Narrative Analysis: 'Black Men And Public Space'

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In my descriptive narrative, argumentative, and literary analysis essays there were numerous instances that the expository strategies were noticeable. The most common types of strategies discovered were development by example , development of division and classification and lastly casual analysis.
In my descriptive narrative the most common expository strategy is development by example. In my descriptive narrative I was explaining a personal experience that initially led to a broad accusations about the Galveston 's homeless. For example in the essay I state, " At first I had imagined these destitute people being dirty, unfriendly and needy". The points of being dirty, unfriendly and needy have given some generalities that will eventually be proven wrong by not only citing some personal examples, but also comparing and contrasting of how the people aren
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Stapes begins with various examples in his personal life that has led him to believe that people fear him because of his race and therefore move away from him. Along with these personal encounters Stapes targets women in a particular instance that supposedly fear black men the most: although he is not offended by this generality. Instead Stapes understand why the women must feel this way, and empathizes with their emotions. Stapes then goes on to describe how he doesn’t understand how he has managed to make it into adulthood after having many loss family members and friends in the past, Stapes asserts that he probably made it because he was shy and stuck to himself. Ultimately Stapes concludes that after countless mistaken criminal charges and mistaken terror he has learned to assimilate into public spaces and give off some sort of warning that he is

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