Talking Book

Did you know that Stevie Wonder is just a stage name? His birth name is Stevland Hadaway Judkins, son of Calvin Judkins and Lula Mae Hardaway. After Stevie’s mother had left his father, Lula changed her name to Lula Hardaway and changing Stevie name to Stevland Morris. After becoming famous at a young age, people started calling him “ A Little wonder,” soon getting the nickname Stevie Wonder.(CITE) Stevie Wonder has won many awards in musical areas such as pop, soul, and jazz. Throughout Stevie Wonder’s path of success, he has collaborated with many celebrities who have helped Stevie grow in his musical career. Celebrities such as Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, in which Stevie sang alongside them “We are the World” for the USA for Africa charity event on the 7th of March 1985(cite). Stevie has also met with many humanitarians, such as Oprah Winfrey who has created many social causes for African girls worldwide. While numerous people have contributed to making the world a better place, Stevie Wonder emerges as the best humanitarian candidate who should win the Living Legacy Award because of his many philanthropic works done to make the world a better place. First, Stevie Wonder influences his audience with his music to promote social causes in which helps the world become less divided. For instance, at the British Summertime festival in London’s Hyde Park Stevie referenced the Black Lives Movement by stating “All life does matter, but the reason that I say black lives…

The trope of the talking book is the idea of a double voice text that talks to other text. In African American literature, especially in slave narrative, the talking book only talked to the literate and remained silent for the illiterate. Many people believed that the desire for slaves to be literate was a way for them to exemplify that they were humane and not savages. Henry Louis Gates refutes this idea by stating, “ It is more accurate to argue that the literature of the slave consisted of…

interesting to see how different and how similar she is in the Californian skit when compared to her everyday life. In this paper, idiolect differences, phonological differences, and non-verbal communications between Kristen Wiig’s Californians Skits from Saturday Night Live, will be discussed when compared to her interview from the show Ellen. First of all, Kristen Wiig’s idiolect differs in her everyday life from her performance in “Californians.” “Every person has a unique way of speaking,…

What drives a character to undertake a mission? Characters undertake missions to benefit that person or there family members. I will be talking about the characters Farah Ahmedi went through danger and still got where she wanted to go also had one leg and still pursued her dreams.The next character i will be talking about is Ernesto Galarza he was a Mexican union leader and who spent most of his life fighting for the rights of farm workers.The last character i will be talking about is Stanley…

through the walls. Who in the world could that possibly be? Her parents and brother went to bed hours ago and, Novia only stayed up until one in the morning to do homework, as it turns out she had a lot more homework to catch up on than she planned on. As Novia made her way to her room the whispers grew louder, she crept up to her closet and opened the door carefully and she was shocked to see her brother sitting talking to himself. “What are you doing in my closet?” “ I’m talking to the old…

middle of the day. When she saw the girl she had only seen on the screen, her stomach started doing flips. She was nervous, anyone could tell. But, she also had a small crush. Just a small one. As she looked into those celeste eyes and that lopsided, yet shy, grin, she could feel her face heating up. Albeit pointless, she tried to push the feelings down. Greetings were exchanged, both were pretty relieved that the other wasn’t fake- you couldn’t be too careful with the internet- and…

Final Copy Should this book be banned? Many people may look on websites and see that some books are banned for many unnecessary reasons. Well, one book that is not banned for many unnecessary reasons is The Perks of Being a Wallflower. The Perks of Being a Wallflower has very many reasons for being a banned book. These reasons mostly include: strong use of language, sexual content, and drug use/many references throughout the book. By examining all of these reasons, it is clear that this book…

7. Persuasive Essay In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury expresses what could happen in future society and what if people can’t or not going to read books anymore in metaphorically. Importance of books has been mentioned since people had invented writing skill. Do books deserve to be saved? If so, why do we need to save books? Answer always going to be ‘yes, because books are sources where we can get knowledge from.’ There is similar story with this book in china called Burning of books and burying…

searching for a book to read, I look for various things. For example, if the story sounds appealing, whether or not I feel like I can get lost in it, and if the artwork on the cover can draw me in. Since I am an avid book collector, I look for books that are in the best possible condition. With some exceptions, I will buy a used novel that may have dog-eared pages or minor markings not original to the text. Based upon this, I chose a specific novel that I have read, against the advice of others.…

Why are books banned? There are any reasons why books are banned. For instance there a lot of trouble on books for racial backgrounds and language. And one of these books are the freedom writer diary. This book should be banned for lower age groups in schools for bad language, gangs, and violence. There a lot of books that’s on the banned list this is just one of multiple books banned. One reason why the freedom writers diary should be banned in schools is that there a lot of bad language in…