John Hughes

The Breakfast Club is that movie we watched about week ago. There was five different main characters in the film, three of which where guys, and two girls. The film took place in a high school, on a Saturday. Each of the characters did something that got them into trouble except one, the weird girl said she had nothing better to do and later she was the one how found out that she was a princes. So through-out the movie you get to know them and some of their characteristics. The character I…

Pride and empowerment. These two words seemingly connect, ideally to the theme, plot, as well as multiple characters throughout the film, Ferris Bueller’s day off. Ferris establishes the start of the movie by gaining empowerment over his day after faking an illness to stay home from school, then proceeds to take pride in the hardship of faking his illness by calling multiple students to seek their empathy, as well as his best friend Cameron, who is his ticket to what he speculates will be a…

movement there were many famous writers although authors such as Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen were two of the most famous writers in Harlem Renaissance. Both Hughes and Cullen were mostly known for their poetry although they were also novelist, playwrights, and essayists. Their literary achievements’ made them both stars in a time in which the Harlem Renaissance showcased many talented African American artists.…

The Harlem Renaissance was a time when the African American community flourished. It was a time of great discovery, mostly in the arts. Many wonderful African American poets, authors, musicians, and artists emerged during this period and are still highly regarded to this day. Those that rose up created a voice for the African American community, and paved the path for others to join them. The explosion of cultural pride during the Harlem Renaissance led to social change for African American…

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 great-nephew of John Langston Mercer, the first…

Both Langston Hughes and Lorraine Hansberry desired that the rest of the United States notice that African-Americans do not have the same opportunities or even considered equals. In Harlem, Langston Hughes creates a line depicting a black man, who was once filled with ambitions, having their dreams “dry up” in the sun. The majestic line has can be interpreted in multiple ways, but in my eyes and understanding the time period Langston Hughes wrote the poem, he must have describing…

stunning amount. This was the start of black Americans discovering and seeking new futures (Krasner). Many of these African Americans were authors, including Zora Neale Hurston, who wrote the famous work “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” and Langston Hughes who wrote “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and…

One of my American poets I chose is Langston Hughes. He was born on February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. Mr. Hughes is a very educated African American man that came from a background of intelligence and educators. In fact, his uncle, John Mercer Langston, was the first African American to be elected to public office. Langston Hughes is a living example of the saying, “You can do what you want”. He moved and was raised by his grandmother after the separation of his parents and she put a since…

“Well, son, I 'll tell you: Life for me ain 't been no crystal stair.” – Langston Hughes This verse from Langston Hughes’ poem “Mother to Son,” highlights the struggles of the African Americans and how the Harlem Renaissance evolved their community through music, dance and literature. Hughes contributed towards the renaissance through his poems which allowed people to understand the position of African Americans at the time and allowed them to relate to him. He discusses the subjects of…

In "Let America Be America Again," Langston Hughes transparently shares his musings on the American Dream. Hughes made this ballad in 1935 and it was distributed in the July 1936 issue of Esquire Magazine. It showed up again in 1937 in Kansas Magazine. Decades later, in 2004, Democratic Senator John Kerry utilized the ballad's title as his trademark for his Presidential Campaign while running against George W. Bramble. All through the sonnet, Hughes differentiates his desires for America with…