Comparing Tears In Heaven, Imaginary Heroes, And Still I Rise

Learning to die and coping with death is a life-long art task; it is an art form on learning how to find yourself through the lens of death is a daunting task. Death is the center of all art. It is the artist task to create themselves and others around them through their art. Art can out live people. Art gives a voice to people who don’t have one, as well as the artist that is striving to develop their own voice. James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son, is an essay about a young man finding his identity through his father’s death, the turmoil of racial climate of segregation and riots. James Baldwin declared himself as a writer in this essay. He was a black writer, first and foremost and wrote about racial issues. He saw African Americans

Thinking positively can be a difficult task, no matter the circumstance. When negativity fills you up like helium in a balloon you should always try to find the light in the darkness. Thinking positively doesn’t make the hard times disappear, it helps you survive negativity and the daily conflicts that challenge you. Looking on the bright side of things increases attentiveness, improves your ability to think, and leads to happier thoughts (Psychology Today). No matter what you are going through, you should always stay optimistic. “Man’s Search for Meaning” and “Dear Miss Breed” are great examples of how having a bright outlook can help you survive conflict.

Life has up's and down's but you can get through because people come together to help. For instance, in the book Fever, 1793, the Free African Society went around to help the yellow fever victims. The doctors thought the Africans were immune to the disease because hardly any Africans died. When people come together, like the Africans helping the victims, you can get through it. You can get through it when people come together, because everyone starts working together instead of avoiding the

Bryant McGill once said “Suffering is one of life's greatest teachers” and this quote is very true. Suffering from a tragedy, many seem like the worst thing to ever happen, but if you push through and persevere, you will learn so much about yourself and the others around you. Through Suffering we learn from our past to grow our communities in the spirit of a hopeful future by preserving and bravery.

As stated by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, a Swiss-American psychiatrist, and a pioneer in near death experiences, and the author of the world famous book On Death and Dying, which first explores the 5 stages of grief and the key emotional reactions to them. The common stages and effects of grief are accepted as the following; Denial and isolation can be summarized as, “…helps us to survive the loss. In this stage, the world becomes meaningless and overwhelming. Life makes no sense” Dr Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Death and Dying, 1969.After denial comes anger, which is explained as outlined by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her book On Death and Dying, 1969, one’s anger can extent to anyone and anything in our surroundings, including God, in the sense, ‘Why did God allow this to happen?’. And under the anger is pain. The next stage in grief is bargaining, to be understood as trying to bargain with the universe or God hoping that ‘it isn’t so’. To quote

People sometimes have tough ordeals. Some may act negatively toward the problem, but the people that act positively toward the problem are able to see hope in places where they wouldn’t expect it to be in. People have been through cruelty, yet they continue to stay positive. People still have the positivity to cling onto their last hope, or even continue to think positively when there is no hope at all. People like Anne Frank, in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, continue to stay positive throughout the horrible ordeals that have happened. Some of the Japanese in Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference have continued to stay hopeful while in internment

Connections are absolutely essential in everyday life. People learn by making connections with what they are presented with, to their previous knowledge. When people can relate to another and empathize with each other, they learn to be compassionate. After reading “Abitibi Canyon” by Joseph Boyden, I wondered how this story was similar to my life and to others.

In the book I can connect to some of the things in it. In life people have happy things happen and negative things happen. “Life throws too much crap at us as it is, so why hold onto something

Personal Connection: Respond in 3-4 thoughtful sentences about how this incident/character/statement/book connects to another text, something that has happened in your life, or how it relates to a historical or current event. What parts of the reading make you think of a text to text, text to self, or text to world

Helen Keller once stated “… although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it…” This can be translated by meaning we have experiences that can be challenging and only gets harder, only so we can beat them. I strongly agree with this quote. I chose two works of literature to prove this saying, and opinion to be true. The first piece I have chosen is “Words Not Spoken” by Beatrice Boyle. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury would be the second literary piece I chose.

African American reactions to death and loss can be traced to their African roots, their centuries of slavery, their commitment to Christianity, and their post-slavery treatment in American society. Among those to explore death and dying in twentieth-century African America is author Karla FC Holloway. In her book Passed On: African American Mourning Stories: a Memorial Collection, Holloway thoroughly investigated the myths, rituals, economics, and politics of African American mourning and burial practices, and found that ways of dying are just as much a part of black history as ways of living.

Everyone in the world is somehow connected. Either by blood, by what you like, or by your ancient ancestor. The idea of being connected is strongly presented throughout the

One thing that is important to know is that when things get tough to carry on. During tough times most people get lost in the bad things that happened, but what they should do is keep going and realize that things will get better. In NightJohn by Gary Paulsen, shows that people can preserver through tough time and keep going.

Unfortunately, many situations we must face in life are like this. People are not always around to help us through hard times, and most tragedies, such as death, are obstacles that we must overcome individually. As described in the poem though, death is an inevitability that we cannot change, and therefore should not deter us from our path. We must learn to deal with tragedies such as death, as they are unavoidable. These events do have an everlasting effect on us, but they should

Passing away has continuously been to a majority of people a prohibited subject in any conversations. Nevertheless, among African American societies death is one of the essential characteristics of culture. It is established that the manner in which death practices are handled among Africa Americans is completely different from other Americans of a different race. Furthermore, death amid the black populations is not viewed to be the moment of sorrow, but the moment to celebrate because the dead will no longer experience the hardships in the world. Although there is mourning at the funeral since the dead will be greatly missed, this moment is similarly time for celebration .Several African Americans might not be informed that a great number