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    fundraising. Congressional fundraising is a new and serious problem facing the United States’ political system. In order to fix the problems of congressional fundraising, we need to spread awareness of this problem. This essay will discuss the targeted audience, my political cartoon and my overall experience in this class. My general audience will be young Americans and Americans, who want change. Creating a political cartoon will help spread awareness of this problem. The younger generation of United States’

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    was not really black, rather “at bottom [he was] a white man.” They declared that Douglass and Brown impersonated black men and were, therefore, incapable of representing black life in their work. Thus, white people rendered invalid all the black writers’ efforts to accurately portray black life in order to create social change because it did not fit their image of work done by a black

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    For many years, this period and these writers were known as the American Renaissance, a coin termed by F.O. Matthiessen in his book of that name in 1941. This book set the parameters of how to read and connect these writers until relatively recently, when its limitations, especially in terms of defining the "canon" of literary giants and what made them (all male) "giants" have been recognized and challenged. However, the term is still useful to some degree. It is a misnomer, if

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    their writings. Both types of writers give a voice to the members of the Latino culture and generations. However, their dialogue is set under a prognostication of different cultural, social, historical and political ideologies. This is revealed by an analysis of the themes, characters, narratives and poetic voices found in their works. Nyucorian writers rise in antagonism towards the American culture that has ignored their Latino culture while the works of Chicano writers seem to seek the wanting of

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    Colonial and revolutionary American writers had quite a few differences, yet were quite similar as well. The dominant interests of revolutionary writers were political and social, whereas the interests of colonial writers were mainly religious and economic. Most of the colonial writers- such as John Smith- mostly fled from religious persecution in Europe. For example, those aboard the Mayflower had quite a number of pilgrims who had fled from England to Holland, seeking religious freedom. These Pilgrims

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    changed our lives. Writers of biographies write about real people and what they really had done and to where they had gone. Writers of biographies write about, for example, people who conquer seas, encounter new continents, or who explore space. The ideas about Biographies for children changed overtime. So, Biographies in Europe and North America in the 17th through the 19th centuries were written about the didactic themes of the Puritans era, the values associated with the American frontier, and the

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    has the largest number of African-American who has been suffering a long time of racial discrimination and live at the bottom of society. Those four writer, both are political leaders of the African-American civil rights movement. Although they have a different background and express different thought, they do same things. All articles with profoundly coherent thinking that through the rhetorical triangle. Douglass Frederick is one of the African-American political leaders of the movement. He was

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    Ages of Faith, Reason, and Romantics Works Cited Missing The first three time periods in American literature had distinguishing characteristics in their subject matter and writing styles. Puritans wrote about their religious beliefs and daily life during the Age of Faith. During the Age of Reason, the Revolutionary War was going on and much of the writings were political documents as a result of the war. The Age of Romantics brought about the first fictional writings. The three time periods

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    Americas Reformation Many early writers and authors were able to focus on reform itself or the idea of reforming America. In some cases, these writers focused on advocating for strong social or political reforms. In other cases, these writers argued for a reform in their own personal perspective. Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper all had specific reforms that they each pushed for individually through their writings. While these three authors had different

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    The Harlem Renaissance was the flowering of African American culture, a significant celebration of blackness that supported a sense of racial pride. The continuation of this movement fueled vital works of art, music, and literature into the 1930s and beyond (Berg). Numerous writers and musicians were the heartbeat of the Harlem Renaissance, assisting in making the Harlem a social and cultural magnet. Langston Hughes was one of the brightest and most admirable poets during this movement. Hughes wrote

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