UCF Strategic Priorities to Become Sucessful Discussion AlShibani 1 Maged AlShibani Dr. Amir Hussien Islam in America 10 July 2020 The Life of Malcolm X T

UCF Strategic Priorities to Become Sucessful Discussion AlShibani 1
Maged AlShibani
Dr. Amir Hussien
Islam in America
10 July 2020
The Life of Malcolm X
This essay aims to present the life of Malcolm X, a prominent African American
leader and an icon of the American black nationalist movement. Specifically, this will be
done by looking at the significant events that have influence Malcolm’s transformation from
Malcolm Little to Malcolm X and finally to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. Furthermore, this
essay also aims to examine his political views, beliefs, and philosophies about race and Black
Nationalism through his previous works, articles, and speeches. Consequently, the impacts of
these philosophies on the struggle for civil rights will also be examined. Finally, the last part
of this essay aims to provide a more critical analysis of how the “Malcolm X myth” is
portrayed years after his death and identify some of the possible aspects that have been
distorted or reframed.
Annotated Bibliography
Epps, Archie C. “The Rhetoric of Malcolm X.” Harvard Review, no. 3, 1993, pp. 64–
75. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/27559632. Accessed 10 July 2020.
This article has provided an analysis of Malcolm X’s language as a way to understand
his thinking and conception of society and race. The author has analyzed passages in
Malcolm X’s speeches and in his written works. This is useful in providing an in-depth
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understanding of the political views and philosophies that Malcolm X holds which greatly
influenced his becoming an icon of the American black nationalist movement.
Horne, Gerald. “‘Myth’ and the Making of ‘Malcolm X.’” The American Historical Review,
vol. 98, no. 2, 1993, pp. 440–450. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2166843. Accessed
10 July 2020.
As compared to most articles that examine the life of Malcolm X, this article is more
concerned with the implications of what the author termed as the “Malcolm X myth”. The
author calls for a critical analysis of the Malcolm X myth or of how Malcolm’s life is
portrayed throughout the history so as to avoid distorted and inaccurate representations of the
significant events in Malcolm’s life and his advocacy.
“Malcolm X.” The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute, Stanford
University, 30 May 2019, kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/malcolm-x.
Accessed 10 July 2020.
This article is useful in providing an overview of the significant events in Malcolm’s
life. It includes his father’s death, his imprisonment, his joining in the Nation of Islam, and
later on breaking away from it, and his founding of the Organization of Afro-American
Unity. The article also provided a differentiation between Malcolm X and Martin Luther
King Jr.’s message of nonviolence.
A Short Guide to Research Papers
Taken from Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada
General Format:
Essays should be word processed or neatly written in legible handwriting. Standard size
paper (8 2 X 11) should be used. There should be a title page which gives the exact title of the
essay, the name of the writer, the course, the name of the instructor and the date. If the essay is
word processed, it should be double spaced; if it is written on narrow-lined paper, every second
line should be used. Use only one side of the paper, and leave a margin of 1 inch on each side of
the page. Use 12 point font in your word processing program. It is essential that students use
proper grammar, syntax and spelling, and the essay should be logically organised. Check the
essay carefully before submitting it and, if at all possible, have a friend proofread several drafts
of it.
Quotations:
Quotations should be used carefully and for good reason. Usually it is better to condense
and summarize material in your own words than to quote it. If you wish to omit a portion of a
quotation, indicate such an omission by an ellipsis (i.e. three dots: . . .). If the omission includes
the last part of a sentence, end the quotation with four dots (which is an ellipsis plus a period).
For short quotations of less than four lines use normal spacing; for quotations of four lines or
more in length, you should indent slightly, use single spacing (or every line if you are writing on
narrow-lined paper), and do not use quotation marks. The source of all quotations must be
acknowledged in footnotes.
Footnotes or Endnotes:
Acknowledging the sources of quotations is but one important use of footnotes. They
must also be used to acknowledge the ideas and opinions of others, and to lend authority to
information or facts which may appear dubious to a reader. Footnotes may also be used to call
attention to other interpretations, to other sources of information, or to make short comments
which do not fit into the main text.
