Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Ann Johnson on the 4th of April 1928, was born in St. Louis, Missouri and grew up in Stamps, Arkansas. Maya Angelou is regarded as one of the most noteworthy, influential voices of modern society with over 50 doctorate degrees. She became a distinguished poet, educator, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, memoirist, and civil rights activist throughout her life. In the 1930’s and 1940’s, Stamps, Arkansas was the embodiment of brutality and racial discrimination in the
griefs, thoughts, dreams, and aspirations coached in a beautiful language is Literature. In order to know the history of a nation’s spirit, one must read its literature. Brother Azurin defines Literature that it expresses the feelings of people to society, to the government, to his surroundings, to his Fellowmen and to his Divine Creator.( Webster defines literature as anything that is printed, as long as it is related to the ideas and feelings of people, whether it is true, or just a product of one’s
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His favorite poet was Paul Laurence Dunbar, who wrote formal poetry, but became famous for poems written in black dialect. Langston also read the Bible. His favorite novels were Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Zane Grey's, Riders of the Purple Sage, Harold Bell Wright's The Shepherd of the Hills, Edna Ferber's Cimarron, Gene Stratton Porter's Freckles, and Florence L. Barclay's The Mistress of Shenstone. Langston admired poet Paul Laurence
imperialism from the point of view of a highly disillusioned expatriate turned agent for the empire, turned anti-imperialist (the character of Marlow in the novel: Conrad himself, in spite of his best efforts to disguise his input behind characterization) (Films for Humanities and Sciences). The truth is almost certainly, with all the richness of meaning and language in Heart of Darkness, that the novel is both, and then some. If Conrad’s intention was to foster debate – or, indeed, disgust
remorse, and vows he will end his own life. 2 For the Teacher Frankenstein Study Guide Copyright © by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Media Links Videos Show a film version of the novel as a follow-up to students’ reading. Ask students to compare and contrast the characterizations of the major and minor characters in the film and in the novel. • Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, directed by Kenneth Branagh (Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1995; 123 minutes; Rated R for horrific images). CD-ROMs
Context: industrial revolution brings ideas that the "old ways" of doing things are now irrelevant Realism period of American Literature - 1855-1900 Content: common characters not idealized (immigrants, laborers) people in society defined by class society corrupted by materialism emphasizes moralism through observation Style: novel and short stories are important prefers objective narrator dialogue includes many voices from around the country does not tell the reader
Violence, Dies," suggested Shakur, who was twenty five when he died, deserved his untimely death. - (Pareles, 1996) A product of a fatherless home, raised poor in the ghettos of San Francisco, Shakur, notes Ernest Harding of the L.A. Weekly, "lived in a society that still didn't view him a[s] human, that projected his worst fears onto him; [so] he had to decide whether to battle that or embrace it." (Hardy, 1996) As these fears forced Shakur into a corner, Shakur, in the music magazine Vibe, alludes to his
air/ Queens have died young and fair/Dust hath closed Helen’s eye. -from Thomas Nashe’s “Litany in Time of Plague;” refers to Helen of Troy. 4. alter ego: A literary character or narrator who is a thinly disguised representation of the author, poet, or playwright creating a work. 5. anaphora: repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginnings of successive clauses. • The Lord sits above the water floods. The Lord remains a King forever. The Lord shall give strength to his people
FILM LANGUAGE FILM LANGUAGE A Semiotics of the Cinema Christian Metz Translated by Michael Taylor The University of Chicago Press Published by arrangement with Oxford University Press, Inc. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 © 1974 by Oxford University Press, Inc. All rights reserved. English translation. Originally published 1974 Note on Translation © 1991 by the University of Chicago University of Chicago Press edition 1991 Printed in the United States of America 09 08 07 6