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    Career Research Project. 1 In paragraph form‚ state what career you are researching and exactly what someone working in this career does. I am researching a career as a dancer. Someone in this career performs dance on stage in front of an audience. Through dancing they tell a story‚ interpret an idea‚ or express rhythm and sound by moving to music. They audition for certain roles in many different dance companies‚ and perform in different shows. 2. List ten major duties and responsibilities

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    would like our lives to be. All of us strive to reach a certain level of self-actualization and acceptance. It could then be said that all of us live a dream. Some of these individual dreams inevitably become the collective dream of many people. In "Harlem (A Dream Deferred)‚" Langston Hughes makes use of symbolism as well as powerful sensory imagery to show us the emotions that he and his people go through in their quest for freedom and equality. By using questions he builds the poem towards an exciting

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    The Harlem Renaissance was a time of great accomplishments among African Americans. Mary works of art‚ poetry‚ and music during this time became notable even to today. Two very inspiring people of this time period were John Birks Gillespie and Selma Burke. John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie was born on October 21‚ 1917 in Cheraw‚ South Carolina. He was the youngest of nine children. His father‚ James Gillespie‚ was a bricklayer and a musician on the side. His mother‚ Lottie Powe Gillespie‚ was a house

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    flourishing undulation of sentiment. Have you ever considered the activists in the black community who were able to do so in spite of the educational‚ and societal misfortune they endured? Langston Hughes was at the forefront of written expression during Harlem Renaissance. It was a time of a proverbial rebirth. The black community was seeing an in fulmination of the fine arts‚ and with that they had a platform to discuss relevant events in their communities. Langston Hughes rectified the way African Americans

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    Harlem Renaissance? its is the time period in Harlem where art‚ music and literature rose. During this time‚ Langton Hughes and other african american poets became well known because of their writing‚ they became inspiration to others because during this time being different was really hard. Writers like him expressed their emotions and thoughts through their writing. Langton was born into a broken family so he was raised by his grandmother until he thirteen. he moved with his mom at that time and

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    Torian Vaughn Jr. Prof. Ashkevron ENGL111 22 Sept. 2013 Don ’t Change A person’s perception of anything is always influenced by their experiences. Alice Walker‚ the writer of “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self”‚ is no different in regards to her perception of beauty. Walker uses various stylistic elements throughout her writing to convey her shifting outlook toward her own beauty. She also employs various rhetorical strategies in order to deliver a clear and luring story that keeps

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    The Harlem Renaissance and personal experiences‚ being main inspirations‚ motivated Hughes to take new and creative approaches such as folk and jazz poetry. Langston Hughes was a voice that got across the unfair treatment and limited opportunities that many African Americans experienced throughout their lifetime. The Harlem Renaissance was a period in which African Americans prospered with great achievements. The process of these achievements involved variety and the will to be experimental. Langston

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    Slave Culture and the Harlem Renaissance: Finding a Home in Modernism For years scholars have noted the importance in history of the African- Americans from the time of the Atlantic slave trade‚ even up to current culture and entertainment. As prominent as the slave trade is taught within the schools and the education systems‚ there has been little noted in the history classes about the art and literature of that time period for African-Americans. However‚ in spite of the little we know of the

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    America began to make progress as a society. The Harlem Renaissance was significant because it was an era in the 1920s when African-Americans made incredible improvements in literary works and art. This was a time for Blacks to show their talents to the world. The Harlem Renaissance was a time for African Americans to portray their culture through numerous categories including music‚ poetry‚ and dance. Many talented musicians came out during the Harlem Renaissance. There has been an abundance of musicians

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    Art Analysis: Midsummer Night in Harlem‚ by Palmer Hayden ‘Midsummer Night in Harlem is an oil painting painted by Palmer Hayden. Palmer C. Hayden was an American painter who depicted African-American life as he saw it‚ especially during the Harlem Renaissance. The painting Midsummer Night in Harlem appears to depict African American people departing and relaxing after an evening at church in Harlem. This painting shows the energy and positive attitudes of the people through the use of vibrant

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