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    Malcolm X- Harlem Speech Malcolm X uses several persuasive techniques to make the speech appealing to the audience‚ and to get them to respond in a certain way. His aim is to make them understand that they are not being treated equally in relation to white people even though its the only way that they know. Some of the techniques used are repetition‚ specific tone‚ inclusive language and shows some signs of constructing a persona. He uses repetition of words and ideas in his speech. Repetition

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    Raymond who she has to look after. He might be disabled but in the end it turns out he’s not that bad at everything. The story leads us into Harlem‚ New York‚ with a young girl called Squeaky and her brother Raymond. Squeaky is a very big show off and she knows it. She might have short legs but that doesn’t stop her. She is the fastest runner is Harlem and she loves to go around telling everyone. She is very confident and she doesn’t pay attention to the haters. She enters the race for her age

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    “A people without the knowledge of their past history‚ origin and culture is like a tree without roots” - Marcus Garvey. The Harlem Renaissance was a period of time in which racial pride and culture were thrust away in favor of a more traditional style of art. However‚ during this time‚ racial pride was best expressed through folk art via the means of relatable structure‚ understandable word choice and everyday subject matter. Common poets of the time chose not to imitate the formal and restrictive

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    Ladies in the Harlem Renaissance assumed a fundamental part as the voice for the battling minority of African American ladies. African American ladies used the development to express. In the 1920’s women started to ascend as a basic force. Some time as of late the 1920’s

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    Harlem Hopscotch”‚ by Maya Angelou. The comparison in this poem is a game of hopscotch being compared to life. In life people are battling themselves to make it from the bottom to the top with other people watching‚ sometimes judging. In hopscotch you battle yourself to make it from the bottom of the triangle to the top‚ with people watching you play the game. Due to Maya Angelou using this metaphor rather than just talking about life’s ups and downs‚ gives the poem a unique style of writing. It

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    three of the players‚ Inman Jackson‚ Lester Johnson‚ and Walter Wright got into a dispute with then manager Dick Hudson‚ and quit. But Saperstein had big plans; he and the three disgruntled players banded together with two new players and formed the Harlem Globetrotters. On January 7‚ 1927 Saperstein’s Globetrotters played their first game in Hinckley Illinois and won handily‚ then the Globetrotters set off on a cross country tour in which they won 101 of 117 games‚ often by large margins. In the

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    Does the amount of funding a school receives affect the quality of education a school can provide in the United States? Because academic opportunities require sufficient funding‚ do schools with more funding have more opportunities for the students? Do schools that have more funding receive a superior education compared to low funded schools? As a student from a small‚ underfunded school‚ I observed my friends from the next town over attend a large‚ highly funded school with an abundance of resources

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    The Harlem Renaissance- A Black Cultural Revolution James Weldon Johnson once said that "Harlem is indeed the great Mecca for the sight-seer; the pleasure seeker‚ the curious‚ the adventurous‚ the enterprising‚ the ambitious and the talented of the whole Negro world."("Harlem Renaissance") When one thinks of the Harlem Renaissance‚ one thinks of the great explosion of creativity bursting from the talented minds of African-Americans in the 1920s. Although principally thought of as an African-American

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    possible. People procratinate lots of things. From small things like homework and making dinner‚ to large things like studying for a big test and paying bills‚ the question is raised “what happens to a dream when it is procrastinated?” In the poem Harlem by Langston Hughes‚ the author discusses the different things that could potentially happen to a dream deffered. This poem’s meaning is to question why one would abandon a dream in the first place‚ and how it may not be possible to revive a dead dream

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    The Harlem Renaissance was not the head of the Civil Rights Movement‚ but it was the neck because of the products it produced and the bricks it supplied for the house of equality. DuBois‚ founder of the renaissance‚ believed “That an educated Black elite should lead Blacks to liberation.” http://www.eram.k12.ny.us/education/components/whatsnew/default.php?sectiondetailid=23130&&PHPSESSID=e0a64029c09716761056932b46c6816b Art and literature came from the Harlem era. Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington

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