BA / BSW / BBS Note for Compulsory English

"Thirty- Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police" by  Martin Gansebrg Martin Gansberg a native of Brooklyn, New York, was a reporter and editor for the New York Times for forty-there years. The events reported here took place on march 14, 1964 as contemporary American culture was undergoing a complex transition.   Millions of murders are committed in the United States every year.   We see these stories on the news, in newspapers, and sometimes in our own neighborhoods.   Sadly, there are people who go into the world and kill their fellow man and sometimes without remorse.   The only way that we can prevent these events from happening again or at all is to bring these criminals to justice.   In most cases there are witnesses who see the crime or have some leads that help solve the crimes. Usually witnesses call the police and try to help the person in trouble, but this case is different. In the murder of Catherine Genovese, there were thirty-eight witnesses who did nothi

           “My Mother Never Worked” by  Bonnie Smith-Yackel  This narrative essay begins with a phone call. A phone calls many people make after the death of family members-the call to social security . As Bonnie goes on hold, she thinks about her mother’s life starting from the time she graduated high school to the time she worked even in her old age. Bonnie Smith-Yackel recollects the time when she called Social Security to claim her mother’s death benefits. Social Security places Smith-Yackel on hold so they can check their records on her mother, Martha Jerabek Smith. While waiting, she remembers the many things her mother did, and the compassion her mother felt towards her husband and children. When Social Security returns to the phone, they tell Smith-Yackel that she could not receive her mother’s death benefits because her mother never had a wage-earning job. A tremendous amount of irony is used in this essay. The title, in itself, is full of irony; it makes readers cu

   “Only Daughter” by  Sandra Cisneros In “Only Daughter”, Sandra Cisneros describes the difficulties of growing up as the only daughter in a Mexican- American family of six sons and challenges society’s views on a traditional Mexican family. The general stereotypes depict a son being of value as they’re allowed to work and provide for the family whereas women are expected to clean and cook always. Cisneros was the only daughter in a Mexican family full of boys. She often wouldn’t play with her brothers as they were too embarrassed to be seen playing with a girl. This position of being alone and the only daughter left Cisneros to be by herself to think and embrace writing. This field was not seen as credible to her father and he expected her to become an English teacher if he ever wanted to deem his daughter as successful but Cisneros proved her father wrong proving to both him and society the roles women play in the world. The conflict is resolved when her father asks if he could ge