...Malcolm X addresses his educational development through his “prison studies” (68). By simply getting a hold of a dictionary, he accomplished his goals of improving his penmanship, vocabulary and his education overall. He values education as he states before he not only “wasn't articulate” but also not “functional” (68). Malcolm X’s strategy to learn consisted of a dictionary; which he described it as a “miniature encyclopedia” (68). Malcolm X viewed education as a cure to humans, like “intellectual vitamins”(68). Education is a set of skills that one may learn through different resources, but the most important thing is having the motivation to learn and improve your own self. Malcolm X is the epitome of a motivational leader that used his limitations to his benefit of expanding his knowledge while in prison, with limited resources like a simple dictionary. Malcolm X had the motivation within himself and took those experiences and accomplishments to making a change and taking action upon things he cared about, which is something we must all think about in our life time, making a change. “I’ve never been one for inaction” (67) these are the first words Malcolm X uses to begin his Homemade Education Essay, he describes his desire and need of action towards aspects he feels strongly about. During his prison years, he was a follower of Mr. Elijah Muhammad, Islamic culture. He began writing letters to people he knew from the hustling world, but never got a reply. Malcolm X explains...
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...The Chronicles of Generation X: The History, Influential Events, and My Personal Experience Kareem E. Murray COM/172 3/11/2015 Dr. Debra Geiger If you ask anybody about Generation X, nine times out ten people will think you were talking about an X-Men or Wolverine cartoon. In comparison to the X-Men, we have been stereotyped as being frustrated, cynical, hopeless and unmotivated slacker. This subject is more realistic than those lies and titanium claws society want to put on my generation. In a class of our own, you will get a better understanding of Generation X through its history, the influential events and my personal experiences have sharpened such a diverse generation that will always stay on top. Generation X or Gen Xers consist of 50 million members born between 1965 and 1977, from the past generation of the Baby Boomers. In a time where the single most anti-child phase in American history began. In the early 1960's the birth control pill became widely available, and in 1973, abortion was legalized (Coupland 1991). These are two factors that are said to have contributed to the generation small numbers. Compared to Baby Boomer numbers at 76 million and Millennial at 80 million according to Jeff Gordinier in his book, How Generation X Got the Shaft, But Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking (Gordinier 2009). Robert Capa, a photographer for Mangum magazine, was the first person to use the phrase "Generation X". Using it to describe the people who grew up after...
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...and Morally Different African Americans Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. are both household names of men who fought diligently for African American rights in the postmodernism 1960’s. The 1954 Supreme Court ruling favored that segregated educational structure left blacks at a disadvantage. This was the spark that triggered uprising in the following years. Malcolm X and King Jr’s emphasis on their beliefs is evident in the works and actions that they have done through their lives. Their philosophies do differ from one another, as we will see in “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” and with “Letter from Birmingham Jail”. Both men had different approaches and desires for the black community as well as different upbringings that influenced them. We will see how such differences are reflected throughout their work to get a better understanding on how they compare and contrast. Known as Malcolm Little, the Omaha-born future activist suffered an impoverished start in life due to his father’s early demise. Prior to his death, Malcolm’s father was a “follower of Marcus Garvey, who instilled racial pride among the masses of African Americans” (Lauter 3088). To make end’s meet, Malcolm became a drug dealer and thief while living in Harlem, which landed him time in jail. His experience in jail and childhood shaped him and encouraged him in to becoming the activists that he was known for. Malcolm “replaced his own last name with “X” which stands for the African name his ancestors lost...
