Stereotypes: A Poem Summary

Instead of using prejudice or stereotypes, where negative thoughts and attitudes are created and shared, she extends it to the level of discrimination and racism. Although instead of calling it racism, she uses “eyeism”, as she is discriminating on the basis of eye color rather than skin color. She calls all white men “boy”, she interrupts them when they are talking and she talks to them like she is superior. She uses the racism, prejudice, stereotypes and discrimination black individuals have experienced for hundreds of years and turns it around on the white

Racism, along with a prevailing American ideology of individualism and limited government, helps explain why white citizens and legislators give so much support to controversial police shooters and aggressive police tactics and so little to criminal sand poor people.” (Hirschfield). Many Americans believe that police shootings are due to lack of the police officers knowledge and skill. Clearly, the shootings are due to a ongoing problem of racism in our country and not simply police skill. This could change people’s opinions around this topic because it provides the real reason why there so many shootings.

In the reading Just Walk on By by Brent Staples, the topic of racial stereotypes surfaces from the man who gets racially profiled quite often as he explains his personal experiences. The author bluntly tries to pass the message that racially judging people is wrong and explaining how it makes the other party ,african americans, feel. When analyzing Staples’ message his rhetorical strategies play a huge role into how his message is perceived. He uses influential diction allowing each word to give an impact unmatched by any white man who tried to convey a black man’s thought process. Staples also appeals to his credibility with the obvious observation that he is a black man talking about his real life experiences.

Due to such beliefs, people are discriminating against each other. So, racism is affecting almost everyone’s lives and changing their ways of seeing this world. Mainly racism generate the hate that can cause the division in between of human beings. It can even give bad thought to the people about not to believe on other people who were from the different race.

In the wake of 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Benjamin Martin an African American male from Miami Gardens, Florida, was fatally murdered by neighborhood watchman volunteer George Michael Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. Accordingly, endeavoring to change in a world of distant detachment is a continual theme vividly in “Skittles for Trayvon: A diminishing Suite In Verse” as the poem moves steadily forward. Moreover, the author Bertram personality expresses to readers that people will categorize certain ethnicities base on their reputation in the community’s, neighborhoods, and society. Ultimately, this poem warns everybody that it does not matter how active one may be around family, friends, and coworkers, some individuals will still potentially consider other ethnicities a racial threat or prey to the world. In the poem “Skittles for Trayvon: A Diminishing Suite In Verse”

Clearly, they both display a tempting scene but also a dark one (Opening Adverb). Obviously, they differ because in The Odyssey, Odysseus knows how to handle the temptation from the the Sirens, and in “Siren Song” the speaker talks about how men see the beached skulls but still let the tempation control, resulting in their death. Another example is when Odysseus explaining how the Sirens sound and he says, “The lovely voices in ardor appealing over the water made me crave to listen, and I tried to say ‘Untie me!’ to the crew, jerking my brows; but they bent steady the oars” (Homer 752-755). Also, in “Siren Song” the Siren talks about what she sings and explains, “This song/ is a cry for help: Help me!/ Only you, only you can,/ you are unique/ at last.

Introduction and thesis: The topic chosen for this essay concerns the relationship between racial profiling and sentencing. It is relevant to the course material because it concerns the ways someone is treated depending on his or her ethnic origins, and it makes it an interesting sociological and criminological phenomena. This is the reason why I chose to write on this topic, and because I find it an important issue in our society. This essay will demonstrates that visible minorities are more likely to be subjects to harsher sentencing than the majority, and more than them. Literature review: Our society is made of a majority and minorities, and it allows diversity.

I highlighted specific words and look up the meaning behind each term. Certain words like “maidenhead”, “thou”, “cloistered’, and “jet” were all terms that I was not too familiar with. I underline certain lines and annotating them that stuck out to me like, “[i]t sucked me first, and now sucks thee.” My first interpretation of this line was that “the flea” was on you and now it is on someone else. After looking up the definition of “maidenhead”, which means hymen, I started to realize that this poem was about how the author may have taken away his beloved’s virginity.

A metaphor is a figurative speech which makes an implicit or hidden comparison between twothings that are very different from each other but have a common characteristicshared between them. A metaphor emphasizes the mutualcharacteristics, without a verb such as appears and a connective such aslike,of terms that areliterally mismatched. In short, two contradicting object compared due to a single common feature. The first poem that I shall analyze is The Castaway (1799) by William Cowper.

Through the inner world of her imagination, she is able to fulfill the external world of the sea, as it is viewed by the speaker: “She was the single artificer of the world” (37), the artist and the sole creator of the world “in which she sang.” Moreover, her song alters the way the speaker perceives the natural world around him. Here, Stevens is pointing out that reality is made complete by the influence of the human mind and imagination. Much like his notion of the poet in “The Noble Rider”, sharing his own perception of reality with his readers, the singer in the poem is able to distribute her view of the external world with the speaker, through the creation and sharing of the song. Her song, her art, is a projection of her version of reality, which is separate from the external reality the speaker views at the beginning.

The Critical Race Theory was developed by a group of feminist scholars who studied the ways “racism and sexism helped to create and reinforce a power structure that historically privileged white males had over other Americans”. In the past 20 years, critical race theorists have used slave history to prove how a negative image of black women has persisted. It is the opinion of many respected scholars that the Critical Race Theory is difficult to define with simple examples. Two female scholars Derrick Bell and Darlene Clark Hine gave detailed examples to clarify their claims that race and gender played a major role in how CRT scholars were able to demonstrate why slave owners created the “jezebel” and “mammy” stereotypes. The “jezebel” was a term that implied a black female slave was a primitive creature with uncontrollable sex urges which caused innocent white slave owners to lose self-control.

Most of his examples included a reference to race as the major factor contributing to the negative effects in society. This example of poor writing that ultimately undermines Buchanan’s own points when while examining American culture from the past to the present. Buchanan argues that the changing demographics in the United States contributes to the supposedly negative aspects in our lives. He states “Today, we Americans disagree over whether annihilating 45 million babies in the womb… is a mark of progress or a monstrous national evil…” (Buchanan 599).

This shows that the Anti-Asian laws continue to pass down and practice in this generation, meaning they are being discriminate due to their physical appearance. Asian American persist to face Anti-Asian laws in different forms and methods. Instead of the laws, Anglo Saxon change it into discrimination toward minority and use stereotypes to show dominance and power. This become a major issue; it create fears among Asian American, which alter and manipulate their behavior. The fear leads Asian American to believe that their race and culture is inferior.

Pew Research Center collected information from 3,769 adults to see how they perceive race relation and the equality of minorities in today’s American society. The survey provided an accurate basis for assessing the significance of race relations. The findings illustrated in The Black and White in America shows that more must be done to alleviate the social conditions that results from the color divide. This cultural lag is one of the major sources of social disorganization. In the United States skin color is one obvious difference and it apparent in the survey.

The way that these characters think is what makes them different from society,