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    W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T.Washington were both influential men during the Civil Rights movement. Even though they were both extremely influential‚ they both had contrasting points of views on which actions to take when it comes to racial equality. Booker T. Washington believed social equality would happen over time when the African Americans became economically well built and powerful. W.E.B. DuBois thought that political and social equality was necessary‚ so he came up with the movements such as

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    Booker T. Vs. W.E.B. DuBois Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois were both prominent figures in the African American Community following radical reconstruction. Although they were both very powerful members of the African American community‚ they held polar opposite views. Booker T. believed that if Blacks formed a strong work force and became essential to the Southern economy‚ that whites would have no choice but to give equal rights and equal respect to them. W.E.B. DuBois on the other

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    W.E.B. Du Bois’s idea of double-consciousness in my opinion relates to the struggle of being black and being an American. In the 19th and 20th century the idea of being black and being an American were very conflicting ideas since to be an American meant you were free and had the right to own property‚ receive an education‚ and have the right to vote in the polls just to name a few of the freedoms that many people believed was an individual right of being an American. “One ever feels his twoness

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    Langston Hughes Analytical Poem: Theme For English B Langston Hughes is considered one of the most influential historical African American poets of his era. The Harlem Renaissance is portrayed in Hughes point of view‚ expressing countless amounts of poems that had a colossal effect on the time period. Many familiar themes are illustrated in Hughes’s poems‚ a major theme being African American struggle for Equality. The era was filled with segregation and injustice‚ which made Hughes’s not

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    THEME OF ESSAY B

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    feelings of the black Americans and the struggles of them during the Harlem Renaissance. Langston Hughes was one of the first poets to exploit the jazz form of poetry‚ which was relatively new at the time. Langston Hughes wrote Theme for English B in his classroom. The main theme of the poem is racial prejudice even with in the classroom. One can tell this poem is going to be about race from looking at the second line in the second stanza‚ “I am twenty-two‚ colored‚ born in Winston Salem”(pg

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    Cox‚ Du Bois‚ and Ida B. Wells-Barnett all had similar ideas. They all experienced racial segregation related issues whether it pertained personally to themselves or not. The topics they discuss are important to our society today because they inform us on issues of the past that persist today and give us insight on the progress we have or have not made. We can compare our personal experiences in our lives with theirs‚ and recognize how fortunate we are not to have gone through some of the exact struggles

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    While writing a paper for his English class‚ Langston Hughes‚ the only African American in the class‚ explores equality in a stream of conscious‚ three paragraph poem. In “Theme for English B‚” Hughes expresses that all races influence each other and should be treated and considered equal as Americans. Hughes discusses the similarities between the different races in America and writes his paper questioning if “its that simple” to overcome segregation issues. After telling of his African American

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    There are a lot of great poets‚ and among the greats is Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes’s poem “Theme for English B” talks about an essay he had to compose for his professor in college. The instructor informed the class that their essay should be one page and it should be about something deep. Hughes writes his essay based on his current background‚ his color‚ and how he is not different from the instructor‚ whom is white. Throughout his life Hughes experienced‚ racial and economic discrimination

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    E. B. Tylor Parallelism

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    In analytically overviewing the works of E.B. Tylor and James Frazer‚ one must articulate what the societal values were in the 19th century progressing into the 20th century as well as the predominating religion in their individual lives. As anyone can assume‚ the aspects of “nurture” in a societal environment play a key role into shaping the moralistic values of a person as they grow up. Examining the background of E.B. Tylor‚ who was born to a wealthy Quaker family in London in 1832‚ when the

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    The Souls of Black Folk essays by W.E.B. Du Bois were composed during a crucial time in United States history concerning race relations. In 1868 and 1870 the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments passed. Even with these amendments‚ segregation was still in effect‚ particularly in the South. Even though the Southern states had received assistance during the Reconstruction period‚ the region was still feeling the result of the Civil War by the end of the nineteenth century. Race relations echoed antagonism

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