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On Nature in Frankenstein - 0 views

  • Shelley uses nature as a restorative agent for Victor Frankenstein
  • repeatedly shuns humanity and seeks nature for health, relaxation and to strengthen his spirits.
  • he concept of nature as therapy was most likely not new to Shelley, having probably read the writings of Coleridge,
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    This source discusses the role of nature in Frankenstein, and how it relates to the main characters as well as to TIntern Abbey. Good source that discusses the qualities of romanticism within the novel
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Matthew Lynch, Ed.D.: Are African Americans Losing the Race? Part I - 0 views

  • 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.
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    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.
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Is The White Man The Devil? - 0 views

  • You so-called Blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans has allowed an enemy to control your mind. You have allowed a devil to control your mind.
  • The so-called white man decides what is taught to you in school and these so-called institutions of higher learning
  • You Blacks and Hispanics are killing each other in the ghettos now because this white devil has you one against the other and his ways have become your way.
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    Like the pre-Mecca Malcolm, this guy rages against whites, calling us the devils, just like Malcolm X! He brings up valid points regarding the mind control enforced by whites upon other minorities. Whites rule the education systems of America, as well as most of the media, so it is easy for them to decide what to teach to other races. Also, as blacks and other minorities acclimate and Americanize, they lose the sense of their own culture, and are 'whited out' so to speak.
Evan G

Whites favor law against interracial marriage where? | Gene Expression | Discover Magazine - 0 views

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    This is a touchy subject, and there are no quotes, HOWEVER this site was really neat because it provides a lot of modern statistics regarding those who favor laws AGAINST interracial marriage, based on race, religion, age, etc. In the same way that Malcolm and Shorty were arrested for being with white girls, rather than for the theft at hand, many modern people in America favor bans on interracial marriage.
Evan G

Black Men Can't Get Jobs | DarkOneSun's Blog - 0 views

  • 5-10 calls per day from interested job recruiters.  It’s all good until they hear my voice on the phone, and they can tell that I am a black man.  In spite of having a stellar resume, it all goes downhill from there.
  • I have had to watch as colleagues that I went to school with found jobs before I did with the same damn degree I had; and I graduated a year before they did!
  • People LAUGHED at the black man’s economic situation.  However, now that white America, and everyone else is feeling the sting, all of a sudden, they want to start a damn movement, and they expect US to join?
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  • As for the black people who are actually joining this Occupy Wall Street movement, and especially black men, I don’t even know why they are even bothering.  Black folks are ALWAYS trying to be a part of something; a part of something that doesn’t really give a damn about you.
  • I am seeing niggas out here trying to be martyrs in the Occupy movement.  These cats must be crazy.
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    Although this is a kind of ghetto site, it hit hard because it was a lot like Malcolm himself. In a protest to the blacks joining the Occupy Wall Street Movement, the author comments that he has been denied countless jobs, only because he is black. Despite having better credentials than many of his white friends, once employers discover his color, it's all over. Also, like the Nation of Islam and the Bro Hood, this guy talks about how the poor whites in the Occupy movements are only in it for themselves, and once they get what they want, they'll just forget about the black members. Unfortunately, this is modern, contemporary stuff that is going on now.
Evan G

Horrific life experiences helped shape Malcolm X | Share News - Local Canadian, Caribbe... - 0 views

  • Recognizing that the name he was given at birth was forced on his ancestors by the White people who at some point had owned his ancestors
  • Louise Little, traumatized by the horrific murder of her husband, cheated of the insurance money she should have received at his death and unable to find work to support her children was further victimized when the government imprisoned her in a mental institution, seized and scattered her children into various foster homes.
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    Source discusses the name trouble: the blacks are given names by their white slaveholders. Links to IM---blacks cannot find their own identity if they are being named and depersonified by the whites! Also discusses Malcolm's mom, who suffers, like IM, to the point of losing her mind and sanity, all at the hands of the white oppressors. 
Evan G

The Millions : Solving for X: Malcolm X and White Readers - 0 views

  • be taken in by this obvious charlatan with his cockamamie racial origin theories and his sad parade of pregnant secretaries?
  • White people are not evil by nature, Malcolm now says, but become evil through social conditioning, which means that a white person can choose not to be evil.
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    Similar to IM and the BroHood, Malcolm is absolutely hoodwinked by the supposedly honorable Elijah Muhammad. He believes all the clowny doctrine, about the black master race and refuses to see the obvious truth-the Elijah is simply using Malcolm to promote his own hypocritical program. In addition, the site goes on to discuss how Malcolm comes to learn that not all whites are evil by nature; it is the society and the racist atmosphere that push whites to abuse and oppress blacks.
Evan G

