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Sharon Zukin’s “Why Harlem is Not a Ghetto” explores upon the reinvention and Manhattanization of Harlem. Zukin goes in depth about how Harlem went “from a dark ghetto into a middle-class, racially integrated, cosmopolitan community” (93). She examines the factors that pushed for gentrification, the influence it had on the neighborhood’s metamorphosis, and the effects of the displacement of traditional residents and businesses through new commercial activity. Through her detailed analysis of the…

This essay will examine the use of poetry in expressing a poet’s ideology, how this is demonstrated in their work and the poet’s methods of communicating their world views to a reader. The work of Langston Hughes reflected the lives of the African Americans around him during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, and also the history that they all shared in Africa. The Harlem Renaissance was a time of revival for traditional African culture and a push for racial equality across in the community of…

women led to the downfall of Sir Gawain. In his experience, Gawain’s downfall was caused by two women. Lady Bernlak, the Green Knight’s wife, deceived Gawain and was an accomplice of her husband and Morgan Le Fay, who set up this test. Lady Bernlak led to his downfall because she seduced him, trying to take away his purity. She does this when she goes into his bedroom, “she shut the door softly behind her, and turned towards the bed, and Gawain was ashamed,…

The era of hard-hitting rhythm gyrating through the soul, above the chatter and hard atonal forays of artistic expressions. Tapping feet and lively hands flourishing underneath the heritage of the sun. The lively streets of Harlem become rich with culture, shackled Blues, and drunken prosperities unsealed by the shifting of times. With each bebop tune art and literature represent the “good times” conjured up a fervent desire, to produce meaning and give birth to communal and racial pride. This…

Each century includes forms of injustice. Each century consist of societal transitions and world changers. Unfortunately as a human race, we have yet to master avoiding repeating the mishaps in our nations past. The train of thought directly following an aspiration or dream includes the reality that it’s more likely to not occur than to occur. Communities in Harlem in the early 1900’s were focused on the prosperity of their people, whom less than forty years before held the potential to be…

their hands in the air to praise Gabriel’s music and God’s mercy. Throughout the painting, Gabriel expands his jazzy aged music which explains the huge circles and waves. Gabriel’s trumpet signifies the jazz age which refers to the words of James Weldon Johnson, “The music which awakens all nations is the song of a bluesman or a famous trumpet…

unpredictability of nature. The knight’s attire is heavily compared to vegetation during Gawain’s description of him when the Green Knight first barged into the court. As we find out later on in the story, we the readers come to find out that Morgan le Fay plotted the entire event starting from the very begging which dismisses the Green Knight as the antagonist of this story which we previously believed him to be. The impulsiveness of these events can connect to the unpredictability of nature.…

Analysis about Theme for English B “Theme for English B” is an interesting, famous, and impressive poem that Hughes wrote in his early age. When readers first read this poem, most of them would impress by the author’s courage and short by the concept of it. Langston Hughes writes this poem to tell his instructor don’t doubt his ability through his race color. He uses this poem to share the peaceful American soul with all audiences. At that time, racial discrimination was a major social issue…

Mario Peña A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court By Mark Twain “At the end of an hour we saw a far-away town sleeping in a valley by a winding river; and beyond it on a hill, a vast gray fortress, with towers and turrets, the first I had ever seen out of a picture ‘Bridgeport?’ said I, pointing. ‘Camelot,’ said he” (Twain 20). 1. While Hank Morgan, also known as the Yankee, recounts his story of his adventures to the narrator, he reveals he finds out he is in Camelot when Sir Kay, a knight…

Kendrick Lamar is a modern day Harlem Renaissance author. He talks about personal experiences with struggles he has gone through and seen and that all other blacks have gone through. He mentions the typical black stereotypes of physical features that are used to put a label on black people. His newest album has mostly this dark, depressing story like format about the battles and struggles that himself and other blacks have gone through. Though included on the album is what he claims to be the…