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stance, while others like Malcolm X adopted a separatist stance. But one famous baseball player we all know as Jackie Robinson, found himself a little in between these two stances. Like both King and Malcolm X, Jackie Robinson favored black capitalism: building wealth through business ownership. But Robinson had his own spin on achieving this desire. Jackie Robinson wanted to own integrationist businesses with the white people and…

In the Blink written by Malcolm Gladwell creates very fascinating terminologies to describe split-second processes that the human mind undergoes to make important decisions. One of the terms that he uses in a Blink is “Thin-slicing”. Malcolm Gladwell defines this term as “the ability of our consciousness to find patterns in situations and behavior based on very narrow slices of experience”(23). What this means is your brain is able to “subconsciously gathers the necessary information for…

Alan Schoenfield’s secret of learning mathematics is having the will to find the answer and not settling for someone else to help you or give you the answer. Learning requires experimenting, thinking out loud, and going over the issue countless times. Also, the secret is taking your time to uncover the truth. Renee in the video, spent twenty-two minutes experimenting with the program. Schoenfield states, “You master mathematics if you are willing to try”. To be successful at learning mathematics…

Malcolm X believed that experiences in one’s life contribute to their personality . Within his own life he experienced the good and the bad elements of society and allowed these experiences to shape who he became. The transformation of Malcolm Little into Malcolm X can be said to have occurred due to events that lead to dramatic change in his life. Violent discrimination against his family, the loss of his parents at a young age, the life he leads in Boston and Harlem, and his time in prison all…

The Making of Great Public Speaker On my thirteenth birthday my parents had given me a ticket to see my all time favorite female athlete. She was going to talk about her life and the journey she took to become successful. At thirteen years old, I felt like I had just received a Nobel Prize. On the day of the talk, I sat front row, and I was ready to become inspired and motivated to becoming a successful athlete. Instead, the speaker walked out with a piece of crinkled paper. I was drowned into…

In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. was imprisoned for marching through the streets of Birmingham, Alabama. In response, eight clergymen published a letter in the Post-Herald criticizing his presence and his strategies by naming him an extremist. From the cell where he was imprisoned, he responded by writing what has come to be known as “Letter from Birmingham Jail”. In this letter, Martin Luther King Jr. uses many rhetorical strategies to retaliate against the claims the clergymen make, and prove…

I decided to watch Malcom in the Middle, which is a comedy TV series that is based upon a dysfunctional family which centers around the high IQ gifted middle child named Malcom. Malcom has three brothers. The youngest named Dewey is the one always getting picked on. Dewey is also easily influenced by his older brothers to participate is wrongful acts. The oldest named Francis and second oldest named Reese are the trouble makers. The oldest also get shipped to Military school because of his…

chiefly a no. The significance of the photo of the two activists is to emphasize how while they both had incredibly different philosophies, they had the same goal: racial equality. There were flaws in both of their systems, and here we see a flaw in Malcolm X’s: using violence may result in violence against yourself. Buggin’ Out’s violent confrontation of Sal essentially led to Radio Raheem’s death, and was not the right thing to do. This analysis isn’t saying it was wrong for Buggin’ Out to…

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I-I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the different.” (“The Road Not Taken”) The road symbolizes how the individual had to evaluate and determine his decisions. Making his decision was a major decisive and extensive moment during his life span. He wrote just about ten books in his lifetime that many people admired. American poet and journalist Robert Frost depicts aspects of his life and philosophy on man’s choices, truth in nature, and…

In “Be Like Mike? Michael Jordan and the Pedagogy of Desire,” Michael Eric Dyson explores Michael Jordan’s impact on African American culture and society. He discusses Michael Jordan’s success as an athlete calling him, “perhaps the best, and best known, athlete in the world today” (1). He also points out his role as a positive influence, and a success in both marketing and business, specifically referring to his impact in the “sneaker” world. The audience for this article is specifically…