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Tupac Shakur, well know rapper, actor, or activist? Early on in Tupac career he branded himself as a thug raised in the inner streets of Harlem New, York, and later he promoted “Thug Life” one of his many contributions as a hip hop legend. Thug Life revealed the struggle of someone who did not have everything they needed; someone who can still succeed and overcome obstacles to reached their desired goals. As he once stated thug life reflected the struggles African American face every day in this…

William Wells Brown are significant figures in African American literature because of the realistic approaches they used to describe their lives in America. Lucy Terry’s poem, “Bars Fight” was most likely supposed to be a song due to its rhyming couplets (Gates and Smith 110). Terry witnessed an Indian ambush of two white families, which inspired her to write this poem to describe the horrific event she saw (Gates and Smith 111). In her poem, she “conveys genuine sympathy for the white men and…

Anne Bradstreet was born around 1612 to a Puritan family in England. Bradstreet was known as being one of the first published poets in America. Her first poem entitled “To My Dear and Loving Husband” was written between 1641-1643, but published 6 years after her death in 1678. It was rare for women in these times to become writers given that more than half were educated due to father’s often feeling that education should not be wasted on girls. However, her father Thomas Dudley held a high…

monstrous and little, which shows us that Bottom doesn’t always understand what he’s saying. Furthermore, Bottom writes in prose. When you compare his lines with the fairies’ lines, there is a large difference, as the fairies speak in alternate rhyming couplets, and in iambic pentameter. On the other hand, Bottom’s lines have mostly no rhyme, and an unclear beat. This shows he is incapable of poetry and beat, implying that Bottom is not clever.…

The poem, follows the classic “ABAB” rhyme scheme, has iambic pentameter, and ending with a rhyming couplet which helped end the poem in a rather subtle stand. The speaker starts by stating “You must not wonder, though you think it is strange” that he doesn’t dare look at this other woman, due to his past experience of love. The speaker in the poem was…

I know how rap gets a bad name cause of rap today but what do you think of rap??? Personally my opinion is how did rap get this bad. To be honest I love listening to older rappers like 2Pac, Eazy E, and Biggie but now …. we got rappers like Young Thug, and Lil Wayne. And they produce some pretty dry stuff. And guess what. I HATE IT !!!!! But now I'm going to tell you how rap first started and it is kind of interesting. So thousands of years ago, Africa "griots" played music while they told…

The great musician, Gerard Way, said “Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.” Ironically the word hero has the connotation of being someone or something that portrays the qualities of being supernatural. An everyday hero is one that is characterized by the actions that he/she commits. The hero will always put themselves forward for the humanitarian good to defend against moral evil. The hero always acts involuntarily, the act of heroism will always be done under…

“Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same” by Robert Frost is a sonnet that describes and compares the voice of someone he admires to the sounds of the birds and the way their sound travels. An initial inference before reading this sonnet reveals itself in the title. Frost reveals that there will be a change in the birds’ song –it will never be the same. In order to understand the change that will occur in this sonnet, it is important to understand the entirety of the sonnet—the theme, sound…

Notwithstanding Swift’s intentions in “The Lady’s Dressing Room,” Lady Mary Wortley Montagu two years later penned “The Reasons that Induced Dr. S to Write a Poem Called the Lady’s Dressing Room,” which is a cutting and self-aggrandizing poem detailing a doctor’s encounter with a prostitute, and his failure to perform sexually: “The Reverend Lover with surprise/ Peeps in her bubbies, and her eyes,/ And kisses both, and tries–and tries./ The Evening in this hellish play,/ Beside his guineas…

Much discussions on the writing-translation motivation of Legge is evangelical. I suggest to reconsider the writing motivation of Legge from author-reader a prior. Choosing The Story of Abraham is not only to consider the publication year of 1857 which can have parallel reading with his The Notions of the Chinese Concerning God and Spirits, but also we can identify the identity of Legge as co-author-translator-interpreter. A brief introduction of The Story of Abraham is needed. After that,…