Do discrimination and racial profiling still exist? Brent Staples answers this question in his short essay, Just Walk on By. In this essay, Staples elaborates his opinion on the concern of racial profiling and the injustices that come with it by providing us with his experience as a young adult living in Chicago. Staples never faced his ultimate goal of reality until being awarded a scholarship to attend the University of Chicago. When his dreams of budding out of the rancorous cycle of poverty he was born into were becoming a reality, Staples then had to take on a few other hurdles that would now, presently, be considered racial profiling. His first face to face encountering with the flaws of racial discrimination was late in the evening,
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An individual who is ill might fear death, however if their disease or illness is terminal then they have to learn to cope with it. We see this kind of portrayal in The Fault In Our Stars by John Green. The story is basically about two teenagers who encounter each other in a meeting concerning the side effect they face from cancer, depression. This encountering leads to a young romance, however, without giving away the story plot, when one of them goes into remission they have to learn to accept the fact that they will die. Before dying, this character shows us, the audience some of the utmost striking things in life that we may not have been so grateful for. Although this character may not have had to deal with racial profiling or stereotyping of any type, he was faced with his fear and he had to learn to cope with …show more content…
When we grow up most of us are told if some kind of situation doesn’t feel right, take an alternate route. Growing up in New Jersey and having two parents work in the city; I would find myself on trains coming in and out of New York to visit them. My mother always tells me if I am unsure of my location or do not feel safe, then take the alternate route and hop in a cab. If I am alarmed, like Staples and Augustus Waters, I acknowledge my fear and learn to cope with it by finding alterative ways to get myself through the current
An individual who is ill might fear death, however if their disease or illness is terminal then they have to learn to cope with it. We see this kind of portrayal in The Fault In Our Stars by John Green. The story is basically about two teenagers who encounter each other in a meeting concerning the side effect they face from cancer, depression. This encountering leads to a young romance, however, without giving away the story plot, when one of them goes into remission they have to learn to accept the fact that they will die. Before dying, this character shows us, the audience some of the utmost striking things in life that we may not have been so grateful for. Although this character may not have had to deal with racial profiling or stereotyping of any type, he was faced with his fear and he had to learn to cope with …show more content…
When we grow up most of us are told if some kind of situation doesn’t feel right, take an alternate route. Growing up in New Jersey and having two parents work in the city; I would find myself on trains coming in and out of New York to visit them. My mother always tells me if I am unsure of my location or do not feel safe, then take the alternate route and hop in a cab. If I am alarmed, like Staples and Augustus Waters, I acknowledge my fear and learn to cope with it by finding alterative ways to get myself through the current