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Willie C

Battle Royal or the Invisible Man - 2 views

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invisible man

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    "The white men menacingly watch as the young men tremble with fear, knowing that in the time they live, a Black man who demonstrates sexual interest in a white woman risks being lynched"
  • Willie C on 09 Jan 12
     
    This source provides a detailed look at the battle royal, and this quote highlights the oppression that is evident in the first chapter.
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Invisible Man - 0 views

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    "A person of considerable affectation, he can manage even in striped trousers and a swallow-tail coat topped by an ascot tie to make himself look humble"
  • Willie C on 09 Jan 12
     
    This entry is in Novels for Students, and provides details like themes and character development. This gives the reader another look at Bledsoe.
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Ellison, Ralph (1914-1994) - 0 views

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    "He accomplishes this by always remaining a man who. He refuses to be put into attributive categories, but subordinates the attributes to himself. He does not say, "I am a Negro, a writer, an American." He says, "I am a man who is a Negro, a writer, an American."
  • Willie C on 09 Jan 12
     
    This source provides details on Ralph Ellison's background, and how he uses the writing style of making traits secondary instead of claiming them, which enhances his writing and makes it less self centered.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X - 0 views

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    "He is aided by a surprisingly good library in jail, of which Malcolm X takes full advantage. As well, he takes correspondence courses in a variety of subjects-even Latin"
  • Willie C on 09 Jan 12
     
    This site provides detailed descriptions of characters and themes from Malcolm X. This is from the self discovery through education theme.
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Malcolm X (Malik El-Shabazz) - 0 views

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    "The significance of Malcolm became apparent only after his death. While still incomplete by the time of his murder, his black nationalist philosophy became the most important reference point for the emerging Black Power movement"
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    This source provide background to Malcolm X with a good finish to his legacy and what he left behind.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X - 1 views

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malcolm x

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    "Malcolm is appalled at black people who try to become more "white" by adopting "white" forms of speech and dress"
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    This source shows the complete background of Malcolm's life, and this quote focuses on the effect that blacks in society that try to become white have on him.
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Gale Power Search - Document - 1 views

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    "he saw his task as waking up "dead Negroes" by revealing the truth about America and about themselves"
  • Willie C on 09 Jan 12
     
    This source provides details about Malcolm's life, and this quote shows direct correspondence to Invisible Man. The people in Invisible Man are sleeping and not truly living like the people here.
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Background to Invisible Man - 0 views

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    "Oklahoma-a rogue state of sorts, Southern in geography, but not slaveholding-gave mixed messages to the young Ellison"
  • Willie C on 05 Jan 12
     
    This source discusses the background of Ralph Ellison, and his upbringing and how it shaped the way he wrote "Invisible Man". The source shows how his childhood and experiences make the novel have themes and topics still relevant today.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X - 0 views

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    "By showing the prejudice and racism Malcolm X faced since he was young, the reader understands what he advocates for more"
  • Willie C on 05 Jan 12
     
    This source discusses what brought Malcolm to his realizations about racism and how he portrays it to the readers in his autobiography. This source argues that it is effective to tell his story and then discuss his views.
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Invisible Man Notes & Themes and Topics - 2 views

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    "Much of the Invisible Man's experience is betrayal by the people and ideals that he trusts"
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    This source provides detailed examples of how IM's experiences are plagued by betrayal, both by white people and black people.
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Where Is the Civil in the Invisible Man's Disobedience? - 0 views

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    "Ultimately, the lack of civil disobedience in Invisible Man follows the lack of recognition and the legal invisibility of African Americans in the United States of the 1930's"
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    This source criticizes IM for his lack of action. It claims that his lack of disobedience and blindness to his situation ultimately parallels that of many African Americans in the early 1900's, explaining why their oppression was allowed to go on.
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Invisible Man - 2 views

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    "Here, Ellison suggests the narrator's invisibility to the Brotherhood and his blindness to his own exploitation by the group"
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    This source provides a detailed analysis of the entire novel, highlighting the theme of invisibility and blindness. Here it describes how IM is betrayed by the Brotherhood, and how blind he was to the whole ordeal.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X - 0 views

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    "Distraught when a personal rift between him and Elijah Muhammad-over Muhammad's alleged extramarital affairs, as well as their growing political differences-led to his ouster and silencing"
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    This provides a detailed overview of the novel, focusing in this section on his falling out with Elijah Muhammad. Malcolm is devastated by this new knowledge and it shows an accurate depiction of how he changed his life when he traveled to Mecca.
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Suffering in the Autobiography of Malcolm X - 0 views

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    "Malcolm describes the typical convert as a man put into a cage by a white judge"
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    This provides a detailed look at Malcolm's suffering. I focused on how the white people he has encountered in his life have played a large role in it.
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Gale- Gatsby - 0 views

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the great gatsby ethics america money rich

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    "and similarly criticized the rich thugs with no values, tapped into cultural pessimism, and gave readers a glimpse into chaos. The Great Gatsby is the tale of the irresponsible rich"
  • Willie C on 25 Oct 11
     
    This quote shows that the overview look on The Great Gatsby is about the irresponsible rich, who do not take responsibility for their actions, because they believe their money excludes them from ethics.
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Poltics in the Gilded Age - 0 views

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the great gatsby treatment of the worker ethics treatment

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    "By the 1890s the nation was approaching a state of crisis. With increased on industrialization in the workplace is becoming ever more dangerous, and businesses refuse to accept responsibility for injuries to workers"
  • Willie C on 24 Oct 11
     
    This source shows the politics of the gilded age of America, which was highlighted by the lack of responsibility of the government and business owners. This fits perfectly into the theme of Gatsby, where the rich people go to Gatsby's party to get drunk and wreak things, and not have to take the blame for it.
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A Room of One's Own - 0 views

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treatment of the worker a room of one's own treatment poor america women

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    "The conditions that are favourable to imaginative work are discussed, including the right relation of the sexes. Finally an attempt is made to outline the present state of affairs and to forecast what effect comparative freedom and independence will have upon women's artistic work in the future"
  • Willie C on 12 Oct 11
     
    This source outlines Woolf's authorial purpose in the novel which includes to describe the limitations that one sex or social class will have when trying to do certain jobs and activities.
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Images of Enslavement and Emancipation in Virginia - 0 views

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a room of one's own treatment of the worker ethics workers

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    "By appealing to her readers' senses, Woolf liberates deep emotional responses while at the same time exposing a host of related impressions too cumbersome to discuss in full but too persuasive to ignore"
  • Willie C on 12 Oct 11
     
    This source shows how Woolf's descriptions are vivid and she gets her point across using strong diction to evoke an emotional response and sell the reader on her ideas.
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Nickel and Dimed - 0 views

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nickel and dimed treatment of the worker ethics poor workers

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    "...documents the daily tribulations of retail, housecleaning, and restaurant workers: daily humiliation from management, the inability to take time off for illness without docking pay, recriminations for promoting unions, company health insurance that is still unaffordable, etc"
  • Willie C on 03 Oct 11
     
    This quote comes from a personal blog but highlights important points about the hardships she endures while performing the various duties.
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The Simple Dollar » Review: Nickel and Dimed - 1 views

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nickel and dimed treatment of the worker workers poor

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    "Another aspect of this general problem is "injury of the spirit;" in other words, when the reward to excel is minimal, why bother trying to excel?"
  • Willie C on 03 Oct 11
     
    This quote is from a personal finance site that reviewed the book. It brings up interesting topics that show a different incite, like when the workers are not compensated for doing an outstanding job rather than a minimalist one, they have no desire to continue to excel.
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