November 14, 2020
Readings: August Wilson’s Fences Act 1 and selected poetry: Phillis Wheatley “On Being Brought from Africa to America” (Links to an external site.)Claude McKay “If We […]
November 12, 2020
Though not typically identified as a Harlem Renaissance author, the work of Gwendolyn Brooks nevertheless reverberates with themes important to the Renaissance movement. Discuss the theme […]
October 29, 2020
Assess the value of Poem of My Cid or The Song of Roland as epic poetry. Choose whether they would like to find sources for example […]
October 20, 2020
October 7, 2020
The essay about “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry.Only compose five paragraphs. Format:Compose an Introduction that includes the following:Attention-GetterBackground InformationThesisFor the body paragraphs you […]
September 14, 2020
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Looking at Hugo’s “Missoula Softball Tournament” and Harwood’s “In the Park,” analyze the roles of the women in each poem. In which ways are they similar? […]
August 20, 2020
Maus is not just the story of one family’s tragedy during the Holocaust. It is also Art Spiegelman’s memoir, his dealings with his father. While it […]
July 23, 2020
“Haiku” is a traditional form of Japanese poetry. This assignment will use the strict definition of a haiku which means it should have three lines with […]
July 20, 2020
Read Longfellow’s poem, “My Lost Youth” (linked below) and the three assigned sections from Whitman’s “Song of Myself,” #s 34, 35, and 36 (pp1116-1119).What is interesting […]