...sensible, worthy and truly humane. Precious Jones, the teenage protagonist, suffers unbelievable adversities for her young age — raped by her father (when she was only seven years old), ill-treated and badly beaten by her mother. At the start of the novel, Precious Jones is pregnant for the second time with her father's child. She says, “Don’t nobody want me. Don't nobody need me. I know who I am...ugly black grease to be wipe away, punish, kilt, changed, finded a job for"(p. 33). This obviously shows how much has she hates herself. Precious believes her life would be different if she were a white girl. She thinks white girls have all imaginable happiness a girl could possibly have. Precious realizes her physical appearance made people to mistreat her. Even if she sits obediently in class every day, she experiences-"I always did like school, jus' seem school never did like me"[(p. 38). In fact the school principal tells her teacher to renounce her, saying "Focus on the ones who can learn"(p. 39). She realizes at some point that "The tesses paint a picture of me wif no brain," "The tesses paint a picture of me an' my muver-my whole family, we more than dumb, we invisible" (p. 33). She despises the world that makes her and her family “invisible”—as if they don’t exist –dumb brainless creatures, a race much despised, whose identity lies only in so far as they are prejudice....
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...Review Of the Movie “The Help” “The Help”, it is a movie based on the book which contain testimonials on the experiences of African-American maids. I remembered I read the book before I watched the movie. The thing I know about the book, it was written and published by a white woman and it was told by the black women who were maids in the 1960s. It gave me some assumptions to go with. Before I start, everything that I will bring up are tightly about the movie and the book. It is like a little summary however the reviews I read are really good concerning the movie and the book. The movie was produced in a small town Jackson, Mississippi. Racial tension was so high at that time. The Black women worked not only as maids in that town, but they practically raised white people’s children too. So far, they were seen as “HELP” and were treated inappropriately and poorly. Skeeter, is a young woman who were living in that town. She gets the idea to write a story about these women who were maids, because of her good experience with the black woman who raised her and took really good care of her when her mother was not around. I really liked and enjoyed this movie. It got my attention and made me cry couple of times while watching some parts. What was so interesting and good about this movie? At the beginning of the movie, the acting was excellent. Viola Davis who played a maid named (Aibileen), she is an amazing woman who was one of the central characters in the movie...
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...Molecules is a book by Susin Nielsen. The book got many great reviews and even won a Red Maple award for 2016. The book we are all made of molecules is about a mixed family. It revolves around two kids; Ashley and Stewart. Ashley is a popular girl, pretty, takes time in her look kinda girl but as for her grades, not very good. Stewart is a, nerdy, intelligent, kind of a genius type of person but lacks popularity and social skills. Stewart is trying to be happy about the fact that he and his dad are moving in with Ashley and her mom. But Ashley is totally disgusted. They are completely different from each other but in the end, they are all made of molecules. What will happen to this family?...
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...NANA KONADU DARKO-MENSAH TITLE: THE BLACK PANTHER LEADERSHIP 3 SEMINAR: The Political Economy of Leadership and National Transformation LECTURER: DR. LLOYD AMOAH BOOK REVIEW ON THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY MALCOLM X DUE: 27TH APRIL 2011 . "By any means necessary. I'm for freedom. I 'm for a society in which our people are recognized and respected as human beings, and I believe that we have the right to resort to any means necessary to bring that about." -Malcolm X. ABSTRACT As part of the leadership seminar requirements, I was supposed to choose a book from the assigned books to review. This paper seeks to successfully review the leadership approach of Malcolm X. It highlights the main themes of the book and states the arguments of agreement and disagreement with the author. It also seeks to construct the portrait of leadership style of Malcolm X, discusses his strengths and weaknesses. In addition, lessons and personal insights I discovered during my course of reading are included in the review. I chose to review the autobiography of Malcolm X because he was unique revolutionary. He was not afraid to say things that needed to be heard. Also through him, many African Americans were able to stand together and fight for their rights. Another inspiring reason is the fact he continued his struggle for equality despite the numerous death threats on his life and his family. This quality of selflessness, the concern for the welfare of others I believe is essential for leaders to have....
