Feel

In the article, "How It Feels to be Colored Me" by Zora Neale Hurston, she describes her life as an African American women in the early 20th century and what it was like. She uses paper bags to describe people, and in the paper bags are random things that make up life like hope, dreams, disappointments, etc… Zora grew up in an all-black community in Florida, so her color was never an issue until she left home for boarding school when she was 13. Back home she says "everyone's Zora", but at her…

Best Writing “The Places I Feel Free” is my best essay but yet best Personal Essay. I think this is my best essay because this line really stood out to me “...and the whipping sound of net when you swish it” I think this really shows the Word Choice in the paragraph. Also I think it shows the Sentence Fluency. “My favorite food out there is a turkey sandwich and sweet corn right out of the field the sweet corn taste like a pound of awesomes in my mouth.” I think it shows Idea and Content.…

I don’t feel the purples and reds taking over my body anymore after 3 years. Thinking back to what David Foster Wallace said in his “This is Water” speech, “If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you...probably won't consider possibilities that aren't annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options.” Now I’m not saying this relationship makes me feel annoyed…

Answer these questions about “How it Feels to be Colored Me”: Look at the language of this piece: What verb does Hurston use? What do these verbs indicate about Hurston’s attitude toward her life? -"I remember the very day that I became colored" Hurston used 'colored ' as a verb in her story. This verb indicated that she did not always think of her self as colored, she just thought of herself as a person. She never distinguished between white and black. It seems to me that she uses it more of a…

the most influential female writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston has been acclaimed for her anthropological films and literature depicting the lives of black communities in the American South. One of these pieces, her essay How it Feels To Be Colored Me, investigates the complexities of being a black woman in America, and the relationship between her race and role in society. Hurston rejects the idea, which was common at the time, that being African American warrants pity.…

How It Feels to Be a Minority Never have I ever felt that I have an ethnic identity, and I have never known what it is like to belong to a minority group up until I came to Hartford. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines minority as a group of people who are different from the larger group in some way such as ethnicity or religion (“minority”). Via two encounters in Hartford, I realized that I also belong to an ethnic group, which had never determined my idnentity before. In Hungary, the…

situation should feel survivor's guilt. Survivor guilt ; also called survivor syndrome is a mental condition that occurs when a person believes they have done something wrong by surviving a traumatic event when others did not. Others feel they should not. Survivors of life and death situation should feel survivor's guilt. Some people believe survivors of life and death situations should feel survivor's guilt. Others believe that should not. Survivors of life and death situation should feel…

The inspiration for my source analysis paper lies in Zora Neale Hurston’s essay “How it Feels to Be Colored Me,” an examination of her experience transitioning from an all-black community in Eatonville, Florida to a white community in Jacksonville and eventually to Barnard College in New York City. Hurston begins describing her childhood growing up in Eatonville, where the only white people she saw were those passing through her town. The whites and blacks did not have much interaction, but the…

Stylistic and rhetorical strategies used in How It Feels To Be Colored Me include anecdotes, metaphors, and similes. The use of the anecdote relating to Hurston's younger life in Eatonville helps the reader identify and understand how Hurston grew up without understanding the difference between her colored self and the white people who would travel through her all black town. The use of anecdote helps the reader understand the backstory of Hurston and her inability to be depressed or saddened…

Why No Teen Should Feel Alone Response This paper is written by Natasha Lerner. It is about a traumatic experience that happened to her and how she came back from it. She explains how she has having mental health issues and how they affected her. She is trying to help other people with a similar issue get the help they need. It all started when she witnessed another student falling from another building of the school. It was extremely traumatic for her. She didn't know if they just fell or…