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    article “The Achievement of Desire” by Richard Rodriguez has showed me that people have very different experiences with their education. Rodriguez describes himself as a child: successful‚ a scholar‚ eager to learn‚ and the perfect student. He also describes his changes as he continues to grow in his academics. He surpasses his parents in intelligence and soon realizes that he is becoming so different than them that they can’t even hold a conversation. Rodriguez then continues‚ arguing that education

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    Imani Gibson Prof. P. Thur Expo-25 03.12.14 Essay One: Analyzing the Hold of ‘Tradition’ over Richard Rodriguez In his essay “The Achievement of Desire‚” Richard Rodriguez chronicles his journey as a student describing his path to academic success as one of constant‚ internal turmoil. Rodriguez narrates as a fully educated‚ successful (by society’s standards) grown man‚ conveying the sense of loneliness and loss that he no doubt achieved along with his education. On the surface it would appear

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    Hasti Sharifkhani Professor Pryor 9/10/14 Learning to Read: pg. (189) 1) What motivated Malcom X to educate himself is that while he was spending 7 years in prison he educated himself and became a discipline of Elijah Muhammad‚ founder of the nation of Islam. Many people think that he went to school far beyond the eighth grade. But this impression is due entirely to his prison studies. He argues that Bimbi was the first person that made him feel envy of his stock knowledge. He also explain

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    Authors utilize rhetorical devices in order to convey the true meaning of his work. In his essay‚ Complexion‚ Richard Rodríguez uses the rhetorical modes of description and symbolism. The description gives the work a story-like flow‚ while the symbolism makes the reader more able to experience the emotions and feelings present within the authors “complexion.” The utilization of the stylistic tools aids in conveying the true message of the author’s claim which is that he received mass racism out

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    Through Rodriguez’s essay he states situations from his life that explain how education may put a strain on family ties and pull families apart. Rodriguez explains how education broke important ties with family and his understanding of his culture was strained. A child’s family life also has a crucial role in a child’s well being. Rodriguez does not realize in his youth that a having a balance of family life is as important in shaping an individual as formal education. Rodriguez’s states that

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    at it. Their names were Malcom X‚ and Martin Luther King Jr. Though there methods were different‚ they both made change. Although the change made isn’t money‚ but a change in the people in order for them to strive for racial equality. Evidently‚ when Malcom begins to guide the people‚ he becomes a card dealer instead of the gambler‚ making the people gamble at his ideas. Therefore when Malcom X gives his speech‚ like a dealer in a casino‚ he

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    to the issues South Africa struggled with‚ mainly apartheid. Rodriguez’s song‚ “I Wonder”‚ released in 1970‚ claims “I wonder will this hatred ever end / I wonder and worry my friend.” Rodriguez’s lyrics were analyzed by South Africans as though Rodriguez was a friend‚ making a sincere concern for their society as his lyrics made him appear to be relatable when he used words such as friend and wonder.

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    “Discovering Books” and the story “Learning to Read”‚ the main characters Richard Wright and Malcolm X grow up with racism all around them. They both are blinded from their dreams of  becoming something they wanted. Malcolm’s dream was to become a lawyer‚ and Richard’s dream was to become an author. But the racist people who were the northern whites felt threatened by their presence as a society. In “Discovering Books”‚ Richard is born to a family that lived in poverty. He experiences hardships

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    Jerso Gayflor Hour: 4 11/14/13 Malcom X and Racial Identity Development Racial Identity Development is the steps minority or majority groups go through to gain understanding of their racial identity. Many people don’t go through all these stages in their life and it requires a lot of inner growth to get there. After watching Malcom X‚ a civil rights leader‚ I saw how Malcom went through each of the stages of black/ minority racial identity development; some with difficulty and others with

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    1. Identify and evaluate the speaker’s thesis. What was the focus of the presentation? Did the speaker address the ideas presented in the thesis? Judd Larson explained before he began that he would be talking about four c’s: Complaint‚ Caveat‚ Conflict‚ and Confidence. The focus of the presentation was on the reading read before he spoke: 2nd Corinthians Ch. 4. I think he had a great idea with the four C’s but there wasn’t really an introduction to the speech about the text. He just lists off the

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