Louis Farrakhan: Jews Have 'Undeniable Record' Of Black Oppression - 0 views

  • "We could charge you with being the most deceitful so-called friend, while your history with us shows you have been our worst enemy," he wrote.
  • Your present reality is sitting on top of the world in power, with riches and influences, while the masses of my people ... are in the worst condition of any member of the human family."
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    Some Muslim guy calls the Jews racist; just like Malcolm .His point: even though both Jews and blacks are minorities, the Jews end up rich and powerful, while the blacks end up poor, in ghettos, and oppressed.
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    Hey, not saying I believe it, and not trying to be anti semitic! Just making links to Malcolm!
Evan G

shsaplit - How Racism Prevents the Invisible Man from Attaining Goals and his Identity - 1 views

  • the Invisible Man felt that in order to reach his goals he had to have a white lifestyle and was insecure within his true culture. This hindered his goals because he was trying too hard, and once he accepted who he was and where he came from, including his culture and the foods that came with it, he could begin to grow and become the person he once wished to be.
  • He never realized that the brotherhood was bound for nowhere and they were just averting him from achieveing something greater. They treated him unequally such as any other negro in the civil rights movement or the Jews in the holocaust, he was an unheard voice.
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    Discusses direct correlations between quotes from IM and the racist impact they have upon him. As seen in the case of the yams, it is only after IM decides to accept his own culture and past that he can have his own identity. Until then, he is still trying to live white. Also, back to the theme of oppression, the Brotherhood was acting in the name of blacks, yet truly just held IM back, hovering inches from success, in order to ensure that he never gets his fully deserved recognition or rights.
Evan G

Discrimination against blacks linked to dehumanization, study finds - 1 views

  • many Americans subconsciously associate blacks with apes.
  • society is more likely to condone violence against black criminal suspects as a result of its broader inability to accept African Americans as fully human, according to the researchers.
  • stressed that dehumanization and animal imagery have been used for centuries to justify violence against many oppressed groups.
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    Although this doesn't 100% directly address IM himself, this study by Stanford has swagger! It's a direct, fascinating study which ought to disappoint whites with their own behavior. Apparently, the majority of whites relate blacks to apes and gorillas, which is not only disrespectful, but also dehumanizes them. As a result, by likening blacks to animals, more whites are prone to tolerate anti-black violence, or, at least the usage of cruel words, such as Nigga, which offend and further dehumanize African Americans.
Evan G

Bellow's review of Ellison - 0 views

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    "Most Americans thus are Invisible." Discusses both the faults of the novel as well as the powerful impact of the novel, and the application of it to all Americans, both past and contemporary. 
Evan G

Books of the Times - 1 views

  • befuddled hero's adventures among the "brothers" area fine demonstration of thought control, party discipline, duplicity and treachery.
  • But his role as a man acted upon more often than acting, as a symbol of doubt, perplexity, betrayal and defeat, robs him of the individual identity of the people who play a part in his life.
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    Discusses the Brotherhood's effects upon IM. Although supposedly designed to boost visibility and rights of black men, the party really only bends the thoughts, discipline, and lives of its followers to its own gain. Like Bledsoe, the Brotherhood bleeds the black men dry in order to keep them oppressed, while the top Brothers, white brothers, profit and thrive.
Evan G

What makes Ellison's Invisible Man Invisible? // ErichMusick.com - 1 views

  • The white people of the nation, especially in the South, see the narrator as subhuman - to them, the narrator is a worthless piece of trash
  • What will a black child think if, while growing up, the slogan, "If you're white, you're right" becomes embedded in his mind?
  • At the same time, though, Jack sees the narrator as little more than a tool and cares only that he can assist his organization, the Brotherhood.
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  • Indeed, the narrator is becoming someone else – the man the Brotherhood wants him to be
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    This source discusses the dehumanization of IM. Constantly, people use IM for their own benefit, and manipulate him to do their will. He is seen as an asset, even by the Brotherhood, the very organization which is supposed to be fighting invisibility. Over time, his identity is so manipulated and bent to the will of others that by the epilogue, IM has lost track of who he himself is supposed to be.
Evan G

Women as Sex Objects in Ellison's Invisible Man: Animal Imagery, Physical Description, ... - 0 views

