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.
A journey can be physical, imaginative, spiritual, emotional and anything you want it to be. The journeys that have been analysed are two Coleridge poems; This Lime Tree Bower My Prison and Frost at Midnight, and two related texts; Australian Summer and The Wizard of OZ. This Lime Tree Bower My Prison has been written in conversational form, as it is a letter addressed to his dear friend Charles Lamb. The opening lines of the poem are colloquial and direct. This is established when he says “Well, they are gone and here I must remain, this lime tree bower my prison”, this really gives us a sense of confinement associating his current location as a prison.
How has |I really can’t explain how the prison life I can only describe what I have read about.| |prison life changed over time? Should |Prison is a penitentiary or correctional facility it’s a place where individuals are | |prisoner quality of life be a concern? |physically confined or detained and usually deprived of a range of personal freedoms. | | |Prisons are a conventionally institution which is a form of the criminal justice | | |system. Prison life today is granting inmates with freedom and limited rights.
“Brooklyn Cop” Critical Essay By Jacqueline Douglas “Brooklyn Cop” by Norman MacCaig is a poem that describes a character in lots of detail by using effective sounds, imagery and word choice. The aim of this essay is to show how cops are really treated. I will do this by underlining the poet’s techniques and word choice throughout the poem. The poem starts by describing a cop who patrols a violent area. The poem goes on to explain little about his life at home.
He explores prison dynamics between inmates, and between inmates and guards to discover the forces at work inside the Leavenworth walls. The stories of the guards are just as interesting as the stories of the inmates, but they paint a completely different image of the prison and the people inside it. Earley digs into the past of these incarcerated men in order to not only inform the reader, but to humanize the individuals. Despite the fact that these prisoners have committed heinous crimes and acts of violence, they are also people who come from somewhere. Everyone has a story and Earley exemplifies this idea with his novel.
"First their wonderful smell: They smelled of laundry, clean and hot and slightly electrified, like warmed wiring" (Kaysen 120). She then continues on to talk about the tunnel's temperature, lighting, wall color, ceiling, forks, twists, openings, and signs, all in great detail. Kaysen talks about how she felt as if she had "conjured [the tunnels] into being" (Kaysen 120) and how she felt a kind of connection with the tunnels. She would find herself asking everyday if any of the nurses were free to take her down there to walk around. I thought this was a really big part in the book because it was kind of a secret thing that mostly only the nurses knew about and not many of the patients did.
Life without parole: Living and Dying in Prison Today I. Intro I must first start by say, when reading Life without Parole, I could not help but to compare the book to Picking Cotton. Their overall tones and perspectives on the prison system were quite different. But, regardless, they both brought awareness to abuse and violence within the prison system, as well as the criminal justice system needing extreme change. I believe because of their novelistic writing style, it made it easier for us to understand the brutality of what happens behind bars.
Turns out it’s not fiction at all but what literally happened to journalist and editor White, who was sentenced to prison at Carville, the only leper colony remaining in the United States, for committing a relatively innocuous financial crime. White’s memoir continues to surprise as it presents a witty, well-rendered narrative of redemption and enlightenment. Readers who enjoy clever, off-beat memoirs will devour this in one sitting.” Library Journal, May 1, 2009 “Brisk, ironic and perceptive, White’s introspective memoir puts a magnifying glass to a flawed life, revealing that all of life is to be savored and respected.” Publisher’s Weekly, April 27, 2009 [White] “offers a memoir of personal transformation and a thoroughly engaging look
| A day in the life of a Probation Officer | The functions | | Coulette Love | 3/15/2013 | This submission will explain the daily functions of a parole and probation officer. The pro’s and the cons of being an officer and what it takes to survive what is commonly known as the “wild”. | Parole and probation officers are individuals that supervise offenders who have been sentenced to non-custodial sanctions or those released from incarceration. There are some similarities between the two positions but there are also some large differences. One of the largest differences is who the officers supervise.
The American Prison System The fear of going to prison strikes fear in some and in others, it is an opportunity for rehabilitation and a chance to reflect. The magnitude of punishment is currently dependent on the location of the crime and trial as well as the prison where the offender is sent for their punishment. The privatization of the prison system and the lack of efficient and effective punishments through out the United State’s prison systems have left our prisons overpopulated, under funded and mismanaged. Creating standard guidelines throughout both public and private prisons, as well as making uniform punishments that fit their crimes, will make a transfer to a private prison no different than a stay in a publicly funded prison.