Taiaiake Alfred essay, "The Ethics Of Courage", was definitely not one of my favorite readings. I think its pretty obvious that one of his audiences can be those who are the same level as him, since he uses very complex sentence structures and terminology. It's also very clear to me that his tone throughout his entire essay is very passionate and ( Read more... )

Lars Eighner, “On dumpster Diving”, is a different view from the world of people who “dive” or “scavenge” through dumpsters. We as society or those who probably don’t know what it is like to live on the streets hungry and homeless see those living on the streets as people merely looking for food and cans just trying to survive or we may choose not ( Read more... )

At first it was hard for me to understand David Suzuki, “Genetics after Auschwitz”. When science terms are presented I tend to “zone out”. Science was one of my least favourite subjects. History was not! That is what David Suzuki stresses throughout his essay. Suzuki is speaking to current and future scientists about the cruel history that is ( Read more... )

Stephen Lewis lecture base, “Pandemic: My Country Is on Its Knees,” talks about his experience into an African journey in the early 1940’s as a young man from a highly influenced political family. Its clear that Lewis attended audience at that time were those who were attending his lecture. However I believe it can extend to those who perhaps share ( Read more... )

The purpose of Margaret Atwoods " Letter to America" is to show her feelings towards the recent decisions America has made with their recent invasion of Iraq. The intented audience of course is America but to me it should be more towards the American Government its them at the end of the day who make such life altering decisions. I believe Atwood ( Read more... )