  • This woman plays the role of a sex object; she is simply an object to be stared at, not a person.
  • Though the narrator’s internal conflict hints that he is aware these women should be more than sex objects, he never investigates this or protests against it; he is aware of his inner conflict, but ultimately lets his “biological” side overcome his “ideological” side.
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    Source which coincides with Ellison's novel-ending accusation, that everyone, regardless of color or gender, oppresses someone else. In this case, IM oppresses women, viewing them as sex objects, rather than as living, breathing, human beings. Although he knows it's hypocritical to protest dehumanization and then to use people for himself, he allows himself to be swept away and to use the women anyway.
Evan G

http://faculty.ccc.edu/colleges/wright/greatbooks/Program/Symposm/Issue1/Fosse.htm - 0 views

  • narrator in his search for identity in a color‑conscious society whose constricting social and cultural bigotry produces an accelerated pattern of violence and oppression which attempts to efface the narrator of his individuality, thus assigning him an "invisible" non‑identity within America.
  • It is this circus clown act that strives to keep people of color oppressed and running, stripping all who fall under its big‑tent canopy of their dignity, humanity, and their rights to be free individuals of a multi‑faceted society.
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    Discusses the loss of identity that IM undergoes as he is constantly viewed as a member of a race, rather than as an individual human. The source goes on to mention the stripping away of IM's individuality by the society around him, which refuses to acknowledge his human presence. Like a clown in a circus, no one takes him seriously, he is a means to an end. It ends by discussing how he has for so long allowed others to shape who he is; finally, in his hole, he himself decides to shape his own fate.
Evan G

The Great Gatsby Study Guide - 0 views

  • New York City is a symbol of what America has become in the 1920's : a place where anything goes, where money is made and bootleggers flourish, and where the World Series can be fixed by a man such as Meyer Wolfsheim.
  • The wealthy families in the novel such as Gatsby or the Buchanans, were always trying to impress rather than trying to be themselves.
  • The morals of people with great wealth seem to be less than desirable, but many times are more socially accepted than lower classes.
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    Discusses appearance vs reality and  talks about the hypocrisy of the morality of the time period: rich people can have the poorest morals of everyone, yet it is more acceptable than poor people with good morals
Evan G

The Great Gatsby Setting - 0 views

  • Nobody’s concerned about politics or spiritual matters – but everybody cares about how they are perceived socially. The social climate demands respectability; it asks people to conform to certain standards
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    Talks about themes such as setting and appearance vs reality. Clearly, people aren't focused on internal qualities such as politics or religion; the rich care only about how they are perceived and how they appear. The need for social acceptance gives way to the appearance vs reality theme
Evan G

Analysis of Corruption in Nick Carraway of the Great Gatsby. Essays on Literary Works - 0 views

  • the American Dream has transformed from a pure ideal of security into a convoluted scheme of materialistic power.
  • Jay Gatsby, who epitomizes the purest characteristic of the American Dream: everlasting hope.
  • depravity of the modern dream to wealth, privilege, and the void of humanity that those aspects create. Money is clearly identified as the central proponent of the dream's destruction; it becomes easily entangled with hope and success, inevitably replacing their places in the American Dream with materialism.
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    Discusses the conversion and corruption of the American dream, which becomes more materialistic and greedy than ever. Even Gatsby, the eternal optimist, an archetypal dreamer, makes his fortunes through underhanded, sneaky ways with his partner Wolfsheim.
Evan G

SparkNotes: The Great Gatsby: Themes, Motifs & Symbols - 0 views

  • era of decayed social and moral values, evidenced in its overarching cynicism, greed, and empty pursuit of pleasure. The reckless jubilance that led to decadent parties
  • newly rich as being vulgar, gaudy, ostentatious, and lacking in social graces and taste.
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    Discusses the impact of setting on the plot and purpose of the novel, and how the various rich groups have corrupted the American dream from an innocent, ambitious hope for fortune into greed, debauchery, and misbehavior
Evan G

Gender Wage Gap: Are you paid as much as a man if he had your job? - 0 views

  • Women working full time—not part time, not on maternity leave, not as consultants—still earn only 77 cents for every full-time male dollar.
  • If you’re a young woman who graduated last summer from high school, you will earn $700,000 less than the young man standing in line with you to get his diploma over your working life.
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    Just a bunch of helpful statistical data about women being paid less; even during modern days. Also would have been relatively helpful on the woman essay from her little essay
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