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    not always that simple. Arna Bontemps’s “A Black Man Talks of Reaping” creates a searing picture of not reaping what you sowed by alluding to the times of slavery through metaphor‚ imagery and diction. While Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “A Negro Love Song” paints a delightful image of a man and woman in love with its trochaic rhythm. It shares the use of imagery and diction with “Reaping” but it also uses tone. To begin with the theme of Bontemps’s “A Black Man Talks of Reaping” is not about reaping what

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    Show Boat Response

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    Tahari Gordon October 3‚ 2014 Fundamentals of Musical Theatre Show Boat Response Paper The timeless Kern and Hammerstein classic Show Boat is a musical far beyond its time. Rich with beautiful music and characters but also a plot that surpassed anything of the time period. This show was a preface for Hammerstein’s intricate styling of compiling a show’s plot and lyric. His trend‚ portrayed in Show Boat and many of his other productions‚ pairs a lighthearted sound and classic love stories with

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    teenagers in her excerpt‚ What ’s Black‚ Then White‚ and Said All Over? She explains how advertising has adapted to using black vernacular to attract a young or a ’wannabe cool ’ crowd. Savan states‚ “Since at least the early nineties‚ with hip-hop an entrenched‚ virtually mainstream hit‚ wannabe has been far more likely to refer to whites‚ especially teenagers‚ who want to be black or do the style” (370). By the early nineties black slang had become in-style. Black vernacular was no longer looked

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    Dark Chocolate

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    Why is Dark Chocolate Healthy?: Chocolate is made from plants‚ which means it contains many of the health benefits of dark vegetables. These benefits are from flavonoids‚ which act as antioxidants. Antioxidants protect the body from aging caused by free radicals‚ which can cause damage that leads to heart disease. Dark chocolate contains a large number of antioxidants (nearly 8 times the number found in strawberries). Flavonoids also help relax blood pressure through the production of nitric oxide

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    Citizenship. what does it mean? The dictionary definition means have the right to “live freely‚ work and vote “ be human. But what does that term mean to a white man in the 1800’s? A richer status? More intelligent? Or are they simply better than Them in their eyes? In my eyes you cannot judge someone for how they look Or how smart they are you judge them on whether or not they are a good person. Hell I have meet so many jerks and bullies in my life but when you understand that Maybe they were

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    In the Dark

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    What are greatest moments? Are they the best moments in life‚ the ones we remember or the events we try to forget? When asked‚ people generally seem to say the moments they consider the best: Weddings‚ graduations‚ the birth of children and personal enlightenment. The key word here‚ it seems‚ is Greatest‚ and Great does not necessarily mean best‚ it means most important. The Greatest moments in life are just as likely to be tragedies as they are triumphs because bad moments are just as likely to

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    Symbolism In The Open Boat

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    Stephen Crane: The Open Boat In his short story‚ ’The Open Boat‚’ Stephen Crane displays to us a universe completely indifferent to the affairs of humankind; we live in an apathetic world‚ in which man has to fight and struggle to live. The characters illustrated in the story come face-to-face with this indifference and all are nearly overcome by nature’s lack of concern with humanity. The survivors are alive primarily through determination and cooperation. We as human are alive because our constant

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    wrote an essay called An Indian’s Looking Glass for the White Man. In this section‚ Apess speaks about how the Native Americans felt robbed of their life and were ruined as a race because of the colonist who came in and destroyed them. The whole section generally‚ is making the white men think about what it would be like to be a Native American at that time. He wanted the rights and justice for his race of people. Apess shows how what the white men did to the Indians was immoral and degrading of a

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    fits in stores if I wasn’t getting what I wanted‚ always wanting the latest and greatest‚ not understanding that I was lucky to have more than just the basic needs to survive. The moment I looked out the window of the car and my eyes turned to the row of homeless people weaving its way through the traffic begging for money‚ I jumped out of my seat. I was 13 years old and it was my first visit to my country‚ India‚ after leaving for the United States. I was two years old when my father and mother

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    The Boat Alistair MacLeod There are times even now‚ when I awake at four o’clock in the morning with the terrible fear that I have overslept; when I imagine that my father is waiting for me in the room below the darkened stairs or that the shorebound men are tossing pebbles against my window while blowing their hands and stomping their feet impatiently on the frozen steadfast earth. There are times when I am half out of bed and fumbling for socks and mumbling for words before I realize that I am

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