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...consultant and a CEO. This paper will analyze Reuteman’s article from the main points of who are Millennials, what issues the companies are facing by hiring Generation Y, and solutions for this “culture clash.” The first argument of the article is how to help minimize the frustration between older managers and Millennials. Lisa Orrell is the author of “Millennials Incorporated” and she advises companies on how to deal with Generation Y. She points out that Millennials do not feel valued or respected. One of the issues companies asks Orrell is “how to reduce the friction in the workplace?,” I could not agree more with her explanation that people will leave their managers, not the company. Companies need to adapt and “fire mediocre managers.” Reuteman mentions Dan Epstein to back up his arguments about the “culture clash” between Baby Boomers and Generation Y. Epstein is CEO of ReSource Pro, and 90 percent of his employees are Millennials. He sees a problem with mangers who expect millennials to respond well to the same training they received. This leads to a culture clash as millennials expect more accolades and faster promotions. Epstein counters this by rewarding the employees more often, having annual employee surveys and providing tasks that allow for creativity. As Epstein mentioned culture clash, Tammy Erickson emphasized it. She is an executive fellow who directs a leadership program for senior executives. She is also the author of “Plugged In: The Generation Y Guide to Thriving...
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...Recruiting in Labor Markets Case: Who Says the Young are Good Only at Facebook? Question 1: How different are today’s Gen Y employees from others ( Gen X, Baby Boomers, etc.) in terms of their mindset or perspective about work, life, career, and the world? Be specific about how you define Gen Y, Gen X, Baby Boomers, etc. Question 2: In term of recruitment practices, what adjustments or adaptations should HR managers make to enhance the effectiveness of their recruitment efforts? 1.0 Introduction Different generations have shown different characteristic traits in line with their time's requirements, opportunities and difficulties. They have different expectation, beliefs, lifestyle and work style. People attitudes as well as employees have been shaped by previous generation and current environment where reflected on their mindset or perspective about life. They also feel that they are better than other peers especially when it comes to careers, technology, and lifestyle. In order to resolve the conflict arises from different generation at workplace, the understanding difference generations is a must task in building the successful multigenerational workplace. 2.0 Differences of Generations and Mindset 2.1 Baby Boomers The Baby boomers are all those born in U.S. during the demographic Post–World War II baby boom between 1946 and 1964 and they are predominately in their 40s and 50s. According to Madsen Pirie and Robert M. Worcester (1998), the baby boomers represented...
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...Malcolm X I’m doing my final exam on a man named Malcolm X. Who inspired many African Americans in the civil rights movement. Malcolm X was born by the name of Malcolm Little who was born May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. His mother and father Louise Norton and Earl Little had a family of eight. His mother was a homemaker and his father was an outspoken Baptist Minister and an avid supporter of Black Nationalist. Malcolm and his family was always harassed by the black Legion. Several years later Malcolm’s father was found lying across the towns trolley tracks. After his father’s death his mother Louise suffered an emotional breakdown and was put inside of a nursing home and Malcolm and his 7 brothers and sisters were split up amongest various foster homes and orphanages. As Malcolm got older he moved back to Boston with an old friend and was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison and granted parole after serving 7 years because of burglary charges. After finishing school and getting his life together Malcolm studied the leader Elijah Muhammad which him taught how the white society treated blacks. Malcolm was then appointed as a minster and national...
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...ambitious path will benefit not only myself, but my community and other countries. My goals are to become an SSI scuba diver instructor, a business owner, an accountant, and much more. I know I have to take one step at a time, but I will take full advantage to any opportunity that comes my way with an open mind and joyous heart. Education brings forth multiple opportunities that can help one learn how to value life experiences and form opinions and views of the world, whilst empowering one’s self personally and socially. Malcolm X said, “Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.” (Malcolm X Quotes, 2001-2014) The world is made up of different races and cultures; we must be educated in order to understand others’ culture, beliefs, religions, etc. We must be educated to make responsible and reasonable life decisions. Malcolm X also said, “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” (Malcolm X Quotes, 2001-2014) In a less broad spectrum, education helps enhance problem solving skills, communications skills, and open up better career opportunities. Once I have the knowledge to empower myself and my life, I can also empower the life of others around me. John F Kennedy said in the Proclamation 3422, “Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest ability, because in each of us is a private hope and...
