Nguyen Diep
6/1/2016 08:37:12 am
The article, "Why I Write", by Ellis Cose implies that experience will lead you to your path. Ellis uses flashback to convey his/her experience like when he/she talked about a sniper assault happening and a explosion happening near. It shows the things he/she had experience so it led to his/her path as a writer. The use of flashback let the readers understand why he became a writer. Therefor Ellis believes that experience will lead to your path.
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raniyah williams
6/1/2016 08:44:10 am
why i write written by Ellis Cose is a good descriptive article on how different communities are divided by color. In chicago racesim was very high and alive. shootings, killings, police brutality and etc. was all a major factor during the time of the article. Him going through all he did growing up as a child made him stronger and more wiser which lead him to start writting.He will forever remember where he came from.
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Jerome Kanda
6/1/2016 12:10:51 pm
I believe he used his environment to for a good cause instead of fighting with ignorance.
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Janigha
6/2/2016 07:26:32 am
I agree with your comment Jerome, because even though there was chaos around him, he used it to find himself.
Verolinka Slawon
6/1/2016 10:45:15 pm
This is not a thoughtful paragraph. Check your grammar and your capitalization.
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Daquon Pennewell
6/1/2016 08:45:01 am
The overall theme of "Why I Write" is that cultural differences and racial dividend between blacks and whites can influence ordinary people to spread their knowledge and strive for better no matter what environment they come from. The author, Ellis Cose is a writer who grew up in a bad neighborhood in the west side of Chicago where there was violence involving political differences amongst police and the African American citizens in the area. There was 2,500 policemen thinking that they had to control 300,000 people who are not even dangerous. All of the conflict that the author went through was the topic of the articles that he created, making his work even better and more interesting.
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eric cash
6/2/2016 10:57:33 am
i agree with on blacks and whites can spread their knowledge to ordinary people to get them to change their ways and perspectives specially if your coming from where "Ellis Cose" the writer grew up.
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eric cash
6/2/2016 11:34:37 am
The overall theme of "Why I Write" , by Ellis Cose reveals that ellis cose grew up in a hard place at the time were things start to get ugly with blacks and police brutality. Although while that was going on at the time he began to write what he felt,seen and experience throughout his life in Chicago. I feel as "Ellis Cose" is saying that just because I'm from the "hood" that I'm ignorant, unintelligent nor violent, it's just shows us that we been though a lot or going through a lot and they perceive our neighborhood as a "jungle" which we're not animals living at here treated different. The overall theme is that no matter where your from, your race, we should be treated like everyone is equal because i believe segregation still upon us.
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Linda Cruz-Sandoval
6/1/2016 12:06:32 pm
The article, "Why I Write", by Ellis Cose implies that racial difference between black people and white people can change the way other people spread and learn how to live in a community they come from. During the article, Core the author is growing up in a bad community and explains how it influences him while growing up. His experience during his childhood makes him become a better writer and the person he is now. The differences in the community like having riots and his building being torn downs tell us that he had to live a certain way and learn a certain way than other people. It had a lot of impact on him while growing up. He uses a lot of flashback when telling his story, always connecting with his past. Meaning that it has a significant amount of importance in his life.
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Aaron Kwahmie
6/1/2016 03:01:03 pm
Yep. Cose was trying to say that because of color in today's society, people are being discriminated against. If you are a color person, you have hard times growing up and also goes to school that have no essentials materials for learning and live in a bad environment.
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Arianna Culbreth
6/1/2016 12:07:05 pm
In the article "Why I Write" by Ellis Cose was written to tell his story on living in a Chicago neighborhood where there were mainly African American living there. He's having a flashback from when he was much younger and witness what the police was doing to his neighborhood. He went to an all boys school that wasn't really diverse, his city was divided by color. At the end of this article he tells the readers how they tore down the old housing and built new housing for the community.
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Verolinka Slawon
6/1/2016 10:50:05 pm
So what is the overall message? I agree with everything you stated but you didn't tell us what the theme is.
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6/1/2016 12:07:48 pm
The Article, "Why I Write" by Ellis Cose talks about how people in certain neighborhoods are being treated because of racism. He didn't like the way his neighborhood was being portray in the news papers. He said he writes because of what he saw during the riot. In the passage, he said "I ponder why if was my city, my world, was so divided by color", this shows how he felt after the place he love and grew up was destroy. He also used imagery and flashbacks to describe the scene of his neighborhood after the riot. The author was trying to say that people shouldn't be treated differently because of what they looks like, color, or the way that they speaks. Everyone should be able to live equally, fairly, and happily.
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Shia Neal
6/1/2016 12:08:51 pm
The theme in the article "Why I Write" is that you go through everything for a reason, no matter how bad it could be at the time it could help you in the future. The author was talking about how riots and people getting killed in his city and how it hurt him. He was going through a lot with the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and explosion and riots was happening where he lived at a young age. All this drove him to write a paper on race and riots in America this paper came out to be more than 100 pages. He met with a poet named Brooks and joined her writers group. He got better and better and applied to the sun-times and he got it. At the age of 19 while still in college he got an op-ed column in the newspaper. This shows even if you go through the worst in life that something will come out of it everything happens for a reason. If this author didn't experience the riots the shooting the explosion in his life he wouldn't be the man he is today.
