ENGL 110 SDSU Discrimination Challenges that The World Continuously Face Essay

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Essay Prompt:

  1. Have you ever been discriminated against based on your race, sex, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, ethnicity, or appearance (lookism)?
  2. Compare and contrast yourself to the people from this week’s readings, compare characters from the readings to each other, or do both. Ultimately, the essay's thesis will let me know what direction your essay will be headed. The thesis will be the road map for the entire essay.
  3. In your body paragraphs, you may want to describe an incident from one of the readings and use an in-text citation and then compare or contrast that incident to yourself. This is using a point-by-point format for completing this essay. This is the way I would do it, but this is just a suggestion. You can write in any way or structure you would like.

Requirements:

  1. This paper must be at least 4-7 pages in length or at least 1000 words. This does not include the Works Cited page.
  2. Include at least four in-text citations. At least three should come from different sources. Of these three sources, at least two of them must come from the four readings below. You may use outside sources, but, again, at least two of them must come from the assigned readings below.
  3. Follow the MLA format for heading and title. No running header is required.

    Readings:

    1. Brent Staples, "Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space" from Patterns begins on page 233.
    2. Deborah L. Rhode, "Why Looks Are the Last Bastion of Discrimination" from Patterns begins on page 239.
    3. Judith Ortiz Cofer, “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria” from Patterns begins on page 225.
    4. Angelou, Maya, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Use any of the chapters from the novel that you have read so far.
    5. Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Use any of the chapters from the novel that you have read so far.


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Surname 1
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Discrimination
Despite recent improvements in safeguarding civil liberties and fundamental freedoms,
the world has continuously faced the challenge of discrimination. Indeed, discrimination takes
different forms and is often based on factors such as race, ethnicity, and religion. However, more
recently, discrimination has been perpetrated based on issues ranging from physical appearance
to sex and sexual orientation. The inclusion of themes on discrimination has, however, remained
consistent in literature across different generations. In Brent Staples "Just Walk on By: A Black
Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space," the narrator documents numerous instances in
which racial discrimination was perpetrated against them. Similarly, Deborah Rhode's "Why
Looks Are the Last Bastion of Discrimination" explores how people can be judged based on their
physical appearance. In Judith Cofer's "The Myth of the Latina Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named
Maria," racial stereotypes against Latina women are explored. Similarly, Maya Angelou
describes her success in overcoming racism through her love for literature in her autobiography,
"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." The concept of racial discrimination is also prevalent in
Harper Lee's novel, "To Kill a Mocking bird." Ultimately, the inclusion of discrimination in
literature is consistent with practical instances of discrimination across a wide array of factors.

Surname 2
The subject of discrimination is universal and cross-cutting across different social factors.
Indeed, every human being has come under a form of discrimination at least once in their lives.
Staples admits to having experienced racial profiling as a gradua...


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