Maya Angelou’s occupation Conductorrette from I know Why the Caged Bird Sings is written in the first-person point of view. The narrator is a fifteen-year-old black girl. She wants to find a job that will suit her age but that will also be one the really has an interest for. The narrator decides she wants to be the first Negro on the San Francisco streetcars. Getting the job‚ however‚ wasn’t an easy task‚ and neither was having to deal with the discrimination of her co-workers. In the beginning
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I have to write a paper to see the papers I need so this is what you get...I’m sorry for any inconvenience because of me...I just need one more paper!!!! My essay is too short you say? Well then I guess I’ll have to make it longer...hmmmm what should I write about? I know!! I’ll write about how today’s education system is awful and terrible. Today’s education system is whack. They cause students to want to kill themselves because of stress...today’s average high school students have higher stress
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Ogden Nash’s poem‚ "I do‚ I will‚ I have" is about the formal union of a man and a women. It’s usually recognized by the law in which they become husband and wife. In other words‚ it’s a poem about a marriage. He’s describing the way a marriage works. I think many people could agree or disagree with his views‚ however‚ he outlines the basics to a marriage. Without describing his poem line from line‚ the overall purpose of this poem is to point out that marriages are always different. Typically
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When do we know when the police goes too far? The police are supposed to prevent people braking the law. They are supposed to keep order. However‚ some does not for fill the justice and fairness. I think the situation can be divided into two groups. The individuals‚ those who are actually not qualified to the job and the Law infirmed. The one who decide what the people can do and cannot do. Sometimes the world are not as beautiful as some believes. For personal gain There are many police officer
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could hardly believe that [he] was so far away from home‚ yet there was nothing familiar in [his] surroundings‚” except for his Gideon Bible‚ which makes him homesick‚ resulting in him setting the book aside. He then goes on to say “This was New York. I had to
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I chose Dr. Lincoln because he shows how racist people were before in that time and how they could be given a lot and still not help them if they were black. I came across Dr. Lincoln in chapter 24 in a book called I Know Where The Caged Bird Sings. Dr. Lincoln is a man that went through school to get a degree to get a dentistry. Dr. Lincoln looks like a normal or in other words common white guy. He is a normal white guy because he has brown hair‚ blue eyes. He wears a white jacket because he is
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Text Analysis: Characterization in Autobiography When describing an important individual they have known‚ writers of autobiography often make use of the same methods of characterization as fiction writers do. These methods are listed in the following chart. Directions: In the chart‚ write examples of each method of characterization Angelou used to reveal Mrs. Flowers’s personality traits. Then answer the question that follows. Methods of Characterization Examples Description of a person’s
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“Wouldn’t they be surprised when one day I woke out of my black ugly dream‚ and my real hair‚ which was long and blond‚ would take the place of the kinky mass Momma wouldn’t let me straighten? My light-blue eyes would hypnotize them ...” - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. Colorism is a standard of discrimination by which people with lighter skin are treated more favorably than those with darker skin. Colorism mirrors white supremacy in that those with lighter skin are awarded privileges
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Francine Prose‚ the author of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read”‚ develops her stance that present day literature is stunting student’s abilities when it comes to reading. Prose develops credibility on the subject as she is a mother of two sons in school and an active reader. Research has been done to support her claims as she supplies irrefutable evidence as tp why reading in school has declined. Overall‚ I agree with Prose’s point of view that literary standards are falling due to the fact
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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 are given invaluable opportunities to not only go over an author’s word choice‚ but to actually use their work as a way to build on their own values
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