He tries to appeal to the readers’ emotion whenever he can. He uses information that appeals to himself and other readers as opposed to Bruck’s essay. In contrast, in “No Death Penalty” written by Bruck, it seems that the majority of the essay was just quotes and cold hard facts that Bruck found before writing. He quotes Koch several times and tries to convince the reader that Koch’s information is incorrect. Overall, I am more convinced by Koch’s essay than Bruck’s essay just because it appeals to me on a more emotional level, and causes me to want to keep the death penalty.
She loved to perpetuate the myth that all Asians knew Kung Fu. We jumped on them with our brass knuckles and razor blades, and left them bleeding by the side of the road” (489). Thorough out the story, Cindy seems to be pressured by her peers into committing acts she wouldn’t have done without stress from other gang members. This is first noted when Cindy says, “being in a gang is like being in a democracy, the majority is right even when it becomes tyrannical” (491). Its interesting to see how the author used the metaphor of a democracy to describe a gang, it allowed readers to see how political American gangs can actually be, and vice versa of how a democracy can be very
But The Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee saw no reason not to continue on because the men had cleared the way and therefore they believed they should be able to move through without problems. I believe that Martin Luther King wanted to maintain his practices of non-violence so he abided with his agreement with the federal mediators in order to not endanger anyone. SNCC was a part of “Bloody Sunday” and first handily witnessed the anger and brutality of the men who attacked the demonstrators causing them to be filled with hatred.
We have lied to ourselves. We have not built this box for the good of our brothers”, expresses objectivism through ethics. Ethics is exemplified through this quote, “We had broken so many laws, and today we have broken one more. Today we spoke to the Golden One.” The theory of ethics is exemplified in this quote through Equality speaking to the Golden One; he speaks to her because of his interest in her and for no other reason. The quote “’we shall not report our find to the City Council.
Ze Wei Jacky Luo Section 1 10/07/09 Final Draft The hardship of Cosmopolitanism Conversations are the most important tool for people to express themselves to others. In Chapter two of “Cosmopolitanism Ethics in the world of Stangers” written by Kwame Anthony Appiah, he points out that every culture, every society has its own view on what is correct or not. Appiah argued that positivism and relativism is not a way to encourage communications, because the idea of cosmopolitanism is that everyone in form of one community respect and share their ideas with each other. Appiah believe if everybody on this world are open minded and trying to lead everyone from different culture perform as a global citizen. Appiah also mentions that positivism had driven by two fundamentally kinds of psychological states, which are beliefs and desires. Both of them have different “direction of fit.” said Elizabeth Anscombe.
Before readers can even make any assumptions on the essay, Rhymes displays his direct and aggressive style stating, “I will not be addressing the whole of hip-hop and rap, but rather hardcore and gangsta rap.” From the first sentence, readers know the essay will not be a piece with hidden meanings and explanations, but will be straight to the point, and as serious as the subject matter it pertains to. Rhymes precedes his argument in the first paragraph affirming that no one living in his home listens to hardcore or gangsta rap. He does not want readers to think he is a consumer or supporter of the controversial music. His intent with this essay is to enlighten readers on the history of the subject matter contained in the lyrics of this type of music and highlight the racial double standard of music and lyrics in modern American culture. The lyrics of hardcore and gangsta rap often contains dubious themes, but the author derives his theory from the general attitude of this style of music by saying: “Gangsta and hardcore rap is the product of a society that has historically objectified and demeaned women, and commercialized sex”.
The fact that it’s all capitalized letters also brings awareness that the sign should be taken seriously as entering the Bantu alone is a crime itself. Yet, the fact that the sign is even set there in the first place to warn the people living outside of the ghettos that going in them is dangerous and a crime, creates an impact on the white South African people that were not even allowed to know what was beyond that sign. There is nothing remarkable about the syntax of the sing, since after all, it’s a government notice. However the use of the word ‘Bantu’, the proper term of referring to an urban area of tribal people in their native language, creates a contrast with all the western language in the rest of sign, making a contrast between how white ‘South Afrikaners’ had power in the country as opposed to the blacks who were considered strangers in their own their country. Mathabane then mentions the ‘black world’.
The Hardships of the 1980’s “It doesn’t just mean they are running across the freeway, it means they are running from something else as well. I think it’s a struggle for a lot of things, for opportunities, for freedom.” The novel The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver and the novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker both utilize symbolism, setting, as well as conflict to portray the thought that illegal immigrants and racism is cause for a lot of distress and insecurity within the nation. Symbolism is used in both pieces of literature to convey an underlying meaning. Symbolism is used in The Bean Trees to show the distress illegal immigration caused people. One symbol in the book was the bean tree itself.
There is no one that outshines each other. They do this by making their people wear handicap bags on their ears so that they are slow, by putting radio transmitters into intellectual people’s head so that it disrupts their thinking and they can’t show their full potential. In the story the two ideas which I witnessed the author portray was the idea of power and equality. One of the main ideas that the author conveyed to its audience was the idea of power in the community. This idea of power was demonstrated nearly throughout the whole story, because we see the control the government has on his people.
Drug trafficking, heroin in particular, was the choice drug of law enforcement, people and gangsters alike. Heroin trafficking in the 1960s and 70s had great effects on pop culture, American culture and gang culture. Many things in pop culture have their roots in this time period. Most people, when listening to music, rap music especially, hear words and phrases that they do not understand. These words and phrases were commonly used during the 60s and 70s to describe certain aspects of the heroin trade.