“I suppose it was inevitable that as my word base broadened, I
could for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to
understand what the book was saying. Anyone who had read a great deal…
Category: Unit 1
Reading Response to Malcolm X – Patricia
“In fact, prison enabled me to study far more intensively than I would have if my life had gone differently and I had attended some college. I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too …
Frederick Douglass Reading Response Questions:
3) What does Douglass mean when he says that “learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing” (paragraph 5)? Furthermore, what does he mean when he says that “freedom…was ever present to torment me” (same paragraph)? In …
Resilience (Online Learning)
Resilience is a trait that I have to obtain myself, I often tend to become lazy or “too tired”. When it comes to online learning it’s easy to let work pile up and say “I’ll do it later”. Because you’re …
Malcom X Reading Response:
“I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is that there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola boola and all that” (last paragraph)
I had asked earlier why Malcom was against college? And this …
Reading Response to Malcolm X- Daniel L. Perez
Significant Quote 1: “I had really begun back in the Charlestown Prison, when Bimbi first made me feel envy of his stock of knowledge. Bimbi had always taken charge of any conversation he was in, and I had tried to …
Reading Response Malcolm X — Sajid Hossain
“I saw that the best thing I could do was to get hold of a dictionary to study, to learn some words. I was lucky enough to reason also that I should try to improve my penmanship. It was sad. …
Reading Response to Malcolm X — Julian Georgi
I suppose it was inevitable that as my word base broadened, I
could for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to
understand what the book was saying. Anyone who had read a great deal…
Reading Response to Malcolm X – Anastasia Ortiz
In paragraph 10 Malcolm describes the reason behind his love for reading by saying “Between Mr. Muhammad’s teachings, my correspondence, my visitors–usually Ella and Reginald–and my reading of books, months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, …