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Ennis Cosby's Life and Premature Death

In five pages this essay examines a Time magazine article on the short life and murder of Bill Cosby's only son Ennis....

Destructive Relationship Between Willy and Biff in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In a paper consisting of 6 pages the destructive relationship between father and son is examined in terms of the father's warped s...

African American Theater and Blues and the Influential Works of Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes

a line stating the mood of the singer repeated three times. The stress and variation is carried by the tune and the whole thing w...

Harlem Poets Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes

In eight pages this paper compares these Harlem poets in terms of their similarities and differences. Eight sources are cited in ...

The African-American Experience in the Short Story - James Baldwin and Langston Hughes Compared

This research report compares and contrasts the works of these two black authors. Short stories are discussed which look at how th...

'What Happens to a Dream Deferred' by Langston Hughes

In one page the 'dream' referred to in the poem is subjected to a sociopolitical analysis. There is no bibliography included....

Possessive Love in Browning's Poetry

This research paper addresses the theme of posessive love in two poems by Robert Browning, My Last Duchess and Porphyria's Lover....

Modernism Distorted in Mulatto by Langston Hughes

In eight pages this paper discusses how the play represents a distortion of modernism. Seven sources are cited in the bibliograph...

Water Appeal in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and The Awakening by Kate Chopin

while maintaining a safe distance so no one is compromised. All the characters enjoy considerable affluence and leisure. None of...

Prejudice in Education Confronted by Langston Hughes and Toni Cade Bambara

In five pages education and its prejudices are captured in the poem 'Theme for English B.' and the short story 'The Lesson.' Ther...

A Gilgamesh Analysis

a feast of rejoicing, as well as to keep himself clean and well groomed; he is to cherish his children and his wife (Radcliffe PG)...

'Dinner Guest Me' by Langston Hughes

reflect an attitude of equality instead of segregation between blacks and whites; however, inasmuch as much as humanity has succes...

'Harlem' by Langston Hughes

questions rather than declarative sentences. Also Hansen (2002) points out that the tentative "maybe," which is part of this sole...

Poetic Analysis of 'If We Must Die' by Claude McKay

exploded out of me" (McKay on "If We Must Die"). Somewhat surprisingly, McKay elected to structure his impassioned contemporary p...

Langston Hughes' 'Salvation'

Hughes experienced an event that, as mentioned, would enable him to take his first steps into manhood through the depths of his ow...

Segregation, Determination, and the Poetry of Langston Hughes

In six pages this paper discusses the poet's narrators without gender, how he uses women, and how African American determination d...

Harlem's Poet Laureate Langston Hughes

of poetry, ten collections of short fiction, two novels, two volumes of autobiography, nine books for children and more than two d...

Gender in Beowulf

readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...

Langston Hughes & Raymond Carver

sore" (line 4)? The structure of the poem asks a series of questions that, in themselves, suggest the answers, which are all found...

Langston Hughes' Dream Deferred

life, becoming bitter and angry. In essence they could well become poisonous to themselves and others around them because they hav...

'Cross' by Langston Hughes

her well" (lines 4-8). This substantiates the forgiveness and understanding that the speaker already has indicated towards his fat...

Poetry of Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes During the Harlem Renaissance

are sticky and crusted, open sores, and other elements that suggest a physical representation of a dream. This makes the dream som...

'Over There, World War II,' and 'I Sing, Too, America' by Langston Hughes

at Columbia University in 1920, but left after one year to travel. He drifted for several years, finding employment as a merchant ...

Analyzing Characters and Setting in Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes

living in a small Kansas town (Not Without Laughter). Its a sad story and tells of his rather slow and sad awakening to the reali...

Zora Neale Hurston's and Langston Hughes' Black Perspectives

leave him. Finally, Janie shares that when her grandmother passes away she seeks her own freedom and runs away from Logan. Many do...

"Boy at the Window" by Richard Wilbur

This essay offers analysis of "Boy at the Window" by Richard Wilbur. The writer focuses on the compelling nature of the poem's ima...

She Unnames Them By Le Guin

man called each living creature, that was its name" (Genesis 2:19). Adam gave names to all of them "But, for Adam no suitable help...

Langston Hughes' Blues Poetry

and white, life and death, happiness and sadness, rich (white majority) and poor (black minority) to express social injustice and ...

Relationships Between Sons and Their Mothers in "The Glass Menagerie" and "Hamlet"

Young Prince Hamlet of Denmark has been dealt two blows in rapid succession. First, while away at college, he learns his father h...

Demetria Martinez Speaks the Mother Tongue

her heritage is (Diaz, 1999). Because she is still wandering, Jos? Luis represents something wonderful to her: a man who is commit...