Horror

1) In the short story Why We Crave Horror Movies written by Stephen King his thesis statement was I think we're all mentally ill, really it was unique because he put it in the beginning of the story. 2) Stephen King used Jack the Ripper and Cleveland Torso in the story as reference as when we go to the movies our crazy side let's us cheer them on and accept them for what and who they are,so with that it supports his thesis because only a crazy person/people can cheer on a murderer 3) In paragraph 4 when King spoke of the films being innately conservative,even reactionary he was bascially saying we love the films but we also dont like them not to be to far fetched we would rather see action reacted instead of newnest,in paragraph 11 when he said anarchistic, and revolutionary we like all the old horror films just with a modern day twist with it. 4) The alligators represented in paragraph 12 monsters that would be hiding in a film under a trap door or something to that exstint but in paragraph 14 if we all have love we would be ok but the moment when our desire for horror occurs then that urge or gator inside of us has to fed. Mental illness is acceptable to an degree. Stephen King has some valid points because when we are watching the news and see something bad we grimace and complain on how horrible that is butmoment the same scene was in a movie we clap and cheer. Just like Jack the Ripper i never read that story but im sure it has some bad murders or something and King spoke onhow we would clap and cheer even tho they never got caught in the end. So why do we as society accept that. Like King said we all have a little mental illness.

Being Black

1)In the essay Black Men and Public Space the author Brent Staples didn't clearly state the thesis in my opinion but if it was my essay my thesis would be, even though this is the land of the free being a black male in America can still make people uncomfortable in their own space. 2) Staples first found out that people were just judging him by the way he looked when he was a graduate student going to the University of Chicago, after he learned this he was embarrassed, surprised, and in dismay. He even stated that it made him feel like an accomplice in tyranny. 3) Throughout the essay Staples only gave a couple of occasions where he was in evident danger. One of the those times was when he was working as a journalist in Chicago and he had a deadline and was mistaken for a burglar and the manager called security. The other incident happened when he was killing time before he went to get a story so he decided to stop by a jewelry store and henwent in and she(jeweler) went and got her guard dog and would not answer any of his questions. He handled the dangers by just smothering it because without that he said "it would be madness." 4) Learning from his earlier encounters Staples now take certain precautions to prevent feeling isolated, those methods are whistling Beethoven and Vivaldi and more classical composers, or if people are going into the same door he is and he is trailing he will keep going and let them go ahead in instead of coming in immediately after them. According to him(Staples) that works because the impression of a mugger, rapist, or even something more serious whistling a joyful tune doesn't seem to co-exist. Racial profiling reveals that between the human race we as a whole see each other as different species. In my eyes when we profile people we isolate a the person being profiled. We are suppose to have and high intelligence but how we treat each other I couldn't tell. I have been profiled and it shows pure ignorance, and until we rid it in our society then we will continue to have incidents like the trayvon Martin, Rodney King and like the case of William H. Parker who was gunned down even while trying to comply with police officers. In our society right now racism is on the fall but profiling is becoming more evident. After 911 the Middle Easterners are starting to get the same treatment African Americans have been receiving for years in this country. That part of the reasons our country is going backwards instead if forward. Once upon a time America the land of the free the place to be is now become a nightmare and societial joke. It goes to show the less interaction a person has with the opposite race they are more susceptible to profiling of some sort. Unless a person deal with the opposite on a daily base then all of the superstition and stero types will disappear.

In the article Friending, Ancient or otherwise the authors thesis statement was we envolved in speech we didnt envolve in writing. But I don't think the authour statement was clear because of where it was located but he did pick a side. He also to think that the socuial networks were designed to to sastify the user by being accepted and feel apart. but hte social networks don't seem to sastfy people in that way to meit seems more of boredom and it is actually stopiing people form speaking to each other in person. we spend more time involed with the social networks that people human to human contact is going down. this isnt good for the human species because we need human contact so we can further evolve. the more time we spend on social networks