"Any life story, written or oral, more or less dramatically, is in one sense a personal mythology, a self-justification", write Raphael Samuels & Paul Thompson. "Any autobiographical narrative doubles as a morality; and this can be discerned not only in its shaping, but in the mythical elements whic...

'Double Consciousness' in The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man While Johnson was a highly celebrated and versatile literary figure, his most well known work is The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man. Even though this title suggests that this work was his story, it was actually a...

Literacy Autobiography Literacy to me is a gift which is as great as life itself. For I cant imagine going through a day not understanding what is written on a billboard or in the case of a simple road sign. Personally I have never taken writing seriously, for when I was a kid I always thought...

Benjamin Franklin's autobiography gave the readers a small insight of society into the eighteenth century versus how society is viewed today as a whole. Throughout the entire autobiography he chronologically orders events from the time that he was a small boy growing into the age of a man. Thus...

Review of the Autobiography of Malcolm X The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told by Alex Haley is about a man who changed the history of America. Malcolm (Little) X preached what he believed about racism, discrimination, and segregation. He went through many changes in his fight for equality. ...

The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave was an interesting view point told by Cuban runaway slave, Esteban Montejo, and edited by Miguel Barnet. This essay depicts Montejo's experience with slavery during the late 1800's and the early 1900's. It also gives insight to the life and treatme...

The Autobiography of Malcolm X is a very powerful and moving book, which describes his early years and the African-American struggle for freedom, justice and equality. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Malcolm Little was the seventh of eleven children. At age six, Malcolm's father was brutally murdered. As ...

William Penn is one of the most famous and well-known figures of our history to this day. Through his many travels and his dedication, William Penn became for the future generations of Americans both a spokesman and a model for an ideal American. His autobiography, The Autobiography of William Penn,...

Growing up in the small town of Gordonsville, living a fairly isolated life. Going to the public schools with the same children, never getting the chance to meet new people. Attending elementary at Gordonbarbur Elementary School, then graduating and arriving at Prospect Middle School, and now ent...

\"The Autobiography of an Idea\" was published 1924. Louis Sullivan wrote this autobiography as a way to let you know who he was and what he believed. He felt that his life was dedicated in forming a new style of architecture that would set the United States apart from the European countries. He wan...

Cheryl Boyd 3-30-01 Book review #3 Simon The Autobiography of Malcolm X Knowledge is generally acquired through going to school. Growing up, people are always taught that if they want to be the best and smartest they can be, they should go to school and learn as much as they can. The Autob...

Equiano: Influential and Inspirational According to his famous autobiography, written in 1789, Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745-1797) was born in what is now Nigeria. Kidnapped and sold into slavery in childhood, he was taken as a slave into the New World. As a slave to a captain in the Royal Navy, and l...

In this coming of age autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angleou goes from a young, awkward girl to a confident independent mother at the age of 16. Maya wrote this book in the early 1970s when women autobiographies were informing readers of the importance of all women in America, ...

As the flash of lighting he swoops down the streets of Sydney he smashes, street lights ands sabotages industrial and housing statements. This is just one game that Clive James played when he was young, as he explains this and more in his autobiography 'Unreliable Memoirs'. This is a true Australi...

The narrative of Frederick Douglass illustrates the life of a slave. He was not an ordinary slave. Indeed he dreamed of freedom, just as all slaves did, but there was something about Frederick Douglass made him different. He dreamed of an education. It was this education that made him be different. ...

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Tribute to Maya Angelou Renaissance Woman Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri. A true Renaissance woman, Ms. Angelou is an author, poet, songwriter, dancer, actor, director, and producer. She has been nominated for a Tony award for her acting, has received ...

The Atlanta Exposition Address The Atlanta Exposition Address is the fortieth chapter of Booker T. Washington's autobiography. This autobiography was called Up From Slavery and it was written in 1901. The chapter begins by telling the reader that Booker T. Washington, the author, was in ...

1. According to Henry Louis Gates, almost 50% of the Afro-American literary tradition was created when "it's authors and their black readers were either slaves or former slaves". 2. Slave narratives were produced for many reasons. One was to inform others of the hardships that slaves...

Amanda CulverHIST 328Book Review 1 Benjamin Franklin lived a highly productive life as a printer (as well as becoming an honored statesman) and he practiced living modestly, honestly and diligently. In his autobiography, written as a letter to his son, Franklin describes how he lived his life with ...

The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin was born in 1706, in Boston, Massachusetts. Benjamin Franklin was a great man and left a great impact on America and its history. He has attributed many of his great ideas to our society. Franklin had many publications and other writings tha...

Her life was never easy. From the time she was born, Maya Angelou was subjected to racism, rape, grief and dehumanization. She beared enough emotional stress in a time frame that most people don't experience in a lifetime. Yet she prevailed. She forced herself to become stronger. And in...

On Perfection, or Lack Thereof Although many strive for perfection through work, religion or otherwise, Benjamin Franklin realized he was not perfect. Through close examination of The Autobiography, along with some of his shorter essays, "A Witch Trial at Mount Holly," "The Speech...

The Innovators of American Literature From their critical assessments on how to improve themselves and to the American public that they influenced by their writings, Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin illustrate American themes in their personal narratives that quintessentially make part of ...

\"Is it possible for the human mind to conceive of a more horrible state of society?\" This is the question that William Lloyd Garrison asked in his introduction to \"The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.\" To a colored human in the early 1800\'s, there wasn\'t a more h...