Ragtime, My Time

RAGTIME, MY TIME by A. F White Comprehension tribulation Directions Answer the following questions in arrest sentences and in your own words. 1. In twain or three sentences, write the main idea of this article. * This article talks about(predicate) the racialism issue that the designer had to stilt with, he tells us a individualized story that he had to went through because he is a black custody. 2. According to the expressive style the agent was raised, what did he believe would call for community celebrate? He believed that qualities a homogeneous(p) been a hard working, been a safe(p) person, that ceaselessly tell the true and been a gentleman would bring people respect 3. The cause says in the essay that his brio will never be the same. justify two right smarts the authors look has changed. Use specific flesh out from the essay * First of all, the authors life has changed because he was unfair arrested. I was given even a routine to use the manners my pare nts taught me, but in the main because the patrol whom Id eternally thought were supposed to serve and hold dear me, were actually hunting me. On the flash betoken his life changed because after that imposing personal experience his feeling were have and the way that he told everything were, was completely divers(prenominal) before I was finally let go, exhausted, humiliated, embarrassed, and suave in shock 4. What does the author means when he says, on that Friday afternoon, I became a real-life Coalhouse pusher (par. 4)? * His role Coalhouse Walker Jr. in the Broadway musical tag is a victim of public racism which happened the same to him in real life he was a victim of overt racism. . According to the author, why strength paramedics be coming to his build? * Because older people live in the same building 6. What things about the author did the patrol non discover? * The jurisprudence non consider give explications to the four person who were arrested, they did not know why they were arrested or where they were going away. 7. wherefore do you bet the author was mechanically linked to the two Hispanic men in his building? * I mobilise that is because the author is a black guy. 8.Even though the two Hispanic men were determine as experienced criminal, the author was unbosom kept and questioned for five hours. What indicate was he given by the police? wherefore do you think this happened? * The author still kept and questioned because the police wanted to adventure something on him that make him criminal too, the reason that the police gave to him was standard procedure and I think that this happened just because he is a black men 9. Why do you think the author cooperated with the police and what did they asked? I think he did it because in the first-class honours degree place he was raised as a good person who always tells the true and a very accomplished person and secondly because he did not had nothing to hide to the police he did not do something wrong besides because he was a victim, they had guns. I think the police were very rude to him and they asked questions that could impact his feelings 10. Why does the author say that the police apology was a pseudo-apology? Do you give with the author? Explain your resoluteness. Yes, I am agree because the apology that the police gave to him was standardized a fake apology, after that the police said you were at the wrong place and in the wrong time it seems to me like the police tried to find a excuse for themselves, it wasnt the author fault, he just was where he lived. DIRECTIONS chose the correct answer 11. The author is a. An actor 12. The three different black men who were arrested were C . sorrowful in to the building 13. When the author was handcuffed, he b. Remained calm and did what he was told. DIRECTIONS write T for true or F for dour 4. F The police let the author ask questions 15. F the police asked the author and the four other men w here they going 16. T the author was on his way to the bank DIRECTIONS write F for situation or O for opinion 17. F on june 16, 1999 I was at my Harlem apartment. 18. O I was given a pseudo-apology DIRECTIONS on the line, write the noun that the pronoun is referring to. 19. I thought THEY might be paramedics, since They= police officers 20. apologize for their mistakes Their= police officers