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Langston Hughes was born on February 1,1902.He was born in Joplin,Missouri.Langston Hughes full name was James Mercer Langston Hughes.Soon after he was born his parents separated.Langston Hughes father moved to Mexico.He was raised mostly by his grandmother.Since his mom moved around a lot during his early life.Langston Hughes grandmother was named Mary.He lived in Lawrence, Kansas until his grandmother died when he was a teenager.After his grandmother died he lived with some family friends…

Hey guys! Diana here, and today I want to discuss the importance of representation. Only in recent years have queer characters and relationship wiggled onto the big screen. After decades of the queer community being shoved aside for straight story lines, we are finally starting to see our own blossoming in the limelight. But it isn't all sunshine and rainbows (pardon the pun). As a community, we still face a lot of problems when it comes to media, primarily not being represented at all, and when…

Various covers of three of the greatest hits. Since the beginning of time people from all aspects of the world have took music as a way of life. To the art form of how music was made to the beats, rhythm, and the way music makes you feel. Some of music’s greatest legends have done many cover songs, such as Johnny Cash’s cover of “Hurt”, Guns N’ Roses – “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door”, and Muse’s cover of ‘Feeling Good’. While many may believe the original version of the song itself sounds better…

In the 1950’s black people were still suffering from oppression at the hands of white men. Many literary artists wrote about this oppression, despite the violence that might have come their way. “Harlem” is one of these literary works were written in 1951 by Langston Hughes, an American poet, novelist, and social activist. Throughout his life, Hughes published numerous works, most of which portrayed the life of black people, and his work had a major influence on the artistic styles of the Harlem…

Culture can be broadly defined as the signs, objects, activities, structures, and institutions through which we take meaning and pleasure from our social and material environment, express and define ourselves and communicate with others. Culture evolves, in part, through our creative interaction and engagement with cultural commodities. Matthew Arnold (1822-1883) saw the forms of mass culture that emerged after industrial revolution and urbanization in the nineteenth century as homogenized…

As a little girl, Laurie DuPuis knew exactly what she wanted to do when she grew up. When watching the crop duster fly by, she knew in her heart she was meant to be a pilot. Not many people grow up to be what they had hoped as a child, but for Laurie that was not the case. Even though her dream did come true, it wasn’t after she had already started college for other reasons. Her mother had always hoped her daughter would grow up to be a great doctor, and to make her mother happy she was going to…

Langston Hughes, who is a dominant poet of the Harlem Renaissance, has been significantly influenced by both the sounds and traditions of the growing blues and jazz community. The Harlem Renaissance is a 1920’s movement in Harlem, New York that sparked an increased growth in the art scene/community, largely seen in music, literature, and fashion. Considering Hughes such a strong advocator and lover of both jazz and blues music, he then began to write poetry in a style which was very heavily…

SEX SELLS Stephanie Stergis MUS-210-220N: History of Rock Music Spring 2015 Stephanie Stergis Professor Todd Campbell MUS-210-220N 9 May 2015 Sex Sells The history of rock music is filled with sex. From the Psychedelic era in the 1960s, mainstream rock and the rise of punk in the 70s, hair bands in the 80s, to a slew of boy bands and pop princesses in the 90s and 2000s, sex appeal has always been the key to success. Sex sells and the musicians who have taken advantage of…

Jazz music has evolved greatly over many years establishing a large variety of different styles within it. I will investigate the deepest roots of jazz and also take a look at some of the theory behind. In the 17th to the 19th century the true and honest roots of jazz music were just beginning. Black slaves were placed in the deep south to work in cotton fields where they would sing African spirituals, chants, work songs and field hollers whilst slaving away all day long in the heat of the sun.…

I sat in my car gazing through the window as the lightning violently struck through the air. My heart was drowning in the rain as I looked at the broken picture in front of me. I have no dad, at least not one present at the moment. I see a mom at her wits end trying, but I know it's all pretend, an illusion that doesn’t have an ending. Looking at our house, our doll house, with all its broken figurines I can see the lights are on but nobody's home and everything has been left alone. The dust…