In Our Glory
African Americans had rebelled when taking random snapshots. The snapshots represent people they were not used too, or person they did not know at the time. The snapshot resembles a person who is happy, and care free. The picture of “Old Glory” (Hooks, 2010) is a different man than what his daughters know. The picture if an image of a man they could love because it captivated his strengths and character. The pictures give the girls a reason to feel worthy because in the image they love is a part of them.
Both the photographs share a moment of happiness and content. The pictures relate in regards to the memoires that surface with the happiness within the photo. It can make a person like the image in the photo because of what that image tells. Not everyone seems to be happy and content with their lives. Images captured in a photograph can keep that memory alive, and embrace it.
“The link of racial advertisements is images” (Lang, 2013) show how ignorance has been overcome since that era of time. Hooks portray of photographs were similar to the racial images. The images that were taken whether racial ads, or photos will distill a moment in time. That moment in the photograph can be a wonderful reminder, or an ignorant reminder of how things have changed.
The Achievement of Desire
In the story of The Achievements of Desires education does change a person and his identity. The story discusses how education is more than just textbooks, and notes. It is about knowledge from where you came from and who you are. The education a person learns is not always from memorizing words and meanings. If education is also knowledge of your path in life then it won’t change a persons’ identifiable characteristics, and morals. The main idea of the title of Achievement of Desire” relates to the author. No matter how much you try to achieve your desired goals you will never reach them if you forget who you are and disregard your morals. Knowledge is never ending, and if you want to learn something you cannot just memorize it. You have to know it because the basics are instilled in your life.
The price of his achievement was losing touch with his family, and friends. He did not remember who he was and what he came from. He got so involved in education that he felt his parents were not smart, and could not teach him anything. He let education and desire control him, and he did not control his desire for education. This is not the price that needs to be paid for a desire or education.
He uses his unique writing grammar to empathize important parts of the story. Some of the parts that are punctuated are of significance to the meaning of the story. He expresses and remarks on different settings of the story, and wants the readers to feel the emphasis of this type of story writing.
Black Men in Public Spaces and Mother Tongue
Both of the essays kept the reading informative because of the layout of the story. The author had focused on the perception people had on him, and how difference it was growing up. Different geographical areas have different perceptions of labeling people due to crime, and looks. The introduction made the reader want to learn what was going to happen.
The essays show how society relates to one another. The essays do this by showing how people react to his appearance. A women walking down the street took off running because she thought he was a harmful man. In the hometown of Pennsylvania people never noticed him growing up.
The similarities between the two essays show how people react or don’t react to people differently by their appearance. People can assume that someone is a bad person but to the people who know him are aware he is not.
Work Cited
Hooks, Beil. "In Our Glory: Photography and Black Life." New York: The New Press, 2010. 54-64.
Lang, Nico. "Racist Vintage Ads." Catalog (2013): 1-22. Web.
