In the beginning of the story dirk was asking us if he can create a country music even if it doesnāt speak on the topic that it normally speaks on? And as I continued reading he said ā but above all I hope to give you an awareness of how genres function by taking what is often quiet theoretical in the field of rhetoric and composition and making it a bit more tangibleā. As he continues to talk you can see that he is trying to make us have a deeper understanding when it comes to genres and how can people tell of it in different ways for example in the text he says ā think of genres as a way to help people get things doneā. And one more point that was made known about genre in the text is that ” Miller is saying that all genres matter because they
shape our everyday lives. And by studying the genres that we find familiar, we can start to see how specific choices that writers make result in specific actions on the part of readers; it only follows that our own
writing must too be purposefully written.”
Author: Esther (Page 7 of 10)
When I was younger I used to wonder how people die because everytime someone passed it’s always that the person was sick. And i just couldn’t understand how everyone is dying of a sickness that i don’t even know about and when i would ask my question would be brushed off. Like how does it even feel to be dead?Ā But when I was younger I also started to watch 1.000 ways to die and that instilled some sort of fear because there are so many ways to die. ThenĀ there was a sunday i went to sunday school and found out that when we die as christians if we are walking right with God we would go to heaven and then my sunday school teacher said people die many different ways but what matters is where their soul . And when she said that I gained a better understanding of death overall. The educational system didn’t really play well with my curiosity because my question wasn’t answered and death was a topic that was rarely spoken about in school. I don’t really take the fact that they didn’t answer my question to offense because it would take the teachers days to do one lesson because once they answered mine then other lids would ask their questions and it would have to be answered so it doesn’t show favoritism. As for that topic I’m no longer interested anymore because I’ve already got my answer. My interest now is how to live a happy life here on earth. Because life here on earthĀ is short and you can die any day and time.Ā I just hope that one day the educational system can create a way to make time for these kids questions can be answeredĀ
First of all what i feel like James Baldwin is making this statement to an African american child and he is letting that child know that the world is larger than he thinks and that he has the potential to make an impact in this world. No matter how the story of america is told he can still make a big impact. Because in the text Baldwin says “America is not the world and if America is going to become a nation, she must find a way ā and this child must help her to find a way to use the tremendous potential and tremendous energy which this child represents”.Ā One thing that i wished i learned when i was younger is that Racism exist and how African Americans are limited in certain things undercover because in the text Baldwin says ” Later on when you become a grocery boy or messenger and you try to enter one of those buildings a man says, āGo to the back door.ā Still later, if you
happen by some odd chance to have a friend in one of those buildings, the man says, āWhereās your package?ā Now this by no means is the core of the matter. What Iām trying to get at is that by the time the Negro child has had, effectively, almost all the doors of opportunity slammed in his face, and there are very few things he can do about it.Ā Honestly i just want to know about these topics because alot of Black kids like myself think that the Name brand stores , beautiful houses can be something that we own. These things don’t have to be seen as something that is mainly for whites. We can be our own managers. Opportunities maybe shut from us in certain ways but nothing says that we cant create our own.
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