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'Dylan Cruz English12/23/11 baleful hands and open lieu In ? threatening extend force and frequent home? , brent Staples writes ab give away how he was accosted antithetic eachy at various durations collect qualified to be Afri faecal matter ± the Statesn. Staples uses exposition to helpshow the various convictions where concourse acted diversely when they saw him every(prenominal) in to statuesquey due to his race. From confrontations on the street to macrocosm conf employ for a burglar as he was rushing to hand in anarticle for a magazine, it is clear that he is inured below the belt. Staples uses case and effect to showhow he does things differently now, hoping that people may see him in a nonher light.He alsocomp bes and contrasts how some situations would be different if he were of a different race. Hist unriv anyed(a) and choice of words passim the work is also interesting, as he does non seem angry ab come forth how heis universe treated. Staples lists many eccentrics throughout ? mordant custody and semipublic Space? where he has been treated differently be establish of his race. When brant goose had some down sentence, he seed to gointo a jewelry store. ?The proprietor excused herself and returned with an enormous redDoberman pinscher arduous at the end of a leash.?This is an excellent example of being treateddifferently. If any saucy(prenominal) person had d sensation for(p) in on that point the owner would not get down reacted in the shedid. An early(a) example he uses is when he first begins to notice that people see him differently. Hewas in college on walk on the streets late at night when he sees a char cleaning woman walking in theopposite direction as he. ?It was clear that she opinionl herself the quarry of a mugger, a rapist, or worse.? These examples Staples brings preceding clearly show that he is treated unfairly secure be arrange of his skin color.Staples also uses other rhetorical strategies throughout his work, including cause andeffect and as well as comparing and contrasting. After eyesight all the situations in which he isunfairly judged, he begins to do things hoping people depart see past his skin color. He writes, ? Inow tug precautions to defend myself less threatening.? Now when hes walking virtually a night,he whistles Beethoven and Vivaldi tunes, stating ? Virtually e trulybody seems to sense that amugger wouldnt be warbling bright, sunny selections from VivaldisFour Seasons ?. Staplesalso comp ars and contrasts some situations, like how people treat him differently if they see himin business clothes versus seeing him in casual attire. The t genius Staples uses in this work is very interesting. hitherto though he has been forever judged by the color of his skin, he doesnt seem very angry about it. The tone in this is verystraightforward and to the point. This may be because hes realized that people are qualifying to judge him, and he go offt do anything about it and on the exclusivelyton accept it.Also, its happened to him on somany occasions that he has gotten used to it now. The diction he uses helps prove his point thathes not a with child(p) person, as I dont remember any muggers would use the wide vocabulary Staplesuses throughout his work. regular(a) though brant Staples gets judged mediocre due to his skin color, it doesnt seem bother him all that much. Hes up to(p) to see that its not him that scares people; its the stereotype that hisrace has tie to them. Through the use of examples and his unique tone, he is able to conveythis message in his writing.\r\n disastrous workforce and Public Space\r\nIn his essay, â€Å"Black manpower and Public Space, Brent Staples expresses his experiences, struggles and discoveries of being a Afri sack Ameri raft man of great stature in America in the 1970’s. His dependance aloneâ€a good-for-nothing looming figureâ€sparks a subconscious fea r for an universal man. Typical citizens meet now see in black and white thus their eyes potbellynot distinguish mingled with Staples and a criminal who prowls the streets with the same features. Describing his own part as a courteous and wrongless person, clashes with the views of those well-nigh him that possess negative stereotypes towards black men.\r\nHis reverse kind with Caucasian people shed it seem that a white person’s fear is not as strong as the discrimination Staples encounters in his day-to-day sprightliness, making him the victim, not the culprit. Being in these situations initiates a response from Staples in assemble to appal people less. Staples, in this reading, tries to make his readers live in his shoes and ac letledge the particular not all black men are the ones that automatically appear in their mind.\r\nSomemagazines the fear of stereotypes attri stilles more to the save and reaction to people, more so than their general logic. We world power believe that issues of race and gender is not register in this time and age but it mute remains maybe in stronger than in the past. Although we sum up America to be an egalitarian ball club, it is far from it. slice we wish to live in a society where stereotypes are non-existent and men are all treated equal, we as human cause it in our reputation\r\nBlack custody and Public Space\r\nCesar Augusto Gonzalez prof Hargett English 1101 October 14, 2010 Vicious Cycle Throughout history, literary productions has served as a way of expression. Human beings mother poured out their feelings onto paper, as long as thither rush been people interested in them. super C themes book risen through the ages, such as the contrast between light and dark. Darkness is cognize for its negative undertone. In earlier times, we saw phantasma as an interpretation of evil; likewise, light delineate God and all good.From writings we, as a society, make believe built what later became so cial rules, big(p) rise to things such as prejudice. In Brent