Shook

In the opening letter of James Baldwin’s My Dungeon Shook the reader is instantly “shaken” as they travel back in time to an era where they learn racial inequality is a pressing issue. This letter was written to the author’s nephew, but it has a broader-reaching audience towards all Americans with the hope of helping people understand what it is truly like living during a time plagued by racial inequality. The author aspires to show all people how to have love and respect towards one another…

PROSE Style Analysis Essay: “My Dungeon Shook” James Baldwin composes a powerful letter to his namesake in his moving letter, “My Dungeon Shook”; in this letter, he implements a cynical and severe tone, elaborate and colloquial diction, complex and repetitive syntax, and numerous examples of figurative language, in order to criticize the institution of slavery and racism on the one-hundredth year anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Baldwin’s choice of tone parallel the severity of his…

character is stored. In order to keep one’s dungeon unmarked and unchanged, negativity must be blocked. However such a thing is impossible and the only thing a person can do is reduce the amount of change and negativity they let in. In “My Dungeon Shook” by James Baldwin, Baldwin warns his nephew and black youth in general to not let poisonous words or ideas seep into their dungeons and destroy who they are and the potential they have. Young minds are the most malleable and vulnerable to the…

Silence in the face of Racism It was just this past Christmas break that I realized how racist my community could be towards people of different races. Whenever we our youth had Bible study, our instructor would make remarks about my cousin, who is half Samoan and half black in regards to his race. He would said, “go sit in the back like how it was meant to be”. Majority of the youth would laughed along with the instructor because it was meant to be a funny joke. My cousin would silently smiled…

The iPhone that shook the Tech World Does the FBI have the right to order Apple to open a terrorist’s iPhone? No, Apple has many facts and confident ways to shut down the FBI’s offense. Apple says that the process would take too long, it would set a very bad precedent, and there is no way to confine the software to one iPhone. The FBI, on the other hand, claims that justice needs to be served for the San Bernardino victims, National Security needs to be protected, and the All Writs Act makes…

The Earthquake That Shook My Paradigm of Life As a young child, I always felt like I had the world under my control. Anything a kid my age would ever dream of attaining was always given to me whenever I wanted. I always saw life as a bright adventure and never thought that anything could go wrong. Since I was a kid, I have known that my parents love me and I have always felt safe around them, I was as happy as any kid could ever be. As the oldest of two brothers and a sister growing up in Lima,…

A Tear For The Terror Of Time Death: an experience more frightful to the mind second hand, leaving the mind bemused and adrift in the realm of thought. The human mind goes through certain proceedings to help grapple with the suddenness of the unexpected tragedy. In Steve Minor’s “I Cried Of Course,” Minor uses visual effects, music, and writing to express feelings of vulnerability during the event of a death. Using melancholy visual depictions and music, Minor conveys the helplessness of…

role in society throughout the ages. Through the decades music has changed in regards to style and its culture. As with anything that stimulates change music brought about conflicts between racial and gender classes. The book I selected to read, All Shook Up: How Rock ‘N’ Roll Changed America, was written by award winning author Glenn C. Altschuler. In his book Altschuler discusses specifically how rock and roll aided or discouraged the changes that were brought about. Throughout the book…

The Banishment "Let me in," he cried. No answer. John Sebastian gripped the iron bars and shook them. The gate held firm. He clanked the bars with his binding chains. Still no reply. The CLOSED sign hung on the gate of God's house. # Excommunicated, he waited. He waited for the Lord to bring him into His fold. The Beat The Beat is everything. Nothing exists except the Beat. My fingers dance to its pulse. I write a narrative between Beats. I compose a couplet in its echo. The…

Breaking a Social Norms Analysis In society we have these strict expectations that influence our behaviors. Such expectations can change depending on how you were raised, but society plays an important role in it as well. Each one of us has a part in these social roles, and we can change, social roles and our own behaviors in order to fit in. Social norms are rules which are laid out for us and are guidelines for our behavior that we choose. Most of the time these norms help us understand and…