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- - - - Week 14: Modern Civil Rights
        
        Audre Lorde was an American writer, poet, and activist who is celebrated for her works that explored themes of race, gender, sexuality, and identity. She used her writing to give voice to marginalized communities and to challenge social norms and structures that perpetuated oppression.
        
        Literature: Battle Royale, Letter from Birmingham Jail, Message to the Grassroots, The problem that has no name, What's wrong with equal rights for women, The masters tools will never dismantle the masters house
        
        Important Quotes:"Over and over women heard in voices of tradition and of Freudian sophistication that they could desire--no greater destiny than to glory in their own femininity"- Friedan
        "I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White citizens’ Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods”; who paternistically feels he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection. . ."-MLK
        
        Authors: Ralph Ellison, MLK Jr, Malcolm X, Betty Friedan, Phyllis Schlafly, Audre Lord
- - - - Week 13: A new American Life
        
        Authors: Dale Carnegie, Alcoholics Anonymous, Ralph G. Martin, Alan Ginsberg
        
        Literature: How this book was written and why, There is a Solution, Life in the New Suburbia, Howl
        
        Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and writer who was a leading figure of the Beat Generation, a group of writers and artists who rejected mainstream culture in favor of a more experimental and countercultural approach. His most famous work, the poem "Howl," is a powerful critique of American society and a celebration of individualism and nonconformity.
        
        Important Quotes:"B. F. Skinner, the world-famous psychologist, proved through his experiments that an animal rewarded for good behavior will learn much more rapidly and retain what it learns far more effectively than an animal punished for bad behavior. Later studies have shown that the same applies to humans. By criticizing, we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment."- Dale Carnegie
        “who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz.”-Howl
- - - - Week 12: The business Man and the Flapper:
        
        Important Quotes: "What can you say, when a man asks you to dance with him? I most certainly will not dance with you, I'll see you in hell first. Why, thank you, I'd like to awfully, but I'm having labor pains. Oh, yes, do let's dance together -- it's so nice to meet a man who isn't a scaredy-cat about catching my beri-beri. No. There was nothing for me to do, but say I'd adore to."- The Waltz
        "We were the most powerful nation. Who could tell us any longer what was fashionable and what was fun?"-Echoes of the Jazz Age
        
        Authors: Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Dorothy Parker
        
        Literature: Echoes of the Jazz Age, Rabbit, The Waltz
        
        Dorothy Parker was an American writer and poet who was known for her sharp wit and biting humor. Her short story "The Waltz" is a poignant commentary on societal expectations and the pressure to conform, particularly for women, during the early 20th century.
      - These two weeks connect rather well in their main themes and ideas.