both Grendel and Emily were lonely, Grendel was angry at the humans because of the way they were reacting towards him, he was jealous of their lifestyle, their parties and singing. Grendel had it in his mind that the reason he was created was to make people’s life miserable. In “A Rose for Emily” Faulkner portrayed Emily as an insane woman. In my opinion I think Emily decided to kill homer was because, homer was thinking about moving up north and leaving her just like Emily’s previous boyfriend she was afraid to be all alone and lonely again So she decided to buy “rat poison” and mixed it with a drink and gave it to homer. In “Grendel”, if the humans would have judged Grendel not just by his looks but by his character, the 12 year war between Grendel and the humans had a very slim if any chance to take place.
Chicago does an outstanding job in showing off the corruption in the United States. The lack of morality can be seen through the characters. To start off, Roxie is a self-centered girl who believes that with a few well-placed lies, she can get away with murder, leave her husband and eventually gain stardom. Her corrupted lawyer, Billy, is also willing to help her with her schemes as long as she’s willing to pay the right price. In Billy’s eyes, money can buy and easily replace the truth.
Wilson was a poetic writer in the way he understood the poetics of speech and how he recognized the strong insinuation of conversation. The stage directions that opened Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom pointed to the kind of rich talk to come and also to the grand historical sweep in which Mr. Wilson worked: “Chicago in 1927 is a rough city, a bruising city, a city of millionaires and derelicts, gangsters and roughhouse dandies, whores and Irish grandmothers who moved through its streets fingering long black rosaries. Somewhere a man is wrestling with the taste of a woman in his cheek. Somewhere a dog is barking. Somewhere the moon has fallen through the window and broken into thirty pieces of silver.” (Wilson) This language was rich and oratorical in the tradition of black talk that he feed on, and thus was his style
Analysis of James Baldwin’s “Harlem” Cameron Wong James Baldwin knows the Harlem ghettos in New York City are grim and unforgiving. His familiarity with the neighborhood is showcased in his essay, “Harlem”. In it, Baldwin utilizes imagery, syntax, and detailed language to achieve his goal of evoking a little sympathy for his hometown and perhaps encouraging others to take action against the discreet injustice that takes place there. Baldwin strives to open the eyes of the rest of the world to how miserable life is for a Harlem resident. Baldwin’s essay begins with short, repetitious sentences stating the main idea of his paper: how Harlem and all its inhabitants are hated by white people.