Howard Hughes

In contemporary art, the term “social realism” is traditionally associated with interwar American art which commented on social, political and economic conditions of the poor or working class. The movement and artistic explorations developed during the late 1920’s and 1930’s, a time of global depression, heightened racial conflict and the rise of fascism which combined became a catalyst of many artists and writers and their gravitation toward proletarian and underclass themes. Artists found…

America has always had a flexible identity created by our many freedoms and technological advancements, leading to both economic and social changes. The roaring twenties formed a very broad yet bold name for America through the racial mix, social tension, cultural modernism and the amount of conflict that went down. A more modern era came about, which made people self-assured and wealthy, but when cultural advancement was brought into the picture, it caused ruthless reactions. The Identity of…

I have almost forgotten my dream. But it was there then, In front of me, Bright like a sun—My dream. And then the wall rose, Rose slowly.” Hughes makes it clear that as an African American he does have dreams. Hughes symbolic wall represents the unfair treatment that covered up his dreams. In “Fences,” Troy Maxson , felt that he should have made it to the major leagues, but his race card played a part in how far he was going…

artists such as Langston Hughes. During…

focusing on African-American literature, music, and art. Langston Hughes was an American author, poet and playwright and is known as one of the main literary contributors to the Harlem Renaissance. His main focus in writing was African American culture and he was among the first writers to “use jazz music and dialect to depict the life of urban blacks in his work” (A&E Network). Langston Hughes was born as James Mercer Langston Hughes, on February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. He was the…

The Mexican school wasn’t essentially a school but rather than a group of artists that believed the same thing and expressed with different ways. Every artist expressed it with different techniques, ideas, styles, and procedures. Each artist that was involved with the Mexican school created images to express the problems that were presented at the time. Some problems that were occurring are discrimination, dictatorships, and abuses of minorities. African American artists understood these views…

The poem “Daddy,” by Sylvia Plath is a descriptive poem of Plath’s feelings towards her dead father. The grief stuck by her father passing, heavily impacting her way of life. Plath had a hard time growing up because she felt alone without her father and she felt incomplete because she never got a chance to know her father or what he was like. Plath claims she is “through,” but evidence shows that she did not come to terms with her father because her suffering, aggression, and disrespect towards…

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 that frequently disturb the mainstreams. As an African-American poet, Hughes led the Harlem…

Club, in which a group of high school students, all examples of different teenage stereotypes, begin sharing their life struggles and slowly become more comfortable with each other. The Breakfast Club, a movie written and directed The movie by John Hughes is the story of a jock, a nerd, a juvenile delinquent, a rich, popular girl, and a weird girl who transcend their respective stereotypes and learn to get along. The Saturday morning of detention stimulated a brew of symbolic concoctions.…

The poems “I, Too” by Langston Hughes and “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou have a large range of similarities. Both poems were written during a time that blacks were very harshly discriminated against, and many of them were fighting for their freedom. While both poems were written during the same time period, they also have the same main topic. By writing their poems to have an attended audience of America as a whole, these authors wanted people to understand how hard it was for the blacks. Also,…