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Crucible of Character by Etheridge

who felt that the school needed to deal with admissions differently. When he presents Hughes poem, however, he is presenting it as...

Poems: Hughes and Eliot

powerful and intense poem, in relationship to the struggles of the African American people, that it has been adapted into song (Af...

Langston Hughes, Salvation

that Jesus would come to him and change him and that he would feel different. He waited for the difference to occur. The adult m...

2 African American Poets/Cullen & Hughes

and "Dont you fall now-" (line 17)(Hughes 1255). She concludes by emphasizing the point that she is still going, still climbing, ...

Comparing Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes

In five pages this research paper compares and contrasts Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes whose works flourished during the ...

Langston Hughes, Identification with America

This essay analyzes two poems by Hughes, "Theme for English B" and "Let America Be America Again." The writer asserts that "Theme"...

Revolutionary Identity in the Works of Langston Hughes

to a revolutionary conception of identity that transcends race and ethnicity and focuses instead on the deep socially ingrained di...

Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Blues of the African-American Experience

a subtle reminder particularly to African-American women of how far they had come as a race and how much further they needed to go...

Miller, Hughes, and Baldwin

play about a man who had everything but was still unhappy. Then there was the infamous Death of a Salesman, which is clearly a sto...

Langston Hughes: Work and Worldview

the dawns were / young. / I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to / sleep. / I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyram...

Black Writers

industrial training (Washington). He believes that if black men produce something white men want, "instead of all the dependence b...

Joyce and Hughes/Loss in 2 Short Stories

OShay, the vice principal of the school, tells Nancy Lee that the scholarship was rescinded when the nominating committee learned ...

The Poetry of Wheatley and Hughes

experiences were good ones, and quite unique when compared to slaves in the south. As such "racial equality is not a theme to be f...

Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes

In ten pages this paper discusses Langston Hughes' 1930 novel debut and analyzes the author's use of speech to convey 'black humor...

Langston Hughes' 'Theme for English B' and Daniel Keyes' 'Flowers for Algernon'

In 5 pages this paper examines the double consciousness theme as it applies to these literary works by Langston Hughes and Daniel ...

Harlem Renaissance and Poet Langston Hughes

In seven pages the life of Langston Hughes and his poetic contributions to the Harlem Renaissance are examined. Five sources are ...

American Literature Overview

In five pages this research paper examines American literature from the late 18th century through the 20th century with such autho...

Black Identity in the Writings of Langston Hughes and W.E.B. Du Bois

self through the eyes of others, have become touchstones for thinking about race in America. In addition to these enduring concept...

'The Return of Simple' by Langston Hughes

essentially touched upon all that was important and relevant to the African American. He was born James Langston Hughes on Feb....

'Father and Son' and 'Mother and Child' by Langston Hughes

of every class" (Scott). Lucy eventually "became the planters own slave, and sometime thereafter gave birth to his daughter, Maria...

African American Poet Langston Hughes

he foretold in this little piece written long before his name became a beloved household word"....

Langston Hughes' Plays

In six pages this paper examines how the African American experience manifests itself in Langston Hughes' plays Mulatto and Don't ...

Black Poetry and Literature and the Blues

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses the relationship between black poetry and literature with jazz and blues music with...

African American Poetic Modernism

172). But while modernism was a reaction to the modern age and the disassociation that came with it, there also seems to have been...

Disillusionment in 'Salvation' by Langston Hughes

In five pages the theme of disillusionment within the context of this work by Langston Hughes is analyzed. One source is cited in...

The Civil Rights Era and its Impact upon African American Poetry

endured by Black People during various eras. Research I uncovered focuses much on the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Poets, an...

Biography of Langston Hughes

In eleven pages the 'explosions' in the life of Langston Hughes are explored in this insightful biography of the poet and novelist...

'On the Road' by Langston Hughes

In one page the character of Sergeant featured in 'On the Road,' a short story by Langston Hughes, is analyzed. There is no bibli...

Langston Hughes

what happens when someone has to push aside their dream. Hughes narrator asks, in relationship to a dream that has been set aside,...

Harlem Renaissance Artists and the Influence Exerted by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

regrouping of the movement nine years later, in 1909, when it emerged as a much bigger and much more powerful movement known as th...