...2013 Alice Walker Section 1 Biography According to Michael Mayer, Alice Walker, one of the best-known and most highly respected writers in the United States, was born in Eatonton, Georgia. She was the eighth and last child of Willie Lee and Minnie Lou Grant Walker. Her parents were sharecroppers, and money was not always available as needed. At the tender age of eight, Walker lost sight of one eye when one of her older brothers shot her with a BB gun by accident. This left her in somewhat a depression, and she secluded herself from the other children. Walker felt like she was no longer a little girl because of the traumatic experience she had undergone, and she was filled with shame because she thought she was unpleasant to look at. During this seclusion from other kids of her age, Walker began to write poems. Hence, her career as a writer began. Walker found the love of her life in 1967, a white activist civil rights lawyer named Mel Leventhal, and they married him in 1967. A year later she gave birth to their daughter, Rebecca. It was not until she began teaching that her writing career really took off. She began teaching at Jackson State, then Tougaloo, and finally at Wellesley College. Walker was involved in the Civil Rights Movement and spoke for the women’s movement, the anti-apartheid movement, for the anti-nuclear movement, and against female genital mutilation. She also started her own publishing company: “The Wild Trees Press”, in 1984. Walker refused to...
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...Anitra Hatcher Academic and Professional Success November 2, 2014 Alice Walker After conducting research on several of my favorite authors, I selected Alice Walker’s life and works as the focus of this paper. Walker's accomplishments are substantial. Her novel, The Color Purple, won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book award for fiction. She has authored many other critically acclaimed works, and is recognized as a leading author in the literary world. As I began to dig deeper, however, I found the real reason that I chose to concentrate on this individual. Alice Walker is an African American woman who expresses herself and her life experiences in her writing. I feel like I am connected to the themes and characters Walker develops in her stories. I feel like I am connected to Walker herself. I have been broken in some kind of way or another. I have been abused physically and mentally. Walker has not allowed her struggles to get in the way of her success or happiness. I chose to write about her because she is a woman who faced profound struggles in her young life. She came close to giving up because of a childhood accident and an abortion. Alice Walker was a fierce and determined woman who stayed committed to her goals. Alice Walker faced many challenges. She was one of seven children. She was born in poverty to sharecropper parents on February 9, 1944. Her father was the grandson of slaves. Her father did not want her to get an education in fear that...
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...Morrell Professor Richard Raleigh ENC 1102 (02): Composition and Literature 12 November 2015 Alice Walker From Evelyn C. White’s “A Life” Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, dedicated her life to establishing a literary canon of African American women writers and to encouraging the “survival whole” of all women. She has actively sought to win recognition for literary “foremothers” such as Zora Neale Hurston and to place their contributions within the fabric of her own artistry. Walker was the valedictorian of her high school class, and when she was graduated in 1961, she was offered a scholarship to Spelman College in Atlanta. After traveling to Africa in 1964. Walker returned to the United States and entered Sarah Lawrence College. She soon discovered that she was pregnant, and just as quickly she found herself depressed and on the verge of suicide. Walker made a decision to end the pregnancy instead of her life and subsequently wrote her first published short story, “To Hell with Dying.” She also produced Once (1965), her first published collection of poems, during her years at Sarah Lawrence. Alice entered the world before the midwife’s arrival February 9, 1944(White 12), into a family of sharecroppers near Eatonton, Georgia. Her father, Willie Lee Walker, was the grandson of slaves. Alice birth marked the first time that Mr. and Mrs. Walker were able to pay the midwife for her assistance (White 13) Walker’s relationship with her father became...
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...Alice Walker This video is about a woman by the name of Alice Walker. If you recognize that name that is because she is the person who wrote The Color Purple. Alice Walker was born in Georgia in the 1940s. She was in the middle of the civil rights movement. She saw and experienced everything from peaceful protests all the way to being put in jail for the same thing. Alice experienced the pain of being discriminated against just for being black. There were some things in her life that she could not control and some that she could. She could not control the fact that she was black but she could control the fact she married a person of a different color. So not only was she a person of color but she also married someone of what was called the “opposite color” back then. She experienced many challenges in life because of the color of her skin. Her parents grew up as slaves and she was a sharecropper. Alice worked 11 hours a day for $17 per week to help pay to go to college. She was voted valedictorian in high school. She eventually went on to go to Spelman College and transferred to Sarah Lawrence College on a full scholarship and graduated in 1965. Alice became interested in the civil rights movement because of her professor Howard Zinn. The man that she went on to marry was named Melvyn Roseman Leventhal. After she married him she was a writer for Jackson State College and Tougaloo College. Alice was also inspired by Zora Neale Hurston. Alice went on to write lots of...
