The parents could not be fully at fault since they were Mexican immigrants with no knowledge in how to speak or read English. They could have found other ways in order to have prevented this from happening as in not giving your 8th grade child a cell phone. Now what type of lesson could this girl have possibly learned from making a power point and giving a pathetic apology? Hoffman says “she came across as terse and somewhat perfunctory, recalled several people that were there”. This girl clearly had no remorse for what she had done, and what great harm she brought upon Margarite.
White people believed they were superior to the blacks and barely viewed them as human beings. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee writes accurate descriptions of how racism was ingrained in the daily lives of Americans such as Aunt Alexandra whose response to Scout as to why she cannot play with a black boy is "Because- he – is – trash, that’s why you can’t play with him". Alexandra is not giving Scout a real reason why because she has no reason other than she grew up with society telling her black and white children could not play together and was brainwashed into believing it. Another situation that shows the shocking segregation is when Cecil Jacobs asked a question about why the Jewish were persecuted in class "But that ain’t no cause to persecute ‘em. They’re white aren’t they?"
In my opinion Ranya only represents one in a thousand Muslims with such a liberal and open-minded opinion and viewpoint of Islam. In fact, I desperately wish that people would not use Islam to suppress women and use it as an excuse for horrible actions such as the 9/11 attacks. However, my experience and knowledge of Islam is not a positive one and therefore, I seceded from it at the early age of sixteen. In almost all Muslim families that I know women are being suppressed and treated unfairly by men. Women are considered second class citizens and have to serve their husbands and male children.
The phrase ‘death chariots’ with their association of death, violence and destruction has the intended affect to fear readers of these manic, destructive young teens. It is this appeal to fear which evokes activity in the community to promote a change in society. Wowser also refers to the waste of ‘our tax dollar on a futile and ineffective effort to lower road toll by advertising’ reiterating that the law in place is not desired. This evokes hostility and a want for change in readers. Wowser adds an appeal to community service in saying it is rare ‘to find a young person who is a member of the Salvation Army’.
It is dangerous and people need to take it seriously. By not finding better ways to prosecute DUI’s more people will continue to be killed. 6) There is no further information I want the Professor to know about this essay. Michael St.John Professor Jodie Baeyens ENGL 102 Effectiveness in Writing June 5, 2012 Difficulty of DUI Cases Driving under the influence (DUI) is a major problem in the U.S. DUIs are dangerous selfish acts that affect all social classes and ethnic groups. DUI’s happen when a person has no regard for the rules or regulations of their state or the safety and well being of fellow citizens.
English Essay The Scarlet Letter Shame varies from person to person, depending on how things affect you shame may make you feel like a terrible person. But if you’re somebody who doesn’t worry, or care about what people think of you then shame is going to have little to no affect. That’s what can be tricky about shame, on one hand you have an extremely powerful tool for punishment and on the other all you have are thoughts and opinions that could mean nothing to someone. Shame is still around in today’s world and will continue to affect people in different ways. For modern-day criminals the same rules still apply when dealing with shame.
Adam Vasquez Mr. Dolan English 9 Indifference essay 1/11/09 When people do not care, what could be the result? People wonder how could horrible things be aloud to happen? It is because of indifference in the world that these questions are asked. Ellie Wiesel describes indifference and its effects in his noble prize acceptance speech. There are ways to fight this huge problem of indifference and it can be stopped.
All other races are looked at differently depending on the color of their skin. When black people are only compared against other black people it says that they cannot be held to the same standard as white people. “Horatio Alger” is an essay talking about why the author disagrees with Horatio Alger’s ideas, “hard work, persistence, initiative, and daring.” The author does not mention any solutions to help black people. “Origins” is just a section of reading talking about how the discrimination would be when Obama’s mother played with the people who were in different color. The author does not mention any action that his mother did to deal with the
I thought it was a joke. Once I start asking around why they in here most of them said, “I don’t know Spanish fool”. Then I would say why not you are Hispanic you should know how too. They responded with well u should be suspended or dropped out of school by know. Now I have learned that all races don’t live up to their stereotypes that people give them.
In all of these points of views, the same idea persists, that texting is destroying the English language. He states how John Humphrys compares texters to what Genghis Khan did. He accuses them of “raping the English language. Other sources that Crystal provides, go on to say “it masks dyslexia, poor spelling, and mental laziness.” (pg.335) With the shorthanded writing and abbreviations that are caused by texting; it makes sense that it masks problems people may have, like dyslexia. Overall they believe that texting is a burden to the English language and that it hurts literacy.