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- The role of the teacher.

5. Consider the diction of this essay. What effect does Gregory’s repetition of the word shame have on you? Why do you think
Gregory uses simple vocabulary to narrate this particular experience?

- First, the effect that Gregory’s repetition of the word shame have on me is that I remembered some shame situations of
my life when I was child. Second, I think that Gregory uses simple vocabulary to narrate this particular experience because he
wanted that everyone can understand it or maybe to stand out the feeling that the boy felt.

6. How does society still continue to use negativity to keep people down? Why do people feel the need to point out those who
have less or who are different?

- I think that some people want to feel superior to other and they look for people that have less that them even though do
not look for people that have more than them.

7. Describe a time when you have been made to feel insignificant? How does that experience help you to feel empathy toward
Gregory?

- when, I started working in restaurants I did not know anything in a kitchen so some coworkers showed off their abilities
and I felt insignificant. That situation made me stronger because I focused on improving and learning more each day. Now, when I
meet with someone that is in the same situation that I used to be. I try to teach all I know. I make the opposite that someone did to
me before.

8. In what ways could Dick Gregory be considered an outlier?

- Dick Gregory could be considered an outlier for his different behavior and thinking way.

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