Alex Teague Language Arts outline 5-2-07 3rd period Alice Walker Outline I. Alice Walker was not only one of the most superior African American writers over the century‚ but also an activist in the civil rights movement‚ growing up in the time period where African Americans were just beginning to experience equality. In addition to her work about race‚ she wrote about the poor treatment that black women faced‚ and was often criticized for her portrayal of the black man being the
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Go Ask Alice Have you ever had a problem? I’m sure you have because everybody sometime in there life does. The book I read Go Ask Alice by an anonymous author is all about problems‚ conflicts‚ and how to deal with them. I would give a lot of information on the author if that was possible‚ but the author is anonymous so I can not do so. From the very first page I had a hunch that this book was about a drug addiction problem. "SUGAR & SPICE & EVERYTHING NICE; ACID & SMACK & NO WAY BACK" (page
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It was Alice Walker who famously said “No person is your friend who demands your silence‚ or denies your right to grow.” Originally written in her essay In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens‚ Walker was seeking to convey that acceptance of bigotry‚ whether it be racism or sexism‚ is ill-advised beyond belief. The Civil Rights movement‚ beginning during Walker’s youth‚ helped spur ideas of equality‚ allowing her to voice her opinions and call attention to such an issue. As a huge advocate of civil rights
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Some people said their life is like Truman’s life. Because their life were control of another. And they’re not living in their own life. To know who really we are‚ we need to do the same thing like Truman did. The Truman Show is kind a parallel with Allegory of the Cave because Truman and the prisoners both were trapped in some’s cage. They didn’t know their reality is not real. The escape prisoner and Truman were finally discovered the truth outside the world. They realize their past is nothing but
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Alice Malsenior Walker was born February 9‚ 1944‚ in Putnam county located in Eatonton Georgia. Struggles of being a black woman in the 1960’s and a childhood accident would eventually help her write her most famous book The Color Purple. She would also go on to attempt to thank her brother for giving her confidence and courage to follow her dreams but he died before she had chance. Alice Walker’s work has made her an acclaimed book and poem writer. Alice’s work in both the civil rights movement
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Pain to Resilient The novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker depicts racial tension during the 1930s and uses the colors purple and red to symbolize Celie and Sofia’s hardships as African American women during this time period. Alice Walker married a civil rights attorney‚ Melvyn Leventhal‚ in 1967‚ making them the first interracially married couple in Jackson‚ Mississippi. Even though slaves were no longer present in that time period‚ African Americans were still discriminated against‚ and Walker
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attention to the dancing of the leaves that seduced her into nothingness. In front of the class‚ Alice Walker was thinking about her lipstick and Tina’s new pink purse. The one she always wanted but couldn’t have. The bell rung. Walker arranged her new blue shirt and sighed. “What is it Alice?” reddish boy asked with a somewhat annoyed air. “Everything!” she replied. Jimmy however‚ left the desk as soon as Alice began her story and went to two girls sitting alone by the window. There she listened to stories
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Some of the characters in the story are‚ Alice Sebold(the main character)‚ Alice’s mother‚ Bud Sebold(her father)‚ Mary Alice(her best friend)‚ Lila(roommate/ friend)‚ Dr.Husa(the doctor who examined her after the rape)‚ Ken Childs( he had a crush on her and spent the night with her and took pictures of her‚ the night of the rape)‚ the rapist and many more. The protagonist of the story is Alice Sebold and the antagonist was the rapist. This event happened on May 8‚ 1981‚ while walking through Thorden
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“Do not wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you got to make yourself (Quotina 2015)”. Alice Walker is an African American author and activist. Walker is best known for her Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award- Winning Novel‚ The Color Purple (Famous Birthdays 2015) Walker met Martin Luther King Jr. in the early 1960s and worked in Mississippi as a Civil Rights activist during that time (Biography 2015). Walker influenced society in a positive way as a Pulitzer
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Still Alice by Lisa Genova is a sensational novel about one woman’s journey through her everyday life as she battles against early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Alice Howland is a 50 year old professor at Harvard university‚ and one could say that she lives a very prestigious life; she is one of the top rated professors at Harvard‚ she has 3 wonderful kids and a loving husband‚ and she is pretty well off financially. Alice’s life begins to take a turn when she suddenly starts forgetting things‚ and
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