Langston Hughes’s poem‚ “Cross”‚ focuses on the conflict of segregation of races that occurred in the United States. The poem is in the first person point of view‚ in which‚ the narrator reflects on himself as a young child‚ as he reaches the adult life. In the short three stanza poem‚ the speaker summarizes his obstacles in life that were caused by his family. The poem begins as the narrator describes the ethnicity of his parents “My old man’s a white old man and my old mother’s black” (line 1-2)
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The short story Salvation‚ written by Langston Hughes‚ is based on his personal experience at church as a young child. Langston Hughes aunt takes him to a meeting for the children at her church. At the meeting all the kids were to sit on the mourners bench and wait for Jesus to save them. Towards the end of the ceremony‚ all the children had been saved by Jesus except Langston and another boy. Eventually‚ he decides to get up and said that he had been “saved” by Jesus‚ although he never was. His
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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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In the Ted Talk‚ Poverty‚ Money and Love‚ Jessica Jackley addresses the worldwide issue of poverty. Poverty is a challenging hardship to address because no matter how much a person contributes or tries to help the problem‚ the large scale complication will continue on existing. As humans‚ we naturally want to care for people‚ but sometimes we struggle with the concept of not being able to care for everyone. I really connected with Jackley’s speech when she said she got lost in the immense idea of
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The fight for freedom was many black people’s dream about 40 years ago. They wanted the right to vote‚ and most importantly to be treated equal‚ just like the first amendment stated. Langston Hughes was a very inspirational writer and poet during the Renaissance period. His poem "Freedom Train" discussed the very important reasons for getting on the freedom train‚ and if they did jump aboard‚ were they really going to be free. The question of whether or not they would really be free arose in their
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Kio Stark discusses the benefit of talking to strangers in her TED Talk‚ “Why You Shouldn’t Talk to Strangers”. She explains that although many grow up with the saying‚ “stranger danger”‚ it may not be so black and white. A simple greeting to a stranger has no real semantic meaning‚ rather they acknowledge somebody else’s presence. Through her recording of interactions with strangers‚ Stark has found unexpected pleasures and genuine emotional interactions through everyday conversations with stranger
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In this TED Talk video‚ Brene Brown‚ an author and public speaker‚ shared with us a topic about Perception. She began to research further into this topic and discovered that there was more to it than what was being said. Brown says that she discovered the meaning of connections. Being a social worker‚ she needed to understand the purpose of our lives. An interesting fact she found was that we like to feel like we are connected or bonded with something or someone. While we definitely need this emotional
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For my first international journal I decided to watch a Ted Talk video online. I sadly couldn’t attend any of the passport events on the DCCC campus do to my class schedule at both Valley and the college. Hopefully in the future I will be able to attend a passport event‚ because some of my friends went to one and I got to see pictures and videos of the show and it looked like an amazing experience. The Ted Talk I chose to watch was called Social Experiments to Fight Poverty. I found this video
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The Collected Works of Langston Hughes Essay “Never judge a book by it’s cover.” This popular quote‚ stated by author George Elliot in 1860‚ has a connection deep behind every meaning in the The Collected Works of Langston Hughes (1921-1940). Most of the poetic pieces displayed a message that revolved around on how we the people‚ no matter what ethnicity or socioeconomic status we hold‚ had dealt with discrimination and disrespect‚ but never stopped believing in our dreams and freedom in America
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Analyze how Hughes develops the theme that it is urgently important for people to "take time out" to communicate with one another The beginning of the story "Early Autumn" Hughes demonstrates that communication is very important‚ without it can forever change lives. How do two people in love‚ spend so much time together talking let something not very important forever stain their lives. Mary and Bill needed to "take time out" and communicate. After several years in a chance meeting in the park
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