User:Farah Cooper

Ms. Farah Cooper
AP English Language

Units
Education

Readings, Observations, and Experiences
Whether for class or my own enjoyment, these are a collection of some of my sources for learning.

Fiction
Summary:Richard Wright is a Man now that is reflecting on his past and how it made him who is. His story is a bit distrubing consider the fact that he had been physical and mentally abuse by the ones he love. He endured plenty of days of being hungry and not having no money,yet at the end of the day he change his life around and became a amazing writer. "Voices sounded by near-by and i shivered."
 * Wright, Richard T. Black Boy (P.S.). New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2008. Print.*

Summary:This article is amazing and is written on a scale of such class. This article talks about the such controversal subject of a Black women hair. Taking the first lady Michelle Obama, there is speculation about why we do our hair the way we do and why we have such a problem with us having natural or process hair. "For black women, hair has classification power." --Farah Cooper 13:57, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Desmond-Harris, Jenee. "Why Michelle's Hair matters." Time Magazine 7 Sept. 2009: 1-3. Print.

Nonfiction - Books
Landau, Elaine. Slave Narratives: The Journey to Freedom .Canada:Elaine Landau,2001. *Summary Slave Narrative is a book that takes a collesctions of first hand experience of slaves. Each chapter takes a slave and it becomes a journal were theres greater description of the hardship that was endured. Within the short story the slave whole life is opened. " By srtiking them over the head with a heavy iron key, Until the blood ran"(Landau 15). " Slaves were told from birth that they were valued only as a piece of meat of property" (Landau 7) --Farah Cooper 12:49, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
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How does education become valued?
A Frederick Douglass narrative, about being a slave learning how to read. Its his overall struggles and determination that motivates readers to acheive greatness. "This bread I used to bestow upon the hungry little urchins, who, in return, would give me that more valuable bread of knowledge"(419).
 * Douglas, Frederick. "Learning to Read." 1845. Norton reader an anthology of nonfiction. 11th ed. New york: W.W. Norton & co., 2004. 408-12. Print.

A young white girl is being exposed to slavery. Upon reading this book she became one with the slavery in the book. She lived their hardships and pain. " It was the book that took me away from thw world, From the small intrigues of sugar and milk to the pleasure and desolation od words on a page".(419)
 * Brand, Dionne."Arriving at Desire".1999. Norton reader an anthology of nonfiction. 11th ed. New York:W.W Norton & Co., 2004. Print.

A young man who goes to a university that he has a horrible experience at. He is in such in so much shock that the university was so horrible that he reconsider whether or not he should have went there. "Name one means of transportation,"the professor said to him. No light came into the big tackle's eyes"(438). A young clady reflecting on her pass as a child. She talks sbout how the education was based on the majority and trying to fit in. "...because they were majority and he of ten used"what the majority wants" as criterion for what was for the best"(415). --67.211.8.21 17:55, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Thurber, James."University Days".1933. Norton reader an anthology of nonfiction. 11th ed. New york: W.W. Norton & co., 2004. 437-41. Print.
 * Welty, Eudora."Clamorous to learn".1985. Norton reader an anthology of nonfiction. 11th ed. New york: W.W. Norton & co., 2004. 413-417. Print.

Pictures, Graphs/Charts, Cartoons
Forthcoming