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- 141: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.
- ... I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou attributes her characteristics she has acquired today, being influential, wise, and respected, to Mrs. Flowers, who shows her the power of a voice, the knowledge of literature, and pride in her race, and turns a self-conscious girl, into one of the most profound writers of our time. Mrs. Flowers enlightened Maya on the importance, and dominant effect, of expression through an ... Maya would never have realized the power of the voice and would have been dormant from society the rest of her life. In addition to the importance of voice, Mrs. Flowers opened Maya s to literature, and the knowledge it brings. Earlier in Angelou s life, she was interested in comics and some poetry, but now a new outlook was imposed upon her, the power literature. This discovery changed her life drastically. From a child who once wished for a super hero to rescue her from the monster who was molesting her, Maya now realized the truth and what can ...
- 142: Paul Dunbar Research Paper
- ... Paul Dunbar wrote and created hundreds of works. Some were successful, and some weren’t as popular, but they all spoke about Dunbar’s feelings. Dunbar wrote about slavery, freedom, and his good intentions. His literature stays with us today, as well as his message against the persecution of the African Americans, and his views on our predominately white society. Paul Lawrence Dunbar was born in 1872 to two free blacks ... harder in critiquing his work. The fact that he was successful as a black poet in a world ruled by white poets constantly tormented him. However, he kept on fighting back, publishing abolitionist poetry and literature, in his quest to gain respect as a black writer. He kept his roots, and this was noted by a popular critic in the present, “Dunbar’s verse was free of stolid religiosity that had ... Dialect poetry became less popular after Dunbar’s death”(Mullane 249). After Dunbar died, dialect poetry did go downhill, but he had left his mark in history. “Dialect poetry still holds a place in American Literature, but the place itself is no longer considered an important one”(Johnson 355). Dunbar died at a young age, but he had left his mark, not only with his poetry, but also with his ...
- 143: Contemporary Chicano Literatur
- Contemporary Chicano Literature Four days left to write my final paper. I do procrastinate. I had all semester and I waited till the final four days. I was in the library at the STCC Pecan Campus reading Walt ... fictional writers; however, not as many as I wish I would've found. And so I decided to base my paper on a topic that I don’t recall we ever discussed in class: Chicano literature. Myself being an actor and a writer this subject fascinates me. In preparation for my paper, my research consisted of reading several short stories by Chicano authors whom I found to be exceptionally successful. I ... I remember reading Octavio Paz's chapter, "The Pachuco and Other Extremes," from his book, The Labyrinth of Solitude Life and Thought in Mexico, in which he mentions that a work of art (i.e. literature or paintings) would help to "recreate" the Mexican and "express him" (Paz 10). Paz made this statement in the 1940s when a Mexican author was a rare thing to see. Sandra Cisneros The first ...
- 144: Cahill's How the Irish Saved Civilization
- ... through Europe matted, unwashed barbarians descended on the Roman cities, looting artifacts and burning books, the Irish who were just learning to read and write, took up the just labor of copying all of western literature - everything they could get their hands on. These scribes then served as conduits through which Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian cultures were transmitted to the tribes of Europe, newly settled amid the rubble and ruined vineyards of the civilization they had overwhelmed.” (Cahill, p.3) The theme of this book is that the scribes did something unique, they saved civilization, not the masses of people, but literature, the content of “classical civilization.” (Cahill, p. 58) One reads of the time from Rome's fall to medieval times learning through the stories of the characters, most notable Augustine and Patrick. Augustine, his faith ... He wanted truth. We see the classical world through him. Patrick on the otherhand is a Christian convert, an escaped slave, who returns to Ireland to save it. He brings the Roman alphabet and Roman literature with him. He also brings a more personal faith with him that pagan Ireland eventually accepts. Hungry for knowledge faith and literacy essentially become one. My other favorite part was the stories of the ...
- 145: Political Economy Of The Ancient India
- ... in India, 1498-c. 1760 , The Portuguese 7. The Republic of India The Nehru era, 1947-64 Regional states, c. 1700-1850 The Marathas: early history Additional facts of India: 8. Indian architecture 9. Indian literature 10. Indian music 11. Indian philosophy Jaina philosophy Mughal philosophy Sruti and the nature of authority 12. Development of the notion of transmigration Nagarjuna and Sunyavada Contributions of Vasubandhu and Asanga 13. Indian sculpture India ... from an emphasis on the constant refinement of doctrine, on the one hand, to an incorporation of magical fertility cults in its beliefs, on the other, faded out toward the end of this period. Sanskrit literature and the building of Hindu and Buddhist temples and sculpture both reached apogees in this period. Although literary works in Sanskrit continued to be written and te mples were built in later periods, the achievement ... the introduction and imitation of European building styles in India, and, by the time of Indian independence in the mid-20th century, Indian architecture was almost entirely modern in its form, style, and materials. Indian literature writings of the Indian subcontinent, produced there in a variety of languages, including Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali, Bengali, Bihari, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Oriya, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, and Sindhi. The earliest Indian ...
