...Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie warn us about the single story in “The Danger of The Single Story”. Everyone has many complex stories in their life. These stories can be about their culture, religion, race, gender, economic background or talents, but people these days are just ruining these incredible stories with stereotypes and view others with a single story. The single story is not a wrong observation about someone but is just an unfinished story that we didn’t know about that person. I still remember the “single story” that I had to deal with when my family moved to America from Vietnam in 2010. I attended a good quality middle school in Oakland, where a lot of middle school students thought an Asian immigrant student like myself was bad at English in learning and communication. Therefore, they made fun of my accent, and the way I pronounced words in English. I was motived to show them that I could get better at communication. There was more to...
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...The danger of a single story Stine Krog 2.u Risskov Gymnasium. Boom boom. The sound of drums beating. The tribal music. African people dancing. Disguised behind the music and festiveness lies hunger and despair. This is Africa. In the meantime cars are driving through a city filled with lights, technology and well-educated people. This is Africa. There are two stories of Africa represented here. One is not more truthful than the other. Some people unfortunately only define Africa by a single story. This is a topic Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie(CNA) addresses with her TED-talk “The danger of a single story.” This essay will contain an account of the phrase “The Single Story”, and an analysis of the way CNA engages the audience. It will furthermore discuss the term cultural ignorance. CNA defines the single story as a term used when individuals define other individuals by a single story. She uses her own life experience to define the phrase. She starts by explaining how “…vulnerable we are in the face of a single story.” She refers to the single story she had of Fide’s family. She had always been told how Fide’s family was poor and didn’t have anything. Therefore she was very surprised when she went to Fide’s village, and discovered that Fide’s family could actually make something. Later in CNA’s life, she went to a university in the United States and found that the people had a single story of Africa and therefore thought that she was uneducated, and not even able to use...
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...------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ‘ONCE’ – Morris Gleitzman ------------------------------------------------- Practice essay topic; Hope is critical when dealing with extraordinary circumstances. Discuss in relation to ‘Once’. Plan: STEP 1: Rewrite the topic in your own words _faith is important when dealing with amazing circumstances. Discuss in relation to ‘once’ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ STEP 2: Identify the three key words/ideas and compile a list of synonyms for them Hope faith _________: ____________________________________________________________________________________ Critical important _________: ____________________________________________________________________________________ Extraordinary amazing _________: ____________________________________________________________________________________ STEP 3: Find the specifics Quote Quote Quote Quote Topic sentence – Main idea Topic sentence – Main idea THE TASK You are required to respond to the essay topic in an extended text response essay of five paragraphs. (An introduction, 3 TEEL paragraphs and a conclusion) WRITING AN INTRODUCTION In your opening statement/s you must do two things: 1. Remember to “engage”...
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...During a 2009 TED talk titled “The Danger of a Single Story,” Nigerian immigrant Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie spoke about her perception of the world as a child and how the world perceived her as she grew older. Adichie recalls her intellectual curiosity and how it drew her to literature. This curiosity resulted in her learning to read and write at an early age. The books she read were set in Britain and America, cultures far different from what she was accustomed to. The only information Adichie had about the West sat between two covers of a book. This constrained look gave her a stereotypical perspective of life in America. When she moved to the United States, the perception that the American people had of Nigerians surprised her. As she develops her contention, Adichie walks listeners through her childhood in Nigeria, her move to the United States, and how both offered her a unique perspective on how two vastly different cultures perceived each other....
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...Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED Talk on “The danger of a single story” emphasizes the problems with a story being told from just one perspective. Due to stereotypes many misconceptions have occurred due to only one side of the story being shared. In Adichie’s speech, she uses herself as a main example. Many people in America saw Adichie as an impoverished, uneducated Nigerian woman who was lucky enough to get out of Africa and start a better life in America. This viewpoint is not the blame of the individual, but the media the individual has been exposed too. The stereotypical African person is an untrue representation that most people in America have. Learning about the world is good for becoming more diverse, but if the information shared is one sided the experience may become limited because the person learning will become misinformed on a certain culture, person, or beliefs. Adichie’s goal in her speech was to educate the viewers on the problems with only hearing one side of a situation. In her speech she gives personal examples of situations where a person has assumed Adichie is a certain way due to stereotypes the person has learned. Adichie also shares personal examples of when she has assumed something about another person due to the stereotypes she has picked up over time. Adichie explains her speech that even though the stereotypes people have of certain cultures are misrepresented sometimes, still hold truth to some extend. Again, Adichie uses personal example to back...
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...racism? First one must understand where it all begins. In the Ted Talk “The Danger of a Single Story,” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie shares her personal story to show the audience how freely one can succumb to the perils of stereotyping, without even realizing it. Tanzina Vega also illustrates this in her New York Times article “Schools’ Discipline for Girls Differs by Race and Hue,” where she reports on information from a sociological study that exposes the difference in how a girl is punished based on the shade of her skin color. Additionally Ta-Nehisi Coates’ essay “Letter to My Son” demonstrates many stereotypes as he writes a very personal piece passing on his knowledge to his 15-year-old son on several important themes including consequences from generations of stereotyping and his observations of the...
