Aristotle’s idea about plot. Instead, we see interviews that are supposed to make up the “would-be” plot. Although they aren’t a series of events, they are still linked because each interview pertains to the riots and the opinions about racism. All are intertwined and relate to the Crown Heights riots of 1991. Aristotle’s second element pertains to character... ... middle of paper ... ...l of her make up and put on false mustache. She also needs to dress in a men’s suit. Now we can better visualize
lead fifteen different race related demonstrations, marches, and protests. Most notably, he led the march on Bensonhurst after an African-American teen was shot and killed and three others were brutally beaten. He also led a march during the Crown Heights Riots in August of 1991 and the Vieques Protests in Puerto Rico. It was there that he was arrested and jailed for ninety days at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York for protesting on a military target practice range. In 1988, Sharpton
the Mirror The language in Fires in the Mirror, by Anna Deveare Smith, is a microcosm for the way in which language creates reality in every community. In Fires in the Mirror, people from different communities in Crown Heights are interviewed on various subjects after the riot that erupted in 1991 between Jewish and Black groups, and in these interviews it is obvious that specific communities develop unique styles of language in order to unite all the members of their particular group. In several
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as well as praising him in others, thereby seeking a history that is wholly objective. In her introduction, Kemp argued that Franklin was entirely ignorant to the situation that proceeded on January 29, 1774; he knew that tensions had risen to its height, but still believed in reconciliation. In fact, Franklin had postponed his own defense for the petition of Massachusetts’ opposition against the Tea act that was scheduled to be proposed by Franklin almost a month earlier. This decision led to Franklin's