Eyes shut wide open

Design plan for my Research Paper
Agnes Harris


My topic is how racial profiling has affected people today. The question I want to ask is how has certain factors played a major role in racial profiling of African Americans.

My listeners are student who are in college, high school, and business professional people. Individuals’ globally should be concerned because as children we are taught to distinguish different colors. Therefore it makes us all socially aware if someone skin color is different from our own. This situation causes problem because some individuals of one skin color believe they are superior than another.

There are certain listeners who think racial profiling does not continues today. What racial profiling does is limits an individual from getting to know that person for who they really are. Racial profiling hurts many African American people who would have gotten a chance if they were not judged by the color of their skin. Martin Luther King Jr. said his speech the best, “I want my children to grow up in a nation where they won’t be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”. I do not want an issue like racial profiling swept underneath the rug because a certain individual is someone’s mother, brother, sister, wife, father, or even husband. I believe racial profiling is not talked about because it seems to always raise red flags.

When I presented racial profiling to other student in my classes or even people I work with, some individual did not even to grasps how the Civil Rights Movement even played a significant role in racial profiling. I being to explain to one co-worker how the Civil Rights Movement made it where African American could drink from the same water fountain as Caucasian American, African American could buy a house outside of the redlining district, and African Americans could even make wages similar to people of different skin color.

My topic seems oblivious to certain listeners. So therefore I want to start my research paper off with the definition of racial profiling. I believe some of my audience will be shocked to know racial profiling is in encyclopedias and dictionaries. Also I could give factual evidence of African American being racial profiled against. Hopefully, my audience will be able to grasps how racial profiling is being overlooked.

After presenting the opening of my research paper I will present to my listeners how history coexists with racial profiling. I believe presenting history to my audience will allow students and others to understand (know) where our country has came from. Some philosopher said a statement the best, “You can’t know where you are going until you know where you came from”.

Then I will give statics on how racial profiling happens every day. How some individual might not even be aware they are racial profiling. Meaning there is general rule of thumb that first impression is the most lasting impression someone has of an individual.

Last give some doctors information how children learn and pick up certain things within the first five years here on earth. This might even help some people to understand some issues were installed in us when where tiny children. The doctor’s information will allow a more broader overview of the issue and how certain factors lead up a more bigger problem.

By the end of my research paper I want my audience to understand how something so “small” as racial profiling can be overlooked by massive number of people. Stereotypes is very similar to racial profiling, however the audience will know the difference of stereotypes and racial profiling.

Agnes Harris
Due Date September 23, 2008
Professor Yerks
Composition 106


Say Goodbye
By: Chris Brown



Baby, come here down; let’s talk
I got a lot to say, so I guess I’ll start by
Saying that I love you
But you know this thing ain’t been
No walk in the park for us
I swear it’ll only take a
You’ll understand when I finish, yeah

But I don’t wanna be the one to tell you a lie, so…




How do you let it go? When you
You just don’t know? What’s on
The other side of the door
When you’re , talk about it





So I’m a do the best I can to get you to understand

Interpretation and Explanation:

This song is about a couple that has been together for a very long time and there seems to be different situations that keep happening in their relationship. Neither person wants to say goodbye or leave the relationship. When there are two individuals in a relationship there is different times either person doesn’t know the proper time to leave each other. However the individuals in the relationship have an idea if it continues then they are both holding each other there in relationship and they really don’t (in some sense) want to be there. I believe that there is a time in a relationship when each party has have an understanding when to leave the relationship. This song is also saying that when you have been with someone for so long the hardest thing to do is walk out. However if either individual stays in the relationship there will be more hurt (far as crying) than good. I have heard from different individuals when you look into that person eyes that you have loved for so long and have been through situations with this individual, the toughest thing is to turn your back on the person. The reason why it is so hard to walk away there is history, you look in that person eyes and they promised never to hurt you. It seems like different situations just allow for that person to hurt you and no matter how much they apologize it doesn’t cover the hurt, pain and crying heart that you have for the individual.

Analysis and Reflection:
I choose to put the word love in red letters and cursive writing because love has a way to intertwined itself around the heart and not letting it go. So there was great significance to using the cursive for love because it allows the reader to know that love runs deep like an individual vein and blood in their body. When I used the word sit down I wanted the reader to know that what is coming next is not going to be easy. I believe the typographic allows the reader to know the information is going to be serious that the person is trying to present. It seems like the only time someone tells someone to sit down if the matter is very serious and it make take a lot of individual if they are standing up.

juggling student life & being a mother

Composing changes shape in digital space is makes it easier for an individual to accomplish different task all at one time. At one point of time composing on a typewriter back in the day made it more difficult to compose a piece of writing because if an individual composing the piece want to go back and change things they had to start the page all over again. Nowadays all an individual or individuals would have to do is move the cursor to where you want to make the changes in the piece of writing and type what you want instead or just add a better term. Composing on a computer is faster and convenient because technology has made it where an individual can even carry their laptop everywhere they may go.

I believe we can better understand digital composing process by knowing that it is more positive than negative. I know that digital composing process helps us correct some grammatical errors; we can easily forward documents we would want to be reviewed before submitting and there is easy editing. I believe if someone was to sit down and tell us fifty years ago that we would have a processor that would be able to do a lot of functions at one time many of us would not have believe that. I understand digital composing as a blessing because somebody else was looking to make our lives as a whole more innovative.

The Stress Eraser

The magazine article that I picked out was an advertisement ad of a little machine called the Stress Eraser. According to the magazine article, there is a biological reason why some people are stressed often, it is called ergotropic tuning. Therefore ergotropic tuning causes a person to feel highly stressed, very quickly and even easily.