Zapping Zombies Leo likes playing a video game where he has to zap zombies and turn them into statues before they invade a town. In the game‚ zombies hide everywhere. Leo’s goal is to clear all the zombies to make the town safe. To advance to the next level he has to zap all the zombies in the level. Each level has the same number of zombies and the same number of points is earned for each zapped zombie. As players move through the levels the zombies get harder to zap. Leo made the table below
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In the Langston Hughes poem‚ “Open Letter to the South”‚ is about workers needing to unify despite their color. He also talks about how together they will be stronger and more powerful; together they can rise and get rid of the plow and time clock of the past. He wants everyone to forget about being separate and look at becoming equal. When people are separate‚ they are not as strong‚ but equality brings everyone together and gives more strength and power to everyone. “Let us become …. One single
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The poem A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes basically describes what happens to dreams when they are put on hold. The speaker in the poem originally entitled it Harlem‚ which is the capital of African-American life in the United States. The title was changed to accommodate all dreams in general‚ and what happens when people postpone making them come true. The speakers attitude toward the poem is an advice-giving attitude. The poet doesnt want people to postpone getting what they want. The poem is
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The Environmental Reflection of Truth In the poems Harlem “A Dream Deferred” and Theme for English B by the poet Langston Hughes‚ uses descriptive physical concrete metaphors to convey the themes of longing for an identity as a whole amongst his peers and acknowledgement as an American. Although race and ethnicity has played an integral role of separation and segregation‚ the speaker’s tone empathetically questions ones will of wanting to achieve a pestering dream‚ as well as calling to the attention
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Langston Hughes 1902–1967 Langston Hughes was first recognized as an important literary figure during the 1920s‚ a period known as the "Harlem Renaissance" because of the number of emerging black writers. Du Bose Heyward wrote in theNew York Herald Tribune in 1926: "Langston Hughes‚ although only twenty-four years old‚ is already conspicuous in the group of Negro intellectuals who are dignifying Harlem with a genuine art life. . . . It is‚ however‚ as an individual poet‚ not as a member of a new
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Langston Hughes’ poem “I‚ Too” is about how African Americans are equal to Caucasians. In the poem‚ the narrator is saying he is American although he is not white‚ and is ready to claim his rights in the United States (“I‚ Too” 100-101). As the poem progresses‚ the narrator is trying to establish his identity as an American citizen who is worthy of that title (“I‚ Too” 100-101). Hughes expresses how each time he is cast out‚ he only becomes more determined‚ until he eventually demands to be an American
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Langston Hughes has penned a protest poem in The Ballad of the Landlord . The protest is in the form of a tenant’s fight against a landlord who is only interested in earning the rent on the leased out property and is not interested to participate in its maintenance cost. The poem talks of social protest literature that can be traced back to the African American literature tradition which prevailed during the Harlem Renaissance ( 1920-1929) of which Langston Hughes was a practitioner. The poem reflects
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Langston Hughes’s‚ “Early Autumn‚” is an example of something that can happen in everyday life. The conflict in this story shows how one decision can result in a time of sadness. I believe the author uses the end of fall and the beginning of winter to show just how cold and empty the relationship is between the characters. It could represent that there was nothing to say‚ in the story it seemed like she was happier to see him than he was or maybe he was in shock. “The leaves fell slowly from
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A variety of Langston Hughes’s poems‚ accentuate the possession of hopefulness of African Americans in correlation to the Great Migration‚ from the south to the flourishing north‚ between the 1920s and 1960s. African Americans‚ seeking for occupational and life opportunities‚ drift to the north‚ where economy exists to be blooming and thriving. Hughes’s idiosyncratic style of fabrication of metaphors highlights African Americans’ possession of high hopes while entering the land of opportunities and
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The poem‚ “Love Song for Lucinda” by Langston Hughes is about love and what it takes to be in love. Hughes uses a lot of metaphors and only three stanzas to talk about love in the poem. In the first stanza his poem states‚ “And the spell of its enchantment / Will never let you be” (5-6). Hughes puts this in his poem because love is supposed to always be there‚ and isn’t supposed to die. You are supposed to fall so in love that you are almost under a spell‚ and you can’t see which way is up. In the
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