Crips

This underlying structure of sublimity is in- scribed into the very plot of “Usher”: the narrator comes from the outside world (the pre-sublime, the normal); he encounters the house, its inhabitants, and its environs (the moment of trauma); he dwells briefly in the house (which,asan objectification of Roderick’s disordered mind, embodies the sublime moment itself); then returns to the outside world (the recovery). What Poe has altered in his rendi- tion of the experience is not the form or…

In the reading, “Citizen: An American Lyric,” by Claudia Rankine, she puts you into situations of modern day racism. By using real life situations, she explains how racism fits into all aspects of life, whether it is in the media, at school, in public, or at home. Rankine describes the difference between conscious and subconscious discriminations to relate to the main idea of modern day racism. Rankine uses stories from real-life experiences of people consciously discriminating others. In the…

4) The execution of Crips co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams caused a considerable amount of controversy, as recounted in the case study “Redemption and Capital Punishment” in the textbook. The execution of Williams was not controversial because he was considered of having been innocent of the crimes he was convicted of or that capital punishment was necessarily too severe for his crimes (for he had been convicted of murdering several people), but rather because he was considered to have…

After her “three-second celebratory dance on center court” Piers Morgan was going to name the victory dance “the Serena Shuffle” (Rankine 33-34). However, he learned that from the American press that it was actually a Crip Walk. When told that the dance she had performed was called a Crip Walk, a gangster dance, Williams asked if she looked like a gangster. To which Morgan responded that she did. This is an example of her addressability. A black athlete who participates in an overwhelmingly…

The LA Riots were in response to the Rodney King video that showed LA Police officers beating an unarmed African- American motorist. On March 3rd 1991 King, a paroled felon led police on a high speed chase through the LA county, he was intoxicated and uncooperative during the arrest. Unbeknownst to the 3 officers, Laurence Powell, Theodore Briseno, and Timothy Wind was involved in the beating of Rodney King while arresting King someone was filming the officers beating King long after he was…

feels that Cuba, unlike the United States, does not discriminate or segregate” (Johnson, 2005). How she was treated in Cuba contrasts greatly to how Hockenberry was treated in New York. Johnson states that she got the strong sense in that “being a crip is no big deal in Cuba however, remembers a time on a family trip to Mexico, when people were afraid to look at her and they sometimes made the sign of the cross, to protect themselves against the evil eye” (Johnson,2005). Again, this example…

Miserable America Kanye West is a complex individual. He has been known for his infamous rants and speaking his mind. West is not afraid to hold his tongue when it comes to issues dealing with race. For example, in his song “Gorgeous” featuring Kid Cudi and Raekwon, West touches on racism and politics. Ironically West shows that the United States is not so “Gorgeous” by doing so. Kanye West through his own experiences and historical figures adds credibility to his song. West uses rhyme, allusion…

Subject was received into the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations (CDCR) on February 16, 2000 for burglary in the 1st as a third striker. Subject arrived at CCI on July 7, 2015. Subject will be housed in Administrative Segregation Unit (ASU) placement in Facility A Housing Unit 6 cell B 106L, for self-expressed safety concerns. Subject explained that he was assigned as a porter in Facility A Housing Unit 3, and that Officer Lopez caught him with a kite/note that he was…

in San Quentin prison in San Francisco California (Williams, 9). Stanley is an african american male who grew up in South Central Los Angeles and in 1971 along with his friend, Raymond Lee Washington, started a street gang, which was known as the Crips (Williams,9). Prison, as described, by Stanley is not a place where anyone wants to be (Williams, 9). Inmates in the main prison eat breakfast and dinner in a large cafeteria, for lunch all inmates are given brown paper bag lunches, eaten in…

Cullen L. MacPhee Lit II Stanley “Tookie” Williams The purpose of this essay is an autobiography on Stanley “Tookie” Williams. Since I am only using one book as a reference for this essay, the information given will cover mostly his years spent in prison. Stanley grew up and lived in South Central Los Angeles (Williams,13). When Stanley was young, growing up in his neighborhood, most of his friends had older siblings that had spent time in and out of prison. They would talk about their…