Unit 1
Unit 1
Readings
Getting In by Malcolm Gladwell
While it remains unclear whether or not schools other than Ivy League Colleges use similarly discriminatory and complex admission processes or whether or not there are any true benefits from attending an Ivy League College, Malcolm Gladwell shifts the way his readers think about the Ivy League admission from a treatment-effect institution to a selection-effect by connecting it to the industries of modelling and luxury-car-brand management. That is to say that the reputation and legacy of elite colleges is largely crafted by the body of students admitted to the colleges. In this way Gladwell fulfills his purpose by assuring that for many, the path to success does not need to include an Ivy League school on your resume.
Nobody Mean More to Me Than You and the Future Life of Willie Jordan by June Jordan
Through a creative and well crafted recount of the development of her class at SUNY Stony Brook, June Jordan introduces and defines Black English as well as demonstrates how it empowers Afro-Americans to be comfortable writing and taking a stand against discrimination and the dominance of Euro-centric standards of language. The recount of a college class and student Willie Jordan lays the foundation for a genre of expressing Black culture.
Papers
Pretty Please
"Although I didn’t have a fairy godmother, the three wish granters of my childhood were my mom named Jennifer, her boyfriend named Mark, and my dad named Larry."
Curing Indecision
"I speculate that deciding on a particular major is akin to puberty: you’re not sure exactly how or when it’s supposed to happen, you just know that it's supposed to happen eventually."
Script Writing
"Take texting for example. How often does a funny joke bring you to tears? Now think about how often you include a smiley face with tears of joy in a text. Because you can’t see your correspondent’s face, you have to communicate emotion differently."
The Black Chicken and the Black Egg
"Because America is a majority-wins nation and because the majority of those who have the power to determine the rules are White, Black English will likely never become popular when it comes to standardized and official communications within the United States or internationally."
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