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    Black Arts Movement

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    BAM! The Black Arts Movement The amazing era of the Black Arts Movement developed the concept of an influential and artistic blackness that created controversial but significant organizations such as the Black Panther Party. The Black Arts Movement called for "an explicit connection between art and politics" (Smith). This movement created the most prevalent era in black art history by taking stereotypes and racism and turning it into artistic value. This connection between black art and politics

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    Black Magic

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    Research Report on Black Magic__Practices and Beliefs Final Draft Prepared by iBti$am Badar 13th August 2009 Black Magic__Practices and Beliefs May 19‚ 2009 Dedication I dedicate this project to my parents. My father whose love and care make everything possible for me‚ and my mother whose presence is the constant source of encouragement that keeps me going through life. Black Magic__Practices and Beliefs May 19‚ 2009 Table of Contents Acknowledgement Abstract 1. Introduction

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    Black Boy

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    Things seem to be looking even more bleaker for Richard in Black Boy. It has gotten to the point that Richard has basically become dead to all of his family except his mother. This is due in fact to not believing in God or “not being able to feel his presence‚” thus making him shunned basically by his family. Because of the poverty that the family live in and also the strict religious backing of the house‚ the amount of food has always been scarce. Richard tries to find ways to get money‚ but he

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    Comparison Poems

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    In the poems “This Be the Verse” by Philip Larkin and “Digging” by Seamus Heaney‚ the authors examine the roles of parents in what their children grown into. Larkin takes a depressing and pessimistic view on raising children while Heaney sees tradition as an honorable aspect to family lineage. These poems represent different extremes of raising children and have completely different views on the value of family. Larkin presents an extremely pessimistic view on raising children. He believes

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    The Teachers Poem

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    The Teacher |   | | | I was twenty-six the first time I helda human heart in my hand.It was sixty-four and heavier than I expected‚its chambers slack;and I was stupidly surprisedat how cold it was.It was the middle of the third weekbefore I could look at her face‚before I could spend more than an hourlearning the secrets of cirrhosis‚the dark truth of diabetes‚ the black lungsof the Marlboro woman‚ the exquisitepainful shape of kidney stones‚without eating an entire box of Altoidsto smother

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    Pantoum Poem

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    The Structure of a Pantoum Poem The pantoum is a form of poetry of Malaysian origin from the 15th century which was modified by the French in the 19th century. The modern pantoum is written in an unlimited number of quatrains (stanzas of four lines) with a strict repeating pattern - the second and fourth lines of each quatrain are repeated as the 1st and 3rd lines of the next quatrain. The pattern continues until the final quatrain when the 1st line of the poem becomes the last line and the 3rd

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    Nighthawks Poem

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    feasting upon life’s most taboo pleasures. Using the socially disconnected characters‚ Samuel Yellen emphasizes the idea that that only by living a life of daring and excitement will humans ever be truly content with their lives. Those described in the poem are described as being distant from one another; they are disconnected socially and emotionally. Although the man and woman are right next to each other -- their hands close‚ but not touching -- they do not even

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    From the heart

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    From The Heart By: ZainabNafiu Goal I have a goal to make everybody happy for the rest of their life My goal is working everyday Can someone help me to get them happier? If I had one wish it’s to know I found out what it is It’s really me and my happiness. Beautiful You are beautiful like a star You shine so bright in the dark Don’t go away please will you come back

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    The Black Maddona

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    The Black Madonna by Muriel Spark Brief summary Lou and Raymond Parker are a Catholic working-class couple with middle-class aspirations (D.: Bestrebungen) . They flaunt /display (D.: zur Schau stellen) their progressiveness and tolerance by befriending two newly arrived Jamaicans‚ Henry Pierce and Oxford St.John and they also introduce them to their friends. As Lou is jealous of her neighbours` and her sister`s children‚ Lou prays to the newly installed and consecrated Black Madonna – a

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    Found Poem

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    The light of his love begins to fade  His temper cracked a little  An Oxford man  Like hell he is    She never loved you‚  Not good enough  That’s all over now‚ You want too much  Not her cup of tea        The main focus of my poem is the relationship between Gatsby and Daisy throughout the  novel. The first stanza of the poem talks about Daisy not wanting Gatsby because he is going  into the military and that she likes older men like Tom. The second stanza is talking about  Gatsby’s love for Daisy and the fact that he is still obsessed with her

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