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SAMPLE THANK YOU LETTERS 400C Hunter Ridge Blacksburg‚ VA 24060 (540) 555-1111 boles@vt.eduOctober 26‚ 2010Ms. Glenna Wright Human Resources Manager Fashion Department Store 2000 Line Drive Fairfax‚ VA 22030Dear Ms. Wright:Thank you so much for your time and the privilege of having an interview with you yesterday‚ October 25‚ during your recruiting visit to Virginia Tech. The management trainee program you outlined sounds both challenging and rewarding and I look forward to your decision
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In “Let America be America Again”‚ Langston Hughes speaks on his opinions of the American Dream. Throughout the poem‚ Hughes compares his hopes and dreams for America with the reality of life for those outside of certain cultural‚ religious‚ and societal groups. This is a dramatic and diverse poem‚ fluctuating from peaceful moments to angry explosions. The author starts by mentioning of the key vision of America‚ where there is the hope for liberty and equality. Yet for the oppressed races‚ American
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"Life is Fine"‚ by Langston Hughes‚ is a poem written to explain the overall feelings of the poet during his lifetime. the sound devices and literary terms in the poem describe the feeling and put you into the authors shoes. The message of the poem is to tell you that suicide is never the answer. Langston Hughes uses situational irony and rhyme in the poem to create a wonderful and disastrous poem. Situational irony is used in the poem to explain how the author wants to do something‚ but then
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In the Langston Hughes poem “Life is Fine” he talks about how there might be things that get in the way of your goal or dream but that you have to get through it. The poem’s structure‚ in my opinion is dramatic. In Life is Fine Hughes is expressing himself the only way black men could in 1949. Hughes uses end rhyme in Life is Fine. The rhyme scheme is ABCB. An example is in stanza 1 “I went down to the river‚ I set down on the river bank‚ I tried to think but couldn’t‚ so I jumped in and sank”
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hindrances‚ they went on their own crusade to escape societal seclusion. This ideology gave birth to Langston Hughes’ poem ‘’Theme for English B‚’’ the morals the McBride family lived by‚ and ultimately the Harlem Renaissance itself. In ‘’Theme for English B‚’’ the speaker feels a definite sense of seclusion and loneliness‚ which is implied both within and outside the classroom. He mentions ‘’I am the only colored student in my class‚’’ which immediately disconnects him from the social ‘’norm.’’
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The poem “Let America Be America Again” was written by the African-American poet Langston Hughes in 1935‚ and has become relevant again today under the Trump Administration. He starts his poem by explaining how he wants “America be America again”‚ bringing similarities to mind with Trump’s campaign slogan “Make America great again”. However‚ Hughes meant this ironically‚ as after the first stanza he writes “(America never was America to me.)” The “America before” he writes about‚ was a country of
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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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Alexa Floren English 11 Is wealth all it’s really cracked up to be? In Langston Hughes short story Why‚ you reckon? you see the trials and tributes of a young mans life in one night as he takes part in acts that are morally unsound in order to deal with poverty. There are many people that face issues with money everyday and families that can hardly feed themselves. Often people think that “The grass is always greener on the other side” but many times that is not the case. The author doesn’t
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more than a dream. As Langston Hughes depicts throughout many of his works with the use of the motif inequality‚ the American Dream is an illusion performed by the magicians also known as America’s political leaders. He exploits how life in America for those not deemed as the upper white class is in reality a nightmare. In the poem “I‚ Too‚” Hughes speaks of the inequality faced by the African American race in order to emphasize the community’s social immobility. Hughes begins the poem by
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