Country Lovers VS the Welcome Table Shantel Rider ENG125: Introduction to Literature Nathan Pritts October 1, 2012 Country Lovers VS the Welcome Table “Country Lovers” and “the Welcome Table” both deal with interracial problems. In “Country Lovers” the two young lovers are forbidden to see and be with each other because they are of different races. In “the Welcome Table” the little old lady is kicked out of church because she is black and it is a white church. I feel that both stories themes are shame and selfishness. In “Country Lovers” Thebedi and Paulus are sneaking around and get pregnant and do not think of the consequences and Paulus kills the baby when he finds out Thebedi has given birth to a baby and sees that it is light skin.
Even though Abigail denies that she and the girls participate in witchcraft, Parris does not believe her because Abigail has been out of work since Elizabeth Proctor abruptly fired her. Also, Elizabeth Proctor has stopped attending church because she does not want to sit so close to a soiled woman. When Thomas Putnam and Ms. Putnam enter the room, they report that their own daughter Ruth is in the same state as Betty. Ms. Putman also rumors that someone saw Betty flying over a neighbor’s barn. Seven of Mrs. Putnam’s babies died the day after their birth and she believes that it is witchcraft.
Conflict in “Roselily” In Alice Walker’s classic short story “Roselily”, the writer focuses on three main conflicts that Roselily experienced while standing at the alter reciting her vows. The first conflict was changing her religion; another conflict was giving her fourth child to his father, and her final conflict was moving from Mississippi to Chicago. Roselily is about to marry a man of the Muslim faith. His religion is totally different from the religion Roselily is accustomed to and she often obsesses over this matter. Roselily often refers to the temple where they will be worshiping as “his place of worship”; this is a direct indication that Roselily does not include herself when thinking about the new religion.
Lam uses irony through-out the story to expose the reasons that many Vietnamese children living in America will struggle with identity. Lam begins the story with a hint of irony when his Mother asked his aunt “Who will light incense to the dead when we’re gone,” and the aunt replies, “None of my children will do it, and we can forget the grandchildren. I guess when we’re gone, the ritual ends” (Lam, 2011, p. 1077). Although Lam’s Mother has brought her children to America for a better life she is disappointed that they have not kept their Vietnamese identity as she has. “Such is the price of living in America” is the only answer that the narrator has for this.
In this essay I analyze the rhetorical situation of “A Whisper of AIDS” article and her use of pathos, logos and ethos appeal. Almost nineteen years ago, a HIV positive married mother named Mary Fisher steeped out on faith and gave a speech on the effects of AIDS on her and her family at the 1992 Republican National Convention. Her main goal was to not inform the audience at the convention but the world of the silence surrounding the discussion of AIDS. She emphasizes the problems AIDS was causing and the future problems it will cause if we do not educate ourselves about this disease. Mary Fisher uses her own personal HIV diagnosis as a powerful tool to draw in her audience and get her point across.
In these meetings they talk about ways to keep youths out of gangs and ongoing gang problems. San Clemente community activist, Brenda Elizardi, organized a candle light vigil at the San Clemente Park, to protest the gang violence. She was joined by, Latinos and whites from San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano, to declare peace. She notes, “The community is tired of the violence and wants to show solidarity with the families of San Juan Capistrano.” Like the article mentions, “there are thousands of Hispanic kids who go to school and help Mom and Dad. They get pressured everyday to join a gang and deserve help.” Alejandro Hurado is an example of a teen that feel to the pressure of joining a gang.
Many refused to allow black passengers. On Sunday, 16 July 1854, Miss Jennings set off for the First Colored Congregational Church, where she was organist. As she was running late, she boarded a streetcar of the Third Avenue Railroad Company at the corner of Pearl and Chatham streets. The conductor ordered her to get off. When she refused, the conductor tried to remove her by force.
King does a great job using pathos to appeal to the eight clergymen’s emotions in order to explain the struggles of the black community. Dr. King uses several examples to explain why change is desperately needed in Birmingham. For example He says “… when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can’t go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Fun-town is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing and unconscious bitterness toward white people” he uses the pain he feels when he tell his child she can’t go to an amusement park because she is black. He felt it was not right to raise an innocent child that bears a deep hate towards one race because of social injustice. He could not stand raising a child in a world so ugly that would judge a person by the color of their
On the first of December in 1955, history was made. While she did not realize that she was in the making of a great moment in history, Rosa Parks, a kind-hearted, middle-aged seamstress refused to give up her seat on a bus ride home in Montgomery, Alabama, simply because of the color of her skin, thus, setting in motion the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Therefore, being arrested for act of civil disobedience. If I were to teach a fourth grade class about the most important person in African American History, I would give them a brief lesson of her life after and prior to the incident in 1955. I would note them about her historical and political influences and her social and family influences.
Our school is surrounded by sharp wire so we don’t runaway. My friend was taken away from her family from Rosebud reservation to come to school. She cries all the time because her heart hurts for her mom. The teachers would beat me and my friends if we spoke our native Lakota language. Forced to convert to be Christians, not practice old ways.