English 101 Essay 1
Muna Bhandari
Professor Michael G. Davros
English 101
January 15, 2015 “Arguing from Personal Experience” The world is moving in a fast pace. During Malcolm X’s time it was popular for black men to conk their hair. Similarly, “My First Conk” is an essay by Malcolm X where he wrote about the steps and awful experience while he was conking his hair. At that time, black people were inferior to white that’s why he conks his hair just to fit in that society. In his essay, he is emphasizing that people should accept who they are; changing just makes you feel guilt and it doesn’t show whom you are. Nobody should feel that they are inferior with others. Racism was huge deal on late 1600’s and 1700’s. Blacks were treated unfairly back then; the image of black people were totally different than white. According to My first conk, black people used to conk their hair just to pretend that they were whites. It is totally unfair for anyone that they have to change themselves just to become someone else. Similarly, when I hear my parent’s story that how Nepali group was being unfairly treated in Bhutan just because they were Hindu, I felt it was totally unfair for them. My parents were forced to live their motherland (Bhutan) due to ethnic cleansing. Bhutan government wanted to change social, economic, and political status of Nepalese Bhutanese in late 1980’s. When the late king Jigme Sigme Wangchuck (fourth king of Bhutan) started to rule the country; all the social, political, and socioeconomic statuses of Nepalese Bhutanese started to extinct. Nepalese Bhutanese were not allowed to participate in any of their cultural programs and festivals like Dasara, Diwali and Teej. Nepali couldn’t able to practice their religion. Since the national religion of Bhutan is Buddhism, Government forced Nepali (Hindu) to change even their religion. Nepali books from schools and colleges were denied to teach. Nepali realized they couldn’t able to bear all the problems they were getting, and
Professor Michael G. Davros
English 101
January 15, 2015 “Arguing from Personal Experience” The world is moving in a fast pace. During Malcolm X’s time it was popular for black men to conk their hair. Similarly, “My First Conk” is an essay by Malcolm X where he wrote about the steps and awful experience while he was conking his hair. At that time, black people were inferior to white that’s why he conks his hair just to fit in that society. In his essay, he is emphasizing that people should accept who they are; changing just makes you feel guilt and it doesn’t show whom you are. Nobody should feel that they are inferior with others. Racism was huge deal on late 1600’s and 1700’s. Blacks were treated unfairly back then; the image of black people were totally different than white. According to My first conk, black people used to conk their hair just to pretend that they were whites. It is totally unfair for anyone that they have to change themselves just to become someone else. Similarly, when I hear my parent’s story that how Nepali group was being unfairly treated in Bhutan just because they were Hindu, I felt it was totally unfair for them. My parents were forced to live their motherland (Bhutan) due to ethnic cleansing. Bhutan government wanted to change social, economic, and political status of Nepalese Bhutanese in late 1980’s. When the late king Jigme Sigme Wangchuck (fourth king of Bhutan) started to rule the country; all the social, political, and socioeconomic statuses of Nepalese Bhutanese started to extinct. Nepalese Bhutanese were not allowed to participate in any of their cultural programs and festivals like Dasara, Diwali and Teej. Nepali couldn’t able to practice their religion. Since the national religion of Bhutan is Buddhism, Government forced Nepali (Hindu) to change even their religion. Nepali books from schools and colleges were denied to teach. Nepali realized they couldn’t able to bear all the problems they were getting, and