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Thomas Basini Elizabeth Hinnant English 1101 24 November 2013 Moodle Posts 1 Social forces played a big part in both of these literary works. a main social force that in circles both pieces is race. in the time these works for written, being colored meant you were inferior. a reader can see this in both author's writings, even though, Langston Hughes seems to be more focused on race then Malcolm X. X focused more on his self-education and his environment, which gave him less of a negative outlook and helped him strive to be a better, more useful human being. Education is the social force that is extremely different between the two authors. Hughes was in college getting taught by professors while X was in jail self-educating himself by copying a dictionary. Malcolm wrote more about wanting to be educated and how he got educated, and Hughes wrote more discrimination in education at the time. Both authors had a lot of influence through education. The environment fire the two authors are completely different. Malcolm was in jail and Hughes was in Harlem. Malcolm being in jail had lots of time to get educated and to write but he had less resources. Hughes being in college may not of had as much time to write but had a lot more resources. Also Malcolm most likely had other inmates to deal with. Being different by trying to get educated in jail

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most likely didn't make him the most popular inmate giving him a disadvantage. Both writers are a lot alike but completely different. 2 Molly Daniel state's that her family is not typical for the Appalachian area. That is a fairly correct statement if you are taking account stereotypes of the region. I also didn't have a typical family, but not just for that region for any region. My parents got divorced when I was quite young. I moved around with my father for a few years, living in different areas throughout the NC piedmont region. It was non-traditional but pretty normal, especially in this day and age. But, the change came when I started living with my mom. My mom is homosexual. About six months after I started living with her she had a guy, or how I thought was a guy, come over for dinner. He actually ended up being my step dad Leigh. And, yes I mean dad, as in male. After about another three months we moved into the house we live in now. Living in this situation wasn't enough, my actual dad eloped with my mom's cousin Maria, which wasn't that weird, since they had been dating on and off for years and they aren't related, but Im related to both of them. So me and my sibling's found ourselves in a funny situation. We had three moms. Yet again a big change comes when my step dad, at the time female, decides to get a female to male sex change operation. Since we viewed him as a male anyway it really wasn't weird for us just a little different. The students at school were more accepting than I thought, well at least my friends. Some people didn't think the same way, so I just did my best to avoid them. Now my dad is again getting a divorce, and I am back to one mom. But, now I'm at a great university, in an engineering program, and have beat the

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odds. Even though I moved around as much as I did and Grew up in a very nontraditional household, I am on my way to becoming a successful engineer.

The third literacy narrative I selected was, Academic Literacy across Fields, by Michelle Golden. It was very interesting. The idea was that even if students aren't interested in a literary work or even a complete subject, as long as you are willing to learn, whatever it is that you need to learn, you can. She used her college astronomy class while she was in school as an example. The class had gotten an interim teacher, that had be retired for many years and unfamiliar with a lot of the material. She took it upon herself to read the book teach it to her class mates, and then teach it again a different way, so all her theatre major friends would understand as well. 3 When I first read the excerpt from Frey's memoir, I was hit with extreme emotion not because i new it was real, because I had my doubts, but because it was strong. I think it was out of line for Oprah to call him out on his own memoir, it's his memoir not hers. It doesn't matter if it was true or not, it was the story he wanted people to know of his past. No one has the right to question that. I would exaggerate too. It's just like the fish that just got away. It's always told to be bigger than it is. Whether you choose to believe him or not, the emotion is real, and it changed peo ples lives. Genres are relative in most texts you can always pick out multiple genres in each text. Genres should be broader. It should always be up to interpretation.