Malcolm McLaren

though he loves dinosaurs, he wants to make a profit off of making a dinosaur park. Eventually Hammond, the owner of InGen, finds a scientist who knows how to clone dinosaurs. This ends up forming a park that Dr. Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler, and Ian Malcolm, are all sent to located in Costa Rica for the company InGen. InGen wants them to help determine if the park is safe or not. This movie shows the consequences of humans trying to toy with science and…

Autobiography of Malcolm X is one of the most influential pieces of literature we have available today. Being able to read about the events that shaped him into the well-known version of Malcolm X was amazing, to say the least. Growing up, Malcolm X experienced white supremacy in several different ways leading him to want to devote his entire career to fighting it. Experiencing white supremacy, as a black person is one thing, however, actively responding to it is another. Malcolm X acknowledges…

“We are so caught up in the myths of the best and brightest and the self made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth” (Gladwell 268). People believe that outliers come from nowhere, as if they have risen up from the earth. However, people also believe that dedication and talent create outliers. The truth is that what one is born into is what defines an individual. One’s social background forms the type of person you are and is what can define an outlier, one who stands apart from…

In “Learning to Read and Write” by Frederick Douglass and “Learning to Read” by Malcolm X, both writers display the idea of the importance of literacy as it contributes to personal development and social consciousness. Although the authors come from contrasting backgrounds they seem to find similarities in their opinion of personal empowerment with the ability and desire to rise in society through learning literature. Furthermore, the autobiographies, written in 1845 and 1965, where written…

The maxim "Every man is the architect of his own fortune" is true and many people better themselves and improve upon their current situation by their own sweat and hard work. Many people are born into a situation that is less than perfect, want it to be better, and work to improve their status. Some well known people, Jay-Z and J.K. Rowling are some of these people. They did not let their current circumstances bog them down, and they worked and used their talents and abilities to better their…

Malcolm X was somewhat of an extraordinary man. I found him to be very descriptive and honest in his auto biography, he mentions things such as his own prejudice and bias, and even describes himself as being somewhat self-conceited. He even proves at many points in the book that he himself is racist, being that he discriminates against white people from a lesser view point to avoid criticism. This auto biography greatly stresses how ethnic diversity was looked at negatively during this period of…

There is a story that is usually told about extremely successful people, a story that focuses on intelligence and ambition”- Malcolm Gladwell. Gladwell, the author of Outliers, views success as granted opportunities and advantages that not everybody is given by fate. Luck dictates how successful a person can be. Luck is achievement or failure supposedly brought by accident rather than through one’s actions. Most people are born without a great amount of luck which makes them work hard to reach…

A Clockwork Orange is one of the most controversial works of fiction ever created. Upon its original 1963 release it was regarded as overly violent and disturbing. The film adaptation, released in 1972 and directed by Stanley Kubrick, garnered an even larger reputation and was banned entirely in the United Kingdom. Even though both the book and the movie are seen as disturbing in the eyes of the public, they vary slightly in interesting and relevant ways. The movie and the book versions of A…

Malcom Gladwell is an award winning English-Canadian, author, journalist and speaker. He is active contributor and staff writer for “The New Yorker” and a bestselling author. In his two well-known essays “Being Nice isn’t really so awful” and “Small changes: Why revolution will not be tweeted”, he argues the impact of the Internet in our social life. While both this essays have in the center the modern civilization and the age of the internet, in the first essay: “Being nice isn’t really awful”,…

articulate spokesman for black power was Malcolm X. Malcolm has risen from a ghetto childhood involving narcotics dealing and other crimes to becoming the chief disciple of Elijah Mohammad, the Black Muslim leader in the United States. “Yes, I'm an extremist,” Malcolm acknowledged in 1964. “The black race in the United States is in extremely bad shape. You show me a black man who isn't an extremist and I'll show you one who needs psychiatric attention.” By 1964 Malcolm had broken with Elijah…