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    an important thing to do because there are many positive effects for everyone. This is clearly evident as shown by the short story “Thank You M’am” by Langston Hughes‚ the magazine article “Community Service and You” by T. J. Saftner and the magazine article “Feeding Frenzy” by Peter Ames Carlin and Don Sider.  In the story “Thank You M’am”‚ Hughes states how Mrs. Jones helps Roger even though he had done her wrong. The text states‚  “‘ I would teach you right from wrong. Least I can do right now

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    The exposition of this poem written by Langston Hughes is about life and death. Langston talks about committing suicide and how he attempted to kill himself many times. The narrator faces many challenges in his life such as a failed relationship .As I continued reading the poem the author renews his intentions on living‚ and finds out he is here on this earth for a reason. The speaker used the cold water as an excuse. He says he may sink if the water was not cold therefore‚ he might sink and die

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    Thank you‚ Ma’am by Langston Hughes is a rather peculiar story where a boy names Roger plans on robbing Mrs. Jones‚ but his actions led him to a place he would never have had imagined. Langston Hughes was an American poet‚ novelist‚ and play write. His African American themes instantly made a major contributor to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. He published his first poem in 1921 and later his first book in 1926. Hughes traveled a bunch in his early life‚ and throughout college. He worked in

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    as the land of the free and the place where if you work hard‚ you will reach success. However‚ Langston Hughes disagrees with this idea in his passage‚ “Let America be America Again”. Hughes suggests that America was never “America” in the first place‚ and without unity‚ America will not be the place everyone has worked so hard to build to be what it is today. In “Let America be America Again”‚ Hughes develops a theme of commonality and unity being the factors that affects the objective of America

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    Homeland Of the Free In the poem “Let American Be America Again” by Langston Hughes‚ the author portrays America as a place where people try to escape their old life of oppression and struggles to this so called “American Dream”. But‚ what they find is “the same old stupid plan of dog eat dog”. Hughes sees that American is being seen as a ideal utopia while he actually views America as a place where there are too many obstacles in the way to achieve the American Dream. The dream is only stood

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    oven to bake. Me a deprived and miserable cake. Feeling the heat I started to bubble. Watching the others I knew I was in trouble. This was cute as a child. But it does nothing for me now at this stage of my understanding. But those poems by Langston Hughes Mother to Son‚ Dreams and Let America be America Again‚ some of the best I have ever read. I never thought of myself as being into poetry until I read these poems.

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    the wind on his face‚ the next thing he knows is that he laying on the ground. He tried to steal a woman’s purse‚ but she smacked him on the head with her purse and he fell on the ground. Jimmy‚ like Roger‚ the main character in Yes Ma’am by Langston Hughes‚ he tries to steal a woman’s purse but pays the price. The author creates the theme that when making a mistake‚ you might just get a warning‚ but if you do it again you will have to face the consequences. The Author creates the theme by

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    dream. Some of these individual dreams inevitably become the collective dream of many people. In "Harlem (A Dream Deferred)‚" Langston Hughes makes use of symbolism as well as powerful sensory imagery to show us the emotions that he and his people go through in their quest for freedom and equality. By using questions he builds the poem towards an exciting climax. Hughes wants to know "What happens to a dream deferred?"(1.1) He asks this question as an introduction for possible reactions of people

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    Social media What is social media? Every day more and more people are interested in what social media actually is and how does it work. This growing interest can be explained by the fact that Internet has started to conquer the world - each passing day the number of Internet users is growing. So what social media is? According to authors of The Social Media Bible Lon Safko and David K. Brave‚ Social media is about enabling conversation. It is also about the ways that this conversation can be prompted

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    For example‚ Hughes’ poem‚ "I‚ Too" from the Norton Anthology of American Literature‚ is told from a first person point of view‚ possibly from Hughes’ as the speaker. It tells of the racism that many black people encounter but it’s message is shown as optimistic. He says‚ "I am the darker brother‚/ They send to me to eat in the kitchen

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