Contrasting the North and South The North and South are both different‚ but they both have great strengths and weaknesses. The Civil War was started by The Kansas-Nebraska act. When Kansas got the right to vote‚ residents from Missouri crossed over the Kansas border to vote so that Kansas would become a slave state. Missouri wanted to make Kansas a slave state. “On July 21‚ 1861‚ the first battle of the civil war” (American Odyssey) broke out because of the feud between Kansas and Missouri. The
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effort‚ people lose the will to keep going. Langston Hughes was apart of the struggle for equality and had high hopes. His perspective on equality was positive‚ but as his life went on that perspective changed and was noticeable through the poems that he wrote. “I‚ Too” ‚ “Let America Be America Again”‚ and “Dream Deferred” were not only poems‚ but also Hughes view of the progression of equality. Each poem was a different time period of Hughes life. “I‚ Too” showed aspects of hope “Tomorrow… ashamed”
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Background: On a hot and humid day‚ my course at Columbia University toured Harlem through the route described in Langston Hughes’s‚ Theme for English B. In his poem‚ Hughes describes his walk from City College of New York to his home in Harlem. When we walked down the steps from City College to Harlem‚ just as Hughes did‚ I realized Hughes’s prevalent battle; he came from an underprivileged background to attend a university where he was the only African American student in his class. Going down
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S - Langston Hughes was a black poet born in the 1900’s. He written during the American Renaissance. He invented a new type of poetry called Jazz poetry. He enrolled at Columbia University in 1921. His force poem was called “Negro speaks of rivers. He traveled around the U.S‚ Mexico‚ and Spain. O - it was written in 1951 and published on the new York times. A - People in the American renaissance who wanted to read more about Blacks in America. The people who read it when it first came out was
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You and Simple In a dark time for African Americans in the land of the free Langston Hughes shines a light on the struggle of keeping one ’s cultural identity when faced with oppression in the year of 1949. Readers of his article entitled‚ "Bop" are enthralled in a story where Hughes draws a parallel between what Bop music is and is not‚in the form of a dialogue between two African American men. Hughes draws his readers in with descriptive imagery with a first person perspective and stylises his
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hundred years before the American Revolution‚ the colonial South was a kaleidoscope of different people and cultures. Yet all residents of the region shared two important traits. First‚ they lived and worked in a natural environment unlike any other in the American colonies. Second‚ like humans everywhere‚ their presence on the landscape had profound implications for the natural world. Exploring the ecological transformation of the colonial South offers an opportunity to examine the ways in which three
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In the poem “Scottsboro‚” Hughes talks about Christ and Gandhi because they were both important figures that stood up for what they believed in just as the Scottsboro boys did. Christ died on the cross for everybody’s sins. He had a lot of people that did not believe in him and wanted him dead. Gandhi preached about wanting peace and how he wanted the violence to end. He had a lot of people that supported him and a lot of people who didn’t. He had his life taken from him by somebody that did not
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In ’Harlem‚’ Langston Hughes is saying that dreams are an essential part of survival. He begins his poem by asking a question‚ “What happens to a dream deferred?” When you delay a dream‚ what becomes of it? Rather than fading away‚ Hughes compares dreams to food‚ a basic component of life. When dreams are put off‚ they become dried and shrunken like raisins‚ and they are not as ripe as the grapes they came from. Hughes is saying that dreams are an important part of life‚ and when they are ignored
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a police officer‚ teacher‚ or an astronaut. On a global scale we dream of peace and equality. What becomes of those dreams when they are postponed and overdue? Interpreting the first verse of the poem “does it dry up like a raisin in the sun (Hughes 1031)? The writer is saying‚ that initially there is a grand plan started to achieving a goal. The longer it takes to implement‚ the idea becomes a scaled down version from the original. Understanding‚ “Or fester like a sore—And
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The North and South emerged as two distinct regions because they had various differences. Despite being part of the same country as a whole‚ the North and the South were opposites both culturally and in several other ways. As mentioned in “The American Journey” by Glencoe‚ these differences included the geography‚ economy‚ society‚ and transportation system. One of the most striking differences between the North and South was the climate and geography. In the North‚ there was not an abundance of
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