Langston Hughes
.... reopen, at Grand Isle. When Edna finally learns to swim, she finds herself frightened, alone, overwhelmed, and surrounded in a vast expanse of water. Her experience swimming in the ocean for the first time parallels her discovery and immersion in the true nature of her soul: ^As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself . . . A quick vision of death smote her soul, and for a second of time appalled and enfeebled her sense.^ (p.28) She is frightened by her own self-d .....
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Langston Hughes
.... by angry whites who were anxious to put blame on someone for their troubles. ³White Man² is a direct attack on the white man¹s violations against the African-Americans. Like the earlier poem ³Harlem Night Club,² it is a fast-paced, dynamic piece. However, its tone reflects pure anger and frustration. ³White Man! White Man! / Let Louis Armstrong play it / And you copyright it / And make the money. / You¹re the smart guy, White Man! / You got everything!² Its intensity makes the reader frantic just from .....
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Langston Hughes
.... great pride in being black and having a culture such as it. He was very proud and his poetry reflected that. He is known as a figure of hope in the black race's eyes, his poem inspired pride and strngth in most african americans who also struggle with the plight of racism and segregation.
He was very influential, famed authors such as Lorraine Hansberry derived the title to her award winning play A Raisin in the Sun (1959), from one of Hughes poems. He in turn was very influenced by Walt Whitman, .....
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Last Of The Mohicans
.... at no cost. They boarded Hawkeye’s canoe and they head for safety. Chingachgook and Uncas offered to lead the horses up stream to where the others were going by canoe. They go to and island at the foot of Glenn’s Falls for safety. Once everyone was one the island torches were lit and they went down into a cavern. At the break of dawn, the Iroquois began their attack. The attack lasted all morning and then the Iroquois left to replenish their supplies. When the Iroquois leave Hawkeye sees they are out o .....
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Lean On Me
.... clean school to a graffiti filled, prison-like, school that resembles an alleyway, not a high school. There are fights in the hallway and the bathrooms every time class lets out. Drug dealers are let in by other students to exchange money and drugs. East Side is portrayed as a rundown and scary – to say the least – learning institution. For one person, let alone a group of people, to turn it around in under a year, like Joe Clark does, is unimaginable and almost impossible.
The school song i .....
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Leda And The Swan
.... your mind. You see the snow white feathers, the piercing eyes, and the powerful wings. These are extraordinary creatures often used to signify love and tenderness. On the surface, they appear tranquil and docile, yet their physical attributes are only a facade for their truly mean spirit. Swans are rather territorial animals who tend to be quite nasty when confronted with an undesirable situation. In "Leda and the Swan," the beauty of the swan is skin-deep as well. Despite having the glori .....
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
.... it, against the Comte de Gercourt. The young Cecile de Volanges has just come home from the convent and her marriage to Gercourt has been arranged. However, before he can wed the innocent child, Merteuil proposes Valmont ‘educate’ her, thus spoiling Gercourt’s fancy for untarnished convent girls. Valmont is uninterested in such an easy seduction and is far more aroused by the thought of lulling The Presidente’ de Tourvel, the very epitome of virtue, into submission. And so the tale unfolds.
Valmont eve .....
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Les Miserables
.... career is scarred for life. The theme -doing what is morally right- can be seen in many instances in the novel. One instance is Valjean gives money to free Cozzette. Another instance is Valjean does not kill Javert to save his life. Also, Javert lets Valjean go free. There are also times where people do something that is morally wrong, but lawful. One might be when the students are executed. Another might be the arrest of the prostitute. A present time situation might be soldiers killing other sold .....
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Les Miserables
.... of wealth. Unfortunately things get worse for Fantine all of the sudden when she is fired from her job and,at the same time, must meet increasing finances for her daughter from the Thenardiers. Fantine looks for money and does everything possible such as selling her hair, her central incisors, and then turns to prostitution. She is arrested one day but is saved by Madeleine. Fantine moves in with Madeleine and gets very sick. Fantine wants to see her daughter which Madeleine promises her that he .....
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Letters From The Samantha
.... teeth, his "feet and hands are human in appearance except that they have a bulbous…look common to monkeys." (275). It is interesting to note that both beings are approximately 5’ 10" tall. Perhaps the oddest fact concerning the ape is the fact that his eyes "are a bright, penetrating blue." (275). Theses blue eyes would seem like those of a human and give the creature a less animalistic quality. This could be why the captain has such an odd response when face to face with the .....
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Lies My Teacher Told Me - Book Report
.... to and lived in could be considered treasonous. (Lies…20) President Wilson is also an example Loewen used in his book "Lies My Teacher Told Me". Current textbooks say that Wilson led the United States reluctantly into World War 1 and associate him with helping progressive causes. (Lies…22) Under his administration Wilson intervened in Latin America more often than at any other time in our history. He also led us into an "Unknown War" (Robert Maddock) that not even one of the twelve .....
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Life Of Ma Parker
.... she has had a hard life and wonders to herself, "[w]hy must it all have happened to me?…what have I done?…What have I done?" (Mansfield 148-149). Ma Parker, sadly, has grown "accustomed to the pain" (141). She and her husband "had thirteen little ones and buried seven of them. It if wasn’t the ‘ospital it was the infirmary" (144). Her husband then dies of consumption and Ma Parker is left alone to struggle to bring up six little children and "keep herself to herse .....
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Life On The Color Line
.... were raised by a black woman, Miss Dora, who had no kinship relation with them, but believed they deserved a chance. Greg Williams was singled out by his family and his father to excel, to leave Muncie, and to make his fortune through his brains and academic prowess. This came true, and he is now the Dean of the College of Law at Ohio State University. His brother Mike, however, missed their mother terribly, yielded to their father's vision of him as "just like me" and lived a hard and dangerous lif .....
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Lightning Never Strikes Twice
.... house he has ever seen. He loved every bit of it from the aged gray shingles to the pealing paint off the white shutters. With a happy surprise he sees a Murrey’s real estate sign. As fast as he can he looked at the address, "52 Cliff road" he says to himself. He rushes to his car and drives to Murrey’s real estate office on Main Street. He signs up to buy the house right away. Of course everyone working there has a greedy look in his or her eyes while Steve signs the contract. Being so .....
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Like A Winding Sheet
.... says, "No more coffee for awhile." Third, Johnson arrives at home and his wife Mae has the radio turned up extremely loud. She is obnoxiously chewing her gum and accuses Johnson of picking on her. Further, she yells at him for sitting in his chair and wrinkling her overalls lying over the back of the chair. Giggly, she goes on further saying, "You’re nothing but an old hungry nigger trying to act tough and…." This is enough to drive him to his limit and strike Mae uncontrollably. .....
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