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Paper Abstract: Discusses the spiritual pilgrimage or journey of two American leaders: Jane Addams and Malcolm X. Compares purpose of both journeys.. Overview of life of Malcolm X & his spiritual revelation in prison his education, attitudes, his leadership in the black nationalist movement. Overview of Addams life & her spiritual and personal journey. Her decision to devote her future to establishing a settlement house t help Chicago'r poor people; her belief in the need for social welfare programs. Paper Introduction: The stories told in both The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Twenty Years at Hull House by Jane Addams each fit the classic pattern of the spiritual pilgrimage. Each of the protagonists sets out on a spiritual journey which is simply seen as part of life, though it is a journey that not everyone takes as fully as possible. Malcolm X, for instance, might have continued down the criminal path he began on had he not had a revelation while in prison. Jane Addams's spiritual journey is more direct and lifelong, and in her case, she had to overcome a physical abnormality because of a congenital spinal defect. Both became leaders in their respective times and communities, and both suggested the importance of such institutions as education, social welfare, and religion. The vital importance of education is emphasized again and Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. protagonists sets out on aspiritual journey had henot had a revelation and communities and both suggested the importanceof such institutions as of a black identity in American society mob something he knew from hischildhood At the time this a young man He tried to be as black men of his generation he for him He wore hishair society had made him ashamed of his color when he is inprison and begins to see how little he knowsand how much he been in Chinese Haley He gets hold of adictionary and better at understanding what he reads the white schools He reads books by Elijah Muhammadthat he had studied history with history books anything like the truth about ignored ashe lived out the role society seemed had been engendered in the young man were takenwith prison I really disliked how Negroconvicts stuck out fantasies set by the white One result of Malcolm X's learning about to the message of Martin LutherKing and thus and integration into American society be attributed towhite society meant that that society had and reevaluated his perception of all whitepeople as blue-eyed approach has special value for thisvery reason it sees approach does notwork and that the majority society will never all that goes with it degree They have their fate decided elsewhere their own devices though this leaderwho served for sixteen years as vigorous when young and indeed she was yet she set out to achieve all granted the bachelor's degree immediately periods of hospitalization because of it prisonsentence Addams spent almost two years called Toynbee Hall in London's East End and thiscrystallized her in thatcity moved in and set two women sought help from othersand the sick and listened to theconcerns of troubled people Over gymnasium a swimming pool a book bindery anart studio a in existence It seems that there is they have so littlehelp in getting through their problems She talks about the need foreducation for people showed that shemeant what she said and Board ofEducation for instance and was one and sanitary conditions In addition how to do the same Their spiritual journeycontinued as continuing to recognize aconnection to the rest of humanity Works by Jane Addams each fit the classic takes as fully as possible Malcolm X forinstance had to overcome a physicalabnormality because of a inThe Autobiography of Malcolm X as even lead toone's death at articulated but whichinfluenced his development as a a positive identity in the white world as He acted outthat stereotype and other young men of his generation andbehaved as they did more ofhim and expected even less His spiritual awareness He also becomes ashamed of hisown ignorance as one to nearly all of the He copies thedictionary page by page learning by doing these readings that he learns a lesson simply had been left out Haley Malcolm remembers show me a black adult in America or a white black man in the world hesees that the same effect applies truth I hate to admit a sad shameful fact white society Blacks are made ashamed of themselves with his reading but the formal education he yet fully developed He came to embody this sense this day On the one in which the white man was not a brother but would prove too harsh for Malcolm X and other Third Worldcountries and created a new activist organization will enable them to achieve complete liberation and fact whether it is desiredor not Blacks live in enclaves andautonomy These separated blacks are as if theirproblems will simply disappear the eighth of ninechildren and and Lincoln wouldbe an influence on the daughter took place at a time when the from theRockford Female Seminary as the valedictorian of a originally to study medicine but she time of reading and contemplation similar to that came when she was on friend Ellen Starr leased a large homebuilt by improve the conditions in the young women from well-to-do families to helpas club meetingsfor older children in the afternoon evening regarding the needfor social welfare programs for the poor and believe needs some form of assistanceand protection She life unless they have somewhere togo that position to expound on this and other topics She coulddo to put her ideas intooperation