Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm was born into a strong family, but it was destroyed. How did this happen? What role did racism play? Furthermore, think about how Malcolm was discouraged by a racist teacher in school. How typical were experiences of Malcolm little? Malcom Little was a young boy born on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. Raised by his father Earl Little and Louise Little in a household of eight brothers and sisters. Malcolm’s father Earl was a Baptist minister in a small town right in Georgia, where he…

The primary sources selected relate to the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960 's. From these documents, the social injustices perpetrated on the Black community are made known through their fearless leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and acknowledge by Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Through these documents social and political injustices are discussed with the hope that justice will prevail. The first primary source evaluated was the “I Have a Dream speech” delivered on August 28,…

Racial discrimination/tensions is a real and papal principal. Its role in humanities development and history is as commonly seen as the humans in it. Humans inherently notice difference in just about anything. With our increased intelligence we take these differences and deem what they mean in relation world around us. In reality a specific example such as the plight of blacks against whites. History shows us a periods in which blacks were enslaved and degraded. They achieved freedom but…

Historical Information (dates, people, laws, key facts) ALL November 18, 1978, 909 people died in a ‘mass-suicide’ in Jonestown, Guyana These 909 people, which included over 200 children, were members of the People’s Temple, a religious group led by Jim Jones Background info on People’s Temple Jim Jones founded the People’s Temple, a Christian cult, in the 1950s in Indianapolis, Indiana and later moved his church to San Francisco, California. He preached socialist, utopian ideals and spoke…

such as Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown are starting to ruin America 's reputation ( this sentence was a run-on sentence in the original document). In the "Ballot or the Bullet (the "b" in bullet was not capitalized in the original document )." Malcolm X believes that it is time for the diversity of genders, races, and religions to rejuvenate themselves and humanity by telling them to unite and fight oppression, degradation, and exploitation, by effectively using the rhetoric of ethos and…

In Act 2 Scene 3 of William Shakespeare’s play Othello, we hear a soliloquy of Iago. Soliloquies are essential in a play as it is the only time the actor is able to explain their thought process to the audience. In typical soliloquies, the character is not acting for someone else. The character, in essence, is able to portray his/her true self. Through Iago’s soliloquy, the audience is able to hear his malicious intentions. The audience is introduced to his evil mind though his appalling tone,…

During the 1960’s, Jim Jones started the People’s Temple, a racially integrated, socialist, Pentecostal worship-inspired church, which caused controversy after he led the mass religious suicide of over 900 people on November 17th, 1978 at Jonestown, Guyana. While some branded the People’s Temple as cult, David Chidester’s book Salvation and Suicide analyzes the People’s Temple from a religious perspective to understand the underpinnings of its values and ideologies. By doing so, he embraces the…

Chapter Reflection – Chapter Two – “The Prison-Industrial Complex” Colorado College, Colorado Springs – May 5, 1997 In reading Chapter Two, it brought back memories of the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, it was a very sad moment in my young life at the time. My family had just moved to Washington, DC that summer from Decatur, Alabama. Furthermore, my whole family was shaken from that kind of violence against a Baptist in a Black community. My Mother was not…

Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech and A Raisin in the Sun share significant similarities. With an enlightening passion, Dr. King’s speech highlights his hope that one day, there will be equality between black and white people. During his time, black people faced a great injustice of segregation and deceit. In A Raisin in the Sun, Walter has a dream of his own that relates to Dr. King’s dream. Walter believed that investing in a liquor store would allow his family to live a better life by making…

Why is Nelson Mandela a role model for so many people in the world? Nelson Mandela is a hero for lots of people because of his fearless fights for the civil and human rights around the world. He led several campaigns and protests in South Africa against the apartheid system. This system separated the South African people by their skin colors. Therefore white and black Africans did not have the same and equal rights. Due to Mandela’s actions, the leaders in South Africa who supported racial…