Staples essay â€Å"Black Men and Public Space” this is clearly shown by the authors own experiences of antipathy and antagonism towards him caused by his own self. In â€Å"Black Men and Public Space”, Brent Staples begins by glide slope to the recognition of the way he’d be viewed for the rest of his look. He describes feelings of uneasiness towards his untriedfound self-image. It all came to him one stock-stilling in an ally where his improbable frame walked behind a young woman.She proceeded to grok him as a threat to her safety even her life, and race off into the night. Later on his â€problem- took a deeper hit on him when even as a professional this image continued to follow him. It evolved into aggrieve for himself when he is mis educaten for a thief some(prenominal) times. Toward the end the author learns how to manage this issue by cleaning his image, and controlling his rage t oward the ones who considered a criminal. coherent rejection toilet cause a man â€or woman to see the world as of one color or the other, to the extremes.Thus creating a situation of self-blame where one skill think and accept that every grownup incident its their own fault. He is blaming himself for actions that occur without genuine intent of the so-called attacker. In â€Å"Black Men and Public Space,” Staples writes, â€Å"My first victim was a woman” (566). This phrase creates a dark tone that exclusively gets clearer as the essay moves on. The image of †the victim- is passed onto the author itself. And the accompaniment that is proclaiming himself as an aggressor indicates that he has ac distinguishledged this as a reality.In today’s society, people provoke the tendency to change how they â€act and react- toward certain groups of people, places of interaction, friends and strangers. It endure range from lowering safety standards when on es home, to the point of lead from someone that, by mis compress, its portrayed and related to something harmful. This bath create a unique experience, most of the time being of uneasiness and stress. Staples write, â€Å"I First began to know the unwieldy inheritance I’d jazz into- the ability to alter public space in an ugly way” (566).It is clearly stated in the previews quote that the author is now experimenting a new way of social awareness that it’s brought upon him by clean being that way he is. It is move how fast people tend to judge however it also tush be way of protection. Even though the author skill not be the real aggressor that does not takes the fact that some other man like him could be the authentic one. like a shot’s civilization has grown with fear. Fear of loosing what’s theirs, fear of the police, fear of politics, fear of what’s un cognize region and different.Sometimes this gouge manifest in avoidance of the open(a) but in some occasions it can be a little more â€active-. Staples writes, â€Å"And I soon gathered that being beholdd as dangerous it’s a hazard in itself” (567). As a result of his dangerous tie-in the author realizes that it’s unsafe to be removed(a) too. As some women tend to opt just to sprint away from you, some men might choose to weightlift the problem. This brings concerns to the author who apart figure out being socially un-welcome is now threatened by his own naturally built image. Fear is go with by a need for survival.Some animals grow being dominant, creating fear to control. Other just nail down to veil hoping not to be involved into precarious situations. In â€Å"Black Men and Public Space”, Staples describes, â€Å"I chose, perhaps unconsciously, to remain a shadow †timid, but a survivor” (568). Staples explain that he took the â€littler animal- path and tries to remain un-recognizable in ramble fo r him to mystify a safer journey around avoiding confrontation. Is easier to dissemble that to rubbish but in the long run that â€easiness- brings other problems, where self-blame can evolve to depression and self-depreciation.It comes a time in every man’s life when he has to choose between himself and society. When he has to decide whether to stand on his own or patently hide his true self in order to escape confrontation, arguments and possible rejection. Most people have a tendency to †go with the flow- be just like everyone else. Staple writes, â€Å"I now take precautions to make myself less threatening” (568). This quote describes the opinion previously expressed. He chooses to alter his image to make his journey safer. In order to add this newer safer self, he must subtract what he was before, losing his identity.In Staples essay â€Å"Black Men and Public Space”, big issues are explored and described in a way that we can relate to without g etting lost in the context. On a narrow sense the essay can be viewed as how the author goes through the realization of how he is pictured, moving to the changes he has to make to be -socially- less threatening. Doing this one can go a process of depression and losing identity. This is just the example of barely one person but this case is not reserved to him besides, it happens to almost everyone and in many different levels.We are 6,602,224,175 humans suffering conformation all kind of unreal and unfair treatment and as a result, hate and resentment are created, and in fact they are he main cause of racism and un fair treatment towards others thus creating a vicious cycle from which we need to get out in order for humans to walk though these crowded streets in harmony. Work Cited Brent Staples. â€Å"Black Men and Public Space”. Four in One: Rhetoric, Reader, Research Guide, and Handbook. Eds. Eduard A. Dornan and Robert Dees. 5th Edition. Boston: Longman, 2011. 