One of the most famous quotes in history is “Knowledge is Power” an expression that means the more knowledge you gain the more powerful you are as an individual. In the short story “The Birthmark”, by Nathaniel Hawthorne and the two poems “English B”, by Langston Hughes and “Crazy Courage”, by Sherman Alexie, the authors describes individual knowledge and power through the same idea, but through different methods.…
Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 in Massachusetts. Emily was raised and would eventually live her entire life in almost complete isolation. The few people Dickinson came into contact with were her family and Reverend Charles Wadsworth. Despite how cut off Dickinson was from the world, she still managed to read vivaciously and was influenced by many other poets. Another prominent influence in her poetry was her heavily Puritan background. Dickinson’s poems were only found upon her death and were later published by her…
Being able to accept flexible views of text means to be able to understand that text can take on multiple meanings and that there is not a singular way to analyze the text. A mechanistic view of text would be to analyze every text or passage you come across in generally the same way, without thinking outside of the box. A person could analyze a research paper about quantum mechanics the same way they would analyze a Dr. Seuss book. A reader must develop a flexible view on text in order to fully comprehend what the text might be saying or at least to be able to acknowledge that there is more than on interpretation. To accept a flexible view of text, one must be able to see the differences and similarities between separate texts.…
ATP (adenosine triphosphate) is vital to living organisms. It acts as a short-term store of energy in a cell, carrying it from where it is synthesised (e.g. the mitochondria) to where it is needed for biological processes. It is well suited to this job for the following reasons: it is small and soluble (and so can be easily transported around a cell); it is easily broken down to release energy; it can transfer energy to other molecules; and it cannot leave the cell. All of these facts mean that ATP is always available to the cell as an immediate source of energy.…
Langston Hughes and W. H. Auden are two highly educated authors, who came from very different cultural backgrounds. Literary contemporaries, contemporaries in that they were both working writers during the same time period, Hughes and Auden are known for literary works which tackle both moral and political issues. Langston Hughes's and W. H. Auden's poems "Ballad of the Landlord" and "Miss Gee" exhibit each author's ability to employ the use of a traditional poetic form to tell a fanciful yet haunting story of characters whose initial qualities are comedic and simple. Both poems are similar in that they are ballads, they rhyme, and they both end in tragedy; however the tragic outcomes for each of the stories characters are as different as the authors who wrote them and the variations on the style they chose to tell these stories.…
The similarities of the works of Martin Luther King and Langston Hughes, specifically the “American Dream” speech of Martin’s and “Let America be America again” of Langston’s, include that they are both describe the suffrage of black people and talks about gaining their freedom. In “the American Dream”, Martin Luther says, “We have proudly professed the principles of democracy, and on the other hand we practiced the very antithesis of those principles,” while Langston says in his poem, “America never was America to me.” These two statements describe the hardships of the black people, in that they, as their ancestors were residents of America during the time of the Declaration of Independence, were supposed to receive their freedom as well,…
The artists that I have chosen are Langston Hughes and Augusta Savage. Their works of art that I am going to discuss are Langston Hughes’ short story entitled ONE FRIDAY MORNING, and Savage’s sculpture of THE HARP.…
The land of the free and the home of the brave is a simple yet powerful motto that supposedly describes the inherent rights allotted to each American. Yet, the truly brave are often the ones who have the least amount of freedom. America is a young nation with a past full of prejudice, but more importantly a past full of bravery and triumph. Americans like Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and Malcolm X, all fought for equality. These great Americans rose to the occasion and succeeded in their fight for freedom by displaying the bravery echoed in our national anthem. Each of these people experienced great adversity, but adversity is not what defined their greatness. These courageous Americans stood up for basic freedom and equality, but they were not the first. These people are the grand-children of a movement that changed America forever, the snow…
In both “Dream Variations” by Langston Hughes and “The Tropics in New York” by Claude McKay there is an eager tone. They both are eager or long to be in another place. In "Dream Variations" the speaker longs to be "In some place of the sun, To whirl and to dance...Then rest at cool evening Beneath a tall tree While night comes on gently". In "The Tropics in New York” the speaker longs to be back in his home country where the "Bananas [are] ripe and green, and ginger-root, Cocoa in pods and alligator pears, And tangerines and mangoes and grapefruit, Fit for the highest prize at parish fairs".…
Emily Dickinson was born 1830 and died in 1886. Emily spent most of her life in her house, she would only come out if necessary. When Emily was in the house, she wrote poems,after she wrote the poems she would cram them into her desk. After Emily died, her sister went through her stuff only to find almost a thousand poems,her sister then went on to publish Emily’s poems.…
Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes are famous. Their races matter of what they wrote about in their poems because Walt Whitman is a white man and, white people had it better than black people. Some of those rights were that black people can not use the same bathroom. If you’re black you can not sit in the front of the bus and, if a white person tells you to get up or you will go to jail. Even though Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes saw their American dream different because their races made it that way.…
Harlem Renaissance Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes works showed that they are nostalgic about Africa, a continent they did not visit, but they were anxious to connect to. In Cullen’s “Heritage”, he sounded like a troubled man that long for to reunite to a long-lost love. His description of Africa was based on what he read or was told about Africa not from his own personal experience. Although he gave a beautiful description of Africa, in the first few lines, by ending the first part of the poem with “What is Africa to me”? showed a man that wanted to connect to his heritage based on the impression he had, but do not know how what the experience will be. The first part of the poem is to ask questions about a troubling issue.…
The American dream, the hope of a better future. Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes, two shrewd dreamers whom, based on their time period, put the American dream to words. Walt Whitman, the man who introduced the free-verse poem and the author of “I Hear America Singing”, written in the mid-1800’s this poem describes America’s workforce singing about their jobs. Langston Hughes was the author of “Let America Be America Again,” which was written in the mid-1900’s and describes Hughes’ feeling of being left out of the American dream by explaining how America is not “free”. So?…
Both poems use first-person voices, however the "I" is different for each poem, in order to fulfill Hughes' purpose for the poem.…
Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes were both prominent African American authors, who used their work to talk about the mistreatment of the African Americans in the United States. Both authors used their popularity to share information about the African American culture. The authors' work provided how African Americans felt oppressed because of the effects of discrimination. The works done by both authors, Maya Angelou's poem "Still I Rise" and Langston Hughes’ "I, Too, Sing America" both share similar meanings, but the authors use different tones and ways to tell dissimilar stories.…