Rope

Anthony Greenwald’s and Mahzarin Banaji’s are psychologists who study human learning. In their book Blindspot, they discuss our subconscious biases that have been instilled into us. Using ideas such as the Implicate Association Test (IAT), Mindbugs (Greenwald and Banaji, page 4), and Shades of Truth (page 22). By asking these thought provoking questions, they probe the question “Are Americans Racist?” (Greenwald and Banaji, page 170), and giving evidence to support their case. Greenwald and…

The life of Offred In the dystopian novel, titled “The Handmaids Tale” by Margaret Atwood, we see the time when the totalitarian society of Gilead took power over the country, how it controlled the people that lived within its borders, and the difficulties they experienced through the use of characterization. The life of Offred and other handmaids just like her are made miserable due to the rule over their bodies, and they have no easy way to escape it. The society of Gilead can be labeled as…

I woke up with a pounding head. I tried to move my hands, to find out that they were tied behind my back. The same with my legs. My wrists were rubbed raw by the ropes that bound them, and I felt weak due to lack of sunlight. I checked my surroundings. I was tied to a wooden pole in the center of a dark tent, the only light was from a lantern, and based on how I was feeling, only sunlight helped me. As if on cue, a big burly man opened up the tent flap and walked in. The light that shined…

My grandma always said I was the Pied Piper of Sunflower Dr. I would come down fresh off the bus or bright and early in the morning. Riding down on my Mongoose bike to go meet my friends off the bus. I would come riding down and before I could get a word out they would be crawling out and begin to follow me around for the day of playing. Grandma’s house is always a great place to go. You can get food and have a great time. But you can be there too much, especially when you live only a…

street in Franklin, Louisiana. She was the third oldest out of her six brothers and sisters. My grandmother said her father had worked at a sugar mill. When the war had ended her father would bring a rope for them to play with. My grandmother stated that the ropes were made different in her time and the rope was pretty strong. She also said her father would buy them flowers and marbles in different sizes. As a gift he bought her oldest sister, Billie a bike while my grandmother and the rest got…

Level I Discussion Questions Beah moves around in time as he tells his story, flashing forward and backward. What is the effect of this technique on the overall meaning of the text? Would it be more effective if he stuck to strict chronology? Why or why not? Flashbacks and shifts in time are commonly used to give both effect and understanding to a narrative. I think that Beah used this technique effectively. Beah's journey is never ending. It takes place in the future, present and past. We…

Ça Va?: A Personal Narrative For most of my life I’ve been like a magnet, always being pulled different ways and never really becoming myself, by myself. I’ve been a bottle without a message, floating between people and shores. I would keep friends for the school year, then lose them in the summer because of my total apathy towards most of their lives, and thus my lack of importance in theirs. This continued for the entirety of middle school and my first two years of high school. Then I met…

The documentary called “Hanging: the mysterious case of the boy in the barn” written by Julia Prodis Sulek touches base on a unique phenomenon that these parents known as the Klaver are facing with. A catastrophic incident has occurred almost twenty-five years ago, which involved a young child by the name of Joshua Klaver, who was fatally being lynched. Whether the death of Josh was simply a suicide or even a homicide, still remains to be a mystery. In this critical analysis, we will be breaking…

voice “You cannot die now, not like this” and I had the same visions except there was a woman crying at the man on the cross. I snapped back to my life, alive. But it wasn’t over yet. Then, I spotted helicopters soaring into the forest with firemen on ropes connected…

When Douglass describes his aunt, he states “After crossing her hands, Mr. Plummer tied them with a strong rope.” (25) The rope is a symbol of the slave’s loss of freedom and speech. The slaves are restricted from having their own voice and are stripped away from their dignity and identity. This action of being tied up further represents the cruel slave owners who treat…