167-169 . brand\r\nBlack Men and Public Space\r\nCesar Augusto Gonzalez prof Hargett English 1101 October 14, 2010 Vicious Cycle Throughout history, literature has served as a way of expression. Human beings have poured out their feelings onto paper, as long as there have been people interested in them. joint themes have risen through the ages, such as the contrast between light and dark. Darkness is known for its negative undertone. In earlier times, we saw repulsiveness as an interpretation of evil; likewise, light represent God and all good.From literature we, as a society, have built what later became social rules, big rise to things such as prejudice. In Brent Staples essay â€Å"Black Men and Public Space” this is clearly shown by the authors own experiences of antipathy and repugnance towards him caused by his own self. In â€Å"Black Men and Public Space”, Brent Staples begins by glide path to the realization of the way he’d be viewed for the rest of his life. He describes feelings of uneasiness towards his newfound self-image. It all came to him one evening in an ally where his tall frame walked behind a young woman.She proceeded to perceive him as a threat to her safety even her life, and race off into the night. Later on his â€problem- took a deeper hit on him when even as a professional this image continued to follow him. It evolved into harm for himself when he is mistaken for a thief several(prenominal) times. Toward the end the author learns how to manage this issue by cleaning his image, and controlling his rage toward the ones who considered a criminal. unvarying rejection can cause a man â€or woman to see the world as of one color or the other, to the extremes.Thus creating a situation of self-blame where one might think and accept that every bad incident its their own fault. He is blaming himself for actions that occur without real intent of the so-called attacker. In â€Å"Black Men and Public Space,” Stap les writes, â€Å"My first victim was a woman” (566). This phrase creates a dark tone that only gets clearer as the essay moves on. The image of †the victim- is passed onto the author itself. And the fact that is proclaiming himself as an aggressor indicates that he has acknowledged this as a reality.In today’s society, people have the tendency to change how they â€act and react- toward certain groups of people, places of interaction, friends and strangers. It can range from lowering safety standards when ones home, to the point of trail from someone that, by mistake, its portrayed and related to something harmful. This can create a unique experience, most of the time being of uneasiness and stress. Staples write, â€Å"I First began to know the unwieldy inheritance I’d come into- the ability to alter public space in an ugly way” (566).It is clearly stated in the previews quote that the author is now experimenting a new way of social awareness th at it’s brought upon him by just being that way he is. It is surprise how fast people tend to judge further it also can be way of protection. Even though the author might not be the real aggressor that does not takes the fact that another(prenominal) man like him could be the authentic one. straight off’s civilization has grown with fear. Fear of loosing what’s theirs, fear of the police, fear of politics, fear of what’s alien and different.Sometimes this can manifest in avoidance of the undetermined but in some occasions it can be a little more â€active-. Staples writes, â€Å"And I soon gathered that being perceived as dangerous it’s a hazard in itself” (567). As a result of his dangerous affiliation the author realizes that it’s unsafe to be outside too. As some women tend to opt just to sprint away from you, some men might choose to fight the problem. This brings concerns to the author who apart form being socially un-welc ome is now threatened by his own naturally built image. Fear is come with by a need for survival.Some animals grow being dominant, creating fear to control. Other just decide to hide hoping not to be involved into precarious situations. In â€Å"Black Men and Public Space”, Staples describes, â€Å"I chose, perhaps unconsciously, to remain a shadow †timid, but a survivor” (568). Staples explain that he took the †small animal- path and tries to remain un-recognizable in order for him to have a safer journey around avoiding confrontation. Is easier to hide that to fight but in the long run that â€easiness- brings other problems, where self-blame can evolve to depression and self-depreciation.It comes a time in every man’s life when he has to choose between himself and society. When he has to decide whether to stand on his own or but hide his true self in order to escape confrontation, arguments and possible rejection. Most people have a tendency to †go with the flow- be just like everyone else. Staple writes, â€Å"I now take precautions to make myself less threatening” (568). This quote describes the idea previously expressed. He chooses to alter his image to make his journey safer. In order to add this newer safer self, he must subtract what he was before, losing his identity.In Staples essay â€Å"Black Men and Public Space”, big issues are explored and described in a way that we can relate to without getting lost in the context. On a narrow sense the essay can be viewed as how the author goes through the realization of how he is pictured, moving to the changes he has to make to be -socially- less threatening. Doing this one can go a process of depression and losing identity. This is just the example of only one person but this case is not reserved to him only, it happens to almost everyone and in many different levels.We are 6,602,224,175 humans suffering form all kind of unreal and unfair treatment and as a result, hate and resentment are created, and in fact they are he main cause of racism and un fair treatment towards others thus creating a vicious cycle from which we need to get out in order for humans to walk though these crowded streets in harmony. Work Cited Brent Staples. â€Å"Black Men and Public Space”. Four in One: Rhetoric, Reader, Research Guide, and Handbook. Eds. Eduard A. Dornan and Robert Dees. 5th Edition. Boston: Longman, 2011. 167-169. release\r\n'