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#5 invisible man control unity

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  • Ellison seems to suggest that such an establishment of personal identity should be the true aspiration of African Americans;
  • that it is only through the establishment of identity that other progress can be made; and that as long as African Americans allow others to determine their identities, true freedom and equality will be hard to achieve.
  • Connor P on 05 Jan 12
     
    This is the finally realization that helps the reader know the the narator has matured and discovered how to overcme the oppression. He see the controlling his ow destiny and unity are the keys for success
Vivas T

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nickel and dimed hope grapes of wrath poor

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  • Through her personal study, Ehrenreich sees the futility of the American dream as her various co-workers desperately attempt to break through their social strata and leave the life of the "working poor" behind. But housing and transportation costs, medical bills, and the price of basic needs create obstacles that are often insurmountable. Though Ehrenreich still sees hope and a strong drive to succeed within this community, she fears a future uprising as people "are bound to tire of getting so little in return and to demand to be paid what they're worth. There'll be a lot of anger when that day comes, and strikes and disruption."
    • Vivas T
      Vivas T on 04 Oct 11
       
      This article displays the similarity between N and D and The Grapes of Wrath through the illustration of the obstacles that come in the way of many low class workers in America. However, it also illustrates the glimpse of hope that lingers even in the midst of the toughest obstacles. Furthermore, this article portrays the theme of unity and relates it to N and D through Ehrenreich's predictions of "strikes" and "anger", similar to TGOW.
  • David D on 04 Oct 11
     
    I really like the way this article compared Nickel and Dimed to Grapes of Wrath as well. What gives the opressed worker reason to live besides hope? GOW used hope and anger as a way to brew the long plot, which eventually escalated into unity and seemed to be heading for an revolution of the low class. I feel like our country is now at a point where the workers still have hope in our society and have not realized the importance of unity, but when they do, a revolution could occur.
Evan G

Matthew Lynch, Ed.D.: Are African Americans Losing the Race? Part I - 0 views

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Malcolm

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  • somewhere along the way, our voices were silenced and our vitality was diffused in the process of attempting to obtain our piece of the American apple pie.
  • African Americans remain oppressed and controlled by our own misrepresented realities.
  • Evan G on 05 Jan 12
     
    Discusses the loss of African American culture and unity over time; while being Americanized, many Afro-Americans simply gave up on their common ties, making it much harder during the civil rights movement for blacks to rise up and take their rights.
Evan G

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Grapes of Wrath

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  • “It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.” – John Steinbeck
  • By 1929, the richest 1% owned 40% of the nation’s wealth
  • The have-nots can dream about becoming a have, but the chances of achieving that dream today are miniscule. Steinbeck pointedly distinguishes between the selfishness of the moneyed class and the altruism of the working poor. In contrast to and in conflict with this policy of selfishness stands the migrants’ behavior toward one another. Aware that their livelihood and survival depend upon their devotion to the collective good, the migrants unite—sharing their dreams as well as their burdens—in order to survive. 
  • Evan G on 29 Sep 11
     
    An overall summary of the depression/GOW. It especially hits on the selifshness of the rich, who seek to keep the poor divided, as well as on the unity of the poor, who die and sacrifice for each other. It contains an EXCELLENT quote from Steinbeck which cynically describes human nature, basically saying that nice guys are admired, but they never get ahead. Greedy, mean guys are hated, but they are admired for their success.  Again, later  it ties into crushing the migrants' dreams in order to keep them down and divided.
Connor P

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#4 Malcolm X maturity control destiny

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  • The work tells of Malcolm's rise from a life of crime and sin to deliverance through his conversion to the Nation of Islam, then his repudiation of that sect in favor of a more inclusive vision of world and racial unity.
  • Connor P on 08 Jan 12
     
    This shows that Malcolm X grows from his early ignorance to control his own destiny. His maturity is finally acheived as he grows to make his own decisions. X never looks back from this point on.
David D

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malcolm x

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  • David D on 09 Jan 12
     
    I live like a man who's already dead," Malcolm X said last Thursday in a two-hour interview in the Harlem office of his Organization for Afro-American Unity. "I'm a marked man," he said slowly as he fingered the horn-rimmed glasses he wore and leaned forward to give emphasis to his words.
  • David D on 09 Jan 12
     
    This is a picture and a copy of the text of the article written in the New York Times about Malcolm X's assassination. It contains interesting quotes in which Malcolm knows he will soon be killed.
Evan G

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Grapes of Wrath

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  • Steinbeck consistently and woefully points to the fact that the migrants’ great suffering is caused not by bad weather or mere misfortune but by their fellow human beings. Historical, social, and economic circumstances separate people into rich and poor, landowner and tenant, and the people in the dominant roles struggle viciously to preserve their positions.
  • In order to protect themselves from such danger, the landowners create a system in which the migrants are treated like animals, shuffled from one filthy roadside camp to the next, denied livable wages, and forced to turn against their brethren simply to survive.
  • ” In the face of adversity, the livelihood of the migrants depends upon their union. As Tom eventually realizes, “his” people are all people.
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  • . Simple self-interest motivates the landowners and businessmen to sustain a system that sinks thousands of families into poverty.
  • Evan G on 28 Sep 11
     
    Although Sparknotes is a very stereotypcial website on novels, it's still a very effective source of information. It makes blatantly clear the fact that the rich, aristocratic upper class is mainly responsible for the poverty and economic devastation in the country. The rich get richer at the cost of the destruction of the lower class. The workers are treated poorly in an effort to keep them desperate, which in turn keeps the rich people rich. Selfishness and greed, key themes in practically every novel read so far, is clarified and pointed out. The condition of the migrants is no accident, it's an intentional, deliberate plot to oppress them. Their only hope is through unity.
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