asignment

1. Myra V Grant
Anthony Holsten
Eng 111-50ss
05June 2009
SUMMARY
In his article “Just walk on by,” Brent Staples was conveying his reaction to white
people ‘s image of black men. This article was originally published in 1986 by Ms a
feminist’s magazine. He whole ideas was to caught the eyes of white, well dressed
woman, believing that this were the women who profile the most on young black men.
He wanted to show how deceitful it was and to give some insight on what black men are
really like. In the article, Staples used his own personal experience and observation to
state his opinion as a black man to racial profiling.
The article begins with a description of well dressed white woman walking alone down
a deserted street in Hyde Park late one evening. This was a wealthy neighborhood in the
impoverished section of Chicago. As he swung onto the avenue behind her, there
seemed to be a distant between them. The well dressed white lady began to speed up and
at one point cast back a worried glance. He could hear her begin to quicken her pace step
by step until she was in a full run and turned onto a side street to just get away. Staples
knew at that point that it is was the act of fear. She was fearful of the fact a black man
was walking down the street behind her and he was going to harm her. Far from the truth,
Staples had no intention to do so. Although that was his first encounter of racial
profiling , he would be on the lookout for profiling every interface. Now Staples take

2. precautions to make him less threatening and move about with care, particularly late in
the evening. Staples want his images as a black man to be less threatening and more as a
person to whom he is...
PARAPHRASE
In his article “The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society,” Jonathan Kozol describes how
illiteracy undermines democracy in the United States; consequently challenging their
character and the courage to address a problem which nations, poorer than our own, have
found it natural to correct.
Most people would agree that literacy is a matter of morality. Recognizing the special
danger that illiteracy would pose to basic equity in the political construction that helped
to shape. In other words, that knowledge is power, and power is the government and
when this fails tragedy looms. For an instance, most illiterate citizens seldom vote. They
cannot make informed decision based on serious print information. Even more frequently
they vote for a face, a smile, or a style, not for a mind or character or body of beliefs.
President being seated with number of illiterate adults exceeds by 16 million the entire
vote cast. Even if one third of all illiterate could read enough and do sufficient math to
vote in their self-interest the outcome of the contest may had been different. People using
democracy to prepared to countenance the forced exclusion of one third of our electorate.
Furthermore, leaving two thirds whose wealth, skin color, or parental privilege to chose
would govern us, leaving 60 million people the rights to participate from the provocation
and instruction of the written word.
If you just want to get an idea how illiterates survive from day to day, imagining you in

3. a foreign country. The language is different and none of the signs or symbols is familiar.
Everything around you looks strange and you are lost. . . You would panic. Well this
panic is not so different from the misery that millions of adult illiterates experiences each
day within the course of their routine existence in the USA. The mere fact that illiterates
cannot read is merely a handicap to everyday living to them and the people around them.
It’s an uninsured existence to the point where women were confronted with
hysterectomy merely on the facts that they couldn’t read or understand what the doctor
was having them sign for, thinking that they were having tubal ligation.
Nonetheless, the large number of illiteracy among the United States is alarming and the
solution to it is unresolved. This is a nation that we live in. A society that we did not
create but which our President and other leader have been willing sustain by virtue of
malign neglect. A nations who possess the character and courage to address a problem of
illiteracy when so many other nations, poorer than our own, have found it natural to
correct.
QUOTATION