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...Black Like Me Review By: David L. Middleton 06 December 2009 AASP201/0909 Prof. Fleetwood Did you ever wonder what it was like for a white man to be black in the South during the end of the 1950’s? A procedure to darken the skin was possible and was done in 1959. In Black Like Me, by John Howard Griffin, he explains and identifies how African Americans are treated differently and harshly due solely to the color of skin, by changing his own skin color to that of a black man. This book was written to provide America with hands-on experience of the daily life of a black man and help provide a possible solution to help America with the race problem. The role of race and skin color has a big impact on the community and way of life in Black Like Me. John Howard Griffin traveled throughout the South during the months of 1959 and leading into 1960 for an original purpose of scientific research study of African Americans but it soon changed to allowing America to know of his experience living as a black man.John Howard Griffin questioned, “if a white man became a Negro in the Deep South, what adjustments would he have to make? What is it like to experience discrimination based on skin color, something over which no one has no control?” These questions are the foundations for the purpose of Black Like Me. He believed to understand or learn the truth, a white man had to become an African American. John Howard Griffin will have traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana, Hattiesburg...
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...own nothing. If I did I would own Mori-sempai . I do own my OC Kurakei. Please be kind though! This is my first fanfiction so please be kind. I get all of my inspiration from all of the MorixOC stories out there. ^^ Read and Review~ Name: Chokore Kurosaki Nickname: Cho or Choko Age: 17 Skin Color: Pale Bust Size: 40-DD Eye Color: Chocolate Brown Hair Color: Silver with black fringed tips Hair Length: Butt-Length Personality: Cold, Violent, Tough, Out-Spoken, Brash, Smart, Clever, Forward, Blunt, Smart-ass, Curious, Usually Quiet, Rude, and Lonely Loves To: Eat Sweets (Mainly Chocolate), Train, Read, Fight, Be Alone, Paint, Draw, Sing, Listen To Music, and Play Instruments (The Piano, Violin, Acoustic Guitar, Bass Guitar, Viola and Electric Guitar) Dislikes: Being Touched, Girly Girls, Loud Noises, and Too Many People Body Shape: Lean with some curves but not too much, firm round butt, long legs, flat/toned stomach, and perky breast Style: Boyish, Punkish, and Tight Piercings: Silver Snakebites and a belly button ring Tattoos: A black dragon going from her shoulder, around her arm and stopping at her left middle finger, the kanji for pain on the back of her neck and black angel wings on her shoulder blades Scars: A scar on her left cheek like Kenshin from “Rourin Kenshin” and a large scar going across her left hip Chapter 1 “Ooooh! Isn’t he so cute?” “Is that his real hair color?” “I don’t care but he sure looks good in them!” I growled loudly, resisting the urge...
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...Plot Overview The first chapter of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter introduces us to John Singer and Spiros Antonapoulos, two good friends who live together in a town in the Deep South and who are both deaf-mutes. Antonapoulos works in his cousin's fruit store, and Singer works as a silver engraver in a jewelry shop. They spend ten years living together in this way. One day Antonapoulos gets sick, and even after he recovers he is a changed man. He begins stealing and urinating on buildings, and exhibiting other erratic behavior. Finally, Antonapoulos's cousin sends him to a mental asylum, although Singer would rather have Antonapoulos stay with him. After Antonapoulos leaves, Singer moves into a local boarding house in town run by a family named the Kellys. The narrator then introduces us to Biff Brannon, the proprietor of the New York Café, the establishment in town where Singer now eats all his meals. Biff is lounging on the counter watching a new patron named Jake Blount, as the constantly drunk Jake is intriguing. Blount goes over and sits with Singer and begins talking to him as though the two are good friends. Then Singer leaves. Once Jake realizes in his drunken stupor that Singer has left, he goes into an alley and begins beating his head and fists against a brick wall until he is bruised and bloody. The police bring Jake back to the café, and Singer volunteers to let the drunk stay the night with him. The narrative shifts to the perspective of Mick Kelly, the young teenage...
