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Every person have born, grow, do activities, married, have a child, become old and old following the time, and then die. It is a common life is everyone knows. We, however, have different ways to think of our life. Maya Angelo through her poem entitle “When I Think about Myself” has shared the voice of her people and result of the process of thinking or musing life. It is a very interesting poem because we need to read it twice or more to catch the real tone and story. When the first you read the

Maya Angelou was a phenomenal woman. She was born on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis Missouri with the name of Marguerite Annie Johnson. At a very young age, her parents divorced and Maya and her brother Bailey were sent to their paternal grandmother. During this time the Jim Crow Laws were in serious action especially in Arkansas so she experienced firsthand discrimination and racial prejudices. She also suffered at the age of 7 when her mom came for a visit with her boyfriend and he raped Maya. Out

People can overcome anything, even someone such as Wilma Rudolph. Facing Scarlet Fever, and Double Pneumonia, and at the age of 4 contracted polio, and eventually became a 3x gold medalist wiinner. She showed you can overcome any challenge. She also proved that anything you put your mind to you can achieve. Wima Rudolph born June 23rd 1940 in Bethleham, Tennesse to Ed and Blanche Rudolph, Her father worked as a railroad porter, and her Mother worked six days a week as a maid in the homes of wealthy

destiny.” states C.S. Lewis. Many people face adversity and only some are able to overcome it. Ashley Judd, overcame many different hardships throughout her life. Starting in early childhood and extending all the way into her early twenties. Some may know Ashley Judd from her successful acting career or her humanitarian lifestyle. Many factors of Ashley’s life led to a rough later life including, hardships in early childhood and sexual abuse during her pre-teens and early twenties. Luckily, with the

Maya Angelou once said “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” and I think she completely lived up to that with the life she lived, and the things she accomplished in it. Maya Angelou, or as she was originally called Marguerite Annie Johnson, was born on April 4, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri. Maya Angelou was an American Poet, a storyteller, a civil rights activist, a singer, a songwriter, a dancer

Maya Angelou was an African American woman who had many talents towards herself. Maya was face with obstacles in her life as an African American that lead her to experience racial prejudices and discrimination. This allowed her to recite her poem “On the Pulse of Morning” at President Bill Clinton’s Inauguration in 1993. Angelou’s purpose was a call for hope of equality amongst the nation explaining the beginnings of the world. She uses several rhetorical techniques such as symbolism, shift of tones

Obama comes from a real diverse family but they are all family and love each other and are all one. Maya Angelou says that she knows ten thousand Janes and Mary Janes but not one of them is similar in looks and beliefs. Maya stated that even though they look different they are more alike than unalike. In Maya Angelou’s poem, she talks about all the different people she knows and all the different places in the world that are different. In the poem, Maya Angelou says, “In minor ways we differ, in

Morning" was a sonnet composed and read by Maya Angelou at President Bill Clinton's introduction function in January, 1993. Conceived on April 4, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri, poet and social equality extremist Maya Angelou is known for her 1969 diary, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Although that is what she was most famous for “on the Pulse of Morning” is now being analyzed. Firstly, Starting with the acknowledgment that rocks, river, and trees have seen the landing and takeoff of numerous eras, "On

I know why the caged bird sings novel opens up with a three year old Maya and her four year old bother Bailey traveling alone across the United States wearing wrist tags that read “To Whom It May Concern.” They are being sent away from their divorced parents to live with their grandmother, and Maya reacts by pretending her parents are dead. On page 52 maya said “I couldn’t believe that our mother would laugh and eat oranges in the sunshine without her children”. When, one year, they received Christmas

The first part of my visual representation of the poem “Still I Rise” is a Taraxacum Officinale, more commonly known as the dandelion. These flowers are widely established to have a negative connotation; perhaps, they upset the aesthetics of a well-manicured lawn. In any case, this is the same for Maya Angelou in “Still I Rise.” In the middle of the 20th century, African Americans were the victims of discrimination because they were different; they were of color and the dominant whites believed they