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Select 3 quotes with moderate length (1 from each section of the reading) and thoroughly discuss its key ideas. The goal of this assignment is to work with how a powerful quote can be broken down to promote thoughtful analysis.
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Jesus S
11/27/2014 10:21:54 pm
This is All 3
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Gabriel H
11/28/2014 10:16:08 pm
Part 1:
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Gabriel H.
11/28/2014 10:38:08 pm
Part 2:
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Gabriel H.
11/28/2014 11:11:09 pm
"Some of the crowd yelled and cheered, others seemed appalled at hat they had done, and there were those who turned away sickened at the sight. I was fixed to a spot where I stood, powerless to take my eyes from what I did not want to see." chapter 10, page 88. This is one of the biggest moments in the narrators. He gave up everything, his rich friend and life, traveling the world, his life in New York, everything, to come to the south. His whole life he had been experiencing racism in some form, but never to this degree. After everything he went through and everything he gave up to become a hero to 'his' people, he comes to the south and sees this. A man is killed and burned because of his skin color. The narrator had a life planned out, he had a dream, and he had direction to go. He was going to become a famous negro composer, and be a hero to his people, and help their conditions. After this, he decided that he couldn't handle it. He threw away everything, again, and wasted his music talent and his unique situation(being able to pass for white).
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Joshua K.
11/29/2014 08:26:12 pm
Part 1
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Joshua K.
11/29/2014 08:26:30 pm
Part 2
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Joshua K.
11/29/2014 08:26:49 pm
Part 2
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Joshua K.
11/29/2014 08:27:26 pm
Part 3
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Jessica G.
11/29/2014 09:24:11 pm
1. “A true artist can no more play upon the piano or violin without putting his whole body in accord with the emotions he is striving to express than a swallow can fly without being graceful.” (Chapter 2, page 12)
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Natasha A.
11/30/2014 01:38:28 am
1. "And it is this, too, which makes the colored people of this country, in reality a mystery to the whites. It is a difficult thing for a white man to learn what a colored man really thinks; because, generally, with the latter an additional and different light must be brought to bear on what he thinks; and his thoughts are often influenced by considerations so delicate and subtle that it would be impossible for him to confess or explain them to one of the opposite race" (Johnson 9).
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Logan H
11/30/2014 04:48:41 am
Part 1) “I noticed the ivory whiteness of my skin, the beauty of my mouth, the size and liquid darkness of my eyes, and how the long black lashes that fringed and shaded them produced an effect that was strangely fascinating even to me. I noticed the softness and glossiness of my dark hair that fell in waves over my temples, making my forehead appear whiter than it really was. How long I stood there gazing at my image I do not know. When I came out and reached the head of the stairs, I heard the lady who had been with my mother going out. I ran downstairs, and rushed to where my mother was sitting with a piece of work in her hands. I buried my head in her lap and blurted out, "Mother, mother, tell me, am I a nigger?" I could not see her face, but I knew the piece of work dropped to the floor, and I felt her hands on my head. I looked up into her face and repeated, "Tell me, mother, am I a nigger?"” (Johnson, “Chapter I,” 8).
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Logan H
11/30/2014 04:49:42 am
Did not post well the first time so I will try again
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Logan H
11/30/2014 04:50:42 am
(In three parts)
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Logan H
11/30/2014 04:51:33 am
Part 2)
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Logan H
11/30/2014 04:52:20 am
Part 3)
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Caroline Reges
11/30/2014 05:12:59 am
Part 1
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Caroline Reges
11/30/2014 05:25:33 am
Part 2
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Caroline Reges
11/30/2014 05:34:00 am
Part 3
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Zach C.
11/30/2014 05:46:15 am
1. "'I want all of the white scholars to stand for a moment.' I rose with the others. The teacher looked at me, and calling my name said, 'you sit down for now and rise with the others.'"
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Nash P.
12/1/2014 01:06:37 am
Quote 1:
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Torin C.