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...for the new program. 4. Obtain knowledge of causes diabetes 5. Establish the right direction patients need to take for treatment 6. Provide active research for 7. Address the cost and benefits for those in need. 8. Use effective methods of communication such as the channels of social media. 9. Plan a survey to should the statics on the growth and education Target Audiences 1. The target audience for the new diabetes are different generations 2. The generation X, persons who are born between 1965-1982 would be the first audience targeted. This audience would embrace the information and understand with all the analysis. 3. The baby Boomers who are born between 1946-1964. The elderly audience are more face to face, but this audience will be more detailed. 4. The Generation Y, known as Millennials, get most of the information base for the generations before them. This audience in very technologic influenced. 5. Different cultures. African Americans are more susceptible in have diabetes. Hispanics, American Indians and Alaska Natives are also likely to have diabetes than non-Hispanic whites. 6. Different associations the supports the cause of...
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...Generations Student’s Name Institution Cultural Issues with Different Generations Culture only refers to the shared experiences, fears, hopes, humour and values among individuals or the society (Sennett, 2006). Enormous cultural differences always exist between generations as people always share values and experience that they came across during their time; through the various generational stages they have surpassed (Lancaster & Stillman, 2002). In this paper, I have discussed the prevalence of cultural differences along the generation gaps. When Baby Boom teachers begin to quit or to retire, a new lot of a teachers generation crops up and takes the classroom. The Generation Y leaders are young, energetic, ambitious, techno-savvy and more interested in larger outcomes that have global impacts (Bernstein & Alexander, 2008). In US classrooms, teachers have been classified as per their generation. Baby Boom teachers are those who are nearing retirement; these were born between 1943 and 1960 (Behrstock & Clifford, 2009). Generation X teachers are those whose birth dates fall in between 1961 and 1981 while those teachers who have been classified as Generation Y are those who were born as from1981- present. These are taking up the public classrooms as Baby Boomers are retiring (Bernstein & Alexander, 2008). While leading generation X, the old rules still applies, this is because this generation prefers collaboration and working in...
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...His/145 | Civil Rights Movement | Malcolm X and Martin Luther King | Rose Carr 3/7/2010 | Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X were very important to our country’s history. They are revolutionary men. They fought battles against a bigoted nation. They fought for what they believed was right. The two gentlemen however fought very different battles although they seem to be fighting the same prejudice. If you ask anyone today, that remembers the movement, ‘Who was Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr?’: the opinions you will hear will be quite contrary to each other. The two men were very influential in American culture. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were able to use the media to allow their voices to be heard. I will be explaining the reasons why these two gentlemen fought such extreme battles fueled by passion and hate. The media have always been a presence during the movement of the 60’s. During the time of the movement the nation was glued to the media. Martin Luther King, Jr., is known for his non violent manner for leading a protest. As Martin Luther King led his followers, he taught them protest with respect and dignity. Martin Luther King once said, in regard to his non violent approach, “Violence, as a way of achieving racial justice, is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win...
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...To what extent did the black power movement hinder the success of the civil rights movement? The black power movement branched off from the civil rights movement; however it had a very different approach then the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement had a peaceful nonviolent approach to the improvement of the black condition in America, where as the black power movement believed in using militancy and self-defence if provoked. The black power movement can be seen as a failure and an obstruction to the civil rights movement however the black power movement also had its success. An example of the success are the impact black power had on troubled black youths of the ghetto and the impact it had on black culture whereas an example of its failures among many are the division of the civil rights movement the alienation of white liberals and the corruption within the black power itself. The most important reason why the Black Power Movement was a failure to a fairly large extent was because it divided up the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement had, by the time the BPM emerged, achieved quite a lot, it had managed to get the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed. This proves that the movement had been successful and through the emergence of the Black Power Movement, members of the Civil Rights Movement got divided up over whether this was right or not. On the one hand, Martin Luther King, the head of SCLC one of the top organizations...
