1.What work or works are you writing on‚ and why did you choose to write on work or these works? Langston Hughes "the Negro Speaks of Rivers" 2. What critical question were you exploring in this essay? Did you find this question difficult to answer? What did this work mean and it was fairly easy to find. 3. How did your understanding of the work(s) about which you are writing change as you wrote this essay? If it did not change‚ why do you think that was? It didn’t I knew what he was talking
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Mario Ballard October 10‚ 2013 Freshman Seminar The Talented Tenth is a term that was originated in the year 1896 in Northern Missionary Baptist houses. This was designated to describe those few African Americans at the time that had the good fortune of receiving a higher education. From this premise‚ renowned scholar W.E.B. Dubois further elaborated upon and popularized the concept of the Talented Tenth. Dubois said The Negro Race‚ like all races
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Lenox Avenue is a crucial street in Harlem‚ which to the extent the geology of New York is North‚ or uptown. We might inquire as to why Hughes has formed "down on Lenox Avenue" rather than "up on Lenox Avenue." Let’s think‚ then‚ about the character of the speaker of the ditty. Since Harlem was home basically to African Americans and the parts of New York City south of Harlem (suggested as "downtown") were populated generally by whites‚ if the speaker were to see Lenox Avenue as "up" from his place
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My interest of this topic is because it is in my home town and I would like to know more about the college and its history. The Franklin College was a hotbed of teaching during the years leading up to the Civil War. The college was named the Alma College‚ then later renamed to Franklin College. The college allowed white‚ African Americans‚ and women to enroll. In fact‚ one of the first African Americans to graduate from college graduated from Franklin College with a bachelor’s degree. Later the college
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*Booker T. Washington & Blacks after* Slavery March 8‚ 2010 Abstract Booker T. Washington felt that blacks should work towards wealth instead of fighting for civil rights. Washington stressed the importance of using skills to advance in society. He felt that over time‚ blacks would be naturally integrated into society through improved social status. Washington also had many critics of his work including the equally controversial W.E.B. Dubois. In Washington’s view work and education
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An Explication of Langston Hughes ’ "Mother to Son" Langston Hughes once stated in his own words that his whole purpose for writing was‚ "to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America." In the poem "Mother to Son"‚ he denotes his belief on racism in America. In "Mother to Son"‚ a mother is giving advice to her son about life from her perspective and experiences. She wants her son to keep striving on what he believes and to have a more prosperous life than what she had. Langston Hughes
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Booker T. Washington’s Strategies: focused on having education for real life jobs and not asking for equality from the whites. He just focused on getting help from the whites and accepting their place as blacks on earth. WEB Dubois Strategies: WEB Dubois focused on the exact opposite things that of Booker T. Washington. Dubois focused on a strategy called the gradualist political strategy. The gradualist political strategy tells that Dubois was very focused on blacks being book smart to get
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A Black Poet Langston Hughes was born in Joplin‚ Missouri in 1902 (Arnold Rampersad 11). When Hughes was a child his mother and father separated. Most of his young childhood was spent with his grandmother. She raised him to know his self-worth and the importance of know where he came from. He had a lonely childhood. His grandmother encouraged him to read all sorts of literature. At the age of 13 he wrote his first poem in honor of graduation in Lincoln‚ Illinois where he attended elementary
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In Salvation Hughes tells of his confusing yet life changing event that occurred in his church. Hughes sat in church expecting Jesus to come into his life‚ but Jesus never came. When Langston alone sat on the bench and everyone crying and praying for him‚ he decides to get up and pretend to be saved. That night he cries for hours regretting what he did. Now that Hughes grew up he now can tell his story of that day in the church. Langston tells of his childhood experience and conveys into an adult
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Langston Hughes was part of the Harlem Renaissance and was known as "the poet laureate of Harlem." His poems tell of the joys and miseries of the ordinary black man in America. In Hughes’ poem "Dream Deferred" he uses figures of speech‚ tone‚ and a unifying theme to show how black people’s dreams were delayed. Hughes uses similes and metaphors--figures of speech--to portray that often times their dreams never came true. He asks if they "dry up like a raisin in the sun‚" if they "fester like a sore
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