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In Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt, a boy named Doug moves to Marysville, a small town in New York. He needs to start fitting in. If someone’s new, it’s hard to fit in especially if you are rude. But, if you’re nice to them, they will help you fit in.

In this excerpt, hooks (1994) argument was well accredited with quotes from respectable sources, relations of her own personal life experiences, effective use of emotional appeal. She concludes by offering what she believes to be some solutions to the “problem” at hand. hooks (1994) article makes the argument that both society and media play roles in the misrepresentation

After evaluating Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng, Hear Me Now by Sophal Leng Stagg, and The Three Boxes by an unknown author. Each of these stories follow specific individuals in an environment different from their own culture and explains the difficulties and struggles they encounter. Living in a setting where you are out of place promotes an inability to acclimate therefore potentially making new people feel a loss of their cultural identity, encourages isolation, loneliness, and, in a lot of cases, prejudice. This behavior is exacerbated by xenophobia. Discrimination is a root cause of unrest for people in a cultural, class, or religious setting other than their own.

In the article, Don’t Be Hatin by Trisha Liu, the so-called America the free seems to contradict itself. “The land of Freedom and Equality...is where oppression ends” (Liu, paragraph 2). Over the years, obtaining equal rights for the citizens that were a part of America has been common. “same-sex marriage...is the newest form of hate”(Liu, paragraph 2). America has equal rights for everyone but, for some odd reason, a lot of people decide to discriminate gays.

Alexie discusses a few different aspects of life on the rez through the eyes of Junior that are explored further in other scholarly works. Alexie writes briefly about Junior’s thought process behind finding a paying job. In doing so, he explores the negative stereotypes that are engrained in his head as a product of structured oppression. “Jeez, how stupid was I? What kind of job can a reservation Indian boy get?

Textbooks are a great source of information and are a great resource when learning the basics about various topics. We depend on textbooks quite often to teach us, and we put forth a certain trust in them that they are presenting accurate and thorough information. What if I was to tell you the textbooks lie! History textbooks in matter of fact tend to leave out a lot of information, and present an American bias throughout the readings. This bias is known as American exceptionalism.

“Go Tell It on the Mountain” by James Baldwin is a loosely based autobiography about James Baldwin’s life growing up in Harlem. I found this book to be a very interesting read and I feel like I learned a lot more about the African-American culture and their ways of religion. There is a lot going out throughout the novel with many side stories and different perspectives from the different characters. Perhaps the most troubling yet prevalent story line throughout is the struggle between John and his father, Gabriel.

Anna Martin Play Marathon Paper: All The Way Hist Lit 4 29 April 2016 The Good, the Bad, and the Dirty: Power and Politics in All The Way The play All The Way by Robert Schenkkan is reminiscent of documentary style theatre, particularly the monologues of Anna Deavere Smith, because both sources take dialogue from previously recorded transcripts: Smith from interviews she conducted with members of Crown Heights, Brooklyn for her one person play Fires in the Mirror, and Schenkkan from samplings of recorded dialogue straight from phone calls made by President Lyndon Johnson.

Everyone has hard times to overcome, and Doug has gone through many. In the story “Okay for Now.” by Gary D. Schmidt, Doug went through abuse, neglect, and a lot of change. Doug’s father abuses him and hits him, everyone in Doug’s family neglects him, and he has to move constantly. Dougs whole family is falling apart and Doug’s in the middle of it all.

In the articles that I read from the book "Somebody told me" by Rick Bragg, the characters faced many different issues. Some of the issues were significant while others weren't as important but all of the issues were important. All three articles had three types of issues the people were facing. In the articles, the individuals faced struggles because of the type of people they were, because of the need to provide for their family, and because of loss of a family member.

The authors discuss branding and why it is important for news netrworks and political outrage personalities. Branding is important because it creates a trust based relationship with the « average » viewer. This idea of the « average viewer » is critical because it represents the majority of white male correspondants who dominate the industry. There is an underlying belief that these white males represent the majority and speak on issues that matter the most to those chosen group of people. These men, speak on issues that most people of this group are afraid to talk about in public, due to the fear of being labeled as ultra-conservative, racist, sexist,etc.

Society expect to be constantly entertained; they have become so concerned with things such as who the latest star is dating, scandals, or dumb people doing rather idiotic things. Much of society have been consumed in their personal instant gratification and what makes them “happy”. When on an off chance that news does show things that are serious and impactful(not necessarily positive things that is happening in the world) people have become so numb that the best they could do is feel sympathetic and at worst continue on with their day. The other part of the problem is that those behind what is being published and shown on the news media have been absorbed in their avarice nature, whatever allows them to make as much profit they do. “Writing thousands of hours of coverage from what could have been summarized in a couple of minutes every few weeks, a new rhetorical strategy was developed, or-let’s be generous-evolved”(6), Saunders describes the new formula formed by mass news firms that would yield the most profit.

Charles Baxter’s book “There’s Something I Want You to Do” is composed of ten chapter, each focussing on one of the seven deadly sins and their vices. The chapter that stood out the most to me (and what this essay will focus on) was the first chapter, titled Bravery. Besides the fact it’s main character is a doctor which is what I’m going to school for, the emotions described in this chapter were very genuine. But, before getting into the specific contents of the chapter, the idea behind the seven deadly sins must first be understood.

Fool me … shame on who? There’s a famous quote that goes “Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.” It’s attributed to a Randall Terry but we’ll never forget—and always be grateful for—George W’s mangling of it. Video below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ux3DKxxFoM

The song "Give the Love Around" by The Script displays numerous sociological concept in the context of its lyrics. The song expresses the needs to spread the love around to stop or lessen the continuum of negative things from generation to the next in a family institution. Instead of circulating negative things in the cycle the song encourages love in its place. In the beginning of the song where he says, "evil comes from the top and it spreads right round", it refers to Karl Marx 's economic structure, where the upper-class have control over the working class.