Glenn Hughes

communities. Among these historic figures was the “O. Henry of Harlem” (New York Times, 1967), Langston Hughes, accomplished poet, novelist, playwright, essayist and an all-around artistic master. Hughes was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance that overtook African-American communities…

before later adopting the name the Harlem Renaissance. During this period there was an outburst of creative activity from African Americans that occurred throughout the different fields of art. Many African Americans such as Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Billie Holiday, and Zora Neale Hurston, to name a few, had an impact on modern day arts during the Harlem Renaissance. William H. Johnson was one artist that made an impact during the Harlem Renaissance. He was a painter born March 18, 1901…

UNBROKEN A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption By Laura Hillenbrand Table Of Contents Topic Page # Introduction 3-4 Themes 5-7 Writing Style 8-10 Book Talk 11-13 Book Summary 14-16 Questions 17 Works Cited 18-19 Introduction Laura Hillenbrand was born in 1967. She began writing in 1988 about thoroughbred racing. After starting her writing career, she became a contributing writer/editor for Equus magazine. Laura won the Eclipse Award for her…

Langston Hughes was born in Joplin Missouri but most of his childhood Hughes lived with his grandmother. According to Black voices he was best known of modern Negro American writers .Also was the only Negro poet who lived entirely on the professional earning of his literary activities in a diverse literary career. He was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist .He received his first prize in 1925 from opportunity magazine and went on to become a major figure of…

"I have a dream!" (Martin Luther King Jr) Words have the ability to refine us as humans. Alike to words so does literature. The poems that we’re going to discuss in the following paragraphs have impacted countless of lives by illustrating the reality of racism and depression by using figurative language, subject material and poetic devices. We can see a difference between the poems “Watermelons” and “Harlem” in the titles alone. Harlem is focused on the dreams of the people who live there “what…

Poetry is the key to many different emotions. A poem can cause many different feelings and memories, both good and bad, to bubble to the surface of our minds. Readers use poems to find a simple piece of artwork they can relate to, however are usually unprepared if it hits too close to home. Elizabeth Bishop, poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, had a difficult early life when growing up in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her father passed away when she was at a young age, and her mother admitted to…

Zora Neale Hurston, a author and a Civil Rights activist was born on January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama. Hurston created several works of fiction. She was the fifth of eight children born to John and Lucy Potts Hurston. She was also an folklorist and anthropologist who worked diligently to record the stories and tales of many cultures, including her own African-American heritage. As a leader in the Harlem Renaissance Hurston was a revolutionary in helping to protect the rights of African…

profile people, and to hate. This relates back to legacy by talking about this. Comparing Trump and Hughes' views keeps the legacy of Hughes alive by forcing people to make connections to things that have happened in the past that are coming back into circulation. But what most people probably didn't know is that there is a poem by Langston Hughes, “Let America be America again”. The ideas of Hughes consisted of a dream of equality and respect for all people, no matter their race. The different…

creativity. Instead of wishing away the daily hardship African-American went through, the material focused on the troubles of everyday work life of this group. Langston Hughes was an extremely influential poet during the 1920’s and he was one of the very few poets that were able to capture the rhythm of the blues in his poems. Hughes was born on February 1st , 1901, and he died on May 22nd,1967. Two of his famous poems are the weary blues and trumpet player.…

race, sexuality, gender, religion, or almost anything else about the person. As you watched those news stories, have you ever wondered how this could happen, yet we still have the guts to call ourselves a united country? Anna Quindlen and Langston Hughes did. In Quindlen's "A Quilt of a Country: Out of Many One?" and Hughes's "We're All in the Telephone Book", the two writers shared similar ideas about America, such as unity despite our differences, how our differences may not even exist, and…