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...systems. In Steven Johnson’s essay, “The Myth of the Ant Queen,” he argues that the queen is not the leader of the ant colony, but the colony instinctively protects her from danger because it is in the colony’s best interest. In “An Elephant Crackup,” by Charles Siebert, the elephants instinctively grouped together in a herd so they could survive from extinction. In Rebecca Solnit’s essay, “The Solitary Stroller and the City,” people organized themselves to make their city successful. The absence of authority may have been a reason why successful systems were created by individuals working together. Someone who has authority is a person who exercises control over others. If one being was in charge, then everyone under him/her would only follow his/her instructions. People would not be able to think of their own plans, but instead they would follow only one plan that was given to them. Without an authority figure in control, individuals would rely on their instincts to guide them. Their instincts would unconsciously respond to their environment and adapt to it, so the individuals can create a successful system. They would instinctively merge their ideas together and a self-organizing system could emerge. The lack of an authority figure allows the opportunity for individuals to instinctively work together to build a successful system. The success of the animal species depends on their instincts to work together. The system described in Johnson’s essay is the ant colony and it is...
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...body and is essential to the proper function of these cells. In this essay, I will...
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...Essay- Crossing The short story ”Crossing” by Mark Slouka, written in 2009 is about a father and his son who is on a trip. The title of the short story is "Crossing" And this title is up to what the story is about. My interpretation of this story is that the message is to rebuild trust in relationships can be difficult. The main character tries so hard to rebuild his relationship with his son by making him trust him when the cross the river. Because it could happen that he slips on the rocks in the river, so actually the son let his life depends on a trust to his father. The main character is a man who has a young son and he were married once. The text does not tell us directly that he is divorced but there are things that leads up to the fact that he was for example, it says on page 1 line 15 “For a long time he hadn't wanted her back”. This tells us that he is separated from a woman but not that they are divorced. Another example could be when he looks at the yard page 1 line 14 “the azaleas he'd planted” This tells us that he once had lived there and planted an azaleas. Based on these facts about the man I would guess that he is around his thirties. The main character has hope for getting his son’s trust back and therefore he arranges a trip to an old barn across the river. The main character is the one who has destroyed the relationship with his wife because on page 4 line 135 is says, “My God, All his other fuckups were just preparations for this.” The main character has...
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...PEOPLE AREN’T WHO YOU BELIEVE THEM TO BE AN ESSAY OF COMPARISION “THE CHILD BY TIGER AND THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME RICHARD CONNELL AND THOMAS WOLFE AUTHORS BRUCE ALLMAN ENGLISH COMPOSITION AND LITERATURE When I read both these short stories , my initial thought was that these have Little in common. Wolfe’s story “Child by Tiger ‘ takes place in the early 20th Century , and so does Connell’s but the places where they are set are very different. Connell’s has an exotic locale and Wolfe’s in the backwoods of the United States Of America. Both stories contain manhunts complete with motivations for the hunts could not be more opposite . In “The Most Dangerous Game “ General Zaroff , the antagonist resorts to hunting humans for sport . He made this clear to the protagonist Rainsford when he said , “Hunting tigers ceased To interest me some years ago.” I have exhausted their possibilities. “No thrill left in tigers , no real threat , no real danger I live for danger “! “ He becomes an expert hunter and decides to hunt a more elevated quarry, one that can reason .. Humans. Hungering...
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...翁良權 98121232 Introduction to English Literature, Wed 34 Professor:馬健君 Paper1: Essay for the Tell-Tale Heart(題目太籠統，不要學) Oct, 21, 2009 Essay for the Tell-Tale Heart(題目太籠統，不要學) This story is described from the murderer. He talks about the process how he killed the old man. The name of The Tell-Tale Heart gives the hint for what will happen next and the heart will do something startled. Using the name can make reader interested in knowing what the story will go. In the beginning, the murderer doesn’t think he has committed the crime. And he tries to convince reader to believe what he did is right. In the story, the author describes what the murderer feels in the whole story. His mood goes from excitement to confidence to guilt and to breaking down at length. The author uses precise sentences to describe those moods for example:“Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust head in.”,“I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph.”means the murderer at that time was really exciting;“I smiled,--for what had I to fear?”, “While I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim. ”means the murderer was confident to what he did without any mistakes; “No doubt I now grew very pale; but I talked more fluently, and with a heightened voice.”,“I talked more quickly, more vehemently but the noise steadily increased.”means the murderer was guilty;“I felt that I must scream or die...
