Malcolm McLaren

Lemlem Beyene Oct 27, 2015 Malcolm X "The Ballot or the Bullet" In this speech, Malcolm X want his audience to know that black people are not American citizen, they are just victims of Americanism. He want to encourage African American to stand up for their rights and take actions against White politicians that are preventing them from getting their civil rights. He goes by saying “It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to…

Critical Analysis Essay: Gladwell’s “The Trouble with Geniuses” In chapters “the Trouble with Geniuses Part I & II” of Outliers Gladwell presents his thought-provoking research about geniuses to substantiate his argument that “extraordinary achievement is less about talent than it is about opportunity” (Gladwell 78). Gladwell argues that opportunity, hardworking and culture are all factors in the recipe for success. Gladwell seems to be reaching out to a broad audience to share his perspective…

Progression to the top above all else and others, is a feat accomplished by few. To climb a pyramid to success simply keeps one at the peak, to create a pyramid of success is to build and learn fundamentals along the journey. The famed Pyramid of Success was created by the now deceased, former UCLA basketball coach, John Wooden, quite famously known as the person who successfully led his team to win ten NCAA championships in a twelve year span. As part of Wooden’s teaching style, he created the…

Karlie Grose English 11 Mrs. Shandera Janarury 19, 2017 Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X greatly impacted today's society and the civil rights movement by providing effective tactics to influence change, which has been adopted from civil rights groups today. Both of these men had different strategies for their movement, even though both were successfully impacting the white community during that time period, the two dedicated to their lives to the people and fighting for what they…

When Malcolm Gladwell was asked why he was so interested in social epidemics, he said that he thought of them as “a way of making sense of the world.” Social epidemics, otherwise known as popular culture trends, are usually thought to originate independently without correlation. Could there be a pattern behind these epidemics? Gladwell, a New York Times staff writer, answers this question in his 2000 book, The Tipping Point. In this book, Gladwell discusses several social epidemics, including…

Malcom X. was Black civil right leader in 1960s in the united states and outspoken public voice of the Black Muslim faith, challenged the mainstream civil rights movement and the no violent pursuit of the integration championed by Martin Luther King Jr. he urged followers to defend themselves against white aggression “by any means necessary”. Born Malcom little, he changed his last name to X to signify his rejection of his “slave”. In 1964, Malcom X made a pilgrimage to mecca and changed his…

Bracks, Lean’ Tin L. "Malcolm X (1925--1965)." Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience. Jessica Carney Smith and Linda T. Wynn. Canton: Visible Ink Press, 2009. Credo Reference. Web. 7 Dec. 2015. Malcolm forcefully pushed rights for blacks, talking on country TV and meetings to national productions if the respectable Elijah Muhammad endorsed the meeting. Malcolm national consideration made somewhere in the range of pressure with country of Islam.…

hobby we enjoy, we could be the best. All these possible reasons as to why, someone could succeed and I started to feel like everything I had been taught, was false. While reading Outliers, I began to see if I had any similarities between the stories Malcolm Gladwell told and figured out that I shared no similarities or common features, which made no sense, because I feel…

On April 3, 1964, Malcolm X delivered a speech that would drastically influence change in the course of the civil rights movement. The Ballot or the Bullet was delivered at a time when African-American outrage was at its peak. 1964 was a year that involved African-Americans being brutalized by white police officers, discriminated against by white business owners, and hated by the white community at large. 1964 followed the year in which the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing resulted death of…

death, causing the mob to burn his store down. Smiley, the owner of the Korean market, goes back to Sal’s store, and hangs a picture of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. on what's left of Sal's "Wall of Fame.” The film ends with two quotations, the first, from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Violence is never justified under any circumstances.” The second, from Malcolm X: “Violence is not violence, but "intelligence" when it is self-defense.” When watching the “Can’t stand the heat”…