Poverty Debunking

JC Murray

Mrs. Parkinson

English IIIB

12 April 2016

Poverty in America

For Lars Eighner poverty wasn’t just something he experienced, but it was what he experienced every day for years. He was able to find a way to beat poverty something that is not really heard of because most people who are in poverty are okay with it and don’t attempt to get out of it. He uses many pathos in his article to show the readers how tuff his life was during this time and what he was doing to get through it.

When being homeless you have little to no money to your name. No house. No clothes. No nothing. This can be seen in the article when he said, “Except for jeans, all my clothes came from Dumpsters” (Eighner, 713). This for one shows us that he couldn’t afford clothes so he found clothes and wasn’t letting money get in the way of being clothed and warm and it also showed him trying to appeal to our emotions through showing us how he literally could only afford pants to wear and that’s it.

Eighner touched on a point I made before about money in his article when he said, “Can scroungers, then, are people who must have - small amounts of cash. These are drug addicts and winos, mostly the latter because the amounts of cash are so small” (720). Eighner in this quote basically calls out all the people who are homeless and aren’t trying to improve their own conditions and appeals to our emotions by showing us that people who are willing to go the distance will make it out of poverty and rebound into society.

MLA Assignment #2

JC Murray

Mrs. Parkinson

English IIIB

15 March 2016

What does it mean to truly rely on someone?

Well first we look at the definition of rely. To rely on someone is to depend on with full trust or confidence. Now that seems simple enough and this question would be answered, but let’s go deeper. In Of Mice and Man we truly see a real example of what it means to truly rely on someone. This is in the case of George and Lennie. Lennie truly relies on George for everything in his life because of his handy cap he is unable to do/ think things on his own. This can be seen when George and Lennie were walking down the dirt road going to the new ranch, “’ Yeah, what ya want?’ ‘Where we goin’, George?’…’ So you forgot that awready, did you? I gotta tell you again, do I?” (Steinbeck, 2). This shows the readers a few things one that Lennie truly relies on George for the simplest things and two that George gets frustrated that Lennie is constantly asking him the same questions over and over but relies that he doesn’t know any better and relies on him.

Tableau -- Countee Cullen

JC Murray

Mrs. Parkinson

English IIIA

7 March 2016

Assistance Position

The Harlem Renaissance was one of the most liberal and most influential time periods in all of American history in terms of the people’s rights and freedoms. This can be seen in the writings of Countee Cullen, a poet from the Harlem Renaissance, whose poems depict how society was and how it was changing back in the 1930s.

One of Countee’s poems was especially telling in showing the readers of today how society was transforming back in the 1930s. The first three lines of “Tableau” show us the main focus point of the entire poem: “Locked arm in arm they cross the way / The black boy and the white, / The golden splendor of the day” (1-3). This really helps us see the transformation in society by letting us see that before these two races were completely separate, but now they are arm in arm able to come together.