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Rakeem Harrell
6/1/2016 12:09:16 pm
The article "Why I Write", by Ellis Cose, elucidates the reason why the author began writing. The author witnessed many horrors throughout their life, and those horrors, such as racism, murder, police brutality, and segregation, inspired him to write. Cose also witnessed fires, the Explosion of '68, and riots that were caused by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Cose questioned how the world works, and how other people think. When he attended Lane Technical High School, he wrote a paper about race and riots which then evolved into an 100 page manuscript. His teacher, Ms. Helen Klinger, helped him by suggesting to send his work to a poet laureate. Gwendolyn Brooks, the laureate, invited him to a writers group, where he focused on being a writer. Cose then went to college, and then began to find interest in journalism. At the age of 19, he began to write for the Sun-Times. This opportunity was his big break, which set him on a new life course.
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Janigha
6/2/2016 07:29:51 am
I understand that you wrote a summary of the story, but what was your point in doing so? What was the theme?
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Jerome Kanda
6/1/2016 12:09:23 pm
The article, "Why I Write", by Ellis Cose showed how the author used his situation as a steppingstone for his career path, being fed up with the way media perceived his neighborhood due to the mistake of one individual, sparked his interest in becoming a journalist. My interpretation of the this was that your environment can either make you or break yo, based on how your mind works. Instead of reacting with ignorance about the way media perceived his neighbor hood as a ,"Jungle", he chose to take the positive road on the topic and ended up making it his career.
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Aaron Kwahmie
6/1/2016 03:05:01 pm
Wow, well put bro. I like the way you got right the main point and you are right, the environment that we live in can either break us or make us. Good job.
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Janigha young
6/1/2016 12:09:37 pm
The article,"Why i write",by Ellis Cose, insinuates that when something goes wrong it does not always means failure.It may mean your success. Cose uses tone and mood to convey his attitude toward racism in the world. In paragraph 4, it says, "I pondered why it was that my city,my world, was so divided by color." We can see that the author has strong feelings toward the riots about racism that is going on in the world. However there is a shift in attitude, while the author sees everyone in distress, he shows his true talent by writing about what he sees and feels. For example, he says,"My obsession with such matters has led me to write a paper on race and riots in America". Cose later on in life grew up to be an amazing writer. He did not let be chaos cripple him, but he let it strengthen him. He became a writer. Something he did not know about until all the chaos.
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Areanna Townsend
6/1/2016 12:09:58 pm
The article, "Why I Write", by Ellis Cose explains that sometimes what you've been through can effect or lead you to where you're going. In the article Ellis speaks on his environment growing up and also what he's known. He talks about the harsh reality of his community living in housing projects where danger was familiar. Ellis used flashback to illustrate the idea that through unfortunate situations can come a beautiful outcome. Ellis Cose was able to exceed the limit of his environment and reach goals bigger than himself.
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Verolinka W Slawon
6/1/2016 12:10:12 pm
The article, "Why I Write" by Ellis Cose elucidates the reason why the 60s were so different. Ellis uses flashbacks to convey his point of why the 60s changes over night. In the first paragraph, he start by expressing the awful action that was occurring outside his home in Chicago. In paragraph 6, the author described how news reporter, view his community has a violent, chaotic and a dark world, that is forbidden for white people to pass through there. He talks about how police officers uses water to get people of the street during a riot. The author saw what was going on around his environment, and to his people so he decided to take action and write the truth. He was tired of the way, people was divided by colors and some were treated importantly than others. With the paper that he wrote, got him a better job. The theme of this article is that when you take action for the right reasons, you might just get a reward. The best way to stop what is going on around us, is to do something about it.
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Robert Hardmon
6/1/2016 12:12:05 pm
The overall theme of the passage is that even though you go through something hard or traumatizing in life you can always find something positive from it. In the passage by Ellis Cose she lived through some traumatizing moments such as when Cose said "As my parents brothers and sisters and I sat huddled away from the windows, listening in horror to the gunshots and screams, I knew that something huger was happening outside and the world I thought I knew was about to change." Even though Cose went through this she still wanted to write. Cose shows this when she says "the more I read, the more convinced I became that I had something to contribute." This shows Cose would not let some thing hard stop her from doing she likes to do.
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Kevin Vasquez
6/2/2016 12:47:18 am
I agree, people should not let fear change their mind. Cose did well by not letting anything stand in the way. Some things are harder to overcome but it is possible as long as you don't let it bring you down.
