Comparison/Contrast Essay

Collecting #2

Discover Ideas

Find ideas from each article that relate to assignment

Use note cards Idea and source

Discover Ideas--Example

Make sense of “confusing world” Heilbroner 348

One way in which we “define” the world in order to see itHeilbroner 349

Make life easier for us; easier for us to decide how to actHeilbroner 350

Responsible for changing behavior;Heilbroner 351

Discover Ideas--Example

Makes us “lazy”Heilbroner 350

Limit oneself and othersHeilbroner 350

Stereotyped because black; people (women) afraid of him Staples 533

Understands why women fearStaples 534

Discover Ideas--Example

Feels rage—provides examples of discriminationStaples 534

Makes himself less threateningStaples 535

Does not act as people would expect from someone trying to do harm

Let people walk byIs nicer to copsWhistles Beethoven

Discover Ideas--Example

First impression caused by ones outer appearance 584

People judge based on appearance and appearance is controlled by person584

Not a matter of fairness but of reality585

What the applicant can control should be judged 585

Discover Ideas--Example

Applicant can choose to conform or not organization can choose if they want applicant

Have a right to make personal choices but must accept consequences

Freedom of choice—we can choose image we present; other can choose to reject it

Group Ideas

Similar Ideas COMPARISON

Different Ideas CONTRAST

Group Ideas--Example Similar Ideas COMPARISON

Saves time People’s expectations Sense out of world Responsible for stereotypes

Different Ideas CONTRAST Makes us lazy Productive for society

Group Further

Can those groups be grouped? Become aware of pictures in our head

and that of others Responsibility—both of person seeing

and person being stereotyped Break stereotype

Choose Ideas to Use

Comparison Contrast Both

Choose Ideas to Use--Example

Most comparison

Organize Ideas

Which should come first, second, third, etc.

Organize Ideas--Example

Which should come first, Responsibility second, become aware (1st step) third, break stereotype

Take Note

Synthesize ideas rather than sources

Be more selective You don’t have to use all the ideas

Unlike a Summary

Thesis

Describe Explain Argue a point What comparison reveals or

demonstrates about subject

Thesis--Example

An individual has the responsibility to react to stereotypes in order to learn from it or to help others learn.

3 articles can be used to prove this

Homework

Outline

Example--Outline—point by point Thesis: Responsibility (may be more than one paragraph)

Heilbroner Staples Gainley

become aware (1st step) (may be more than one paragraph)

Heilbroner Staples Gainley

break stereotype (may be more than one paragraph) Heilbroner Staples Gainley pg. 212 in book

IntroductionHow often does a normal individual stereotype? Most

people would admit that they stereotype even when they know that it is wrong to do so. This habit of forming opinions based on preconceived ideas is considered by many to be negative. Steve Heilbroner, in his essay “Don’t Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgement,” claims that stereotyping makes a person “lazy.” For many Americans like Brent Staples, stereotyping brings painful memories of bigotry. He relates such experiences in his essay “Black Men and Public Space.” Some would argue, though, that stereotyping is not all bad. Sandra Gainley argues that stereotyping can save a person time and energy. Regardless of one’s own experiences, the three authors argue that an individual has the responsibility to react to a stereotype in order to learn from it or to help others learn.

Body Paragraphs Intro A person must take responsibility for a stereotype. Several ways of taking responsibility exist.

Heilbroner claims Heilbroner argues that a person takes responsibility when he becomes aware of the stereotype in his head

and works actively and consciously to change those preconceived notions of others. Similarly, Staples dislikes that he must deal with other people’s expectations but knows that as a black

man, it is a reality of his life and he knows that if he wants to make his life better he has to take responsbility for how he reacts to other peole’s thoughts. He cannot change what other people think of him before they meet him, but he can control what they perceive him to be when they havehad some contact with him, however fleeting that contact may be.

Also, Gainley argues that the individuals helps to promote or dispel the stereotype. She argues that each person has the control of how others perceive him. Stereotyping will cease to exist when both parties take responsibility, the first can help by decideint to not jump to conclusions while they other can help the first to make different conclusions by how he behaves around the first.

become aware (1st step) Heilbroner—become aware of what he thinks Staples—become aware of what others are thinking and what they expect from the stereotype—you are

not the stereotype Gainley—become aware of what others are thinking and what they expect from you

break stereotype by behaving differently Heilbroner—person must rethink what he thinks about people and allow each individual to speak for

himself with his speech and actions Staples—the person who is stereotyped can help to break the stereotype by doing something which is

completely different from what the expectations are. For example, while walking the streets at night, he whistes Beethoven so that passersby will not be nervous. He knows that most people connect Beethoven with civility and calm rather than danger and violence. By choosing to act differently that what others expect, he is helping to break the stereotype of the black man out on the street at night.

Gainley—if a person is willing to follow the stereotype then he has to accept the consequences of fitting the preconceived notion. pg. 212 in book