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    climax because it is the major problem in this story. If El Patrón needs an organ‚ then Matt is the person for El Patrón to turn to even if Matt doesn’t want to donate. Shortly after Matt finds out‚ El Patrón passes out at Emilia and Steven’s wedding and needs an organ from Matt. Celia tells El Patrón that when he had a heart attack a while ago‚ Celia poisoned Matt just enough so that his heart wouldn’t be stable enough to implant. El Patrón‚ shocked‚ dies a few minutes later. Mr. Alacrán tells Matt

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    the home of the brave and the land of the free. People may agree with this saying and some may disagree with this saying.Some may feel like it was never America to them‚ some may feel like they are living the American dream. Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes what America to be successful country. Both believe in promoting the American Dream but they have different ideas about who gets to contribute to that success. “I hear America Singing” and “Let America be America again” have similarities

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    This movement originated in New York‚ creating the Harlem Renaissance. Langston Hughes was one of the artists that described the distress of an African American through poetry. Hughes’ poem‚ “Will V-Day Be Me-Day Too?”‚ illustrated the struggle for equality African Americans still face‚ before and after the war‚ regardless of the civil duties they made for their own country. Hughes poem describes the times during the second World War. During this war‚ African American soldiers

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    life is fine by langston Hughes is a fairly long narrative poem when an abac rhyme scheme.in this poem Hughes uses extended metaphor to compare life in the 1940’s to suicide and racism. in life is fine Hughes spoke about suicide and racism for young black males and black people in general. Hughes uses an extended metaphor to effectively compare life in the 1940’s to racism:"ill be dogged my sweet baby‚if you gonna see me die".we have all felt like someone didn’t like you because the way you are

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    self-identity. Some others become bitter and reclusive and turn on those around them in hopes of feeling better about themselves. And many feel they are victims‚ rightly so. These are all completely normal reactions‚ but where do they lead us? Through two of Langston Hughes’s poems and James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ I will discuss how oppressed people react to colonial conquest and exploitation‚ and how they become better people because of it. The painful ordeal of oppression and colonization turned the black people

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    Let it be the dream it used to be” (Hughes). Langston Hughes said this in his poem “Let America be America again.” Hughes is conveying that the American Dream has changed from when it was the goal of every person in America and coming to America. The American Dream is what motivated people to come to the new world and start their lives with equal opportunity. It has evolved along with the ideals of the nation into “the dream that’s almost dead today”(Hughes). Although the American Dream is harder

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    In the short poem “Mother to Son”‚ by Langston Hughes‚ the mother is revealed to have many unique traits about her that maker her a diligent person. The poem has many metaphors that show the mother is a hard-working‚ persistent‚ determined‚ and strong person who endures her troubles she faces in her lifetime. The mother is stated to be an insistent woman that went through many hard struggles and teaches her son to be assiduous to get through the struggles he might encounter just like how she did

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    the Problem‚ Of course‚ wait.  Langston Hughes Langston Hughes was a black American poet‚ a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. This poem deals with subtle‚ complex issues of race relations in 20th-century U.S. culture. Unless you know a lot about U.S. racial history -- two and a half centuries of slavery followed by a century of Jim Crow‚ different racial attitudes in different parts of the country -- it’s virtually impossible to understand what Hughes is getting at in this poem. Basically

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    you gain the more powerful you are as an individual. In the short story “The Birthmark”‚ by Nathaniel Hawthorne and the two poems “English B”‚ by Langston Hughes and “Crazy Courage”‚ by Sherman Alexie‚ the authors describes individual knowledge and power through the same idea‚ but through different methods. The poem entitled “English B”‚ by Langston Hughes begins with the speaker’s English teacher instructing the class to do a writing assignment‚ claiming that any piece written from the heart will

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    The Story “Thank you M’am” by Langston Hughes‚ Is a short story that explains the issue of trust. In “Thank you M’am” a kid that goes by the name of Roger attempts to steal a woman’s purse‚ only to find himself on the ground. The woman which went by the name of Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones took Roger to her house. But instead of yelling at him‚ Mrs. Luella started treating him nice by feeding him dinner and washing his face. This shows that they both trust each other‚ because why would Mrs

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