helped lead investigations into problemsin her area Both Malcolm X and Jane Addams derived lessons similar spiritualconnection by working with others by gaining self-respect Ballantine Books The stories told in both The Autobiography of which is simply seen as while in prison Jane Addams's spiritual journey education social welfare and religion Malcolm X grewup in a world where being implanted in his mind a subtle sense of white as he could both culturally and physically achoice which fell into a certain stereotypicalmold imposed on him by straight because white people had straight He fell into crime as aneasy way to make see the fallacy of this way of life and the needs to learn But every book I picked learns the words one at a time teaching himself both reading to the pointof straining stressed how history had been whitened' when white all the history of the the blackman's role Haley Reading opens his to have set for him a role thatprevented him into prison and would together so much Haley This is part of the problemof and participate in theirown virtual slavery to this as he did was to awakenfeelings of anger representing one of the two major On the other was thevision adopted by Malcolm X to be cast out of the world'scivilized society and devils It was then that he began to link thestruggles all blacks as one and allow full participation onthe part ignorance disease hopelessness What is missing in and often this meanswhat white society clearly has not happened and a state senator and fought as an officer inthe Civil never trulyhealthy even later in life though that she couldgiven the limitations and but only after theschool became accredited the following year Shespent some time traveling in Europe Her spiritual in reading and writing and inconsidering what her future idea of opening a similar house in out to create an educational made speeches to convince people to give time other facilities were added toHull House including music school a drama group and so on In no time of life orsegment of She talks about the young and howthey at all times of life She also supports the could put it into operation She of the founders of the to supporting women's rights shefought against they became leaders for others inspiring people to examinetheir lives CitedAddams Jane Twenty Years at Hull-House New York patternof the spiritual pilgrimage Each of the might have continued down the criminal path he began on congenital spinal defect Both became leaders intheir respective times is the need for a better understandingof the development the hands of an angry human being and his choices as in the black Like many otheryoung put on the mask society had made He preferred women who were lighter in color becausewhite journey takes a different direction another inmate Bimbi makes him wordsthat might as well have and he reads everything he canas he becomes about the educationhe never received in his life as a child in Mason when one for that matter who knows from the a reality he has always to other young black men as well The attitudes that I had so lovedbeing around the white man that in their people their history theirculture They act received in schoolhad not broken it it had created it of anger for anentire generation standing in contrast side was King's vision of peacefulcooperation an antagonistto be overcome The crimes Malcolm X discovered could he broke withthe Nation of Islam in the Organization of Afro-American Unity This black nationalist autonomy Blacknationalists find ample evidence that the integrationist within the cities of this country keptthere by poverty and not in charge of their own destiny toany if they are left to her father was a prosperous miller and local political as well Her spinal problem kept her frombeing physically roles forwomen were more limited class of seventeen butshe was not was stopped in this caseby her own poor health and ofMalcolm X except chosen intentionally rather than imposed by a a second tour of Europe and visiteda settlement house Charles Hull at the corner of Halsted and Polk Streets industrialdistricts of Chicago In doing this the they took care of children nursed classes for adults an artgallery a public kitchen a about how there are not enoughsuch programs talks about the elderly and how protects them and nurtures them this because her reputation was growing as Hull House on a wider field She was appointed to Chicago's including issues such as midwifery narcotics milk supplies from their lifeexperiences and showed others and byasserting a degree of independence while Malcolm X by Alex Haleyand Twenty Years at Hull House part of life though it is ajourney that not everyone ismore direct and lifelong and in her case she The vital importance of education is emphasized again and again black was a handicap It could shameat his blackness something he could not have led him into criminal activity that only emphasized his lackof the way whites viewed black people hair making him ashamed ofhis natural hair He dressed like a living and in any case society asked nothing way it hasbeen imposed on him without his up had fewsentences which didn't contain anywhere from toread and to write as he goes through the dictionary his eyes badly It is in men had writtenhistory books the black men Negro covered in one paragraph You canhardly eyes to the reality of thesituation of the him from achieving anything positive in his life Clearly be broken only when he read widely andlearned the black identity that he sees being imposed on blacks by false ideas and a false identity Malcolm X brokethis cycle against white society that had been building but that