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writers, artist, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars traveled. Many came to express their talents freely, and escape oppression in the south and the caste system. It was during this time that many talented artists such as Langston Hughes and Claude McKay started being recognized for their achieved works. While many intellectual people tried to solidify their status in Harlem, Langston Hughes at the age of twenty-four had already caught the…

to shape the publics knowledge of Chemistry. However, one chemist stands out from all the rest because of his historical, societal, and person significance: George Claude Pimentel. Pimentel’s life, work, and contribution to Chemistry have shaped this field and impacted it in ways that other scientists have not. Background George Claude Pimentel was born on May 02, 1922 in Rolinda, California. Pimentel grew up with a love for science and knew as a young boy that he wanted to learn as much as he…

has worked tirelessly and spent $15 million of his own money to create a vast public artwork in Colorado that would draw thousands of tourists and rival the ambition of “The Gates,” the saffron transformation of Central Park that made him and Jeanne-Claude, his collaborator and wife, two of the most talked-about artists of their generation. But Christo said this week that he had decided to walk away from the Colorado project — a silvery canopy suspended temporarily over 42 miles of the Arkansas…

In the poem “If We Must Die” by Claude Mckay, he uses symbolism, and tone to develop his message that African Americans must have hope in order to accomplish equality because, they seek to abolish…

Otherness in today’s society is more apparent today than ever. Otherness is, according to Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary, “the quality or state of being other or different” (Merriam-Webster, 2011). In reviewing the poem, “White House,” by Claude McKay, otherness is represented by his personal view of otherness and his struggle with being a small part of a large institution. In the following analysis you will see many representations of McKay’s belief in otherness. He believed that the…

In “The Harlem Dancer,” Claude McKay describes a woman who is performing to a crowd of youths through the eyes of an audience member. The narrator seems to be explaining everything that has to do with her body and appearance, rather than what she is actually thinking. He later realizes that she is unhappy while performing, though it is still unknown as to what the dancer is thinking. The use of tone and diction reveals that she is actually distancing herself from her reality due the traumatic…

What is stereotype threat? How do these threats affect all of us? And how do we deal with these threats? Claude Steele states, in his book Whistling Vivaldi, he believes stereotype threat, “Is a standard predicament of life. It springs from our human powers of intersubjectivity - the fact that as members of our society have a pretty good idea of what other members think about lots of things, including the major groups and identities in society,”(Steele 5). The major fact is, we are all or have…

we must learn to defeat these threats and become our own person. According, to Claude M.Steele in Whistling Vivaldi, he explains ways a person can reduce stereotype threat. Humanity uses stereotype threat to define a person without knowing what that individual is capable of. They do not…

While it is understood on a basic level that these two sentiments are entirely contrasting, regarding the implication they supply to the individual experiencing the affection; the depth of these emotions deem eerily alike. In the poem “America” by Claude McKay, the audience is exposed to the magnificent illustrations of love and hate in a medium that is bursting with frustrating dichotomy about society. The literary work is a…

for the factor workers in collect speech from the mouths of those who didn’t have the right to speak for themselves” (Bell 68). Lelenne remained with Radio Cacique until it was shut down by the government shortly after the exile of Dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier.…