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What Coates means by this is that there were certain rules you had to follow. Like the school didn’t want you to be curious but rather compliance. Yo had to keep up with your school work and behave in school or else they would suspend you. Thats when the streets will get to you and […] Read More …
Coates writes that “laws of school” were “aimed at something distant and vague” (p. 25). Pull together material from throughout the section of the reading to explain what precisely (and there’s more than one thing) the laws of schools were aimed at. The Place that you supposed to be a process of enlightened yourself. It’s …
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What evidence does Coates give for his assertion that the American Dream is built on the destruction of black bodies? You’ll need to pull together quotes from multiple locations in the reading to answer this question fully. I can see where he’s coming from on that front, but I think that saying that all …
Coates and his son may experience both the same and different experiences. When coates was a boy, laws in the united states were different and society had different morals. “You have some of the same acquaintance with the old rules, but they are not as essential to you as they were to me,” (Coates, pg. …
Ryan DeLuca Feb 19, 2019 ENG 123 Dr. Drown Between the World and Me – Prewriting Two The fear that Coates was exposed to while he was growing up a small boy was to prevent his from following a path of drugs and violence. His parents were afraid he would be kidnapped and killed if …
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Ryan DeLuca Feb 18th, 2019 ENG 123 Dr. Drown Between the world and me Pre-writing In class we talked about what Coates statement meant, “But race is the child of racism, not the father.” The but in the sentence refers to a sentence in the paragraph above “In this way, racism is rendered as the …
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When Coates explains the fear of his life at the 7-11 it was easy for me to understand. The boy in the ski jacket at the 7-11 wanted to state the power he had by pulling out the gun showing how easily he could of taken Coates life. The reason for that boy doing that […] Read More …
What are some of the “rules of the street” in the Baltimore of Coates’s youth? What does “toughness” mean in that context? What’s the price of toughness? How are those rules a response to the American Dream? This is a Text+Me question. One of the rules of the streets is to know who’s who and …
