Reflective Essay Upon Enrolling With Bethel, By James Baldwin

Therefore, for America to become what America should be the white community should break down the barrier their ancestors built, saying black people did not deserve greatness. James Baldwin envisioned a life where black and white people could become and live the same life as each other. He would no longer feel afraid to step outside and be harassed by those who are supposed to protect. Not only was being black a severe problem for Baldwin, but also realizing that he was gay which consequently led him to fear for his life even more. America is a country that allows those who live there to express and live the life they were given, but when there are people out there who try to break them down it becomes a struggle.

There are several things I hope to gain from my experience as a student at California Baptist University. Such things include, a community of God loving, supporting and encoring friends, a Christian based education and opportunities to grow into the person God created me to be.

In "A Talk to Teachers," James Baldwin writes: "It is your responsibility to change society if you think of yourself as an educated person" (130) to portray his view on what an educated person is and what he/she is supposed to do with that education. Baldwin believes that the school system is designed to regulate an individual's way of thinking, in order to maintain the sociological issues in society underground, but in doing this, it doesn't allow for individuals to think for themselves. He/she is taught to listen and obey, although he/she isn't to do exactly what to do in regards to his/her future career, he/she is being groomed to be part of the workforce and have some positive contribution to society. I agree with Baldwin's idea that an educated person is someone who knows his/her true identity and that they should do something all that knowledge, yet I don't believe changing society is the correct output for such intelligence. In changing society, more complications are created therefore the most

In Frederick Douglass’s narrative, “Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass”, he speaks of how he gained his education. He discusses who helped him and who discouraged him from getting an education. He mainly taught himself how to read and write, but he would have been nothing without the help of one of his master’s wife, Mrs. Auld. This narrative has shown that even the slightest education can be very abundant and meaningful. Through this essay it becomes evident that education is only a privilege.

The First African American Baptist Church was originated in 1773 under the leadership of Reverend George Leile. In 1775 of May he was ordained as the pastor and December of 1777 the church was officially consulted as the body of believers. During the decades of slavery in America, slave association were a constant source of concern to slave owners. Religious exercises of slaves were closely watched to detect plans for escape or insurrection. African-American churches showed an air of militancy in the eyes of white Americans. Insurrections such as Nat Turner's in Virginia, born out of the religious inspiration of slaves, horrified white Americans. Understanding the potential end which could result

The average age of the delegates was 42 and some of the most important delegates such as Alexander Hamilton, Edmund Randolph, Gouverneur Morris and James Madison were in their thirties. Many of the delegates graduated from college. In fact over half of them graduated from college 9 of them bring from Princeton and six from British Universities. Even more significant information was their political experience. In fact 8 signed the Declaration of Independence, 25 served in the continental Congress, 15 helped draft the new State Constitutions between 1776 and 1780, and 40 served in the Confederation Congress between 1783 and 1787.

Robert Baldwin, lawyer, politician, workplace holder (b at royal house [Toronto] twelve could 1804; d at Yorkville [Toronto] nine Dec 1858). The eldest son of William Warren Baldwin was referred to as to the bar in 1825. Temperamentally and intellectually not like his precocious father, the shy, self-examining Henry M. Robert entered politics in 1829 as a Reformer, winning a seat within the Assembly during a by-election. Defeated the subsequent year he retired to personal life. Melancholic, withdrawn, tortured by doubts and demons, his life and happiness turned around his family and most importantly his spouse (they were married in 1827). Her death on eleven Jan 1836 shattered him showing emotion and will justify the severe depressive sickness that troubled him in later years. Despite his grief and a profound aversion for public life, he was motivated to just accept workplace as AN government council member the subsequent month by his Christian sense of duty.

Effects of Religion The climate of religion in the current day and age is quite a controversy topic. It continues to divide the people into their own different categories. Religion, in itself, segregates people by their views forming a wall of clashing views among them.

Baldwin explores the first quotation throughout his essay. In each section of the document, he describes the complexities of life through his eyes for the reader. Being an American today is still complicated for many of us. As Americans, we have so many opportunities and freedoms, yet we still try to limit those opportunities and freedoms for others if we don’t think they deserve them. As a gay, black man, Baldwin had two strikes against him the eyes of many white Americans. He was an American that could not partake in all that America had to offer, and that is truly a complex

Its hard to believe that in the past, it was widely accepted by society and allowed by the government to enslave fellow human beings. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave gives a first hand account of the brutality and hopelessness of slavery. Throughout Douglass’ narrative, a theme that he addresses is the only way to be free is through education.

Frederick Douglass was a famous African American author and public speaker. Born into slavery, he teaches himself to read and write, and by the age of 20 escapes to the North. Later in his life becomes involved with antislavery politics, and writes three autobiographies (Editors, History.com). African American James Baldwin, born in New York, had an immense eagerness to read. In his later years, he would write books that focused on racial and social issues in America (Editors, Biography.com). The two essays these writers wrote, “Learning to Read and Write”, and “Stranger in the Village” talk about their experience living a world favored towards Caucasians. Focusing on the similarities, differences, and responses, we can see that even with different scenarios, the results of racism are still present around the world.

In The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin addressed the problem of racism that existed in the early 1960s. He gives very powerful accounts of his life growing up in Harlem in the 1930s and 40s. Throughout the book he gives accounts of how whites, blacks, Christians, and Muslims all can be blamed for the racial tensions that existed in the early 1960s. While Baldwin spends much of the criticism on whites, Christians, and Jews, and their inability to give up their hold on the political, financial, and religions power of the country, he also holds the Black and Muslim communities responsible for not working harder to make things better. Baldwin does not feel that the Whites are totally accountable for the racial situation that exists in the

Education provides Douglass critical analysis over different situations he overcome being a slave. Although it was hard for Douglass to get knowledge without being noticed by his masters, but it was his enthusiasm and courage to learn which lead him to become literate. Literacy makes Douglass unhappy about his situation. It is better for a slave to be illiterate because, in this way they will not be aware of any other life then slavery. Literacy helps Douglass to make his way for being free.

Though he lived in several other nations during his creative career, James Baldwin was an African American novelist and social critic commenting on the uniquely American racial and social issues during and after the civil rights movement. Born in Harlem in 1924, the oldest of nine children of two African American migrants: his stepfather, David Baldwin, from New Orleans, and his mother, Emma Berdis Jones. Despite his words to an interviewer, “If they had waited two more seconds I might have been born in the South”, Baldwin’s family history places its structure far less based on blood than he appeared to have thought. Pregnant with Baldwin his mother fled from a potential domestic disaster in the form of Baldwin’s biological father’s drug addiction, and she married her preacher husband before giving birth to Baldwin.

Jehovah’s Witnesses are a people known widely throughout the world. They are well-dressed people who come knocking at your door on different occasions offering religious literature for sale or trying to introduce their beliefs through carefully prepared conversation. People young, old, rich, poor, well educated and non-educated have embraced them. Their enthusiasm as proclaimers of God’s Kingdom has impressed even their harshest critics. Their love toward one another makes some non-witnesses hope and pray that more people would act in that manner. Yet, some may still wonder, who really are the Jehovah’s Witnesses? What is their history, their practices and their beliefs? Why are they the most attacked new religious