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...Alice Walker: The Cost of Her Fame Professor Writers often have a way of awakening people’s inner thoughts; Alice Walker is one of those writers. Many people have been touched by her work, feelings rekindled and relationships restored. Walker’s dreams lead her to many new beginnings and sorrows. Walker’s greatest lost would be her most cherished bond – family. Alice Walker was born in Georgia, on February 9, 1944. Her father was a sharecropper and her mother was a maid. When Walker was eight, her brother accidently shot her in the eye with a BB gun. Unable to get medical treatment, she became blind in one eye and developed a scar. This accident left her feeling unattractive. She became withdrawn and turned to writing. The scar was removed when she was 14, which opened up her world from isolation. She became voted Most Popular, Queen of her Senior Class, and Valedictorian. She attended Spellman College, where Professor Howard Zin, a civil rights activist, influenced her. She transferred to Sarah Lawrence College, where she met Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. After graduating college, she married Melvyn Roseman Leventhal, a Jewish Civil Right activist. They had a daughter named Rebecca. Walker said her daughter was a “living, breathing, and mixed-race embodiment of the new America that they were trying to forge” (Driscoll, 2008). Walker is an advocate for the unheard and overlooked. She is an activist, often involved with organizations, Code Pink and Women for Peace...
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...Alice Walker: An African American Author Alice Malsenior Walker was born on February 9, 1944 in a neighboring community of Eatonton, Georgia to parents of Wille Lee Walker and Minnie Lou Tallulah Grant Walker. In honor of her maternal great-grandmother, Walker changed her middle name to Tallulah-Kate. She was born into a poor sharecropper family, and the youngest of eight children. Even though poor, her family was rich in perspective and kindness. Walker learned to value the beauty in nature from her parents and siblings. Her family also nourished walker’s artistic desires, which included music and painting along with writing. Walker was especially close to her mother, Minnie Lou Walker, whose was love of beauty and legendary gardener. Walker experienced many difficulties in her life, but she overcome her difficulties. Also, Walker pursued many interesting works in her life. Alice Walker is an African American author that my classmates and others would be interested in learning about. First, Walker unforgettable childhood accident happened when she was eight years old. Walker older brother, Curtis, accidentally shot her in the eye with a BB gun, which developed her right eye blind and left her with a white scar. After her accident, Walker believed that she was ugly and became very ashamed of herself. Because of her noticeable scar in her right eye, she became an easy target for the other children in her school who teased her cruelly. Psychologically, Walker grew more focus on...
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...NAME: Madam C.J. Walker (birth name Sarah Breedlove) DATE OF BIRTH: December 23, 1867 PLACE OF BIRTH: Delta, Louisiana DATE OF DEATH: May 25, 1919 PLACE OF DEATH: Irvington-on-Hudson, New York FAMILY BACKGROUND: Sarah Breedlove, who later became known as Madam C. J. Walker, was born into a former-slave family to parents Owen and Minerva Breedlove. She had one older sister, Louvenia and brothers Alexander, James, Solomon and Owen, Jr. Her parents had been slaves on Robert W. Burney's Madison Parish farm which was a battle-staging area during the Civil War for General Ulysses S. Grant and his Union troops. She became an orphan at age 7 when her parents died. To escape a yellow fever epidemic and failing cotton crops, the ten year old Sarah and her sister moved across the river to Vicksburg in 1878 to obtain work. At the age of fourteen, Sarah married Moses McWilliams to escape her sister's abusive husband. They had a daughter, Lelia (later known as A'Lelia Walker, a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance). When Lelia was only two years old, McWilliams died. Sarah's second marriage to John Davis August 11, 1894 failed and ended sometime in 1903. She married for the third time in January, 1906 to newspaper sales agent, Charles Joseph Walker; they divorced in 1912. ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Madam Walker was an entrepreneur who built her empire developing hair products for black women. She claims to have built her company on an actual dream where a large black...
