Darren Wilson’s full grand jury testimony In reading Darren Wilson’s full grand jury testimony for the shooting of Michael Brown I found that there is a recurring theme in the way Wilson describes Brown. Wilson’s allusion of Michael Brown is…
The language utilized in the accounts of the murders of Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin, and Michael Brown reveal how African-American youths in America are dehumanized in order to justify their deaths. Fourteen year old Emmett Till is described as looking…
At first glance “What happened the night Trayvon Martin died,” seems like a unbiased straightforward news article. It accurately displays facts of a case gathered from police evidence, in a short and simple way. However careful word choice and structure…
Although the article’s title of “The shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi” seems to suggest that the author, Huie, condemns the murder of Emmet Till, the author actually humanized the killer while dehumanizing Till. One of the most obvious method in which…
A: “And when I grabbed him, the only way I can describe it is I felt like a five-year-old holding onto Hulk Hogan. Q: “Holding onto what?” A: “Hulk Hogan, that’s just how big he felt and how small I…
So I had wanted to discuss the close reading strategies in class before you did the readings for Thursday, but we were still recovering from doing all the beginning of class details. Here is the Strategies for Close Reading handout. (You…
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My name is Julie Liang. I just transferred from City College, so this is my first semester at Baruch. I am looking forward on working and getting to know everyone.
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