Malcolm McDowell

Malcolm X was an active and controversial leader in the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement. His radical ideas and methods challenged other leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm did not have a stable childhood. His family of ten moved around the country frequently and was always subjected to acts of discrimination. His father Earl Little was a Baptist minister who was very involved in the fight for equality. Due to this early activism, the Little family received many death threats from the Black…

A Unconventional Series of Changes Unafraid of death, Malcom Little lived his life with an increased awareness for the common day. His belief that he would one day die a violent death affected the quality of his life. Malcom learned that change is inevitable, and that in order to live a life of substance a prerequisite is to always be learning. Every day, after his prison education, Malcom lived to impact the culture in which he lived. In his autobiography Malcom said, “Every morning I wake…

survivors’ attitude so do Malcolm X. Unfortunately for Malcolm X, his difficulties began long before his birth. He had reported in The Autobiography of Malcolm X that while his mother was pregnant of him, a “Ku Klux Klan riders galloped and surrounded the house, they shouted for my father to come out, my mother told them that she was alone with her three small children, the Klansmen shouted threats and warnings at her that we had better get out of the town.” (Haley 3). Malcolm X and his family…

Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and a civil rights activist. He had a wife named Coretta Scott. They had four kids together. When Martin Luther King Jr. was younger he tried to commit suicide. He tried to commit suicide because he was upset when he found out that his grandmother had passed away. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in April, 1969. In his life he earned a Nobel Peace Prize among many other honors. He was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. He is still…

Human rights activist Malcolm X in his speech, “The Ballot or the Bullet” reiterates the injustice in America towards people of color and inspires the black community to use their power in numbers in the election (ballot) or if necessary by force (bullet). X’s purpose is to awaken the black community to their potential to put an end to discrimination in the 1964 election. He develops an informal yet forceful tone in order to convey his message in a way that is understandable for the audience…

Many today consider Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. to be revolutionary men. Though these two men had similar goals for changes in the African American communities, they are perceived differently. Though Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. were well-known Civil Rights Activists, they were significantly different men with the common goal of aiding their fellow members of the African-American community. Malcolm X and MLK had similar religious upbringing because their fathers taught in…

Malcolm Gladwell's book The Tipping Point turned into a representation of the very procedures he was depicting. Upon its 2000 discharge, the book became a national smash hit whose impact would help to start outlook changes in fields going from advertising to general wellbeing. The primary premise of The Tipping Point is that little things can prompt enormous changes. Gladwell begins this book by investigating the idea of pandemics utilizing STD episodes and other therapeutic plagues to show how…

Decisions are made everyday by humans some are easy others are impossible to choose, and there is a great deal of influences that go behind a decision. However in Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, Gladwell shows the reader different ideologies of various tactics of decision making with contrasting influences, furthermore Gladwell establishes the power of snap judgements with ideas from the book. Gladwell seeks to persuade the reader to employ his concepts of decision making in everyday life, using…

Motivation for Self-Education The essays “Coming to the Awareness of Language” by Malcolm X and “The Library Card” by Richard Wright are about how two men tried to educate themselves by reading books. Malcolm X was a man in the 1940-1950 who spent his time in jail rewriting the pages of the dictionary to better himself as both a reader and writer. He wanted to better his education and be able to write letters to Elijah Muhammad without sounding uneducated. He was reading about African American…

Outliers, the story of success. What is an outlier? In Malcolm Gladwell's 'Outliers', he studied people who were successful under unordianry circumstances. "If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your imagination, you can shape the world to your desires."(151) Success is more about intuition than just luck itself. Malcolm Gladwell introduces an Italian villiage in Pennsylvania named Roseto after the Italian imigrants. Gladwell refferred to this study as "The Roseto Mystery." The…