American journalists

Staples’ essay effectively connects problems between ethnic and racial groups to societal issues through his personal experiences, while Ehrenreich's essay makes the connection to modern gender issues irrelevant by mocking the male sex. Staples’ scenes of racism and stereotyping eerily resembles the issue of police brutality, for unarmed young black males are often seen as threats by white police officers as well as white females. Eric Garner, a 43-year-old black man, was killed after being…

The system of segregation was a law that separated the races. Many Southerners were upset that the former slaves had the same rights as everyone else after Lincoln declared them emancipated. The first Civil Rights Act passed in 1875 gave African Americans rights to be treated fairly in public and on public transportation. Ultimately, the court passed the Jim Crow laws separating the races in the South. In 1890, Louisiana had a separate car law that passed for black and whites. If blacks were…

night. Suddenly out of the shadows, a young buffed up, African American guy is creeping up on you. Are you afraid? But, that’s not right. He was just walking home like any ordinary passerby. Today, many Blacks suffer from this painful stereotype facilitated by ancestral white society. This racism, created from the “white” manifest destiny, has been active in our history for hundreds of years. Over the past decades, many African American writers have stood up and fought for their civil liberties.…

gotten injured and later realized it had caused further damage to their mind or body. Tracy Scroggins, a former NFL player, sued the league, seeking $5 million after he was preliminarily diagnosed with CTE. According to Belson, a New York Times NFL journalist, 5,000 former players sued the league due to hidden dangers of concussions that…

Racism in American society has been deeply engrained into the cultural norms since colonialization. Racism has infiltrated every facet of our lives, including in the medical field. This medical racism was particularly portrayed by the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments, which occurred from 1932-1972. The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment and its relationship with governmental organizations represent the idea that racism is deeply engrained in American society and the discontinuation of the study portrays…

For Whom The Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economical understated style had a strong influence on 20th century fiction. He was greatly appreciated in the literary world and went on to win the Pulitzer prize for his work. Hemingway insisted with the WW1 ambulance drivers in 1918, however he was severely wounded and had to return home. In 1930 he went to Spain as a journalist and film production assistant in 1937 and 1938. Hemingway's own…

Jack London, born on January 12, 1876, had a deep passion for writing. He was not only an American novelist, journalist, and social activist, but he was also one of the first writers to be acknowledged by a large population due to his great skills in writing fiction. One of his famous statements is, “The proper function of man is to live, not exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.” London is trying to express how he believes that people should be going out…

short story, “Just Walk on By,” in which he realizes that his appearance frightens people around him, especially the white people. He understands that we live in a culture that is very dangerous and violent. Staples is unknown because of his African American race; he is constantly judged because of his skin color. Staples illustrates this through his choices of ethos, pathos, and imagery with diction and tone, which leads to his ultimate message that rather than having a unique personality,…

American problem When we think of America, the images of Times Square, Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, clean city, beautiful campus of Harvard or other fancy university comes into our mind. In some extreme cases we think of Macy’s or Victoria’s Secret’s showrooms, but we never think of wars, terrorism, military attacks, drug abuse, over throwing governments at first. We have some positive pictures of The United States in our mind, because we mostly see positive things about America in…

Quiet American, based off the classic novel by Graham Greene and directed by Phillip Noyce. Based in Saigon, 1952, in the middle of the Vietnam war between the communist and the French. The film follows a long-time war journalist from London named Thomas Fowler and his complicated love life between a catholic woman who does not believe in divorce and the Vietnamese women named Phuong whom he has fallen in love with. Fowler meets an unlikely friend, Alden Pyle, an aid worker for the American…