In the dictionary‚ the word “ugly” is defined as someone or something that is unpleasant and repulsive. For a black girl‚ the connotation of the word transforms from unpleasant to unworthy; repulsive thus becomes invisible. “Ugly” was initially written as a way for me to be in conversation with the Webster Dictionary word. However‚ over some months the piece began to be a conversation I was having with myself‚ other poets‚ and black girls in general. After ten months of working on this collection
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As a black‚ female writer during the Harlem Renaissance‚ Zora Neale Hurston derives feminist themes of identity and empowerment through representing black women in her novel‚ Their Eyes Were Watching God (TEWWG). The novel centers on Janie Crawford’s life experiences the search for her sense of identity and self-empowerment in a society that marginalizes black women. Hurston represents black women as part of the lower social class through the women referenced in each of Janie’s marriages: Nanny‚
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Jesse Owens is my hero. Owens is my hero because he is the one who went to the Olympics and didn’t care about color of his skin to complete. Another reason why Jesse Owens is my hero‚ he inspired people of his race that they can do anything with their determination‚effort‚ dedication‚ and self discipline. What make a hero? A hero shouldn’t only look upon themselves but look upon other people that don’t have the opportunity to do what they love. Jesse Cleveland Owens was participating
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Literary Term #9 Metaphor: A type of figurative language in which a statement is made that says that one thing is something else but‚ literally‚ it is not. In connecting one object‚ event‚ or place‚ to another‚ a metaphor can uncover new and intriguing qualities of the original thing that we may not normally notice or even consider important. Metaphoric language is used in order to realize a new and different meaning. As an effect‚ a metaphor functions primarily to increase stylistic colorfulness
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A destitute mother glances to the side as her two children cling to her shoulders. The photograph taken by Dorothea Lange of the Migrant Mother exists as one of the most iconic images from the years of the Great Depression. But it raises the question of what makes the photo remarkably famous. Without planning for it at the time‚ Lange successfully presented to the world the hardships of the Great Depression and the immense impact it created on people and their lives’. Perhaps it holds noticeable
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How Do I Look? It’s funny when you look at yourself. We try our best to look presentable to society. We strive to obtain attention‚ in most cases‚ from people to gain benefactors whom would help us in our lives. Due to this one must understand how we look affects others. We may appear in a variety of ways‚ both good and bad‚ based on how we look whether it because of our clothes and shoes all the way to the race we are as a human being. Brent Staples essay “Black Men and Public Spaces” represents
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and be the voice of AfricanAmericans. There was no better athlete to fill this role than Jesse Owens. Owens was able to cross social and philosophical boundaries as he rose from poverty to national fame after winning a record breaking four gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The fact that he did this in a time where AfricanAmericans were considered inferior to whites in every way made his story more inspiring. Along
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of the Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen The poem I chose to study is "Anthem of the doomed youth" by Wilfred Owen. Wilfred Owen‚ the son of a railway worker‚ was born in Plas Wilmot‚ near Oswestry‚ on 18th March‚ 1893. Owen’s youthful illusion of the glory of fighting as a soldier was reflected in his words to his mother on his return to England shortly before volunteering for the army..."I now do most intensely want to fight." In the summer of 1917 Owen was badly concussed at the Somme
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War is not a force to be messed‚ with as shown in “Dulce Et Decorum Est” written by Wilfred Owen who served in the Royal British military as an infantryman. Wilfred Owen wrote the poem on first hand experiences of fellow soldiers dying around him from gas‚ artillery‚ fire‚ or simple small arms fire. Wilfred Owen is trying to inform the general public through the theme that war is not a heroic dream that some may have read about‚ but war is horrific‚ nightmarish and if you aren’t on your toes you
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three Wilfred Owen’s poem ‘’Dulce et Decorum est’’ was written during his World War One experience. Owen was an officer in the British army‚ the poem explains how the British public and press comforted themselves in the fact that young men were dying in the war doing the noble and heroic thing the reality however was quite different as Owen so horrifically demonstrates to the reader in the poem. Owen wants to throw the war in the readers face to illustrate how vile and in humane war really was this
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