302747710 Soc 383 Writing Assignment Winter 2016 Summary Urban war zones littered with violence are scattered across the United States. Los Angeles, California has seen its fair share of murder and it is the job of the police officers and detectives to maintain order in the streets. Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside:…
The south always feels like home each year that I go. The south is a part of my ethnicity history and where most of my ancestors lived. The author of the book, This Ain’t Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South, analyzes and evaluates the pulls between urban and rural areas around the Memphis city and their takes on race, class, gender, and region on black identity in today’s era. To prove this, Zandria Robinson interviews many people-what is known as her “respondents”-whom are southerners. In addition to her respondents, Robinson uses the media to prove her argument.…
In Bob Ryan’s article “I Can Hardly Believe It’s Legal,” Ryan speaks about the violent characteristics the game of football has but still finds a way to entertain the American society. Even though Ryan manages to watch football, he doesn’t agree with the brutal, savagery rules the game has to offer. In “Derrick Gordon Finds his Freedom” written by Cyd Zeigler, he concentrates on sport stereotypes our society has laid upon our athletes. Derrick Gordon, an NCAA basketball player, went through a time of despair when he couldn’t face up to his family and friends about his sexuality. Besides the fact both articles concentrate on two separate issues, together they speculate the physical and mental injuries sports offer and how the values learned overweigh those conditions.…
The film Diary of a Mad Black Woman written by Tyler Perry and released in theatres in the year 2005 tells the story of a woman, Helen McCarter, whom after 18 years of marriage to her husband, Charles McCarter, is notified that she is being left for another woman and savagely thrown out of her home. Helen, with neither work experience nor money turns to her grandmother Mabel Simmons, but commonly referred to as Madea. Helen, over the course of several months finds herself going through the several phases of grief in order to get past the cruel mistreatment of her husband while also trying to find herself after his gross and negligent misconduct. As Helen begins to find herself she also finds love in an unlikely source, a man by the name of Orlando whom she originally met as the man paid to drive her around in a U-Haul after being thrown out from her home.…
In the short story, The Chaser, by John Collier, there are three areas that can be analyzed by using the feminist perspective the idea that women need to be controlled, through being overly attentive and by being jealous. The Chaser tells the story about a man, Alan Austen, who is deeply in love with a woman, Diana. But Diana does not like him at all. Actually, she seems to despise him and this is the main reason for Alan’s search for a man known for his abilities on doing magic potions. After entering the house he finds an old man sitting in a chair.…
Hoop Dreams is a true story of two inner-city young African-American kids who wanted to become a professional basketball player. William Gate and Arthur Agee are filmed in the documentary, it shows their passion, dedication and love for the basketball and how basketball kept them away from the streets. Sport is being a very prominent institution in United States, Mostly in African-American kids, parents indulge their children in sports as a gateway from drugs and gangs. The documentary shows two aspect of life, in one hand is captures the passion, determination of William and Arthur to become a professional basketball player and on the other hand, it talks about larger subjects: ambition, competition, poverty, race and drugs…
“The Code of the Streets” written by Elijah Anderson draws a large focus to the differences of labels from a social theory and scientific point of view. It depicts the differences of what one would consider “street” or “decent” (Anderson, 82), “middle to upper class” vs “lower class”. The article considers the “street” class to be the younger generation; these would be the youth who oppose the views of those who live abiding by the law. The “street” often break the law, lack responsibility and have very little respect for authority and often distrust authority figures.…
The Honorable Imposter The Honorable Imposter, written by Gilbert Morris brings reader's imagination all the way back to before the Mayflower came to America. With romance, violence, betrayal, murder, and deception, Morris sucks readers in with no turning back. The Honorable Imposter is a great example of historical fiction. The readers not only get an exciting story but a history lesson!…
Stella Kowalski character often overlooked in Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire. Throughout the play, the reader tends to become invested in Blanche and Stanley’s dominating roles, reducing Stella to the rivalry’s mediator. However, Stella’s development throughout the story is the deciding factor of Blanche’s inevitable fate. By the end of the play, Stella’s relationship to reality begins to crumble. Much like her sister, she begins to deny the truth, choosing the live in ignorance and denial if it meant she could continue living comfortably.…
The film, Miss Evers’ Boys was about an inhumane study of African American men suffering from syphilis. The film evolved around Eunice Evers, a nurse in a local Tuskegee hospital and her statement about the “Tuskegee study”. Dr. Brodus, the head doctor of the local Tuskegee hospital along with Nurse Evers were given fund to treat men with syphilis or what they called “bad blood” (Benedetti, Fishburne, Kavanagh, Konwiser & Sargent, 1997). These men were not very educated, and their health literacy were very low, so Nurse Evers had to use words that they could understand. After a while, the fund for the treatment diminished and they were not able to continue treating these men.…
Louis Jenkins’s poem “Football” can serve as a lesson for many student-athletes, not only football players. The message within this poem tells student-athletes that decisions must always be made, but it is never easy no matter the size of the problem. Some athletes will throw the shoe, others will keep…
“Children Need to Play, not Compete” present a compelling argument, that children need to have fun playing sports rather than just focusing on winning. The text, written by Jessica Statsky is an impressive piece of work. Pathos, ethos, logos and kairos all come together perfectly to support the claim and the evidence to back it is also strong. Right off the bat the author has pathos appeal, “And though many adults regard Little League baseball and Peewee Football as a basic part of childhood, the games are not always joyous ones”.…
StreetCar Named Desire is a realist play written by Tennessee Williams in 1947. The play is set in New Orleans after the second world war. StreetCar Named desire can be interpreted in many different ways as it has several themes which are open ended. Some of the main themes in StreetCar Named Desire are the clash between the two world, New America vs. Old America, Conflict between Classes. Much of the story, characters were found in Williams’s drama was mined from the playwright’s own life.…
The film Little Miss Sunshine follows a family on their road trip from New Mexico to California. The shows the lives of a dysfunctional lower middle-class family. The protagonist Olive gets accepted to compete in a beauty pageant in California. Her family consisting of her Mother Sheryl, Father Richard, Silent Brother Dwayne, Suicidal Uncle Frank and drug addict Grandfather all take the trip with her in a beat down Volkswagen bus. The film goes into depth about different problems ordinary people may face on a day to day basis and the way that they handle these issues.…
Are there equal opportunities provided for women and girls to play and compete in sports? How are women and girls being looked at and treated? Every day, we see scenarios of inequality between women and men in sports. Fortunately, there has been a vast improvement in the role in which women play in sport from up to 40 years ago till now. There has been change in media outlets, governing bodies and especially female athletes around the world, whether Caucasian or African.…