Introductions To A Cause Effect Essay

Lessons From the Life of Malcolm X

) Informs us of through revelation, there are ways in which many of those who sacrifice their life for the sake of God can in fact, even in our own limited perception, be seen to continue to “live” in the sense that they affect people, move hearts, inspire, and do all the things which are most valuable in life much more so than those of us who continue to be physically alive in ways that can be perceived but are often emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually dead.  In the long and gloried, if still often hidden history of Islam and Muslims in this land, there is little doubt that the figure that continues to influence and inspire more than any other, even today, forty-six years after he was assassinated, is Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik El Shabazz).

If one listens to the “conversion stories” of American Muslims,  the narratives that people tell, often at the repeated urging of other Muslims, born into the faith, and seeking to find inspiration and/or affirmation from the lives of those who have chosen this way of life, the most common thread, the most oft mentioned individual is Malcolm X.  This is true regardless of the ethnic or racial background of the convert (in fact while Black American Muslims may be influenced by family members or others in the community, it is perhaps even more often the case that Muslims of other backgrounds who convert are first influenced by a book or a movie, and therefore, in my experience it may be even more likely for Malcolm X to play a direct and explicit role in their story of finding Islam), regardless of the fact that the vast majority of these people were born after Malcolm’s assassination.

Of course, one of the things that happens with historical figures who continue to remain well-known and influential years after they can continue to speak for themselves is that others seek to speak for them.  Attempts are made to co-opt their legacy, either in sincere efforts for good or in selfish efforts for ideological or even commercial gain.  This is especially true of Malcolm X, who is not only a historical and political icon but in many ways a “celebrity” remembered by many primarily for his style and attitude.  For those who are serious about trying to learn from the life of Malcolm X, the best resource of how he understood his life story and the lessons he wished to be drawn by others from his life remains his autobiography, published posthumously and written with the assistance of Alex Haley.  Drawing primarily, though not exclusively on that work, here are five of the major lessons that I think one should draw from the life of Malcolm X.

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Cause-Effect Essay

Introduction

 

Knowing and understanding this kind of essay will help you in adjusting your ability to express your ideas that are in the form of cause and effect relationship. In an academic essay, this essay has specific form and function. The form is cause-effect essay. Meanwhile, the function is to express your ideas academically to your readers in relation to two things or more that you think they have a relationship of cause and effect.

 

The Cause-Effect Essay

 

Question 1: What is cause-effect essay?

Answer:

 

Before knowing the definition of cause-effect essay, it is a necessary for you to understand what the word of ‘cause’ and ‘effect’ means. According to Hornby, ‘cause’ is a person or thing that makes something happen (p. 177), meanwhile, ‘effect’ means a change produced by an action or a cause and a result or an outcome.

Therefore, the meaning of ‘cause-effect’ essay is an essay that presents the ideas of how a cause can make an effect, or the relationship between a cause and an effect.

  . Cause is a writing strategy concerned with why something happens, effect focuses on results or consequences.

 

For example:

Cause                                                                           Effect

Too much rain                         leads to                       flooding

Flooding                                  leads to                       destruction of crops

Loss of crops                           leads to                       shortage of products

Shortage of products              leads to                       rise in market price

 

Obviously, the characters are:

The writer presents a reasonable thesis connected to logical cause/effect development. The subject is an event, occurence, or phenomenon, and the writer focuses on cause, effect, or both.