Bullet Points are one of the poems that caught my interest because it is a reminder that black folks in America are in constant fear of cops even if they are in no danger of a situation. Yes, it can be a stereotype you see in movies or shows but it is a sad reality that African Americans get killed while being detained by a cop. Brown repeats I will not kill myself which shows a reminder he is innocent if he were to be detained by cops. A man who knows death is nearby and has to deal on an everyday basis.

American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin is oddly a strange one. A kindhearted white woman saying the N-word. In what way does a woman like that say the N-word? Is it through the use of racism or the use of trying to fit in a black community? Is it hatred or the influence of many young African American saying the N-word influencing her to say a such word? When a word is thrown a lot in a community it tends to be like a trend, everybody says it even if you are not part of that community the word comes like the wind as if it is contagious. Think before you speak.

Lastly, the poem From is quite interesting. Many people that are from one place and move to another or you see someone coming into your home tend to have cultural differences. So this poem demonstrates what people say, how they say, what they actually mean in translation of many languages that I do not recognize. It shows for example let’s say your family are from India and they move into the U.S then the offspring of the family is born into the U.S then they will have an cultural- identity crisis. This can be said for some people that migrated into other countries. The main problem is if you’re born in another country and you visit your parents native country, people over there will have strong opinions about you and say you have an accent, you are not one of us since you don’t practice tradition like us. That sort of stuff and draw an effect but people more or less tend to be considerate of others emotions.

Trevor Noah used comedy, to sum up, the conflict of colonization from Great Britain to India. What makes the video funny is the use of accents British and Indian. For people who do not like history tend to learn more from dark humor jokes from such tactics Noah uses to grab his audience so that they may understand the British and Indian colonization problem. In a way, Noah uses his comedy as a lecture on colonization so that his interpretation may not be boring for his audience, he makes it short, sweet, and funny.

Despite her love for English and literature Amy Tan is not a scholar. She is simply a writer who enjoys the many “Englishes”.  Her argument is that the action or use of intent, passionate imagery, Rhythms of speech, and the nature of your thoughts are what counts toward your English, not Standard English. Yes, it makes you sound professional but it is the feeling that counts. Amy used her mom as an example to convince us that she may have “broken English” to us readers but in her eyes, it is perfect English.