The poem “Mother to Son‚” by Langston Hughes‚ is about a mother advising her son about life. She tells him that life is not easy and that he should not give up even when life is hard. Throughout the poem she uses an extended metaphor to compare life as a decayed stair. The mother expressed the hardship of life by saying‚ “And splinters‚ And boards torn up‚ And places with no carpet on the floor” (4-6). She describes the stair as an old and decayed stair that seems impossible to climb. Life is hard
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Charles Perrault is a famous French poet and author recognized for writing the Mother Goose fairy tales. He was the seventh child from his father Pierre Perrault and mother Paquette Le Clerc‚ born on January 12 of 1628 in Paris‚ France and then died and indefinite death which means it is undefined that was on May 16‚ 1703. He was a Roman Catholic. He married Marie Guichon in 1672 when she was nineteen years old‚ with her he had three children and when delivering the third one Marie passed while giving
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Backfire There are three types of irony. Verbal‚ situational‚ and dramatic irony. The two types of irony used in Langston Hughes’ first person narrative “Salvation” is verbal and situational irony. Verbal irony is the use of words to mean something different from what a person actually says. Situational irony occurs when the exact opposite of what is meant to happen‚ happens. Theses two types irony are introduced by Hughes’ Auntie Reed who begins to take Hughes to church for several weeks‚ and
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Dreams by Langston Hughes is a free verse poem with an abcb rhyme scheme. In the poem‚ Hughes uses poetic devices to show dreams are as important as lives. The poem shows a theme of reflection of one’s life. To hold onto your dreams as if they were your last drop of hope. Without dreams‚ one’s life would seem empty and dull. Hughes uses a mixture of metaphors and personification throughout his poem. Hughes uses metaphors to show how useless life would be without dreams: “Life is a broken-winged
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Charles Baudelaire The father of modern art criticism‚ Charles Baudelaire had mixed feeling about how art progressed in the modern era. Although he said that he admired modern art‚ he wrote several books criticizing photography‚ a modern art prevalent during his time. In his work The Salon‚ he expressed his discontent for photography and criticized that it is science interfering with the beauty of art. From Baudelaire’s first sentence in this excerpt‚ it is blatantly obvious that
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Oral Report-Charles Darwin (1809-1882) Darwin was the British scientist whose useful studies and conceptual establishment laid the basis of the theory of evolution and changed the way we think about the natural world and the spiritual land. Early to Mid life (1809-1822)- I. Charles Robert Darwin was born on February 12‚ 1809 in Shrewsbury‚ a western town in England. a. Darwin’s childhood was filled with misfortune when his mother died when he was only eight years old. II. In 1822
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Successor <br> <br> <br><b>Henry II</b> <br>Henry II was the first of eight Plantagenet kings. He neither ignored his island kingdom nor dragged it into continental trouble. Along with Alfred‚ Edward I‚ and Elizabeth I‚ Henry II ranks as one of the best British monarchs. <br> <br>Henry II was born in Le Mans‚ France in 1133. Geoffrey Plantagenet‚ Count of Anjou‚ and Matilda‚ daughter of Henry I‚ were his parents. Henry ’s younger brothers were Geoffrey and William (Bingham 22; Tabuteau 185). <br> <br>Henry ’s father
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REPORT: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION BIOGRAPHY Let’s go back in time to July 30th‚ 1863. This marks the day that the man who may have changed life as we know it was born. Son of William and Mary‚ Henry Ford was born in Greenfield‚ Michigan. During his teen years he was quite fond of dismantling and reassembling watches. By age 16‚ he left home for the big city of Detroit to be an apprentice mechanist. Despite his feelings towards farm life‚ he returns to his hometown of Dearborn‚ Michigan. In the course
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The Human Experience in Literary Works ENG/125 Connecting the Context of Work – Eddie Clark In the short stories “Salvation” by Langston Hughes and “Who Will Light the Incenses When Mother is Gone” by Andrew Lam both writer are suggesting uncertainty in family cultural and traditions are believable‚ honorable. The theme of each authors work builds around family values and ethics. These stories written by different authors similarly present a deeper feeling of values in
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Biography of Charles Dickens There is something about Charles Dickens’ imaginative power that defies explanation in purely biographical terms. Nevertheless‚ his biography shows the source of that power and is the best place to begin to define it. The second child of John and Elizabeth Dickens‚ Charles was born on February 7‚ 1812‚ near Portsmouth on England’s south coast. At that time John Dickens was stationed in Portsmouth as a clerk in the Navy Pay Office. The family was of lower-middle-class
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