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Playing Video Games Made Me Feel
1,281 wordsThe sun sets at about quarter to six. Kids begin to come out of their houses like bats come out of their caves, ready to start playing something, anything that would come to mind. This is how my barrio was when I was growing up. I have lived in Juarez all my life and the only recall of a barrio I have is just before coming here to live in El Paso. After coming to El Paso at about the age of twelve, I have never experienced that same feeling of closeness my barrio made me feel. Coming home from s...
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Age Of Seven Elderly Woman
772 wordsAt the age of seven years old, I met my first best friend. This was before I even knew the meaning of the word racism. He was about the same age as me, and he lived next door to my house. My mother was the first person to tell me about him. She told me that the people moving into the house next to ours had a child around my age. I couldnt wait to meet him. At that age, I never anticipated how this new friend would change my life. Growing up outside a large city was great. My family lived in a th...
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House On Mango Street
776 wordsIn, The House On Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, the author has efficiently placed superior symbols throughout the novel, and if a reader thoroughly combs through each page, symbols become apparently noticeable. Primarily, Mamas hair represents beauty and comfort. In addition, women represent captivity and wasted dreams. Lastly, Cathy, the queen of cats exemplifies hopeful imagination and the upper class. All three of these themes are used in the book to point to the novels main idea, growing ...
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Lorraine Hansberry Walter Lee
495 wordsA domestic drama set in a tenement on the south side of Chicago, Lorraine Hansberry's tells the story of the Younger family. Following the death of the family's father and provider Big Walter, who has died from overwork and grief over the death of a child, the Younger's await the payment of Walter's life insurance. For Walter's son Walter Lee, the money would enable him to open a liquor store and give up his degrading work as a chauffeur for a wealthy white; he also dreams of buying pearls for h...
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Green And Orange Combined With The Nature Station
1,139 wordsIt is never pleasant to wait in the cold for however long it takes for the train to arrive at the public transit stations, otherwise known in Boston as the T, during the winter. Nor is the thought of waiting during an intolerable heat wave in July to catch the subway across to the different communities of Boston. Honestly, there is never a time where I would call it enjoyable to sit inside of the MBTA. That was until I began to notice some of the art around me. I would have to say that the first...
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Escape From Reality Brothers And Sisters
1,484 wordsMusic has always been a part of Cambodia. The life styles were limited, among these musicians, there were the Khmer rouge, full time labor workers, and politicians. A large percentage of Cambodians were forced into poverty and underpaid jobs. Their lives were constantly troubled by daily escapes from robbers, guerrillas, and powerful armies that disagrees with the laws of the country. The Khmer rouge, former guerrillas and the most powerful army that had ever opposed the government had taken mor...
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Slim Shady East Side
1,144 wordsWhat is the genuine Marshall Mathers like? If people look past the surface, they will find a nice person. Its only when hes backed into a corner that he retaliates. Hes one of the most controversial singers out there today. You dont have to like him but you cant ignore him. Eminem, (Em), a. k. a. , Slim Shady, a. k. a. Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born in Kansas City, Missouri but he and his mother shuttled back and forth between Missouri and Michigan, rarely staying in one house more then a y...
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Differential Association Theory Police Officers
1,391 wordsWilson and Kelling's article Broken Windows is an interesting take on crime prevention and the psychology surrounding it. There take on crime preventions strays from the idea of police allocation based on crime rate and the use of foot patrol versus the use of squad car patrol. The thesis offered by Wilson and Kelling in the article Broken Windows is that we must return to our long-abandoned view that the police ought to protect communities as well as individuals (Wilson 15). Wilson and Kelling ...
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Spend Most Of Their Time Fontana Del Mother
687 wordsThe central Bosnian village Dolina is located in a valley north of the Bosnian-Hercegovinian capital, Sarajevo. From a very early age Muslim girls are taught that their role as a female is to assist their mother with household chores and to serve the men. While her male siblings, who spend most of their time playing and walking around the village, are not expected to work around the house (Bringa 106). Muslim boys were given privileges because they were male. Muslim women usually did not leave t...
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Kill A Mockingbird Act Of Courage
1,724 wordsFirst impressions of people are often lasting impressions, especially in the minds of children. Unfortunately, these impressions tend to be negative, thus, discrediting the individual who conveys the impression and causing the observers to inaccurately assess his true character. Many times these impressions, aided by misunderstanding and prejudgment, cause unjust discrimination against an individual. Tokill a Mockingbird depicts the themes of misunderstanding and prejudice which portray Arthur (...