hadnot strands of black politicalphilosophy to from the writings of Elijah Muhammad of theNation of Islam integration with whites was unthinkable In time though this view of African-Americans with those of Africa and attempts to forge a consensusthat of the black populace Separatism is a this de facto separatism is self-rule calls benign neglect They are treated will not happen Jane Addams was born in Cedarville Illinois War He was also a friend of Abraham Lincoln her spinal difficulty was remedied bysurgery Her spiritual journey restrictions facing her She graduated as Rockford College for Women She set out and personal journeyincluded a lengthy objectives should be Her epiphany an underprivileged areaof Chicago In she and her and philanthropicenterprises and to investigate and their support The two raisedfunds and also convinced other kindergarten classes in the morning her book Addams writes about her convictions society that she does not are easy prey to the darker side of rights ofwomen and uses her was in fact given more opportunity Chicago Schoolof Civics and Philanthropy She war and gave speeches on that subject and to consider how best to attain a Signet Haley Alex The Autobiography of Malcolm X New York protagonists sets out on aspiritual journey had henot had a revelation and communities and both suggested the importanceof such institutions as of a black identity in American society mob something he knew from hischildhood At the time this a young man He tried to be as black men of his generation he for him He wore hishair society had made him ashamed of his color when he is inprison and begins to see how little he knowsand how much he been in Chinese Haley He gets hold of adictionary and better at understanding what he reads the white schools He reads books by Elijah Muhammadthat he had studied history with history books anything like the truth about ignored ashe lived out the role society seemed had been engendered in the young man were takenwith prison I really disliked how Negroconvicts stuck out fantasies set by the white One result of Malcolm X's learning about to the message of Martin LutherKing and thus and integration into American society be attributed towhite society meant that that society had and reevaluated his perception of all whitepeople as blue-eyed approach has special value for thisvery reason it sees approach does notwork and that the majority society will never all that goes with it degree They have their fate decided elsewhere their own devices though this leaderwho served for sixteen years as vigorous when young and indeed she was yet she set out to achieve all granted the bachelor's degree immediately periods of hospitalization because of it prisonsentence Addams spent almost two years called Toynbee Hall in London's East End and thiscrystallized her in thatcity moved in and set two women sought help from othersand the sick and listened to theconcerns of troubled people Over gymnasium a swimming pool a book bindery anart studio a in existence It seems that there is they have so littlehelp in getting through their problems She talks about the need foreducation for people showed that shemeant what she said and Board ofEducation for instance and was one and sanitary conditions In addition how to do the same Their spiritual journeycontinued as continuing to recognize aconnection to the rest of humanity Works by Jane Addams each fit the classic takes as fully as possible Malcolm X forinstance had to overcome a physicalabnormality because of a inThe Autobiography of Malcolm X as even lead toone's death at articulated but whichinfluenced his development as a a positive identity in the white world as He acted outthat stereotype and other young men of his generation andbehaved as they did more ofhim and expected even less His spiritual awareness He also becomes ashamed of hisown ignorance as one to nearly all of the He copies thedictionary page by page learning by doing these readings that he learns a lesson simply had been left out Haley Malcolm remembers show me a black adult in America or a white black man in the world hesees that the same effect applies truth I hate to admit a sad shameful fact white society Blacks are made ashamed of themselves with his reading but the formal education he yet fully developed He came to embody this sense this day On the one in which the white man was not a brother but would prove too harsh for Malcolm X and other Third Worldcountries and created a new activist organization will enable them to achieve complete liberation and fact whether it is desiredor not Blacks live in enclaves andautonomy These separated blacks are as if theirproblems will simply disappear the eighth of ninechildren and and Lincoln wouldbe an influence on the daughter took place at a time when the from theRockford Female Seminary as the valedictorian of a originally to study medicine but she time of reading and contemplation similar to that came when she was on friend Ellen Starr leased a large homebuilt by improve the conditions in the young women from well-to-do families to helpas club meetingsfor older children in the afternoon evening regarding the needfor social welfare programs for the poor and believe needs some form of assistanceand protection She life unless they have somewhere togo that position to expound on this and other topics She coulddo to put her ideas intooperation helped lead investigations into problemsin her area Both Malcolm X and Jane Addams derived lessons similar spiritualconnection by working with others by gaining self-respect Ballantine Books If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.