In this excerpt from Malcolm X's autobiography, he describes to the reader how he gained his education: by teaching himself to read and doing so liberally.
He was in prison, so he had all the time in the world to indulge in whatever the library had to offer.
His search for knowledge began with him wanting to become an impressive conversationalist like his fellow prisoner Bimbi, but later turned into a deep thirst to satisfy his own curiosity and ultimately use his newfound wisdom to help his people.
I too love to absorb information, reading often as I can, as long as the subject intrigues me. For me, this sort of began in the same way it did for Malcolm X.
When Bimbi first made him feel "envy of his stock of knowledge," he began to try to
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When I was younger, my mother taught me quite a bit about the world and how it worked.
Then, some one would come along spouting something I knew for a fact was invalid, but I had not the vocabulary nor the detailed examples to support my views.
I simply knew.
Like Malcolm X, my views would often contradict popular beliefs, which made my situation all the worse (although they were unlike his in context).
Today, I try to make sure I know the words I'm using and the terms I am voicing against thoroughly, and to be able to explain why. I am still having a hard time working on this, however, because transfering from understanding everything in your mind as a whole to having to break it down and explain in ways others might understand proves much more difficult than I presumed.
It is sort of like a geometric proof: Students may know the answer through logic, but the problem at hand insists they go break it all up and explain it anyways.
I assume the point of teaching this skill was to help apply it to real life situations, but sadly, triangles simply aren't the same thing as world
He first began his journey by learning a lot from Elijah Muhammad, who was the leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI). The nation of Islam supported Black Nationalism and racial separation, and they disapproved Americans of European descent. The NOI members were only black Muslims. Elijah Muhammad’s teachings intrigued Malcolm who educated himself more about the NOI and took the last name of X which symbolized his forgotten African identity. Malcolm promoted self-defense and the liberation of African Americans. This is one of the main reasons why more and more African Americans admired Malcolm X because it made them feel like they do have a stand in their life and they can take charge in their beliefs. Within time he developed a better outspoken philosophy than Elijah Muhammad whom he felt didn’t support the civil rights movement. Eventually Elijah Muhammad realized that Malcolm X became too much powerful that he suspended him from the NOI. This is when troubles began to arise slowly for Malcolm X.
Speeches are a method of persuading people to do something. For Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, their speeches were to bring equality for the people of color. However, their approaches are different. Consequently, the effects may be different. An example of their contrasting differences is a speech from each, King’s “I Have a Dream” and X’s “The Black Revolution”. Their speeches used pathos, a central metaphor, and a warning, but was presented differently.
If a survey were to ask a group of individuals whether they could choose to either go to jail or go to college for their education, what would they prefer? Of course, college would be the satisfactory choice to any person because jails are not a place for learning, rather a place for people to be confined for the criminal actions that they have committed. If many of the individuals who would be asked this question, mainly early adults; they would have most likely not have read the autobiography of Malcolm X and the impact of being incarcerated for the crime he had done had on his educational path and how it helped him to be literate so he could interpret the world through writing and understand anything that he read. Many points he made referred
Throughout the years there have been several social movements that have caused a great impact on the world we live in today. History has so many great people to thank for pushing for what they believe was right. But the one particular movement I found interesting, was the individual who helped preached against Americans who were white, committing crimes against black Americans. This individual was known as Malcolm X.
Malcolm X did the same thing skip over words he did not know by the end of the book he had little knowledge of what it was about. He decided that in prison he would teach himself, so he grabbed a dictionary and started to write each word and their definition and once he finished a section he would read them over and over again until he memorized what it meant. He then moved onto reading books about history which in school they will not teach students for some reason. Sometimes self-education will teach a person more than what school will and this is because schools are on a syllabus and they teach the same thing over and over again every year versus a person going on their own reading different books about history not taught in school which in school they don’t tell both sides of the story.
As one of the most proficient civil rights activist of the 1960's, Malcolm X and his speeches were very influential but particularly one speech was highly esteemed, that being the Ballot or the Bullet speech. A speech that was given after the "I have A Dream speech by Dr. Martin Luther King. Despite, Dr. Martin Luther King being a pacifist and also a civil rights activist as well; Malcolm X was more tyrannical and advocated the use of violence. During this era, the democrats were in control of the House of Representatives and the Senate, therefore both the Senate and the House of Representatives were leaning towards providing more civil rights to African-Americans. The purpose of Malcolm X’s speech was to convince African Americans to become more politically aware and to vote members of their own race into office. The year 1964 is known for civil rights activists, racist groups, and political strife. In order to achieve this goal and increase the speeches effectiveness, X utilizes a variety of rhetorical strategies within his speech.
abilities of the people. He feels that after examining people through history, his conclusions of
For example, a common fallacy is the equal sign. The most commonly used symbol in K – 12 and students have hard time understanding it. Its important for the students to know the equal sign, but also the inequality sign. “These signs are how we mathematically represent quantitative relationships” (Van De Walle, Karp, & Bay-Williams, 2016). If the students don’t understand the purpose of equal and inequality signs, then how will they understand and solve a mathematical model. However, misconceptions can be resolved if student are told or supported by a different kind of thinking. Every student can learn if they’re given the opportunity to really understand what they’re
Another reason we should learn algebra is to enhance our pattern recognition skills. Pattern recognition is an important problem solving skill. If I can make a problem match a similar previously solved pattern, then the current problem is solved. This is a powerful tool. So powerful, in fact, that a mathematician’s work is more involved with determining whether a solution exists than actually finding the solution.
quarrel, and can even lead to war. Stimulated by an every-present thirst for knowledge, I
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the good that could be done. He had no idea of the evils that dwelled upon