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  How Efective Learning To Read And Write Can Be     In the informative article “Learning to Read and Write” (2013) Frederick Douglass explains how necessary it is to articulate yourself.Douglass does this by shedding light on his adolescence and leading him to begin to read and write.The purpose of doing this was to educate people in order to show how cruel slavery actually was and express the intelligence of  black people as a whole.The audiences Douglass wrote to were African American people who experienced similar tramas to show them there was change coming.                       I feel that since Douglass was a slave that couldn't read or write when he was learning by a white person it was frown upon because he is a "Nigger" and a slave.  He tricked a white boy into teaching him how to read and white, that showed his burning desire to learn. H...

  Tiffany Hendrickson, Urban Reflection, Talking in Color: Collision of Cultures, (March 21, 2013), the author embarks on a journey to a realm of cultural intersectionality, which growing up in a Black neighborhood but not identifying as African American, so she needs to act her skin color which is white. Tiffany Hendrickson grew up in a neighborhood where there was a tremendous linguistic gap. Which would be a place where most people call an impoverished African American neighborhood. Although the people in her neighborhood may not look the same as her she still can hear voices that are like hers. The purpose of this passage is to allow readers to connect with the real-world implications of cultural intersectionality. In order to do so you would have to live experiences of these grappling challenges and triumphs that come with diverse cultural worlds. Her audience is college students in general since she mentioned that she went to a college house party at Clifton. I was surprise...