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...Yoga Shentu GERM 340 - Professor Kita 2/23/14 Word Count: 1262 Essay #1 Topic # 3 Driven by Fear- the Force that Grasps from Inside In The Sandman by E.T.A. Hoffmann, the fate of Nathaniel is closely related to eyes. In Freud’s The Uncanny, the fear of losing one’s eyes substitutes for the fear of castration. From my perspective, the castration theory lacks evidence in the literature itself. However it is the fear of losing his eyes that cumulates in and leads to Nathaniel’s madness, as is mentioned when he sees a pair of eyes taken out of Olympia, the automaton. On a deeper level, madness is also linked to his resentment of his fiancée rationality. From the second letter that Nathaniel writes to Lothar, Clara’s brother, it is obvious that he resists the kind of “philosophical response”. And Nathaniel’s reaction to Clara after reading the poem also confirms his resistance for her rational thinking. These two elements combine and push Nathaniel to his madness. Throughout the story, Nathaniel always turns anxious and aggressive at the scene where a pair of eyeballs or something relevant to eyes are in sight. As Freud mentioned in The Uncanny, “so precious an organ as the eye should be guarded by a commensurate anxiety” (140). In Nathaniel’s letter to Lothar, he explains how the bedtime story seeds the fear of losing eyes. And later his encounter with Coppelius, the old barrister, when Coppelius attempts to take Nathaniel’s eyes out, traumatizes him as a child. Losing...
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...What exactly is the “problem of evil”? What is the difference between so-called “moral evil” and so-called “natural evil”? How does John Hick, in his essay “Problem of Evil”, set about solving the problem of both “moral evil” and “natural evil”? Do you think that either, or perhaps both, of Hick’s solutions is really able to solve what appears to be an unique problem of evil which the astrophysicist priest has to deal with in Arthur C. Clarke’s story, “The Star”? Intro In John Hick’s essay, Problem of Evil, and Arthur Clark’s short story, The Star, the reader is lead to think about the evils that are prominent in this world, and the reality of God in association and contrast with that evil. The writings are deeply philosophical and require the reader to think beyond surface level thought. This paper will discuss the problem of evil and moral evil versus natural evil, as described in John Hick’s essay, and the solutions that he presents and their ability to solve the problem that Clarke outlines in The Star. Problem of Evil The “problem of evil” that will be discussed in this paper refers to a common debate in the philosophical world of thought. Hick presents the problem in very basic terms: The problem of Evil has traditionally been posed in the form of a dilemma: if God is perfectly loving, He must wish to abolish evil; and if He is all-powerful, He must be able to abolish evil. But evil exists; therefore God cannot be both omnipotent and perfectly loving. (Thought...
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...for “English Language Arts.” Being that we are in an Arts school, but one where academics must and always do come first, it is important that we approach the subject as what it is: an art form. How does one study the arts? What exactly do we do when we study drawing, sculpture, music, or dance? Well, anyone who has studied the arts will tell you that studying the arts essentially involves two things: • Learning about, and developing an awareness of and appreciation for, existing works of art in that particular form; • Developing the skills and techniques associated with the art form, in order to create our own works. In the case of language arts, much like any other art form, we will be studying existing works of art (i.e., reading books, stories and poems), and developing the skills to produce our own (i.e., writing). That’s what English Language Arts is. We will also be preparing ourselves for New York State’s Regents Comprehensive Examination in English, which we’ll all be taking in June. This two-day, six-hour, four-part exam requires no specific knowledge or content, but it does require the skills to listen, read, understand, respond, interpret, analyze, and of course, write. Everything we do in class is designed to develop those skills, and prepare your for that exam. So, So what does that mean to you, the student? It means we’re going to do a lot of reading, a lot of writing, and most importantly, a lot of thinking. See, when you reach high school, particularly the upper grades...
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...Elijah Bowie Allen Williams ENG 110-01 19 September 2014 Making it in America Adam Davidson, broadcast and print journalist, and a specialist in major economic trends argues in his essay “Making It In America”, first published in 2012, that the industrial shift has created opportunities for some workers while eliminating opportunities for many others. Davidson has pieced together an emotionally compelling article however he does not use any form of citation he instead bases his argument solely off of opinions and stories, particularly the story of Madelyn, and the organization of the article is long winded and could sidetrack the reader. Davidson introduces his main point by means of means of discussing, Madelyn “Maddie” Parlier, a young adult single mom of two kids who finds herself struggling with economic issues while working at the Greenville Standard Motor Products’. While conversing with Maddie she states she's “noticed that robotic arms and other machines seem to keep replacing people on the factory floor and is worried that this could happen to her” (Davidson 318). From here Davidson gives us a “statistic”: Depending on which stats you believe, the United States is either the No. 1 or No. 2 manufacturer in the world. Whatever the country’s current rank, its manufacturing output continues to grow strongly, in the past decade alone, output from American factories, adjusted for inflation, has risen by means of a third. Yet the success of American manufacturers...
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