THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X 1 The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley ABSTRACT 2 Malcolm X had a hard life. He struggled with coexitsting with whites all of his life. He had many trials and tribulations during his time which formed his opinions of races and equality between races. He was taught his earlier opinions by his learning experiences and what he experienced growing up. As he got older he developed a different sense of what
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The life of Malcolm Little‚ and the hardships he was born into and had to deal with is the purpose of “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”. The text is very beautiful and powerful due to the way the author structures each scenario to the point where the reader becomes greatly involved. Throughout the story‚ the author allows the reader to understand everything by describing every event and confrontation vividly. (Alex Haley‚ Page. 1) “When my mother was pregnant with me‚ she told me later‚ a party of
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the atrocities and trials that the African Americans were put through on a daily basis. Malcolm X‚ an influential speaker and proponent of this movement‚ invigorates all people to stand up for justice and fight for proper civil rights. Through his rhetorical choices of sentence length‚ vivid imagery‚ symbolism and historical examples‚ X develops the three persuasive appeals‚ pathos‚ ethos and logos. Malcolm X attacks the white man for the hardships that the blacks of the United States have to endure
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In Outliers‚ Malcolm Gladwell argues that success is a culmination of many circumstances and opportunities in a person’s life‚ not a testament to personal talent or ability like our society views it. Gladwell supports his central argument using case studies. His book is divided into two sections‚“Opportunity” and “Legacy‚” where he further explains his claim using individual cases of either success or failure. In the first example‚ Gladwell points out that the best ice hockey players are fast
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Blink‚ by Malcolm Gladwell’s‚ discusses the idea of thin slicing‚ the ability of our unconscious to find patterns in situations from small samples. Gladwell also delves into the positive and negative effects of snap judgments and how people come to conclusions withoutbeing consciously aware of doing so. One topic of the book that intrigued me was the research of John Gottman and Paul Ekman. Gottman is a psychologist and professor who has spent most of his career studying interpersonal relationships
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In the story “Discovering Books” and the story “Learning to Read”‚ the main characters Richard Wright and Malcolm X grow up with racism all around them. They both are blinded from their dreams of becoming something they wanted. Malcolm’s dream was to become a lawyer‚ and Richard’s dream was to become an author. But the racist people who were the northern whites felt threatened by their presence as a society. In “Discovering Books”‚ Richard is born to a family that lived in poverty. He experiences
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In Chapter Three of Malcolm Gladwell’s David and Goliath‚ Gladwell claims that it is more exceptional to be a big fish in a small pond than to be a small fish in the ocean‚ and demonstrates this concept by explaining how a group of artists defy the rules of society‚ the struggles of the university decision-making process for an above-average student and the how a country identifies themselves impacts the citizens self-esteem. One hundred and fifty years ago‚ when France was at the center of the art
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First Name Last Name Professor First Last Business Analysis and Decision Making September 24‚ 2014 To Think or Not To Think‚ That is The Question “Judgment matters: it is what separates winners from losers” (260). Blink by Malcolm Gladwell is a book about understanding how we arrive at the judgments we make. There are two ways that we make every decision: in the blink of an eye or with well thought out decision making processes. In this book Gladwell explores the many different ways
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rights movement outline their platforms and justify their philosophies in regards to how the movement should go about achieving societal change. Although the civil rights movement was brought to national attention by the combined work of MLK and Malcom X‚ the rhetorical strategies employed by the two are quite different and hold varying degrees of effectiveness. These social justice warriors did not receive an equal amount of respect nor did their ideas have an equal amount of impact because
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name‚ but he‚ Malcolm X‚ being a rights-activist and public speaker‚ once said‚ “I believe in human beings‚ and that all human beings should be respected as such‚ regardless of their color.” (Quotes by X 1). X‚ a role model to the black community and founder of the Muslim Mosque Inc.‚ was a powerful black leader who fought for human rights and equality. X became one of the most known people‚ somewhat of an alternative to Martin Luther King Jr.‚ to speak up against the law. Many‚ not just X and King‚
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