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    In the Langston Hughes poem‚ “Open Letter to the South”‚ is about workers needing to unify despite their color. He also talks about how together they will be stronger and more powerful; together they can rise and get rid of the plow and time clock of the past. He wants everyone to forget about being separate and look at becoming equal. When people are separate‚ they are not as strong‚ but equality brings everyone together and gives more strength and power to everyone. “Let us become …. One single

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    United States. Consequently‚ the poor white and black workers who found it already difficult to make a living‚ suffered even worse. In the poems “Share-Croppers” and “Open Letter to the South”‚ both written by renown poet‚ Langston Hughes‚ gives us a glimpse into the life of a blue collar worker in the mid-1930s. “Open Letter to the South” and “Share-Croppers” share a lot of similarities in regards to the depiction of how the working class were treated. Despite the similarities‚ the two poems had a slight

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    An Open Letter to Seminarians All that is in here are just simple reflections. You might have encountered them before. I just made my own version of it. I did not intend to make myself known to you but to help you in your discernment as your co-journeyer to the priesthood. Please pardon my grammar and English composition. I prefer to make it this long to have a greater chance of touching some parts of your being. I was a college seminarian then‚ when we visited the Tuloy sa Don

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    Dear High School Students‚ I have dreamt of graduating college since I began school. By the time I was your age‚ I had been practicing my college acceptance speech to my parents for many years. I understand that it can be difficult to imagine another four years of schooling. When you look at the alternative‚ however‚ you will find that you must work hard now to enjoy the rest of your life. When you are a middle-aged person‚ you will have been enjoying weekends off and family vacations for so

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    This week I chose to read and evaluate Stephen Crane’s The Open Boat and Jack London’s South of the Slot. Both of these short stories benefit from the versatility of the third person point-of-view but differ from each other in a few striking ways. Jack London writes in third person limited‚ restricting himself only to the thoughts and feelings of Freddie Drummond. It is advantageous because the unique nature of Drummond’s research allows London to explore and describe life on both sides of the

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    EXAMINE THE SCARLET LETTER AS AN OPEN-ENDED NOVEL Hawthorne wrote during the Romantic Period in American literature which lasted from 1830 to 1865. Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Henry David Thoreau‚ Herman Melville‚ Harriet Beecher Stowe‚ Edgar Allen Poe‚ and Walt Whitman were his literary contemporaries. The Scarlet Letter is considered a piece of American Romantic literature because it is set in a remote past‚ the Puritan era 200 years prior to Hawthorne’s time‚ and because it deals with the interior

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    3/6/10 Journal 8 “An Open Letter to Ninth Graders”‚by Patrick Sullivan is not just a “letter” to “ninth graders”. It as an article to the general public and those of which are interested in higher education offered at colleges. Some of the key points he talks about in this letter that tell you how to succeed are‚ reading‚ writing‚ thinking‚ listening and “grit”. Patrick Sullivan in detail describes to you that reading is essential to being successful in a liberal arts education. In addition to

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    An Open Letter to Ninth Graders Preparing our students‚ long before they become our students. Patrick Sullivan Related Items: Social Class and College Readiness College-Readiness Checklist Dear First-Year High School Students‚ I am one of the co-editors of What Is “College-Level” Writing?—a 2006 collection of essays that focuses on the difference between high school writing and college-level writing. Because of my work on that book‚ I’ve spent a great deal of time in the last five years thinking

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    While Langston Hughes questions his identity in his 1951 poem‚ “Theme for English B”‚ the piece closely relates to Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” considering that both works relay the authors underlying values of equality. King uses his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” to promote the efficacy of integration and address the tensions present between races in the United States. After the courts failed to appease King by restricting his ability to hold protests in Birmingham

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    Angelica Galvan Professor Frost Composition I September 10‚ 2014 Don’t read this without thinking The expectations that students just out of high school have to meet in college are different than what they are used to. In “An Open Letter to Ninth Graders‚” Patrick Sullivan establishes his opinion on the most important college-readiness skills­– reading‚ writing‚ thinking‚ listening‚ grit and attitude. Sullivan’s knowledge about the needs of college freshmen comes from his experience as an English

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