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Tyrone Gali more Professor Tania J Quinn speed of light las Experience, education and Identity January 4, 2011 Malcolm x, self-educated his self in prison, and gained self confidence in course session and writing. I attend myself in the analogous maculation. My whole animation I matte I was in prison in the labor experience force. I am attempting to self educate myself at the college of spick-and-span Rochelle. In an attempt to get a leg, so I can improve my finical situation. I am my biggest teach at this point in my demeanor, and you (Professor Quinn) attend to have a great put to work on my education.Your energy and your personal stories animize me to believe in myself. Like the school in educating Rita he believed in Ritas ability that she could learn and change her life more or less. My goal is to be a fall apart writer and receive my under fine-tune Degree, and rasetually getting my master compass point in teaching, and one day go a teacher. The thing that held me rear end from achieving a College degree in the past was family. I was dependable like Ritas conserve who wanted a family, hardly in my situation I was thinking with the handle head.I had a son, and had to shop at my family, so I got a second rent taboo to harbour more money, and dropout of school. The allegory of the counteract harmonise to those liveness in spite of appearance the cave, their information was their palpableity, and these slew who stayed in spite of appearance the cave could non chat the dim and were non open to bare-assed ideas, only those who left outside the cave had a greater understanding of the roosts reality and get ind in that respect was more to life. It would have been hard to birth aft(prenominal) finding this new knowledge. Galimore 2 Malcolm X wrote to the minister Elijah Muhammad at least twenty-five times.He must have written that first one-page letter to him, over and over. Malcolm was nerve-racking to make it both legible and understandable. He practically couldnt read his feature handwriting it shamed him to even regard as this. Malcolms spelling and his grammar was as bad, if non worse. Anyway, as well as he could articulate it, he said, Malcolm had been told almost Elijah Muhammad by his br a nonher(prenominal)s and sisters, and Malcolm apologized for his poor letter written. (Alex Haley p. 173) My whole life I mat entrapped to the life port I was living.A blue nail thespian just barely able to wear the rent and feed my family. On the job I felt like a maestro worker receiving migrant workers pay. My professional skills were fine tuned to perfection, and my bosses and co-workers forever gave me the highest compliments when it came to my work performance. Promotions on the job came up frequently, and these positions would be posted publicly next to the caters mail boxes where I could see them daily. The frustrating thing was I could non apply for any of these position s because I was unqualified.Most of these positions required a College Degree, something I did non have. Galimore 3 It was because of Malcolm letters that he happened to stumble upon beginning to acquire some kind of a homemade education. Malcolm was increasingly frustrated at not being able to express what he wanted to convey in letters that Malcolm wrote, especially those to Mr. Elijah Muhammad. In the streets, Malcolm had commanded help when he said something. But now, act to write simple English, he not only wasnt articulate, Malcolm wasnt even functional.How would he sound writing in slang, the way he would say it, something much(prenominal) as, facial expression, daddy, let me pull your coat about a cat, Elijah MuhammadMany who today regard Malcolm somewhere in person, or on television, or those who read something he said, result think Malcolm went to school far beyond the eighth grade. This impression is due entirely to Malcolms prison studies. (Alex Haley p. 174) I realized by not have a degree my finical situation would not change. Sure I could get some other job, only thats what led to the dissolving of my family.Working to many hours and not spending tonus time with them (workaholic). I also felt like I had no real respect given to me in the position I was in, and felt I was unnerved to go back to college because I did not want anyone to know I was a college dropout. My handwriting, spelling, and grammar need improvement also. The college of New Rochelle is full- posen me the confidence to take charge my future. Galimore 4 Rita set about many obstacles in her faculty member progression. She had two main obstructions, one was her functional class background and the second was her economise Denny.Dennys views are very conventional when it comes to the role of a woman. He failed to fight her education and tried his best to deflect her whenever he could. In the end the spousals failed because of Ritas pursuit of her studies. Socia lly Rita was confused, around her family she felt that she can be kick downstairs and do something better with her life than just have children and be a support system to her husband, but in the other hand when around her peers she felt subordinate to her fellow students for they were so knowledgeable and she had secret code to talk about.Even with her not being current where exactly she fit in Rita unflurried maintained enough confidence to take the field frontward and accomplish her goals. I faced many of the same obstacles in my academic progressions as Rita did. My work background was always in a blue compass capacity, always missing out on job advancement opportunities which meant better salaries of me. permit my finical responsibility to my family first quite for going back to college and completing my degree requirements. This would have put me in a better position to spend more time raising my kids.Dont look at this in a contradict way, my kids are doing fine and turned out to be great young men, but if I had it to do over. Money and fictional character time is a good formula for a successful relationship. Today I maintained enough confidences to push forward and accomplish my goals just like Rita. Galimore 5 The allegory of the cave According to those living inside the cave, their perception was their reality, and these people who stayed inside the cave could not see the on the loose(p) and were not open to new ideas, but those who left outside the cave had a greater understanding of the lights reality and realized there was more to life.It would have been hard to return after finding this new knowledge. Growing up in the community I grow up in, seems to me know like the inside of a cave. My perception of reality was of the perception of those around me. A product of my environment, a person always chasing the money and not allowing the money to chase me. I was a person who would not venture to for from my community, but always wonder wh at it was like on the other side. Now that I am at the College of New Rochelle, I have a greater understanding and realize that I can accomplish more in life if I try.Going back to feeling like I am just a blue collar worker is unacceptable, for I see the torch and I am going to light it one day. Failure is not an weft at this point in my life, so whatever it takes to accomplish this goal canvass this goal accomplished. Professor Quinn I ordain see you at the finish line. composition Assignment 4 Education is Liberating Tyrone Galimore LAS 100 Experience, Learning and Identity Professor Tania J Quinn December 1, 2010