The Autobiography of Malcolm X explores the life of Malcolm X from childhood, to his assassination. The book takes an in-depth look at the events in his life, which give us an interesting perspective to many topics and issues of the time. This story is an important reading that delves into the life of a very influential man who had experienced a hard childhood and adulthood, as well as a transformation and a leadership role as an activist. The book begins with Malcolm’s childhood, which was plagued
up; it was only a dream, only a dream. However, that was not a mere nightmare for Ishmael Beah. For a majority of his juvenile years, he held the position of a child soldier in Sierra Leone, murdering everyone regardless of who they were. In his autobiography, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Beah retells his memories in vivid detail through the use of various stylistic techniques. One of these many devices use throughout his writing is the flashback. Ishmael Beah utilizes flashbacks tp tell
the ability to grow as a person and as a writer. She is now no longer a lost little girl who was not prepared for this world, she asked herself questions and now is at peace with this notion of immigrant and being different. Like the end of her autobiography a coworker editor in chief asked her: “’Where did you learn how to be a critic?' … 'At Harvard, I guess,' I answered. 'No,' he said, 'there's something else.' 'I suppose it's that I'm an immigrant,' I said. 'Ah yes,' he said. 'That must be it.'"
Good Times by Russell Baker Presented by asia Introduction US journalist, humorist and biographer Russell Baker was born on August 14, 1925 in Loudoun County, Virginia,USA. His father died early on when he was 5, and his hard-working mother reared him and his sisters during the Great Depression. He got scholarship into Johns Hopkins University, where he studied journalism in 1947. He worked as a newspaper writer and wrote the witty and widely syndicated "Observer" column for the New York
English Language and Literature Studies; Vol. 5, No. 1; 2015 ISSN 1925-4768 E-ISSN 1925-4776 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education 13 Historicizing Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: A Critique of King Leopold II’s Colonial Rule Isam Shihada1 1 Associate Professor of English Literature and Gender Studies, Department of English, Gaza Strip, Palestine Correspondence: Isam Shihada, Associate Professor of English Literature and Gender Studies, Department of English, Gaza Strip, Palestine