LORD‚ thoughts of peace and not of evil‚ to give you a future and a hope.” How reassuring is it to know that God gives us hope; it is something that he places in our body when creating us. Langston Hughes says it perfectly‚ “Hold fast to dreams‚ for if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird‚ that cannot fly.” Hughes shows dreams as something special in our minds that‚ if eradicated‚ we will not be able to survive. If we did eradicate
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The poem “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes is written in the voice of a mother giving advice to her son. In it‚ she compares her life to a rough and hard-to-navigate stairway that his not been “no crystal stair‚” but she encourages him to keep going anyway (2‚ 20). Hughes gives her a very down-to-earth vocabulary to reinforce that she has had to work her way through life without the benefits of higher education‚ ease of profession‚ or even much help. Phrases like “Well‚ son‚ I’ll tell you‚” and
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wonder and think about it. The author of the poem‚ Langston Hughes‚ also wonders by asking this question. Although‚ each person in this world has his own dream and some people even might have similar ones‚ not every single dream gets to be realized due to different circumstances‚ obstacles and environmental conditions‚ and therefore they remain unaccomplished. But what happens to those dreams with time and how a person feels about not achieving them? To these two questions the speaker is trying to
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Langston Hughes was an American Poet‚ He wrote novels‚ short stories and plays‚ as well as poetry‚ and is also known for his engagement with the world of jazz and the influence it had on his writing‚ as in his book-length poem Montage of a Dream Deferred (Holt‚ 1951). He comes off like a really cool professor who is super smart and asks a lot of questions. His poem is a free verse. “Harlem" consists of eleven lines broken into four stanzas. The first and last stanzas contain one line‚ while the
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2017 3208 Phan - Part One Research Paper In the poem “Dreams‚” Langston Hughes argues that in order to confront an injustice such as racism people must continue dreaming to gain strength to fight for the greater good. Hughes uses the literary device metaphor to help reveal the theme by showing the reader how life without dreams is weak and depressing. According to the text‚ "Life is a broken-winged bird / that cannot fly (Hughes 3-4)." This puts into perspective that if dreams aren’t existing
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“50-50” by Langston Hughes In the poem “50-50” by Langston Hughes‚ the theme is about a lonely woman seeking love. She might be a young woman who left her family in the South and moved North during the Great Migration for better opportunities‚ and that might be the reason why she feels she is all alone in this world. Or‚ she might be a widow or someone who has lost a partner‚ or boyfriend. She feels she is all alone because she has no man in her life. The monologue has a dual persona
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almost like a time capsule. Dudley Randall’s “Ballad of Birmingham” and Langston Hughes’ “Theme for English B” are two great examples of poems that show how art work can be preserved over a long-time period. Dudley Randall’s “Ballad of Birmingham” captures the moment when a group of white supremist bombed a church killing four little girls because of tension between races during that time. Langston Hughes’ “Theme for English B” displays the lack of equality among races in the time it was written.
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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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irony used in Langston Hughes’ first person narrative “Salvation” is verbal and situational irony. Verbal irony is the use of words to mean something different from what a person actually says. Situational irony occurs when the exact opposite of what is meant to happen‚ happens. Theses two types irony are introduced by Hughes’ Auntie Reed who begins to take Hughes to church for several weeks‚ and then talks about taking Hughes to the children revival. This sets up the beginning of Hughes traumatic experience
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In this essay I will not only “inventory” my college readiness experience but I will also attempt to critique my own life skills as to assess my ability to excel in the college experience. Looking into the “Habits of Mind”‚ I understand you asked me to elaborate on one however two stand out. I would like to take the opportunity to expound on two. The first being metacognition‚ I am a conscious thinker. I consciously reflect on my past experiences personal and professional to determine my future
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