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...MARY E. WALKER By: Rebecca Leadership March 2, 2013 I chose Mary Edwards Walker as my leader for this final project. I have always enjoyed reading a little bit of military history and I always look for stories about people who have gone above and beyond the call of duty or went against the grain. In my opinion, she really set the bar high for other women to follow, and I find her to be an exemplary leader and role model for other women in the business world. Mary Walker was born on November 26, 1832 in Oswego, New York (Unknown, Women in History ). She can accredit her leadership style and personality to her father, Alvah. Her father was a farmer, abolitionist, and a self-taught doctor. During this time, most women did not attend school or work outside the home, but because Mary’s father believed that women should be well educated, he built the first schoolhouse in Oswego on their land known as the Bunker Hill Farm (Unknown, Women in History ). In addition, this farm served as a “station” in the Underground Railroad system that assisted southern slaves to freedom—mainly from western New York into Canada (D. L. Walker 29-30) . Alvah also believed that women’s clothing was too tight and because his daughters had to help on the farm, he prohibited them from wearing the traditional clothing and corsets (Unknown, Women in History ). When Mary turned 18, she spent two years at the Falley Seminary where she was taught Mathematics, Philosophy, Grammar, and...
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...Alice Walker, who was born on February 9th, 1944 in the town of Eatonton, Georgia; the youngest of eight. Her parents were Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Tallulah Walker (Donnelly). The thesis in this essay is to introduce you to Alice Walker and her life. Her impact on writing and her personal life. During Alice Walker's young life, she grew up in a poor family (Donnelly). Her mother often worked as a maid to sustain her husband and eight children (“World Biography”). In 1952 Walker was shot in her eye with a BB gun by her brothers while playing cowboys and Indians. She was shot in her right eye, which severely blinded her (Donnelly). This injury had restricted her from going to certain colleges (“World Biography”). After the injury, Walker quoted that “She found solace in reading and writing poetry” (“Bio.com”). This is what encouraged Walker to begin writing. Also, because Walker was born in the south during segregation, she went to segregated schools (“Bio.com”)...
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...Madam C. J. Walker, an African American, formerly known as Sarah Breedlove, went through many hardships but had the abilities to turn her adversity into prosperity. She went from tending cotton fields to a washerwoman, eventually marrying to escape the abuse of her brother-in-law. She gave birth to a daughter and three years later husband passed away. Madam C.J. Walker decided that she wanted her daughter to have a better life than her own. She had to find the ability to start this journey, to plan, grow and sustain her accomplishments and finally the ability to give back and help others. Many Americans have the dream to start their own company and become successful, but most have the inability to start. Madam C.J. Walker was able to start; she moved her daughter to Denver and worked as a cook while she saved her money to start her business. She discovered the ingredients to put on her scalp to make her hair grow. Many African American people back in her time had poor hygiene and would lose his or her hair. Madam C.J. Walker’s treatment worked wonders on her own scalp and on her friends. She began her own company, selling her Wonderful Hair Grower door to door for a year and a half. Soon she had a following of women selling her products across the country. She began to take out ads in newspapers and soon her products were the talk of Colorado. She married Charles Walker and this when she officially had her name changed to Madam C.J. Walker. “To suggest...
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...Zack Del Medico Ms. Rogers English 11-E/F Essay 1 February 2017 "The Devil and Tom Walker" Why would a story about the devil include characters of a romanticism? Washington Irving wrote the novel The Devil and Tom Walker. Irving uses the following three characteristics of romanticism in his story, Individualism, belief in supernatural, and inspired by beauty of nature. Irving used Individualism in his story in many different ways. “ At length she determined to drive the bargain on her own account, and if she succeeded, to keep all the gain to herself ”(ll. 158-159, 483). This quote shows the use of individualism from Tom's wife who is determined to make a deal with the Devil by herself and not share anything with anyone else. “ Done!...
