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    Jacqueline Rodriguez June 6‚ 2011 Period 5 SOAPSTone Reading Strategy Guide Speaker: The voice of the story “I Know Why The Cage Bird Sings” in the chapter “Champion of The World” is a little African American girl named Maya Angelou. From the research I have done it seems that she is around the age of 6 or 7 years old; do to the fact that Joe’s victorious fight against Carnera was in the year 1935 and Maya was born in 1928. The majority of the African American race in these times of history

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    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the autobiography of Maya Angelou‚ an African American woman raised in the early 1900s‚ and an inspiration to all. As a child‚ she knew her parents had sent Bailey and her to live with their grandmother‚ and believed it was her fault. At the young age of six‚ she meets her father again who takes Bailey and her to meet their mother in St. Louis. For the first few years of her life‚ she suffered from the guilt of being sent away and worse believing that her mother

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    In Alison Wylie’s “How Knowers Know Well” she defines two specific types of epistemic injustice. The first is testimonial injustice and is defined as occurring when an individual’s competence is always being questioned‚ due to certain characteristics of theirs such as gender‚ or race. These individuals are not given the value they deserve‚ due solely to these characteristics. The second type of epistemic injustice‚ is a hermeneutical injustice. A hermeneutical injustice is when there is a lack of

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    in California for a year. Helen and Barry remained a couple‚ Barry going to the local University and Helen being the channel 5 Golden Girl‚ or weather reporter. The real plot of the story begins with Julie receiving a note at home simply stating: "I know what you did last summer." She gets upset over it and after not talking to her for a year since the incident‚ calls Helen to talk to her. Helen arranges a meeting for the three‚ but they all convince each other that it was just a kid pulling a prank

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    I know why the Caged Bird Sings’ by Maya Angelou is an interesting‚ one of the most classic African American novel I have ever come across. While reading the novel‚ in the narration of the female child protagonist‚ the most distinct feature of the novel was its color imagery. Margaret‚ the female protagonist‚ whose point of narration the novel is written in‚ is a Negro. The time period the novel is set is when racism was still prevailing in the States. It is in her narration we find she uses

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    There are some ways that Allison and Jean Rhys both challenge the childhood traumas‚ as well as the social norms and the expectations‚ which silence and restrict their lives as women. In the story‚ “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure” by Allison‚ it talks about the Gibson women. They are the female members who were abused by the men that they loved and shared the same fate. Allison shows what a young girl can feel when she confronts what issue she faced which is abuse. It is based on facts about

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    The logical Fallacies in the article is immense. Within the article by Michelle Malkin‚ there were not a lot of information to back up the supposed facts. Malkin’s article seems to target towards right-wing conservatives or the “undecided” demographic. By appealing to them‚ Malkin’s used different logical fallacies and slander to attack the image towards the president and others at the time. In doing so‚ it can give people the wrong information or impression on the targeted persons in the reading

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    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings showcases events of a girl that loses her voice when a man raped her therefore the future actions of the eight year old are affected by the early actions. The song “I am a Rock” glimpses at the reality that Maya faced‚ from a day glaring out a window alone‚ to building walls from the outside‚ likewise creating a safe space in Stamps‚ Arkansas where she feels the most family ties. Left unaccompanied‚ Bailey finds the loves of his life while back in Stamp‚ as reality

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    not learning much from reading the books assigned by their teachers‚ neither are they enjoying those books. She shares her thoughts to educators‚ students‚ and parents about high school’s reading and why most teenagers disdain reading‚ in her essay “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read”. Francine Prose believes that reading is extremely important in learning‚ therefore it is “important to make sure that high school students are actually reading literature.” (p.90) She is discontented when

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    or we can build ourselves back up to our ideal form. When difficulties arise‚ they’re obstacles put in our way not to stop us but to pull out our real colors‚ to make us endure the harsher paths in order to leave with newfound strengths. Throughout I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‚ Maya Angelou portrays her experiences with adversity‚ as well as the experiences of many others‚ how she copes with them and how she rises above them. Growing up in Stamps‚ Arkansas‚ Maya feels that an enormous displacement

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