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...Should Malcolm X be on a US Postage Stamp? Born Malcolm Little in 1925, he started life as the son of an outspoken Baptist minister and avid supporter of Black Nationalist leader, Marcus Garvey. He was one of eight children. Due to his father’s interest in the Black Nationalist movement, there were many death threats made by the white supremacist organization, Black Legion, and the family had to move twice. In 1929, their family home was burned to the ground. In 1931, his father was murdered, even though the police ruled it accidental. It was no wonder that Malcolm dropped out of school, spent some time with drugs, gambling and prostitution, was arrested and convicted of burglary and spent time in jail. It was while in jail that Malcolm began to study the teachings of the Nation of Islam. In this he learned that the white people actively kept the blacks from becoming successful. He left jail with a new surname, X, and a new mindset. Being that one of his first memories had to do with racism, he eagerly embraced this new life. Malcolm was appointed a minister for the Nation of Islam and was put in charge of creating a newspaper to spread the word of NOI across the United States. For many years he advocated separation of black and white Americans and presented an alternative to Dr. Martin Luther King’s of racial integration. Dr. King was highly critical of what Malcolm X was preaching, “I feel that Malcolm has done himself and our people a great...
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...Have you ever felt racially assaulted and felt like you were less than a human being? Malcolm X was mistreated so much by white people but that never let it bring him down. Malcolm X became known as one of the most influential African American speakers of the 20th century. Malcolm X was a great person to the civil right of African American. He was responsible for spreading the Islamic faith within black communities. Malcolm X though believed he was a man of racism, anti-semitism, and violence. The process of hair straightening demonstrated in Malcolm X illustrates the symbolism of African American men trying to look more like a white man and it is not until Malcolm X becomes integrated into Boston's city culture that he actually straightens...
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...Dear Martin Luther King Jr, We are two leaders to our people in this time of the civil rights movement. We are two leaders leading are fellow Black Americans in two very different directions. I of an Islamic culture and yourself as a Baptist, I having a past of wrongs and an illegal violent lifestyle and you being born into christianity and lastly you wanting segregation to end completely and for white people and black people to come together as one, and I wanting black people to be independent from racist whites meaning having their own business, communities etc. So with this being said although our ways of fighting for justice are opposite our goal is still the same. The purpose of this letter is to propose to you Martin Luther King Jr a proposition of I and yourself to join forces. I suppose, do to this proposal you would want to know more about myself aswell as my past and my beliefs. My past is not the brightest. I was not born Malcolm X, I was born Malcolm Little to My father Earl Little. My father was killed by the KKK (white racist) I believe that this is one of the reasons I feel the way I do towards white americans. Not only was my father murdered, but he did not receive justice in fact the police blamed him for his death calling it a suicide. I refuse to believe that my father beat himself up, tied himself up and through himself in front of a train. At my age of adolescence I lived in harlem with my sister during this time I got caught up in the hustling and...
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...Martin & Malcolm & America In this paper, there will be a primary focus on two of the most prominent leaders during the civil rights era. These two leaders are Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. The paper will discuss how these extraordinary men made their phenomenal contributions to America by offering to bring about their own political, racial, and social views that were affecting the people of color. Their ability to voice their strong opinions about the injustices that were taking place among African Americans and the oppositions that were before them gave them the durability to prolong the fight for freedom and justice. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X were both men of purpose, dignity, and pride. The ongoing effort they gave for the people and to the people helped them to earn the respect that has followed them for decades. For that reason, this paper will reflect the ways in which both men contributed to the African American culture and the shaping of America in an effort to bring about a change that was needed to move forward. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X had different political philosophies; however, they both went about using different methods to campaign for civil rights. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a champion of non-violent protests and peace marches. His speeches entranced both blacks and whites into action for the civil rights movement. MLK knew that if the blacks worked for peace, peacefully, then equality was inevitable. “What they...
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