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Segregation And Housing In Chicago
1,184 wordsChicago was the best place to live and visit for anyone. Many people traveled from far places to visit and live in Chicago. Long after the World War II many things started reshaping America. One of the most significant was the racial change all over America but specifically in Chicago. Many southern blacks started to move into Chicago. Chicago started to become mostly dominated by blacks and other minorities while whites started to move into the suburbs of Chicago. Beginning in the 1930 s, with ...
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Imagery In Reinventing America
797 wordsOver the years poets have emerged with different styles, striking every reader some how. Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1928, Philip Levine has molded his image as a tough working-class poet who writes upon past experiences and the feelings provoked. His own family problems and other problems, such as the war in Vietnam, helped Levine develop his poetry. To say the least he took bad luck and made it inspiration (Gioia, npn). The crummy jobs that young Levine agonizingly endured would have seemed n...
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Coming Of Age Similes And Metaphors
1,060 wordsRita Dove: Literary Analysis Rita Dove has written many different kinds of poetry. She also wrote books, short stories plays and all types of literature. This essay will focus on specifics of her writing by analyzing three pieces of poetry that Rita Dove has written. The works we will be looking at are In the Old Neighborhood, My Mother Enters the Work Force, and The Bistro Styx. Through these three works you will see examples of Rita Dove's use of home in her poetry, her use of figurative devic...
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Bus Driver De Niro
578 wordsThe kid, whose name is Calogero but who is called C, idolizes Sonny. He likes the way Sonny exercises a quiet authority, and talks with his hands, and dresses well. When C is 17, he goes to work for Sonny, against his father's wishes. And in the year when most of the film is set, he learns lessons that he will use all of his life. 'A Bronx Tale' was written for the stage by Palminteri, who plays Sonny with a calm grace in the film, but was Calogero in real life. There have been a lot of movies a...
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Play Is Set Act 1 Scene 1
1,158 wordsRising of Spirit in Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry in her play A Raisin in the Sun, written in 1959 raises the questions of racism and racial segregation in the contemporary society. The theme of physical, social and moral confinement is one of the major topics arisen by the play A Raisin in the Sun. The action of the play is set in the small apartment in the poor South side of Chicago owned by the Younger's family. "Weariness has, in fact, won in this room. Eve...
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Oriented Policing Community Policing
2,254 wordsPolicing Models There is a remarkable historical, geographical, and organizational diversity in the activities of persons who are, or have been, counted as police. Within any one country the work of police today is very different from what it was 200 years ago. There are also major differences between countries policing New York City is bound to have little in common with policing the Solomon Islands. The diversity is so great that the onlooker may wonder if the different kinds of activity and o...
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Martin Luther King Close Up Shot
1,844 wordsThe first scene begins with a close up shot of Senor Love Daddys mouth, the top of a microphone, and an alarm clock. The alarm clock, being used as a prop, is making a very loud, annoying, ringing sound. This is done in order to get the viewers attention to the problem of racism. After the ringing stops, we start reframing in, and zooming out slowly, seeing more of Senor Love Daddy and the microphone. There is hard lighting present in the scene. The entire shot has a reddish color to it. A slow ...
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Los Angeles Police Los Angeles Times
2,973 wordsThough sparked by the Rodney King verdict, there were many other causes of the riots that erupted on the streets of Los Angeles on April 29, 1992. The Los Angeles riots in 1992 were devastating. The obvious issue portrayed through the media was black versus white. If you did not live in Los Angeles or California chances are you did not hear full coverage of the story, you heard a simple cut and dry portrayal of the events in South Central. If you heard one thing about the riots, it was that ther...
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Caged Bird Sings York Random House
3,490 wordsMaya Angelou From Innocence to Experience As we review the works of renowned author and poet Maya Angelou, the passion, power and extraordinary life experiences of one of the greatest writers of our time comes shining through. She is best known for a series of autobiographical novels beginning with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings published in 1971. Angelou has been praised for confronting both the racist and sexual pressures on black women and her work combines her perspective as an individual w...
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Stephen King Science Fiction
541 wordsI recieved an 86 on this as a Book Review The Regulators In The Regulators Richard Bachman, pen name of Stephen King, is taking on the ever so used and abused subject of a neighborhood gone-bad. It is a novel falling into the horror genre because of its graphic and horrific murders and punishments by Tak. Tak is an inner being of an autistic child living in the peaceful neighborhood of Wentworth, Ohio. King takes on the neighborhood gone-bad scenario with an original science fiction element. The...
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