Footnote reference numbers should be placed in an elevated position at the end of the
appropriate sentence or paragraph. The footnotes themselves should appear at the bottom of the
page and be separated from the text by a line. Most modern word-processors do this as a matter
of course when the footnote function is used. The footnotes should be single-spaced, indented
slightly and uniformly and preceded by the appropriate reference number in a slightly elevated
position. If more than one footnote appears on a page, double space or skip a line between them.
Endnotes may be placed on a separate page(s) at the back of the essay, preceding the
bibliography.
It is impossible to show all of the various forms of footnotes in a guide of this nature. The
following are examples of the most commonly used types of footnotes in student papers, i.e.,
those referring to books and periodicals:
1
Ingeborg Marshall, A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk (Montreal: McGill-Queen=s
University Press, 1996), p. 20.
2
Stanley Wicks, Herbert Moran and Alex Bonvecchio, The Rebellions of 1837 (2nd ed.;
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1956), pp. 15-18.
3
Rosemary Ommer, AOne Hundred Years of Fishery Crises in Newfoundland,@ Acadiensis,
Vol. XXIII, No. 2 (Spring 1994), p. 10.
4
Frank Atkinson, APontiac and the Priests,@ in Pontiac=s Rebellion, ed. Ronald Pumphrey
(London: Phoenix Press, 1925), Vol. 11, pp. 46-47.
Note that titles of books and periodicals are always in italics, or are underlined to indicate
italics.
Once a source has been cited with full bibliographical information, it is not necessary
thereafter, when referring to the same source, to repeat all the information. Simply indicate the
source by means of a short title or abbreviation, with a page number. If the same source is
referred to two or more times in succession, the abbreviation ibid. (for the Latin word ibidem,
meaning Ain the same place@) may be used. Because ibid. is an abbreviation, it is followed
immediately by a period. Because it is a word from a language foreign to English, it is italicized.
Finally, if ibid. begins a sentence, the initial AI@ is capitalized. If references to other sources
intervene between references to a single source, then it is preferable to use a short title. Thus:
1
Ingeborg Marshall, A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk (Montreal: McGill-Queen=s
University Press, 1996), p. 20.
2
Ibid., p. 36.
3
Rosemary Ommer, AOne Hundred Years of Fishery Crises in Newfoundland,@ Acadiensis ,
Vol. XXIII, No. 2 (Spring 1994), p. 15.
4
Marshall, Beothuk, p. 52.
Bibliography:
Always include a bibliography at the end of the paper. This bibliography should be
simply a list of the sources used in alphabetical order by author. Once again, consult a style
manual for comprehensive information on style or bibliographies. What is important is to give all
the information. Note that, unlike in footnotes, in a bibliography the author=s name should be
given last name first, and every line after the first should be indented. Thus:
Atkinson, Frank. APontiac and the Priests,@ in Pontiac=s Rebellion Edited by Ronald
Pumphrey. 3 vols. London: Phoenix Press, 1925.
Ommer, Rosemary. AOne Hundred Years of Fishery Crises in Newfoundland.@ Acadiensis, Vol.
XXIII, No. 2 (Spring 1994).
Marshall, Ingeborg. A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk. Montreal: McGill-Queen=s
University Press, 1996.
Wicks, Stanley; Moran, Herbert; and Bonvecchio, Alex. The Rebellions of 1837. 2nd ed.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1956.
Web Sites:
When citing web sites, give the title of the web site, the full URL in brackets, and the
date that you accessed the site. For example:
Memorial University=s Guide to Writing Papers, located on the web at
, accessed on April 11, 2005.
Plagiarism:
You are plagiarizing if you use ideas, information or language taken from another author
without acknowledgement. Plagiarism is a serious academic offence and will be dealt with
accordingly. To avoid plagiarism you must:
(1) Indicate when you are quoting directly from one of your sources by using the approved form
of quotation, and
(2) Indicate the source of quotations, information and ideas by means of footnotes.

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