12/1/2014 02:17:46 am
1. "this ability to laugh heartily is, in part, the salvation of the American Negro; it does much to keep him from going the way of the Indian". This quote shows a certain strength characteristic in the 'American Negro'. In movies there are times when the hero faces his enemy and is about to kill him for revenge, but a certain conscience takes over saying to him "don't do it or you'll be just as bad as him". Kinda the same thing, they don't want the same hatred like the Indians have, that will get them no where and they will be just as bad as their oppressors.
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Natasha A.
12/1/2014 05:00:57 am
"I called my landlord up, and informed him of my loss; he comforted me by saying that I ought to know better than to keep my money in a trunk, and that he was not responsible for his lodgers' personal effects" (Johnson 29).
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Caitlyn H.
12/1/2014 05:09:56 am
1.) “I saw him year after year, on up into the high school, win the majority of the prizes for punctuality, deportment, essay writing and declamation. Yet it did not take me long to discover that, in spite of his standing as a scholar, he was in some way looked down upon” (Johnson 6).
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Cole H
12/1/2014 05:39:46 am
All are listed below
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Caitlyn H.
12/1/2014 05:39:53 am
2.) “I noticed that among this class of colored men the word ‘nigger’ was freely used in about the same sense as the word ‘fellow,’ and sometimes as a term of almost endearment; but I soon learned that its use was positively and absolutely prohibited to white men” (Johnson 43).
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Caitlyn H.
12/1/2014 05:54:36 am
3.) “So far as racial differences go, the United States puts a greater premium on color, or better, lack of color, than upon anything else in the world. To paraphrase, ‘Have a white skin, and all things else may be added unto you’”(Johnson 72).
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Natasha A.
12/1/2014 06:22:07 am
3. "Perhaps some day, through study and observation, you will come to see that evil is a force and, like the physical and chemical forces, we cannot annihilate it; we may only change it’s form. We light upon one evil and hit it with all might of our civilization, but only succeed in scattering it into a dozen of other forms" (Johnson 68).
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Shaina L.
12/3/2014 05:47:50 am
Quote 1
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Frida Ø. L.
12/3/2014 07:33:09 am
1. (Talking about Shiny) “He was very quick to catch anything; but, nevertheless, studied hard; thus he possessed two powers very rarely combined in one boy. I saw him year after year, on up into the high school, win the majority of the prizes for punctuality, deportment, essay writing and declamation. Yet it did not take me long to discover that, in spite of his standing as a scholar, he was in some way looked down upon.” (Chapter I, page 6)
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Frida Ø.L.
12/3/2014 08:04:49 am
2. “Here I am a man, no longer a boy, and what am I doing but wasting my time and abusing my talent. What use am I making of my gifts? What future have I before me following my present course? These thoughts made me feel remorseful, and put me in a fever to get to work, to begin to do something.” (Chapter IX, page 67)
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Frida Ø. L.
12/3/2014 08:35:00 am
3. “A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive. My heart turned bitter within me. I could understand why Negroes are led to sympathize with even their worst criminals, and to protect them when possible. By all the impulses of normal human nature they can and should do nothing less.”
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Erica Balkcum
12/3/2014 06:23:25 pm
1. “From that time I looked out through other eyes, my thoughts were colored, my words dictated, my actions limited by one dominating, all-pervading idea which constantly increased in force and weight until I finally realized in it a great, tangible fact” (9).
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Harleigh P
12/4/2014 03:22:55 am
1) "And I, too, suffer a vague feeling of unsatisfaction, of regret, of almost remorse from which I am seeking relief." (1)
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Sophia M
12/7/2014 11:24:46 pm
"He is forced to take his outlook on all things, not from the viewpoint of a citizen, or a man, or even a human being, but from the viewpoint of a colored man."- pg. 14
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Sophia M
12/7/2014 11:33:31 pm
2. “Here I am a man, no longer a boy, and what am I doing but wasting my time and abusing my talent. What use am I making of my gifts? What future have I before me following my present course? These thoughts made me feel remorseful, and put me in a fever to get to work, to begin to do something.” (page 67)
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Sophia M
12/7/2014 11:44:50 pm
3. “He bought me the same kind of clothes which he himself wore, and that was the best; and he treated me in every way as he dressed me, as an equal, not as a servant. In fact, I don’t think anyone could have guessed that such a relation existed.” (page 60)
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