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...“The Devil and Tom Walker” is a short story written by Washington Irving in 1824. In the story Irving demonstrates the theme that greed affects a person negatively. He shows this in the form of character actions, dialogue, and setting descriptions. Washington accentuates this theme at the beginning when he is describing Tom Walker and his conditions. Walker is described in Part 1 as a “ meager, miserly fellow,” with a wife “as miserly as himself” and a house that “stood alone, and had an air of starvation”. Already it is easy to see that Tom and his wife do not lead a good life. When Tom later meets up with a mysterious man in the swamp his greed and foolhardiness is shown full force. “One would think that to meet with such a singular personage, in...
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...Dr. Leroy T. Walker A Man of Many Firsts Good morning colleagues and friends. It is with pride, pleasure, and gratefulness that I have this opportunity to share the accolades of a great educator, coach, administrator, author, and humanitarian: Dr. Leroy T. Walker. It is particularly an honor because the first time I heard Dr. Walker speak was at the first Leroy T. Walker breakfast in ____ in 19__. The theme of his talk was “Excellence without Excuse,” a simple, but powerful three words that I will never forget. The grandson of slaves and the youngest of 13 children, LeRoy Walker was born on June 14, 1918, in Atlanta, Georgia where he resided until the death of his father when he was nine. He then moved to Harlem with his older brother Joe until his senior year in high school when he returned to Georgia. While living with Joe, Leroy worked in the family's barbeque restaurant and window cleaning businesses during the Great Depression. Big brother Joe instilled a strong work ethic and an attitude of perseverance; never permitting him to rationalize in spite of hard times and prejudice. The first in his family to go to college, Dr. Walker enrolled at Benedict College, an historically black church-related college in Columbia, South Carolina in 1936 where he majored in science and romance languages and graduated with honors in 31/2 years. He lettered in basketball, track and field, and football, earning 11 letters. Walker, who did not play football in high school, tried out...
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...this short story there is an ongoing conflict between the two neighbours Roger, and Frank Walker, which quickly evolves into and direct war between the two neighbours. Roger continuous to take a step further to prevent the evil deeds he anticipate his enemy to do, which leads to some pretty grim stuff, including family wonking and ending with a possible unintentional family slaughter. The main character Roger is seemingly paranoid, mostly at the end of the text. "[…] And I answered myself: What I would do is look around my house in a frenzy for something else dangerous, such as paint, such as thinner, such as household chemicals, and then either ring the house of my enemy with the toxics and set them on fire or pour some into the pool of my enemy […]” (p. 3 ll. 24 -27)s, he truly fears the evil of his not so friendly neighbour Frank Walker. He sort of imprison himself in his house, but mostly his children which are to stay indoor when the neighbour is at home, and besides that is he locking his doors just in case his enemy of a neighbour should get any funky ideas. Roger is rather aggressive in the sense that he quickly draws to weapon and wonks his neighbour before asking any questions. His perception of his not so friendly neighbour is that he is a lunatic who will take any chance he gets to hurt his neighbour and/or his neighbours’ family. Rogers anxiety for his neighbour Walker is clear near the end of the text, were he wakes up sweating in the middle of the night...
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...and/or plagiarism did take place in the writing of this paper, I understand the possible consequences of the act/s, which could include expulsion from Indiana Wesleyan University. In our ebook it states, “Internal marketing requires that everyone in the organization accept marketing concepts and goals and engage in choosing, providing, and communicating, customer value. Only when all employees realize their job is to create, serve, and satisfy customers does the company become an effective marketer” (Keller & Kotler, 2012). Johnnie Walker is a brand of Scotch Whisky owned by Diageo and originated in Ayrshire, Scotland. They came up with, what they thought was, a great commercial. To market their famous Johnny Walker Blue Label Whisky to the Asian customers, they decided to use a animation of Bruce Lee in the commercials. First, Bruce Lee was famous for not ever drinking any type of alcohol. This commercial shows them drinking Johnny Walker Blue Label Whisky. This upset Chinese people as you could imagine. I this same commercial, they showed Bruce Lee speaking Putonghua. Bruce Lee spoke Cantonese. As you could imagine, this too upset many of the Chinese people that saw this commercial. After a huge backlash from several different agencies on behalf of Bruce Lees family and some Chinese people, Diageo quickly pulled the ad from television. This is just one example of a company not doing its research internally before spending millions of dollars on advertising. I work for...
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