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Shabir Tajik
6/1/2016 12:12:12 pm
In this article Ellis cose trying to tell the story about his past, he share his experience when he was a kid and he was live in west Chicago In July 1966, he talk about the snipers when he was a kid he saw a sort of fight between 100 policemen and snipers near the two buildings where he was live. The author of this article also talk about his neighborhood, and he talk about the education and school system as well. He also talk about the race and color and he he share his overall experience how he became writer, he said that i wrote a paper on race and his teacher Helen klinger, told him that you can become a writer.
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Nathalie Gutierrez
6/1/2016 11:59:09 pm
I agree with this statement race is that that important it was really true.
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Julio Campos
6/1/2016 07:07:58 pm
In the article 'Why I write' by Ellis Cose, the author imagery and flashback to prove that dreams can be reality no matter what circumstance. Starting in the first paragraph, Cose begins by describing events that shaped not only his childhood, but the history of our nation. The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was met with an expected response of restless violence. Protesters in Chicago were met with the full force of the Chicago Police Department. Just two years prior, Cose witnessed his same neighborhood plauged by another civilian on police skirmish that was a result of a dispute between Police and sun scortched residents over a fire hydrant. The images would be imbedded in his mind for ever, he wondered by things were so Black and White, literally. His curiosity cultivated his passion for writing, as he despised the way the media would depict his home; a junge in which no white man was welcome. What was once a paper on race relations turned into a hundred page manuscript. His English teacher encouraged him to send his work to Gwendolyn Brooks, a revered writer in the community. She in turn would encourage him to become a writer. He would go on to write for a tabloid that very well have been one of those that slighted his community, a feat not common at the time.
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Kevin Vasquez
6/2/2016 12:54:14 am
I agree, Dreams can become a reality as long as you don't quit. There will always be obstacles along the way but one must learn to get through them. Some dreams take longer than others but as long as you don't stop reaching for those dreams it will be possible to accomplish them.
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Samson Nah
6/1/2016 09:39:19 pm
Why I write " by Ellis Cose, in this article he talks about how people are divided by their colors. And also he is trying to tell us about his past story when he live in Chicago as a boy growing up, in the middle of the first paragraph it said that as my parents, my brothers and sisters I sat huddled away from the windows listening in horror to the gunshots and screams, I know that something huge was happening outside and that the world I thought I knew was about to change.the message of this story is that no matter what the situation is you can become who you want to be in life.
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Nathalie Gutierrez
6/1/2016 11:58:29 pm
I agree to this statement and it was based by story
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Cristhian epitacio
6/1/2016 10:46:33 pm
In the article "why I write" by Ellis Cose, the author used flashbacks to really show the meaning that racial segregation is still happening. Cose explains how in her childhood, she will have to go from a all-black community to a virtually all white one. The incident with Martin Luther King Jr. is just one of the memories that will be stuck on cose mind for the rest of her life. All those people dying and being scared of death will be with her at all time. The news will portrayed things in many different things. For example the same story has different title for two different news. They just want you to see some or half of the real story but no the complete one. I feel like society today does not have the same values as before. Segregation will still happened around the world even though we try our hardest to stop it.
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Justin
6/1/2016 11:05:32 pm
In the article " Why I write", by Ellis cose it all explains how he came upon his career path. Being that he couldn't do anything to express his feelings physically, he decided to use paper and express them there. Doing that he became a very famous writer . He uses flashback to let the reader go back and understand his past struggles growing up as a kid and being a child of color. With all the obstacles and barriers, he still managed to be very diligent and move forward. These tough times have opened up a talent for him that was unknown. There's always a good result in a bad situation .
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Kevin Vasquez
6/1/2016 11:47:41 pm
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Nathalie Gutierrez
6/1/2016 11:57:15 pm
This article "why I write" by Ellis Cose it all explains about his career path. Didn't know how to express his feelings effectively. Becoming a very famous writer. He uses flashback to go back and relive his memories and understand his past struggles growing up as a kid of color. All of these lessons made him managed himself and moving on and moving forward with his life. There's always a way to fix a bad situation but in a positive note.
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Philip McReed
6/2/2016 01:02:55 am
The article, "Why I Write", by Ellis Cose explained how the author was being fed up with the way media recognized his neighborhood due to the mistake of one person, And became interested in becoming a journalist. My Opinion of this was that your environment can tell your story or you can tell it yourself, based on how society works. As if saying if you where born in the hood then you can be just as smart as someone coming from the god side of town and him facing obstacles due to their darker color and he uses flashbacks to connect with his past. However Instead of reacting with violence or ignorance what about the way media called his neighbor hood as a ,"Jungle", the overall theme is people should be able to live an equal lifestyle and always doing the positive even in a negative situation .
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Giang Dao
6/2/2016 11:10:24 pm
The article, "Why I Write", by Ellis Cose is about the white people and black people can learn and change each other in how the live in a community. Ellis Cose tell us the story about his life when he lived in Chicago, and what the police was doing to his neighborhood, and I think the theme of this story is "It's not the color of your skin, it's the way people treat you that matters".
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