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    -Maya Angelou On one of the best days of her life‚ Maya Angelou shares in her writing that the day of gradation was so exciting for her and her family. She talks about how rare and big it was at the time for an African American to be educated coming from generations of slavery here in the United States. During the graduation ceremony‚ with her family and fellow classmates‚ in the height of her excitement she hears

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    09/19/2014 Maya Angelou - Graduation Graduation is an important transition time in every person’s life. It is about moving on to something better and more important and to use your knowledge to achieve life goals. This is what the children attending the grammar school believed as well‚ including Maya Angelou. Given from her point of view‚ the story Graduation has ethos because as an African American girl‚ she shared the same thoughts and feelings as everyone standing on the stage or in the

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    Graduation by Maya Angelou This essay I read called Graduation told a story about a young Middle School African American girl named Maya Angelou‚ who was graduating and was moving on to High School back in 1940. She was from a small town in Arkansas and was extremely excited to be graduating. She had high hopes for the future and right before the graduation ceremony‚ she felt like she was the birthday girl‚ the center of attention. She had done well for herself throughout the school year with

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    Response of Maya Angelou’s “The Graduation” In the essay “The Graduation” (McGraw-Hill 2003)‚ Maya Angelou tells the story of life in 1940s Stamps‚ Arkansas. She explains how it feels to be discriminated and thought of as less than equal. Angelou shows that with a strong will to overcome‚ it is more than possible to set aside disgusting racism and impersonal discrimination. Angelou delivers a very detailed‚ inspirational‚ and informative story of self-acceptance. Summary “The Graduation” is an inspirational

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    role in one’s life and attitude towards life. In each of the two stories “Graduation” by Maya Angelou and “Salvation” by Maya Angelou a very young person has assumptions from a particular experience that differ roughly from what adults in both stories expect. Feelings such as excitement‚ anticipation‚ and anxiousness can be found in both stories. However‚ when each author concludes the outcomes are different. In Graduation‚ for instance‚ Marguerite an African-American middle school studet‚ who

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    In “Graduation‚” Maya Angelou‚ an African American writer‚ traces her maturation during her eighth grade graduation by conveying her feelings and emotions‚ through the persona of Marguerite Johnson. Not only is she graduating from eighth grade‚ but she is also graduating from naiveté and moving onto maturity. With an expressive voice‚ Angelou includes imagery‚ through the use of similes and colors‚ as well as juxtaposition in her narrative essay to illustrate the racial inequality between the Negroes

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    Graduation is one of the most important moments in life. Everyone that experienced graduation knows that it ranges from miserable time full of heartbreaks or means to bright future. No matter how graduation is perceived‚ it is undoubtedly important. It is particularly important for the author of GraduationMaya Angelou. Maya’s graduation was a crucial moment in her life. Maya walks her audience through her graduation as if they were experiencing the event with her. She does this using wide range

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    121 SL May 9‚ 2012 “Graduation” Critique “Graduation” was written by Maya Angelou in 1969. Angelou was born in Missouri‚ but after her parents divorced‚ she was sent to live with her grandmother in Stamps‚ Arkansas. While in Arkansas‚ Angelou attended the Lafayette County Training School. The school is the setting for her essay “Graduation.” Angelou graduated from eighth grade at Lafayette with top honors and went on to graduate from high school. After high school‚ Angelou wrote over thirty plays

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    Summary Response Essay: “Graduation” Narrated in the first person “Graduation” is Maya Angelou’s account of her eighth grade graduation and how reality doesn’t always meet expectations. Using allegory‚ allusion and changes in tone‚ Angelou builds her story‚ giving the reader a sense of the excitement and anticipation she felt‚ inequalities in gender and racial prejudices of that time‚ and how those inequalities and prejudices encroached upon her graduation‚ ruining her expectations and leaving her

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    In Maya Angelou’ article “Graduation‚” she explained that a gap of education between black people and white people because a few of black people could had opportunities to go to college. Firstly‚ she talked people of Stamps felt excited and proud‚ and they did a lot of preparation and tradition activities about the graduation of the eighth grade before the graduation came in Stamps. For example‚ Angelou got a lot of gift and some money from her family and friends because people gave a gift to their

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