Essays on Picking Cotton

As humans our minds tend to form thoughts based on different aspects towards people without having facts to back them up. It is purely a human tendency sometimes even uncontrollable. This is also known as profiling. Profiling can be based off many things, some for...

It seems to me, that stories of rape, or kidnapping, or anythign else that may involve someone being hurt were quite interesting. I would say that “Picking Cotton” was the same. One of my greatest fears involves me getting kidnapped, or held against my will...

In the prologue of Picking Cotton by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton, Jennifer was at her daughters’ soccer game while her husband and son was out bonding. While she was at the game, Ronald and his daughter Raven showed up to watch Brittany’s game and...