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    The Weary Blues

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    In the poem "The Weary Blues”‚ Langston Hughes describes an evening of listening to a blues musician in Harlem. “The Wear Blues” By: Langston Hughes Droning a drowsy syncopated tune‚ Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon‚ I heard a Negro play. Down on Lenox Avenue the other night By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light He did a lazy sway . . . He did a lazy sway . . . To the tune o’ those Weary Blues. With his ebony hands on each ivory key He made that poor piano

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    Psy 360 Final Exam

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    ENG 360 Final Exam 1. 19th Century Detective Fiction – a genre which deals with fictionalized mystery crimes‚ which are often solved by the main story characters. In this genre it is common for the story to include clues and evidence for the readers to put together and try to solve the mystery independent of the detective. Doyle’s “A Scandal in Bohemia” is an example of 19th century detective fiction. 2. Whodunit – a plot driven detective story which allows the audience to participate in the

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    References: 1. Boydell‚ S.‚ and Small‚ G.‚ (2001)‚ adapted from Mollison‚ B. (1998) 2. ESD. (2003)‚ Brundtland Report‚ [Website]. Encyclopedia of Sustainable Development. Available: http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/aric/eae/Sustainability/Older/Brundtland Report.html [2003‚ 29/06/2003] 3. Mollison‚ B.‚ (1998)‚ Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual‚ Tyalgum‚ NSW‚ Tagari Publications 4. Rao‚ M. 2004 5. Soto‚ H. D. (2000)‚ The mystery

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    Sustainable Development

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    mode of human development in which resource use aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present‚ but also for generations to come. The term ’sustainable development ’ was used by the Brundtland Commission which coined what has become the most often-quoted definition of sustainable development: "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."

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    Invisible Man Sparknotes

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    The novel started with an Invisible Man who described the early parts of his life in a hole full of light under Harlem. He had begun 20 years in the past with the trials he faced.He gave his valedictorian speech to upper-class white citizens.Before he delivered his speech the Invisible Man was forced to witness a nude white woman‚ joined a battle royal and shocked by a carpet. Tattered‚ he spoke his copied speech no attention paid to him and as a reward for “speaking” gets a scholarship to a southern

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    Hamley

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    Tori Vaulot Mulliken T TH 2-3:15 “I‚ Too” In Langston Hughes’ powerful poem‚ I Too‚ he uses a relationship between society and civil rights to describe the overall tone towards the Harlem Renaissance. By including American society in his poem‚ we can relate the past struggles of the Harlem Renaissance to how society is today. In his poem‚ Hughes makes America a society that accepts all people and that will one day be colorblind. In this short‚ yet powerful‚ poem‚ Langston Hughes begins by informing

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    “The Negro Movement”‚ some African-American critics began to challenge NAACP’s approach to the civil rights struggle‚ which is portrayed on the poem “If We Must Die”. From the excerpt “Black Conflict Over World War I” till “James Holden Johnson and Harlem in the 1920s” evidences flow throughout as the challengers not only challenged the NAACP’s approach to civil rights struggle‚ but also proposed different programs instead. As the poem If We Must Die ends with the lines‚ “Like men we’ll face the

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    writers of the Harlem Renaissance was Jamaican born Claude McKay‚ who was a political activist‚ a novelist‚ an essayist and a poet. Claude McKay was aware of how to keep his name consistently in mainstream culture by writing for that audience. Although in McKay’s arsenal he possessed powerful poems. The book that included such revolutionary poetry is Harlem Shadows. His 1922 book of poems‚ Harlem Shadows‚ Barros acknowledged that this poem was said by many to have inaugurated the Harlem Renaissance

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    Sonny's Blues

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    was a great story teller and preacher living in Harlem. He wrote many novels and Sonny’s Blues was one of them. Even thought this story was not his own biography it seems like James Baldwin was familiar with those chronicles‚ but the story was very interesting and moving as a black man living as minority. Sonny’s Blues is the story of a young black man in 1957‚ told by his older brother who is a teacher in a local high school in the heart of Harlem‚ New York. Sonny was a good boy gone bad‚ after

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    Bodega Dreams

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    their masculinity to obtain what they desire‚ each individual is gifted with dissimilar traits of masculinity that aid in achievement of what they yearn for. All while consuming the hardships of growing up in the Puerto Rican community of East Spanish Harlem. Chino‚ originally a kind-hearted‚ law abiding citizen‚ knew establishing a name for oneself at a young age was necessary. As Chino expresses‚ “To have a name other than the one your parents had given you meant you had status in school‚ had status

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