Angelou in particular acknowledges the "impertinence" of the ironic platitudes recited at the graduation ceremony (26). The Lafayette students had just finished their "passionate" recitation of not one but three anthems but were subsequently beaten into submission and near-despair (Angelou 22)
.will be constrained in certain ways: you're defined by your school as 'slow,' you're placed in a curriculum that isn't designed to liberate you but to occupy you," (Rose 355)
Even Maya's name came from a man rather than a woman, and one of the most important men in her life -- her brother Bailey. Though her mother named her Marguerite, Bailey could no pronounce this name as a small child, and referred to his baby sister as "mya sister," which developed into Maya, the name almost everyone calls her and which she most identifies with (Angelou, Chapter 10)
As Yolanda M. Manora puts it, "This Black woman, positioned at the interstices of race and gender, being non-white and non-male, becomes for the purposes of the hegemonic order, the Other of the Other" (Manora, 364)
Maya's understanding of race and identity is largely constructed by these random yet pervasive incidents, almost all of them involving males more than females, if not exclusively. Ingrid Pollard contends that this incident leaves Maya with a fear of "the threat of death to the men in her family," further complicating her relationship with the other men in her life and perhaps having a large effect on her ability to form relationships later in life (Pollard, 115)
/ Phenomenal woman, / That's me." (Angelou, 3) suggests that, although the author gives a personal description in the text, the poem is obviously a celebration of womanhood
One can accept the autobiographical details in this poem or extend the reading to infer that all women have qualities that attract attention."(Hagen, 127) Again in the manner of Walt Whitman, Angelou endeavors to show the value of the self, and thus to awaken the consciousness of her people and help them overcome the past oppression
It has reached the level contemporarily with the recreation of one's destiny, an incantation signaling control over one's life."(Ramsey, 139) Angelou thus urges the black women to believe in themselves and to have thus their own definition of what they are, a definition that will thus help them break the chains of oppression
, serving as northern coordinator of the "Southern Christian Leadership Conference." King's assassination on her birthday in 1968 desolated but also inspired Maya, who turned to writing her first book and one of her most memorable works, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, published in 1969 (Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)
She was born "Marguerite Johnson" on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri to Bailey and Vivian Baxter Johnson (Cecil)
Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. I've never been bored in my life" (Moore)
In addition, when depressive symptoms were included in the model, fatalistic attitudes were no longer associated with behavioral performance." (Egede and Osborn 276) Goal setting and self-care go hand in hand
"Students' beliefs in their efficacy for self-regulated learning affected their perceived self-efficacy for academic achievement, which in turn influenced the academic goals they set for themselves and their final academic achievement." (Zimmerman, Bandura and Martinez-Pons 63) Here if students believed they would do well, they in turn did by setting goals, accomplishing these goals and receiving positive outcomes like getting good grades