ALICE WALKER Alice Walker was an activist and feminist because she protested for the right of blacks to vote in Georgia and Mississippi. She was against racism and also sexism. On March 8th 2003‚ 5‚000 protestors and Alice Walker marched from Malcolm X Park to the White House for women to have the same human rights as men. She also made an activist group with 60 other female activists in order to persuade Israel and Egypt to open their borders in Gaza. She wrote and supported various civil rights
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The Color Purple When Alice Walker‚ the author of the novel The Color Purple‚ was younger she got shot in the right eye by a BB pellet and ever since then she has been self-conscious about the “visible mark.” In The Color Purple the main character Celie believes she is ugly‚ and only good for working on a field and taking care of the children. I believe how Celie sees herself relates to how Alice has seen herself in her personal life. In the book‚ Celie falls in love with Shug who is seen as a beautiful
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In Diane Ackerman’s “Why leaves turn color in the fall”‚ she describes how the seasons give way to fall and how the leaves began to change color. She goes into detail on the chemical and scientific process of this change as well as the difference in color among the species of plants in many parts of the world. She even makes a metaphorical reference that the fall colors signal death and goes on to explain how death brings new life in the end. She gives us plenty of information on the chemical
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And you calling me colored?? When I born‚ I black. When I grow up‚ I black. When I go in sun‚ I black. When I scared‚ I black. When I sick‚ I black. And when I die‚ I still black. And you white people. When you born‚ you pink. When you grow up‚ you white. When you go in sun‚ you red. When you cold‚ you blue. When you scared‚ you yellow. When you sick‚ you green And when you die‚ you grey… And you calling me colored?? Written by an African child and nominated by UN as the Best Poem of 2006. Sayings
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abroad program. Walker graduated from her segregated high school in 1965 as valedictorian. After graduating she worked as a social worker and continued to write stories and having a few published‚ but her break came with the publication of "The Color Purple" which won her a pulitzer prize and a national book award for fiction. Although Walker enjoys writing she claims for her real purpose to be activism. Alice met and marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for civil rights in the 1960s
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“Beauty‚ When the Other Dancer Is the Self” Alice Walker‚ writer on the “The Color Purple” and also “Beauty‚ When the Other Dancer Is the Self” was born in Eastonton‚ Georgia on February 9‚ 1944 (Walker). When Alice was only eight years old she was shot in the eye‚ which then led to this story. In this story‚ Alice Walker used vivid details (imagery) to grab the reader’s attention such as myself. Which just like any story that is important right? This story puts forth automatically that it’s
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“To be kind to all‚ to like many and love a few‚ to be needed and wanted by those we love‚ is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.” -Mary Stuart. The most important theme that Alice Walker empathizes time and time again in The Color Purple‚ is having happiness in life. Because in the story Alice Walker has Celie go through many obstacles throughout the whole book. Having her go through a roller coaster of emotions from being sad in the beginning‚ to all the way to the end of the book
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One can find happiness by the decision they make in their life. When people have difficulties in their life‚ they often feel as if it was faith and they cannot control their happiness. However‚ instead of feeling upset‚ people can choose to be happy by finding a solution to their problems. According to Aristotle‚” [h]appiness depends upon ourselves;” it is us who determine our own emotions and the way we see life. We may choose to coward in fear or we can turn to our better judgment to find the brighter
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think of gold we think of shining bars in a bank vault‚ coins or beautiful jewellery. When we think of gold it’s usually a shining yellow gold however can come in many colours. The colour of gold can range from red through the visible spectrum to purple and violet. Aim The whole point of this experiment was to create gold that wasn’t the colour gold. The aim was to find out how a variable amount of sodium citrate would change the colour of a gold solution. Meaning the hypothesis was: if more
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Selective colour in a photographic image influence the perception of the viewing audience in the sense of manipulating the emotions seen in the imagery observed? With that said‚ do photographs loose that exact emotion when seen in black and white? Color is defined as “the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object‚ usually determined visually by measurement of hue‚ saturation‚ and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue” (quoted from http://www
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