‘’Time and Distance Overcome’’ Being a non-fictional writer as she is, Eula Biss makes it perfectly clear that this is no walk in the park for the reader. From the very beginning of the essay that explains how the telephone was invented in the US, which automatically makes the reader think this is an essay that only includes knowledge on how the telephone was invented, but later on you discover how Biss makes an unexpected turn in the story. It really makes you stop and think that something beautiful was something extremely horrifying in the past, also Biss plays with both the essay – as well as the historical genre when she writes about the painful faith of black Americans in the late 1800s and the early 1900s. The essay genre is known
* The essay was written May/ June 1995. He wrote it for a magazine (Civilization under “Lost Arts” column). Content * I would like to learn the process of mummification. I want to know the things to be used and the many things to consider making a perfect one. * I really think this is a very interesting subject because only those who studies history related courses knew about this kind of weird but historic matter.
Rebecca states that the history of Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa cells raises important issues regarding race, science, class and also ethics. After I finished reading the prologue this is what I got out of it. When I started reading this part of the book Rebecca Skloot shared with us how she stared at a picture on a wall of a woman she never met. After reading a little bit more I realized that this lady was Henrietta Lacks. In the picture Lacks was looking straight into the camera with a big smile on her face and her hands on her hips.
Alisha Thornton 3/20/2013 English 098-099(180) Essay3 Revised In Malcolm X excerpt”A Homemade education, published from Malcolm X An Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley demonstrates the claims that without knowing how to read or write and understand and express what you are reading you become frustrated. Although Malcolm X struggled with reading and writing, and expressing himself while in prison, he learned that the library was a breeding ground for knowledge and that without this information and skills he’d be cut off from the world. While in prison Malcolm X realized that his reading and writing wasn’t good. He even had a hard time expressing himself. While in prison Malcolm would try to write letters to Elijah Mohammed but would become frustrated because all he knew was slang and street life.” I commanded attention when I said something.
From the way the story was written it talked about black women’s hairstyle, clothes they wore, lack of education, and the certain usage of words. The way Phoenix’s words were delivered in the story seemed as if it was a put down. The tale made Phoenix to be knowledgeable by her everyday doing in life, but in reality she was displayed to be ignorant. The story of Phoenix Jackson is an expedition, a dealing of race and imagery. This story portrays stereotypes, racism, and struggles, which relate to the previous books Malcolm X and Birth of a nation.
Journal 14-Famous Lincoln Civil War Speech & “Sivilizing Huck Finn” While I was reading Sutton’s article, I remembered Mrs. Phillips saying how that the regular’s English class just could not grasp that Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is in fact not racist. Apparently Sutton had not reached the sophomore honors English class level yet either, which is probably not the best, seeing he is a book critic and has the ability to edit, or in my terms ‘butcher’, books to his liking. If he had seen Twain’s purpose-to make the book as close to real life and society as possible to really emphasize the satire traits, Sutton might not have been so disgusted. It actually annoys me that he would change the whole book, and all of its
Amazingly an author can really engage his/her audience, but that really takes a lot. Thurston Clarke was convincing his audience on how and why Kennedy’s speech succeeded, but at the same time giving the reader a model for a well worded and put together writing. All he provided were quotes from JFK’s Inaugural Address, descriptive background information on the actual speech and also on Kennedy’s life, and lastly by illustrating Kennedy’s presentation as a whole. Never have I been so convinced by an author, but Clarke will defiantly go down as the first
As I said early, the first part of Walker’s book talks about the lack of African American artist model specifically among writers. When becoming a writer, Alice walker found out that she was missing black artist models with whom she could relate and imitate. Going through history she puzzled out black women history. Known as “mule of the word”, because they were
It was a major breakthrough within technology, which paved the road for the later inventions of the television and the computer. Nevertheless it also had its consequences: African Americans hanged in telephone poles and parts of the society firmly opposing the placing of poles on private land. The essay "Time and Distance Overcome" is written in three segments - all extremely different yet with a unique connection. It is divided into two independent text-heavy parts and then a relatively short concluding part. From the first to the second part there is a great change of mood, as the first part mostly devotes itself to describe the history of the telephone, the struggle between private persons and the telephone companies who put up the telephone poles; however in the second part (that is divided from the first by three little stars) the pivotal point is how the technological invention was used as a weapon to murder African Americans.
The debate surrounding the essay is in judging Twain’s depiction of the “negro” Jim and its relation to past and present racial discourse. Smith is writing at a time where most respectable circles condemn the practice of slavery, yet many still blindly accuse Twain of being a racist out of a lack of understanding of the novel. These “respectable” circles and the schoolteachers, literary professors, modern critics, and libraries they influence are the target of Smith’s words. They are the educated, the part of society that is most likely to come across Huckleberry Finn, and Smith argues that their blind outrage