- 146: Cults
- ... people cope with their perceived problems with social interaction. Cult recruiters target those who perceive themselves as different from the rest of society, and give these individuals the sense of belonging that they crave. Cult literature lures potential cult members by appealing to their desperate need to socially fit in. Cults provide a controlled family environment that appeals to potential cult members because it is a removal from the exterior society ... this cult isn't what they had expected, it is too late, because they are already too afraid to leave. Recruiters are not the only way that potential members are enticed into cults, often their literature is powerful enough. Cult novels, pamphlets and websites draw in potential cult members by appealing to their desperate need to socially fit in. Often if a piece of cult literature is written correctly it convinces the most logical mind of the most absurd reasoning, like this pamphlet by the Heavens Gate cult. The generally accepted "norms" of today's societies - world over - are designed, ...
- 147: Young Goodman Brown / The Masque Of Red Death
- Young Goodman Brown / The Masque Of Red Death There are many different item that have to be contributed into a story for it to be considered a piece of Romantic Literature. In these two stories that I read I am going to discuss two different aspects of romantic literature. I will write about how each story deals with dreamy unreal and Gothic ideas. I will also discuss how each story deals with an individuals internal psychology. Even though I am only writing about two parts of Romantic Literature there are many different aspects. Both stories deal with dreamy situations. In Young Goodman Brown Goodman Brown was in a dream he was in an unreal universe but when he finally woke up and ...
- 148: The Howl of a Generation
- The Howl of a Generation The "Beat Movement" in modern literature has become an important period in the history of literature and society in America. Incorporating influences such as jazz, art, literature, philosophy, and religion, the Beat writers created a new and prophetic vision of modern life and changed the way an entire generation of people see the world. That generation is now aging and its ...
- 149: Homosexuality and the Healthcare Profession
- ... to briefly discuss whether possible negative attitudes have any bearing on the care that HIV, (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), positive and AIDS, (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome), patients receive. He will then look, in detail, at the available literature to see if there are possible reasons for these attitudes existing. Following this, he will look at how these attitudes can effect care within his own clinical area. Finally, he will aim to suggest ways ... i.e. the use of questions instead of the use of statements. "Information conveyed on a verbal level may be contradicted on the non-verbal level" (Payne 1976) In the greater majority of the available literature, which the writer of this paper found to be both dated and largely of American in origin, the author(s) have consistently referred to gay or lesbian people as homosexual. At first there seems little ... On its own this study seems to add weight to the argument that it is fear that is a major causative factor for the negative, prejudicial attitudes displayed by nurses and other healthcare professionals, however literature published prior to the A.I.D.S crisis appears to suggest otherwise. Pogoncheff (1979), wrote an article describing the negative aspects of care that a lesbian patient received whilst on her ward. She ...
- 150: E.t.a. Hoffmann His Life, His
- ... teachers, but at this time had no outstanding talent for music. Works by Swift, Sterne and Rousseau and the writers Schiller, Goethe and Jean Paul had been a strong influence in Hoffmann’s studies of literature. At this period the first musical compositions and two fragments of stories are created by him, the “Conaro, Memoiren des Grafen Julius von S.” and “Der Geheimnisvolle” (“The Mysterious Man”). Hoffmann also liked to read ... In Warsaw he was being introduced to Julius Eduard Itzig, who later changed his name to Hitzig and was one of Hoffmann’s first biographers. It was also Hitzig who first introduced Hoffmann to the literature of the Romantics, like the works of Brentano, Chamisso, Schlegel and Tieck, all contemporary writers of his life. At his time Hoffman strengthened his activities in music and was one of the co-founders of ... time Hoffmann started to get very sick and his physical condition began to worsen. Forced to leave Warsaw, E.T.A. moved 1807 to Berlin, where he tried unsuccessfully to promote his artwork in music, literature and drawings. Not having a job and under the great depression of the Franco-Prussian war, his economical situations worsens. Due to his friendship with Hippel, Hoffmann got the possibility to work for the ...
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