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Jul 26, 2021 · In this essay, Staples describes how he has always been discriminated against for being a black journalist in a white area of work. He first realizes this as a graduate student when he takes a walk late at night and frightens a white woman who believed he was following her.
"Just Walk on By" by Brent Staples recounts his experiences of being mistaken for a criminal while walking at night in Chicago and New York due to his appearance as a young Black man. Staples...
Apr 19, 2024 · Staples narrates that one day he was on a night walk and found himself behind a white woman. The woman upon noticing a black person behind her, she began to sprint. Staples attributes this act to the generalize d perception of white people on blacks.
1. How does Staples describe himself? How is he sometimes seen by others? 2. Staples begins his essay by discussing the effect of his presence on another person. However, others’ reactions to his presence affect him in return, and he spends much of the essay explaining
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In the first paragraph, the author describes himself as " a broad six feet two inches," in other words as a fairly large man. What effect does this decision have on the rest of the essay? What would he lose if he chose not to describe himself?
In order to fully immerse himself and observe this population, Dickens the narrator removes himself from his home on his night walk, temporarily identifying with the condition he calls ‘houselessness’.
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Nov 11, 2020 · In one of these letters, the celebrated author of The Deserted Village (1770)—a poem about the brutal dispossession, in the late 18th-century English countryside, of the laboring class—describes walking about in the emptied streets of London at 2 a.m.
