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    Renaissance was a period of explosive cultural and intellectual growth for the African Americans because it was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that kindled a new black cultural identity. The Harlem Renaissance took place in Harlem, New York City during the 1920-1930’s. Many of the things that came about during the Harlem Renaissance were things such as jazz, poetry, dance, music theaters, and black writers. This time was also known as the New Negro Movement, was considered a phenomenon

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    The decade of the 1920’s was a decade of major changes in American Society. America was quickly becoming the largest industrial giant in the world, and consumerism was booming during this time. However, the most significant aspect of American society politically was that the U.S. largely withdrew from the rest of the world after World War One and advocated a policy of neutrality, where they didn’t get involved in the affairs of other countries. Not only that, but this decade was also the time during

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    As Bryan Crable notes, Burke and Ellison had the closest intellectual and social relationship when Burke was writing A Rhetoric of Motives—and, I would add, when Ellison was writing Invisible Man. Crable points out that the Rhetoric is “the only one of Burke’s books to cite Ellison,” in large part because Ellison’s 1945 essay “Richard Wright’s Blues” (which called Wright’s just-released memoir Black Boy “a nonwhite intellectual’s statement of his relationship to western culture” that illuminates

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    the writer made some important points in this paper. However, these points were not a strong argument to change my mind on the matter of immigration. The kairotic moment and writer?s motivating occasion- What motivated the writer to produce this piece? The writer was motivated to write this piece on behave of the illegal

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    through social reform can prevent racial tension but writers were critical of President Roosevelt to find the culprits responsible for the riot. The Los Angeles Times had conservative writers that expressed their opinion in their own columns but the newspaper had writers that reported events with a political bias. A conservative writer, of the LA Times was Westbrook Pegler, in his column called “Fair Enough.” Pegler’s was an anti-New Deal writer that criticized the Detroit Riot as examples of “lawless

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    Martin Gilens provides a comprehensive assessment of the economic inequality and political power in America. He explores on how the affluence of politicians influences the political setting of the country. According to the author, political equality is considered as the philosophy of democracy. Due to the inequalities that exist among the citizens regarding information, social and political affairs, it would be impractical to anticipate equal influence over policy making. Nature and the degree of

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    the arts played a major role in helping society move toward social and political changes. Most of the writers, and other influential people during this time used the arts to emphasis the importance of the current problems that needed dire change. This included literature used by the transcendentalists, slavery abolitionists, and even in the Harlem Renaissance and more. During the early 19th century transcendentalists writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau questioned the doctrines

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    September 11th, 1960, the founding members of the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) published their basic ideologies of in their “Sharon Statement.” Two years later on the June of 1962, members of the Students for a Democratic Society at their retreat published their political manifesto in a paper known as the Port Huron Statement. Despite their differing political views, both political youth groups centered their criticism on the same target: the American government. An analysis of both documents revealed

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    The political conflicts and campaigns have greatly affected the American Drama; a specified study of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. __________________________________________________________________________ Muhammad Ayaz dr_ayazlali@hotmail.com Mustansar Abbas mustansarabbas334@gmail.com Muhammad Mansha M.MANSHA57@gmail.com Misbah Aslam misbahabozar@gmail.com Department of English Literature, the University of Lahore, Sargodha Campus, Punjab Pakistan Abstract: This article presents the impacts

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    was the most significant moment in African American literature because of an exceptional outbreak of creative activity among black writers. The renaissance was not confined to the Harlem district of New York City. Harlem involved a notable concentration of intellect and talent and served as the representative capital of this cultural development. The writers of the Harlem Renaissance shaped ideas and an identity that has left a lasting influence on American literature. Some of the major names including

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