children with tattered clothes, dirty faces, and teary eyes walk the streets with their families begging for food. That is how seventeenth century Ireland was during the potato famine. During that time period, England had control over Ireland. Jonathan Swift, an Anglo-Irish novelist, did not like how his countrymen, the English, were neglecting the famine occurring in Ireland. To express his frustration, he wrote a satirical essay proposing a solution, called “A Modest Proposal”. In “A Modest Proposal”
Street Smart Intellectualism In the essay “Hidden Intellectualism”, Gerald Graff argues that there is a possibility of some form of hidden intellectualism besides the traditional academic one. He further advocates that this form is concealed in under the mask of usual discussions about fashion, sports, pop-stars and many other aspects. I agree with Gerald Graff’s point of view because there are actually some young people who do not do well academically, yet excel in extra-curricular activities such
This essay will discuss how differences and inequalities are produced in society using material from “Making Lives” and “Ordering lives”. Differences can generally be defined as the contrasts between group of people, groups that can be based on gender,race,class.Inequalities can be described as the uneven disp?? of resources in society. First it will examine how differences and inequalities are socially produced through consumerismconsumption and the theory about the 'seduced' and 'repressed', how
awareness of the electorate (48). I completely agree with what Barbara Ascher says here. The mayor moving the homeless off of the street shows his sympathy he has for them. But, removing them from the streets also helps the people walking there every day. No one wants to be reminded that the lifestyle we live today is not guaranteed, that being on the side of the street could happen to anyone. So we remove the homeless from the everyday environment and the minds of the people passing along on the
Journal #2 How this essay (Prose) relates to me is ...by Kevin Nguyen This essay relates to me when I went to Vietnam for the first time with my family and cousin. I was really excited that we were going on a vacation to visit my parent's homeland and relatives for the first time. I was around twelve years old and did not know much about the country. The few things I heard from people and friends was Vietnam is a beautiful country and some part is dirty. Once we arrived, stepping out the plane the
What comes to mind when people think of New York would be the iconic crowded Times Square but i would think otherwise. For me, it was the street stands that was in front of the Canal Street train station or the small factory in Chinatown, which my mom worked in. This is also true in Coleson Whitehead’s essay “Colossus of New York”, in which he talked about how he came to realize his own image of New York. Whitehead also mentioned how he came to feel a sense of belonging in the city. Everyone’s perception
First Draft Firstly, to begin with this essay it is important to know the meaning of homeless, according to the Health centres funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) a homeless person is an individual without permanent housing who may live on the streets; stay in a shelter, mission, single room occupancy facilities, abandoned vehicle; or in any other non-permanent situation. Currently , there are many organizations that are trying to reduce this problem and to find a way
aid in this strangers made up crimes and I felt bad. Even now, I wonder if I had done the right thing in giving him money. Author, Barbara Lazear Ascher, in her essay, On Compassion, draws attention to the homeless in New York and how they
such as hurricanes, they were experiencing extremely high inflation rates. What really caused Floridians to go into an outrage was the fact that these rates inclined for things that were basic necessities like, ice, generators, water, hotels/motels, food, and other things of this nature. This then resulted in a law being passed that implemented a law against price gouging. In his second case, What Wounds Deserve a Purple Heart? He brings up the question of whether the army should administer purple
slaves. What would happen is they would have work quotas and find people on the street to go away and work for them. For doing absoloutly nothing except for living in the country and being in the wrong place and time they were sent to a prison it didnt matter who they would send children also. So they were sent to a horrible work just so the government could make money. Survivors from it say how they were plucked off the streets to be sent to work. That by itself should make the gulag prison camps be portrayed