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...commenting on Claude Monet’s works of impressionism likely evokes phrases such as ‘stylistic misunderstanding’ and ‘representational disdain.’ Both Claude Monet and Edgar Degas actively sought to achieve some level of worldly representation through their works. They achieved this representation through vastly different methods and fundamentally different brushstrokes. As brushstrokes are to the canvas of the painter, diction is to the pages of an author’s work. The stark and frequently unadulterated realism that Richard Wright, one of the major novelists to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance, is known for, is often contrasted to his contemporary and rival, Zora Neale Hurston’s, more socially appealing racial and human sensuality. Much like Monet and Degas, who aimed to achieve some level of inspiration through their art, Hurston and Wright both actively sought to expand the minds of their audience through socially provoking writing. While no record of contemporary criticism is in existence between Monet and Degas, the same cannot be said for Hurston and Wright. Both authors were passionate about their own methods and styles and rarely shied away from an opportunity to vocalize their opinions regarding the other’s work. Hurston and Wright grew up in diametrically different spheres and shared very little in common regarding early life experiences. As a child, Wright was raised without his father,...
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...Brief summary of the book This book tells the story of two children, brother and sister (Jem and Scout) and what they encounter in their childhood. They live in Alabama, together with their father, who is a lawyer. And every summer Dill Harris comes around. The three are inseparable and one summer, they were wondering what happened with the Radley’s place and who lived there. They decide to try to communicate with the Radley’s, namely Boo Radley (Bogeyman) but Mr Nathan (his brother) put a stop to it and they never spoke again. When winter came there was a fire across the street from their house. All neighbours were outside, even Jem and Scout in their pyjama’s. Scout as freezing and without noticing she was given a blanket by Boo Radley, that was the first time in month they had their encounter with the Radley’s. After this event, everything changes. Jem and Scout are growing up, Dill run away from home and Atticus had his big trial, Tom Robinsons. He was...
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...2007 Black Intellectual Genocide: An Essay Review of IQ and the Wealth of Nations Girma Berhanu Göteborg University Sweden Lynn, Richard & Vanhanen, Tatu. (2002). IQ and the Wealth of Nations. Westport, CT: Praeger. Citation: Berhanu, Girma. (2007). Black intellectual genocide: An essay review of IQ and the Wealth of Nations. Education Review, 10(6). Retrieved [date] from http://edrev.asu.edu/essays/v10n6index.html. Abstract I review the book IQ and the Wealth of Nations, written by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen. I critique the authors’ major assertion that a significant part of the gap between rich and poor countries is due to differences in national intelligence. The authors claim that they have evidence that differences in national IQ account for substantial variation in per capita income and growth of a nation. This essay review debunks their assumptions that intellectual and income differences between nations stem from genetic differences. This critique provides an extended review of the research literature that argues against these assumptions and presents a different picture from that presented by Lynn and Vanhanen about the concept of intelligence, what IQ measures and does not measure. The essay exposes the racist, sexist, and antihuman nature of the research tradition in which the authors anchored their studies and the deep methodological flaws and theoretical assumptions that appear in their book. The low standards of scholarship evident in the book render...
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...The Mind of Frederick Douglass, by Waldo E. Martin, Jr. Introduction The book I chose to read is entitled, The Mind of Frederick Douglass. This particular book involved many different aspects of Fredericks’s minds setting. Frederick Douglass a born slave who was trying to shape his life into becoming a leader for black people. Frederick Douglass was an “intellectual activist” that was focused on many issues. To name a few, he focused on race, humanism, feminism and “self-made man”. Overview Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born in the month of February in the year of 1818. Unlike white people, some black people had to haunt for their birthdays all their life. This became a problem to Frederick all his life. His mother was a slave by the name of Harriet Bailey. Frederick was not aware of his father identity until, he “subsequent discovered that his master Aaron Anthony was a possible candidate. Frederick lived on the plantation of the “white master father” Aaron Anthony, the general superintendent. Along with his family, expect for his mother, who lived about twenty miles up the road. His “white master father,” served for one richest largest slaveholder in the Maryland at the time name Colonel Edward Lloyd. Frederick relationship with his father was not close at all. His “white master father,” would completely ignore him at times and this would make Frederick feel very hurt (Martin, 1984). Frederick remembers being mistreated by his master...
