Paper Two Greshki

GNED 102

Dr. Fike

  1. Being that I am an African-American, I have seen the first hand physical and mental effects of prejudice at a very young age. (Identify 3 errors in this sentence.)
  1. The ingroup is not the total blame for what the outgroups have went through because some just give into the situation. (3 errors)
  1. Each person’s beliefs and characteristics are created based on who they are around. (2 errors)
  1. As girls get use to the concept of having others, they eventually stop playing with the Barbie doll…. (1 error)
  1. This dependency carries over with some girls into a relationship with a boy. The boy is seen as the protector…. (2 errors)
  1. I feel Emerson maybe a little extreme on what being self-reliant is. (2 errors)
  1. Let us take basketball for instance, say your coach is teaching you how to dribble a basketball. (2 errors)
  1. It is taken to far when vulgar language and disturbing sexual content is taken into songs that will be heard in CD’s and in movies. (2 errors)
  1. Half of my face is black, rich, beautiful, full of pride, strength and resilience-the Negro side; and the other half, the side which gives me freedom and is the narrow and shaky bridge that connects us to the rest of civilization. (3 errors)
  1. But on the other hand, it has been suggested that the American Negro are at least partly responsible for their own situation. (3 errors)
  1. Mr. Dubois’s essay is correct in its context relating to the era, however beliefs have changed dramatically over the past fifty years. (3 errors)
  1. This states that females are programmed genetically to be the sympathetic caretaker and males as the competitive provider. (1 error)
  1. Girls, mostly, begin the struggle of finding their identity around this age…. (1 error)
  1. Verbal abuse hurts ten times more than a punch, because the fact that you are punched does not stick in your mind it is the “you’re fat” or “your stupid” that does. (3 errors)
  1. Now your probably wondering what he had said that was so horrible well, he told me that I was stupid because I did not know who some person in the bible was and what they had said in some passage. (4 errors)
  1. I interviewed an African American male that I used to go to school with and asked him did he think African Americans could be successful in the world or did the Caucasians hold them back. (at least 2 errors)
  1. We had our choice to either do two jumps at one point or a standing back tuck. (1 error)
  1. I was one of the many to experience the off-putting side of favoritism and hopefully I will be able to carry my lessons from this experience throughout the rest of my life. (2 errors)
  1. Referring back to education, some blacks were not fortunate enough to attend school. (1 error)
  1. Any black American that believes they are being oppressed by a white man’s world is ignorant. (3 errors)
  1. Girls on the other hand, have been known to participate in more passive, intimate pastimes; which tend to develop within them greater sensitivity and understanding. (3 errors)
  1. The childhood of the blacks have a direct affect on the success of the black sprinters. (2 errors)
  1. Fulfilling this naïve need to be liked actually creates more stress in our lives. You must cover or change what you truly believe to fit what society believes or wants you to believe. (at least 1 error)
  1. Being apart of a boys team, I noticed a lot of things. (2 errors)
  1. A person who can live amongst conformity but not conform. (at least 1 error)
  1. This concept of duty over desire is the reason why Emerson would support Paul’s decision to return to the war. By returning to the war with his new found freedom, Paul would have truly been spiritually isolated. (2 errors)
  1. Essentially, me remaining in Christ is what enables me to really live. (2 errors)