Ian Malcolm

Research Question: What motivated Malcolm X’s acceptance of true Islam and how did this change his beliefs about the American civil rights movement? The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley Value This document is co-written by Malcolm X making it a primary source. It is also written by Alex Haley, an African American journalist who ghostwrote Malcolm’s autobiography based on more than 50 in depth interviews with Malcolm. The purpose of this document is to detail Malcolm’s…

Eric Barker examines some of misconceptions when it comes to success. Success is a broad term for most people, because success can mean something completely different for the next person. Like a self-help book, Barker discusses the positive and negative factors relating to success and how to bypass some of the obstacles. He also discusses common clichés to being or how to be successful. Barking up the Wrong Tree teaches the average Joe how to be awesome and successful in life. As I read the…

Martin Luther King, Jr., had experiences as a young person that shaped his beliefs and actions as an adult, when things got hard for him and his family he pulled through, since M.L. went through racial discrimination, he tried to stop it, and M. L. wanted to show people to do good and not to disrespect others for their skin color. When M. L. was six years old his white friends stopped being friends with him do to racial discrimination. His father didn’t approve of it, so when a white person told…

Jr. and Guitar to Malcolm X. Milkman and Guitar once shared similar interests, but as they age, all they have in common is their love for each other. While in school, they often skipped class to hang out together, and later discovered their appreciation for partying, drinking,…

“Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co-workers with God…” During the 1950s, the Civil Rights Movement began to end racial discrimination against African Americans in America. It was a large demonstration of protests and organizations. The process to gain their freedom was long and drawn out. Nonviolent demonstrations of African Americans and those who supported them, were peaceful acts organized to demand the…

when it comes to college football due to all the money spent to get a winning team to the top. Both authors are successful at arguing through the text that a current system is functioning on a faulty premise. Sokolove’s argument is reliable but, Malcolm Gladwell creates an argument on how insurance is expensive and a “moral hazard”, describing the way insurance can affect behavior and how it has been wrongly applied to the healthcare…

the arts. The movement was also believed to have inspired the formation of African American Studies classes at universities and colleges throughout the United States (Rojas 2147). The Black Arts Movement was also thought to have been initiated by Malcolm X’s assassination (Salaam). In literature, some of the movement’s distinguished writers are Hoyt William Fuller, Nikki Giovanni, Maya Angelou, Ishmael Reed, Rosa Guy, and Toni Morrison. The following report discusses race and realism…

Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights pioneer and reverend, undoubtedly positively altered the way the U.S as a country looked towards African Americans. King stressed the importance of judging people by their character rather than the color of their skin. Despite all of the great things Martin Luther King Jr. did, if he were to be judged by the content of his character, his accomplishments may be overshadowed by his flaws. This boils down to a simple question; did King practice what he preached?…

In Outliers: The Story of Success, introductory facts are presented in the epilogue, where Gladwell explains to the reader about his family’s heritage. He states how his grandmother, Daisy Nation, was able to provide for and raise her two daughters in Jamaica during the early 1900s. His own family legacy is credible because it shows that he knows how success works, and how it helped his family move through life rather easily. This was all because his grandmother “was the inheritor of a legacy of…

The Civil Rights Movement not only revolutionized race relations in the U.S., but also setup a working model that still inspires political movements, and leaders worldwide. It hasn’t been the first or last attempt to eliminate racial discrimination in this country, which still persists in some form or another to this day. Racial discrimination, segregation and inequality have always been an area of constant debate in American history, heavily leaning towards suppression of the disenfranchised.…