Caged Bird Essay by Dylan Kotek https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru en-us 2017-10-30 20:31:24 UTC 2017-11-13 21:39:28 UTC hello@padlet.com Six-Word Story dkotek6376 https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/201926887 Whether black or white, racism lives]]> 2017-10-30 20:34:42 UTC https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/201926887 Quote 1 dkotek6376 https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/201927482 “The nearest Negro dentist was in Texarkana, twenty-five miles away, and I was certain that I'd be dead long before we reached half the distance. Momma said we'd go to Dr. Lincoln, right in Stamps, and he'd take care of me. She said he owed her a favor” (Angelou 381).]]> 2017-10-30 20:36:43 UTC https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/201927482 Quote 2 dkotek6376 https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/201927875 “I heard him say to Momma, “Annie, tell Willie he better lay low tonight. A crazy nigger messed with a white lady today. Some of the boys'll be coming over here later.” Even after the slow drag of years, I remember the sense of fear which filled my mouth with hot, dry air, and made my body light” (Angelou 41).]]> 2017-10-30 20:38:06 UTC https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/201927875 Quote 3 dkotek6376 https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/201928160 “Pride and Prejudice stalked in tandem the beautiful hills. Native San Franciscans, possessive of the city, had to cope with an influx, not of awed respectful tourists but of raucous unsophisticated provincials. They were also forced to live with skin-deep guilt brought on by the treatment of their former Nisei schoolmates.” 
 (Angelou 435).
]]> 2017-10-30 20:39:10 UTC https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/201928160 Quote 4 dkotek6376 https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/201929058 “My race groaned. It was our people falling. It was another lynching, yet another Black man hanging on a tree. One more woman ambushed and raped. A Black boy whipped and maimed. It was hounds on the trail of a man running through slimy swamps. It was a white woman slapping her maid for being forgetful” (Angelou 210).]]> 2017-10-30 20:42:11 UTC https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/201929058 Quote 5 dkotek6376 https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/201929200 “The Asian population dwindled before my eyes. I was unable to tell the Japanese from the Chinese and as yet found no real difference in the national origin of such sounds as Ching and Chan or Moto and Kano.” (Angelou 429).]]> 2017-10-30 20:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/201929200 Quote 6 dkotek6376 https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/201929818 “The morning's brightness drew me awake and I was surrounded with strangeness. I had slid down the seat and slept the night through in an ungainly position. Wrestling with my body to assume an upward arrangement, I saw a collage of Negro, Mexican and white faces outside the windows” (Angelou 298).]]> 2017-10-30 20:44:55 UTC https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/201929818 Quote 7 dkotek6376 https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/201930463 “Bailey said he saw a man, a colored man, whom nobody had delivered. He was dead” (Angelou 300).]]> 2017-10-30 20:46:58 UTC https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/201930463 Quote 8 dkotek6376 https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/201930845 “Champion of the world. A Black boy. Some Black mother's son. He was the strongest man in the world” (Angelou 212).]]> 2017-10-30 20:48:12 UTC https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/201930845 Quote 9 dkotek6376 https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/201931519 “Every person I knew had a hellish horror of being “called out of his name.” It was a dangerous practice to call a Negro anything that could be loosely construed as insulting because of the centuries of their having been called niggers, jigs, dinges, blackbirds, crows, boots and spooks” (Angelou 228).]]> 2017-10-30 20:49:55 UTC https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/201931519 Quote 10 dkotek6376 https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/201931950 “Uncle Ira said to my mother, “Here, Bibbi. Here's this nigger Patterson. Come over here and beat his ass.” (Angelou 144).]]> 2017-10-30 20:51:28 UTC https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/201931950 Big Idea dkotek6376 https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/202702291 Racism towards the Asian population]]> 2017-11-01 20:11:44 UTC https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/202702291 Big Idea dkotek6376 https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/202703511 Black deaths]]> 2017-11-01 20:16:17 UTC https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/202703511 Big Idea dkotek6376 https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/202704296 Name calling]]> 2017-11-01 20:18:56 UTC https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/202704296 Big Idea dkotek6376 https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/202704762 Dark sad times]]> 2017-11-01 20:20:29 UTC https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/202704762 Big Idea dkotek6376 https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/202705296 Diversity]]> 2017-11-01 20:22:10 UTC https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/202705296 Connection dkotek6376 https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/203111567 Disappointment and sadness may arise from racism in this time period]]> 2017-11-02 20:27:04 UTC https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/203111567 Connection dkotek6376 https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/203112742 There are all types of racism between different races. Any race can discriminate any other race]]> 2017-11-02 20:31:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/203112742 Connection dkotek6376 https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/203113134 Racism can lead to many extreme consequences, including death. There have been many deaths and grieving because of racism over time]]> 2017-11-02 20:33:22 UTC https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/203113134 Connection dkotek6376 https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/203116482 Diversity can be one of the main reasons racism exists. Many people just don’t accept diversity so instead they try to destroy it with their words]]> 2017-11-02 20:45:23 UTC https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/203116482 Connection dkotek6376 https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/203116827 Words hurt. They can destroy one’s self esteem, mindset, or even life]]> 2017-11-02 20:46:54 UTC https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/203116827 Thesis Statement dkotek6376 https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/203433460 In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou, Maya experiences racism all around her throughout the story which shows how no one stays safe implying that whether black or white, racism lives]]> 2017-11-03 18:25:16 UTC https://padlet.com/dkotek6376/ga0zllfwxuru/wish/203433460