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Alice Walker's Influence On Education

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Alice Walker attended Spelman College in Atlanta on a scholarship. While she was there, she participated in a few civil rights demonstrations. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. invited Alice to his home in 1962 at the end of her freshman year in recognition of her invitation to attend the Youth World Peace Festival in Helsinki, Finland. When she returned to Spelman, after touring Europe for the summer, she received a scholarship to Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She was hesitant on whether to attend, considering it was prestigious university. Many of her teachers encouraged her to attend, after all she would be a handful of African Americans to attend. While she was attending Sarah Lawrence, she visited Africa as part of a study-abroad program.
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She feared and had to endure all the racial tensions that were in her own community. Besides facing all the racial slurs and hate she didn’t let that stop her from being a popular student and being on the basketball team. She later earned an athletic scholarship at the two-year junior college Natchez College and later earned another scholarship for her outstand academics to Tougaloo College where she graduated in 1964. Once she graduated college she worked at Corrnell University as its civil rights project coordinator. Moody later moved to New York City and published her first autobiography.

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During this time, she became a part of the civil rights movement. Later on, she transferred to Sarah Lawrence College in New York. In 1962, she was invited to Martin Luther king Jr. Home. During this time, she landed a job in New York with the welfare department, while still receiving her bachelor degree. In the mean time she might a white civil right attorney and fall in love

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Alice Walker, born February 9, 1944 in Eatonton Georgia, is an American writer whose novels, short stories, and poems are praised for their focus on African American culture, particularly on women (Britannica). Eudora Welty, born April 13, 1909, is an American short-story writer and novelist whose work is mainly focused on the regional etiquettes of people residing in a small Mississippi town that resembles her own birthplace (Britannica). Both Walker and Welty depict the use of animal imagery in their short stories ‘Everyday Use’ and ‘A Worn Path’. In her short story “Everyday Use”, Walker depicts the bonds among three women in rural Georgia. Walker relies on animal imagery to demonstrate important qualities of her characters.

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Alice Paul graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree in biology in 1905. In 1907 Paul received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania then Alice Paul moved to England in (NWHM) and was enlisted by Emeline and Christobel Pankhurst to join the suffrage movement where she met Lucy Burns. (History) Together they participated in many extreme protests such as hunger strikes. These protests showed the public how dedicated they were to this movement causing them to be more noticeable to the public.

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In the excerpt from “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, Wangero tries to convince her mother to let her have her grandmother's quilts, instead of her sister Maggie. These quilts were made from the clothes of her grandmother, so they have a special importance to Wangero. She uses several persuasive strategies including anger, and belittlement in order to persuade her mother to let her keep the quilts. Through these characters and persuasive moves, Walker is saying that belittling others will end up hurting you in the long run.

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Maggie in Alice Walker’s short story “Everyday Use” plays the role of being the nervous and ugly sister of the story, however she is the child with the good heart. Maggie was nervous ashamed of her scars “Maggie was nervous… she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs”. Living in a house with a pretty sister and being the ugly sister with scars could be the reason why she picked up on a timid personality, being ‘ashamed’ of her own skin shaping her in a way that she degraded herself from everybody else. Maggie was not this way before the fire, her mother stated, as it is quoted that she had adopted to a certain walk ever since the fire.

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have the luxury of affording things just to collect dust as decorations. Everything that she owned growing up was put to every day use. This also contradicts Dee’s desire to own things that will make her new home look fancy. All of these small personality differences cause the disagreement about respecting their heritage because it causes them to have different out looks on their heritage. Dee thinks that just because something has been used before, it should be known as priceless.

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African Americans have gone through a lot Jim Crow laws prevented Blacks from having access to basic things. Even when Black did have access to let’s say restaurants or using the restroom it was segregated. Alice Walker portrayed Shug Avery as a blues singer similar to Billie Holiday or Ma Rainey. The blues were popular among African Americans during that time, mainly those in the south, the location the novel is set in. Many black blues singers used it as a way to bring light to certain issues or share their pain.

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Separating from one’s true values may lead one to betray their own family and culture. In the short story Everyday Use a young woman who disregards her family inferiorly is faced with the conflict of self identity. The author reflects betrayal of family values through his exposure of heritage and education in the story. Heritage unveils the concept of who Dee is and the disconnection from her own shows her inadequacy to have one. Dee tries her best to stray away from the life she once had and went the extent of changing her name.

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