is super smart and asks a lot of questions. His poem is a free verse. “Harlem" consists of eleven lines broken into four stanzas. The first and last stanzas contain one line‚ while the other two contain seven and two lines respectively. With each line‚ our speaker mixes it up. Some lines are short‚ others longer. Some lines contain only monosyllabic words‚ other are chock full of syllables. His poem was originally titled “Harlem”
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The Harlem Renaissance remains one of the most significant artistic movements in American history‚ far surpassing its original importance to one specific minority. The renaissance served to create a consciousness of identity for African-Americans‚ while also forcing white American to confront the importance of an ethnic group too long considered inferior. The Harlem Renaissance is best remembered today as an explosion of creativity bursting from the talented minds of African-Americans in the 1920s
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Crack in Spanish Harlem Philippe Bourgois For people that have never had to struggle for a buck‚ they could never imagine life in the streets. I grew up primarily getting everything I wanted‚ and obviously everything I needed. Never did I ever once have to ride a city bus‚ let alone be found anywhere near inner city streets. I use to believe that the people there were "bad‚" therefore they placed themselves in the street. But after going to school with kids in poverty‚ and somewhat seeing the
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The photos of ‘Shadows’ on the opposite page are images taken by me and other artists of the different types of shadows you can get. With the images that I found on the Internet‚ the shadows range from those that are created by people to those created by objects. My favourite one is the one with expressions painted in the sand with a shadow of somebody’s face above it. I like this one because it’s simple but effective and one that you can recreate easily yourself. One of my other favourites is
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Study Guide King of Shadows by Susan Cooper For the online version of BookRags’ King of Shadows Study Guide‚ including complete copyright information‚ please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-king-of-shadows/ Copyright Information © 2000-2013 BookRags‚ Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Study Guide 1 Plot Summary King of Shadows by Susan Cooper is a tale about a young boy’s journey to overcome his devastating past in exchange for a hopeful future. Nat is an orphan who escapes into the world of
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background of Moon Shadow and his family in the middle kingdom in China. It goes into detail about their struggles and reasons. In this chapter it introduces Tang town or china town. This chapter goes into detail of the family company. The company’s name was Peach Orchard Vow. The company had a feast for Moon Shadow’s arrival. This chapter had detail on how Windrider got his new nickname. Windrider shares his story of meeting the Dragon king. In the end of the chapter uncle gives Moon Shadow a carving of
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"Harlem" Dried raisins‚ rotten meat‚ sags‚ and explodes! These are not very interesting descriptions‚ are they? "Harlem‚" (A.K.A. " A Dream Deferred‚") by Langston Hughes is a poem written about postponing or delaying a dream that you want to fulfill in your lifetime. Many people in the world today have put off their dreams for many different reasons‚ I know I sure had to. I always dreamt about graduating on time‚ not only for me but for my son aswell. I tried my hardest to balance between
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The book From The Land of Shadows by Khatharya Um made me think if people really believed to the communist party and their propaganda or if they were just scared to stand up against them. The book talks about revolutions and how some movements were trying to fight against the regime‚ but they were usually not successful and lots of people were killed during revolutions. Did it result in resignation and accepting the life based on the communism ideals or people were really persuaded by the politic
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necessary resources. If you don’t have much‚ it would be very hard when you have a dream of becoming something great. And you also have everyone doubting you or even telling you that you “can’t”. Some people may take this doubt and use it as motivation. “Harlem Hopscotch” was first published in 1969‚ written by Maya Angelou. Angelou was a writer and a civil rights activist. The poem basically tells you not to expect good things‚ to actually expect the worst. And there’s always someone
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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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