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........... 4 Assignment 2 .......................................................................................................................... 4 In-class assignment week 2 – Customer Service ........................................................................ 7 Vocabulary exercise A: complete the text with the best word. ........................................... 7 Vocabulary exercise B: replace the words with the correct form of an idiomatic expression of the box. ............................................................................................................ 7 Language review exercise A: complete the sentences with a gerund from the box. ............ 7 Language review exercise B: complete each sentence so that is seams the same as the sentences just before it. Use a gerund each time. ................................................................. 8 Language review exercise C: circle the correct form(s) of the verb in the text. ................... 8 Writing editing exercise A: read this short text about demanding customers. ..................... 8 In-class assignment week 3 – Team Building ............................................................................. 9 Reading exercise A: none of us is as smart as all of us. Do you agree? In what situations is it true or not true? Give...
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...her blog, in which she wrote that “If all goes according to plan, I shall be entering a hospice for cancer care.” I wrote to her usual e-mail address, asking for more details about her health, but got no reply. It pained me that her final blog notice was titled, “To All Those Friends I Never Met.” I was one of those friends she never met. It would not be an exaggeration to say that I have been fascinated by Elizabeth Wright ever since I became aware of her many years ago, when Issues and Views was still a paper publication. I discovered that Elizabeth had a piercingly clear understanding of race, and wrote in an uncompromising style. We corresponded, and AR posted several of her essays—and yet I never really knew her. Elizabeth wanted it that way. We spoke on the phone only a few times, and she spoke as she wrote—clearly and vigorously. And yet she kept me at a distance. The last time we spoke I was in New York City, where she lived, and I practically begged her to let me meet her. She declined. She wasn’t keen on meeting people, she said. There was a great deal I wanted to know about Elizabeth Wright. How did a black woman arrive at a view of race so similar to my own? There is usually a story about how whites become dissenters. There must be a whole book about her. And who were her friends? What did her family think of her views? Whenever I asked in passing about her personal life in our e-mail correspondence,...
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...Consumer Reviews for the ‘Tory Burch Reva Ballet Flat’ ◦ Summary Analysis. To get a better understanding of how consumers view the Tory Burch Reva Flat, I went to Amazon.com marketplace and type in the Tory Burch Reva Ballet flat. I choose to look at Amazon reviews because I find them to be honest and you can generally tell when there is a paid review listed. So I gathered four of the most recent reviews and they display an array of opinions. In looking at the reviews, the three disadvantages listed are the size of the shoe, people are suggesting to get the shoe a half size or a full size up so that they will fit more comfortable as their were issues with the width of the shoe and the heel rubbing on the shoe as well as the toe box being too tight due to the logo ornanment on the toe. Another disadvantage of the shoe was the comfort of the shoe, once people purchased a comfortable style their were complaints about not being able to wear them all day long becauase of the flatness and lack of support of the shoe. Lastly the availablitly of various styles, people want a certain style of this shoe, weather it’s the simple classic black ballet flat or, the matta logo, or a certain color, people search for the certain style/color combination that they perfer in this shoe. The common advantages found amongst the consumers in these reviews are, the style, regardless of any discomfort or price, people are willing to wear and purchase this shoe at varioius price...
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...“The Lasting Power of Dr. King’s Dream Speech.” - Michiko Kakutani “Obama is not Black like Dr. King.” - Chrystal Wright 1. If I Google Michiko Kakutani, words such as: the worst critic and top meanest reviews come up. Michiko Kakutani is known for her harsh literary critiques on books. She is a graduate of Yale University and has many years of working experience with the New York Times, Time Magazine, and Washington Post. Therefore giving her a substantial amount of credit when she makes any comment towards any literary work. Crystal Wright, a triple minority: black, a woman, and Republican. Also very well educated. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and Masters from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is known as a columnist and political commentator. These characteristics are very important to know when understanding the message sender of each article. 2. During the article, Michiko describes what happened during the March on Washington. She describes the event, its purpose, and how the event fifty years later, still has effect on society. During the article, she crosses the point that Dr. King knew it would not be easy to meet ends with social injustice and the economic hardships experienced by many, but did not foresee a black president celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of his speech. This brings me to Crystal Wright whom has received public attention for her article in regards to the March on Washington. Which I would personally...
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