ATTA TARIQ
ASSIGNMENT#1
Friday July 17, 2020
Article #1
Five vocabulary words/ sentences:
1- Convened: means to “come or bring together for a meeting or activity; assemble”.
Big and important meetings, convened by the President of the United States of America.
2- repercussions: means “an unintended consequence occurring some time after an event or action, especially an unwelcome one”.
Covid- 19 has taken repercussions in everyone’s life these past few months, positively and negatively.
3- Reducing: “make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size”.
There was a huge mass in Sara’s liver and the doctors reduced the size of it with surgery.
4- Abandoning: “give up completely (a course of action, a practice, or a way of thinking)”.
Saras’ parents abandoned her when she was only 5 years old.
5- Demanded: “ask authoritatively or brusquely”.
My father demanded me for a glass of water.
Summary:
In the article Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish The Police, written by Mariame Kaba. The author is trying to point out to us the facts about the police and police brutality. She is trying to open our eyes and not blind us by thinking that the police are here for our safety. She states the facts about what recently has taken place the death of George Floyd. “Joe Biden wants to give police departments $300 MM” but what is the point of all this money when they are not using it on the right things. She also mentions that, “But efforts to solve police violence through liberal reforms like these have failed for nearly a century.” I agree absolutely 100% with what Mariame Kaba states in this article because she has been talking about things that have not been said. The most important thing to notice in this article, something that I found very interesting and amusing was when she said “Fewer police officers equals fewer opportunities for them to brutalize and kill people.” this really caught my attention because it is true, some police officers abuse their “power” and use it in the wrong places.
Comment: I personally enjoyed reading this article because a lot had been said which should’ve been said a long time ago. Police brutality is a huge issue in today’s society and frankly, it always has been but things get covered.
Hello Professor, I was just a little confused about the thesis because what you asked for the thesis, I mentioned in the summary.
Article #2
Five Vocabulary word/sentences:
- Embalized: Display, decorate
People wearing emblazoned t-shirts with the name of the basketball team.
- Diminished: Made smaller or less
By the passage of time pain will gradually diminish.
- Racialize: categorize or divide according to race
People need to stop making Racial comments, we all are the same. Humanity is the biggest religion.
- Diversity: varieties, range of different things
There is a diversity of underwater habitats present there.
- Caricature: a picture or description about something.
On our family vacation, I paid an artist to sketch a hilarious caricature of us.
