COM 1102: WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE Fall 2013 class time: M W F 10:00 am office hours: M W 11:00-11:45 am; M 5:00-6:00 pm and by appointment office: 626 Crawford phone: 321-674-8370 email: lperdiga@fit.edu website: my.fit.edu/~lperdiga turnitin.com course number: 7023849 turnitin.com password: Hangman Class Schedule 9/11 E. Annie Proulx‚ “55 Miles to the Gas Pump” (87; 578-579) 9/13 Mark Twain‚ “The Story of the Good Little Boy” (615-619) Due: Peer
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and spnt part of his child hood in Pennsylvania. After his parents split up in 1924‚ he went with his mother and siblings to New York‚ settling in Harlem. "He trained as a painter at the Harlem Art Workshop‚ inside the New York Public Library’s 113 5th Street branch. Younger than the artists and writers who took part in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s‚ Lawrence was also at an angle to them: he was not interested in the kind of idealized‚ fake-primitive images of blacks - the Noble Negroes
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Lincoln University. Hughes became a prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance; Hughes along with Billy Holliday and Duke Ellington were just a few of the scores of other African Americans who shaped the movement. Black artists such as Hughes‚ Ellington‚ and Holliday pushed art to its limits as a form of expression and representation during the nineteen twenties in what was to be known as the “New Negro Movement” or the Harlem Renaissance during which he wrote and published many other of his other
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occurring. There was also a Renaissance occurring with this evolution called the Harlem Renaissance. This time in American History could be described as "HOT NIGHTS and cool jazz.... steamy sidewalks and fancy dressers... songs of the soul and songs of the body...the lilt of gentle laughter and the penetrating wail of the blues..." Harlem was the home of many African American poets and musicians which was the perfect breeding grounds for creating jazz poetry. Harlem is a community in New
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Writing a Literary Analysis Paper Thesis A thesis statement is a sentence (or sentences) that expresses the main ideas of your paper and answers the question or questions posed by your paper. It is the place where you are the most specific about what you will discuss in the paper‚ how you will organize the paper‚ and what significance your topic has (your argument). You must have a specific‚ detailed thesis statementthat reveals your perspective‚ and‚ like any good argument‚ your perspective
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Freedom or the lack of freedom was the seed‚ the energy‚ and underlying theme that drove the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance‚ like that of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. These two poets use such deceptively and‚ yet‚ deeply effective imagery‚ reaching out to the reader to move him or her to a well of distilled truth. The language is direct‚ the images strong
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between his first book in 1926 and his death in 1967‚ he devoted his life to writing and lecturing. Hughes was seen as one of the leaders in the Harlem renaissance‚ which was an unprecedented outburst of creative activity among African-Americans in the 1920 ’s. In 1951‚ Hughes published a volume of poetry titled Montague of a Dream Deferred in which his poem "Harlem" can be found. This poem is one man ’s expression of his dreams during a difficult time period. As a black man in a time period where African-Americans
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Changing attitudes in the 1920’s came about through progressivism‚ and the divide between country and urban life. Women were becoming more and more independent. Depression was beginning to sink its claws into the American economy first by way of rural towns and farms who felt the blow not with the stock market crash in 1929‚ but with the decline of agricultural prices in 1920. Most rural Americans still held to old traditions‚ and found how life was in the city offending to their beliefs and customs
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Ellison thrived. Music soon engrossed him and he received musical training in many different instruments‚ trumpet being his favorite. Playing many concerts‚ marches‚ bands‚ and celebrations‚ never made him lose sight of his goal to become a sort of Renaissance Man. He was given a scholarship by the state of Oklahoma‚ and headed for college at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in 1933 to study music. He excelled in his classes and was forced to be categorized by his fellow peers in the states desire for
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Langston Hughes is by fare the most important writers of the Harlem Renaissance which was the artistic movement of African Americans in the 1920’s that celebrated African American life and culture in New York. Hughes was one of the most creative African Americans who used his neighborhood as influence. Like other active members of the Harlem Renaissance‚ Hughes had a strong sense of racial pride and through his poetry‚ novels‚ plays‚ essays‚ and children’s books; he promoted equality‚ condemned racism
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