Thomas Lim December 9‚ 2010 English 2 Professor Padilla Themes of Racism and Segregation in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings By Maya Angelou The purpose of this paper is to introduce‚ discuss‚ and analyze the novel I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. Specifically it will discuss the themes of racism and segregation‚ and how these strong themes are woven throughout this moving autobiography. Maya Angelou recounts the story of her early life‚ including the racism and segregation
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1) The first woman president of India -- Smt. Pratibha Patil 2) The first lady to become "Miss World" -- Rita Faria 3) The first woman judge in Supreme Court -- Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi ...4) The first woman Ambassador -- Miss C.B. Muthamma 5) The first woman Governor of a State in free India -- Mrs. Sarojini Naidu (1925) 6) The first woman Prime Minister -- Mrs. Indira Gandhi 7) The first woman to climb Mount Everest -- Bachhendri Pal The first woman to climb Mount Everest
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good people‚ and to overall become a strong‚ integrated part of society. In our english classes more specifically‚ we are taught to be these people through the morals that are instilled in the pieces we study. In Francine Prose’s essay on education‚ I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read she inaccurately claims that the importance our teachers set upon those values squanders any appreciation built for the quality of an author’s diction and syntax. In english‚ much more than any other class‚ students
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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings In the autobiography‚ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‚ Maya Angelou shares the story of her life living from Stamps‚ Arkansas‚ through San Francisco‚ California in the time of the 1930s. She shows how she overcomes a great burden that prevented her from a better life. We focus on Angelou with her family and life that displays how one thing in our lives forms everything leading afterwards. In the book‚ we see the young Angelou as a curious‚ smart girl who is just
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Life As We Know it There she was sitting in the driver’s seat on a cold crisp morning wanting to go home‚ but not sure of where she is or which way to begin the trip back home; an extreme state of confusion engulfs her. Wondering‚ “How did I get here?” “Where am I?” Finally‚ in the distance‚ granny sees a car approaching and her entire body freezes with fear‚ because a stranger is getting closer and closer to her in this strange place. Thoughts run through her mind that causes her to panic. These
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October 20‚ 2013 How to Solve the Reading Crisis in our Schools vs. I Know Why the Caged Bird cannot Read Both articles talk about the reading crisis in our school today. In Francine Prose’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird cannot Read” she states that a lot of our kids in school today are not interested in literature because the books are outdated and talk in a way that students can understand. However the other article states that the problem is more at the elementary level. It states there are three
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Francine Prose’s‚ I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read‚ proves many points about literature and the effect it has on students. I agree with Prose in such a sense that I believe students should read literature‚ not to get a better understanding of the “behind-the-scenes” of the story‚ or because it was assigned to them‚ but because they want to read it and that they will actually read the story thoroughly‚ understand it‚ and apply it to themselves and their life. I have taken English classes where
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Zhumabekov Adilzhan 11”A” How do we know what we know? We know a lot of things‚ but have we ever asked ourselves: “How do we know what we know?” As an example let’s take a student. A student gets knowledge from the teachers in the school. But why that student unreservedly listens in what does teacher say? The main reason is that a student believes‚ that his teacher teach him only truth. And if you make so that teacher tells incorrect information‚ a student will just remember it and will not try
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In “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read” Francine Prose confronts this plummeting interest in literature among teenagers. The United States has been afflicted with this disinterest for some time—young students are instilled with passion for math and science yet care little for English and literature. Attempting to explain this disparity‚ Prose argues that mediocre literature options and shoddy teaching methods leave students without any connection to the material they read. Unfortunately‚ while
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a single mother and I surviving the cold‚ the hunger and the hardship. After dad had died in the Great War‚ mom grew ill‚ and I was faced with terrible notion that if I didn?t take charge we would not make through Montreal?s winter. By chance I was hired to clean the aisles of a theatre; not a classy theatre but one where at least the orchestras came to play every Saturday night. The week?s pay was no more than enough to purchase the bare necessities‚ but I pulled through. I did not have the clothes
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