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    Alice Walker is a dedicated activist and she stands for causes that she has experienced directly. In turn‚ those experiences and personal situations have impacted her writing topics and style. In her writings‚ past and current‚ the conflicts that she writes about are a direct reflection of her life. Alice Walker grew up in the south‚ in poverty and during a period of time that saw the ‘legal’ end of racism but the spirit of racism continued to live on. The struggle to overcome the obstacles she grew

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    In the short story “The Devil and Tom Walker”‚ the author shows greed by the main character selling his soul for a large treasure‚ being a cheap and greedy moneylender‚ and the lack of the main character and his wife sharing the wealth between each other in order to show that people will do anything for money and become rich. “The Devil and Tom Walker” was written by Washington Irving. Washington was a very famous American author. Washington Irving was born in New York on April 3‚ 1783. In his childhood

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    famous 1973 short story Everyday Use. The essay contrasts the characters of Mama and her eldest daughter Dee. Walker analyzes how Dee’s preoccupation with her African heritage (such as exchanging her given name for an adopted African name) is ironically artificial when compared with Mama’s more traditional‚ less pretentious lifestyle. In her 1973 short story Everyday Use‚ Alice Walker draws on her own experiences growing up in the American South to tell the story of an encounter between “Mama”

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    Alice Malsenior Walker is an African American author and activist who write of various personal experiences‚ including the black woman’s struggle. Walker describes herself as a “womanist: a woman who loves other women… Appreciates and prefers woman culture‚ woman’s emotional flexibility… and woman’s strength… Loves the spirit… Loves herself‚ regardless”. Walker writes through her feelings and the morals that she has grown with. One of her famous quotes‚ "It is important to remember yourself‚" quoted

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    (Uncool).” This line of the poem means be confident enough to stand out. Be happy to be different. In the poem Alice Walker uses the phrases “impetuous fools” to describe those who looked down upon outcasts. Do not let society change you. The line at the end of the poem “Qualified to live” means to live your life for you‚ because it is your life. I really like this poem by Alice Walker‚ and the inexplicit meaning behind it. To me this poem told me to love who I am‚ and all my flaws. To not dwell on

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    German story passed down from generation to generation‚ and brought it to American soil by placing its setting during the late 1700’s in New England. "The devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving contains many unrealistic events‚ stereotypes‚ and a few lessons and truths about life. Throughout the folktale "The Devil and Tom Walker" there are many unrealistic events. Most are related to the bargaining between Tom and the devil. This in itself is a extremely unrealistic event. Not to imply that it

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    Name:       School:       Date:       Facilitator:       4.01 “The Devil and Tom Walker” Questions Directions: Answer the following questions in complete sentences. (18 points) 1. Who is the author of “The Devil and Tom Walker”?      washington irving 2. What is the setting of the story?      boston Massachusetts country side 3. Whose treasure is buried in the woods?      Deacon Peabody 4. Why didn’t this person come back and get his treasure?      He was under the influnece of the devil 5. What

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    Alice Walker Alice Malsenior Walker is an African American writer and civil rights activist. She was born in Eatonton‚ Georgia in 1944. Alice Walker is the eighth and youngest child of her parents‚ Minnie Grant and Willie Walker. Her parents were sharecroppers. After a childhood accident blinded her in one eye she became a shy and withdrawn child. Walker ended up being the valedictorian of her high school. She attended Spelman College‚ in Atlanta‚ a school for black women. Alice transferred to

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    Alice Walker is a Black female artist who wrote In Search of Our Mothers’ Garden to help encourage more Black female artists to come out and embrace art. The main argument is whether all Black female has the capability of being artistic and creative. Walker starts by writing about a man named Jean Toomer who went to the South in the early 1920s and saw many Black women distressed because they were still coping with the violence by their old White masters. However‚ he discovered an important element

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    The Color Purple I choose to read the book “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker. The book talks about the life of an African-American lady by the name of Celie that lived in the southern United States in the late 1930s. It addresses the numerous issues that included the low ranking of American social culture. In the book it talks about how she wrote books to God because the father she had would beat her and rape her. He also got her pregnant and then she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. Her father

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