Langston Hughes

Artist Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Mexico City, Mexico. She grew up in the family’s home where she was born. Her father, Wilhelm, was a German photographer who had immigrated to Mexico where he met and married her mother Matilde. She had two older sisters, Matilde and Adriana, and her younger sister, Cristina, was born the year after Frida. She grew up being an atheist. In 1922, Kahlo enrolled at the National Preparatory School. She was one of the few female students to attend the…

African-American writers, Maya Angelou and Lucille Clifton, use their words to express their individuality and the impact of oppression on the lives of blacks. These widely respected poets accentuate strength and persistence through adversity, with a sense of morality. They also touch on the influences of segregation and women’s suffering and inequality. In spite of these, every word read by the reader is analyzed and criticized. Even with such few words, the poems, “won’t you celebrate with me”…

Reading the book Their Eyes Were Watching God, one can discover many aspects of the Harlem Renaissance, including hardships, goals of the movement, and realistic situations that occurred in this era. These hardships and goals all led to the creation of Harlem Renaissance Ideals which demanded a change in the way that white people saw the African American race. Harlem Renaissance Ideals were introduced in the hope that African Americans could become more accepted for who they were. During this…

See Past the Skin Creator and benefactor of the Beats Generation, Jack Kerouac prevailed for his composition techniques and mongrel forms of African American culture, style, and music with a twist of European literary cultures to mirror Kerouac's ambitions of both to join the standard artistic convention furthermore to restructure it (Johnson). The Beats Generation offered a critique of middle class American values. "Beat" differently characterizes as a curtailed form of "beaten down" or of…

Research Objective My research objective is to find information on Laura Ingalls Wilder. Laura was born in Pepin, Wisconsin on February 7, 1867 to Charles and Caroline Ingalls. Laura had three siblings. Mary, Caroline and Grace. Research Results Laura married A.J. (Almanzo James) Wilder in 1885. They got married in DA. On December 5, 1886, Rose Wilder was born. Almanzo and Laura lived in Mansfield Ward 1 Wright, Missouri. They resided on Commercial Street. On August 1,…

Paul Laurence Dunbar is a poet that was an African-American poet who was born in 1872. His parents were both freed slaves from Kentucky, he wrote stories about their plantation life. At the young age of fourteen he had one of his first poems published in the Dayton Herald. Dunbar did not attend college and took a job as an elevator operator. He self published his first book of poetry, Oak and Ivy in 1893. He sold copies to people riding in his elevator to help pay for publishing costs. In 1895…

Obituary of Lora Lee Eaker. Lora Lee Eaker 97 of Cape Girardeau went home to be with her Lord on ++/++/++++ at +++++. Lora Lee was born in Whitewater, Missouri on May 24, 1918 to Nellie M. Proffer and Albert Borneman. Lora Lee had two brothers; Glenn Proffer of Saint Louis and Ivan Grebe deceased. Lora Lee and George W. Eaker Sr. were married on July 23, 1935 at Bloomfield, Missouri. Lora Lee Eaker was the mother of two son’s Don Eaker (deceased) wife Judy, George W, Eaker wife Verna and…

James Byron Dean was a famous man, and I am telling you how his life lead up to him being famous. He might not of had the best family to grow up in, but it is interesting to learn about him. You have no clue how awesome it is to learn about someone who past away before you were born. I hope you enjoy this essay. I hope you enjoy it as much a I did. James Dean was born on February 8, 1931, in Marion, Indiana, to Winton Dean and Mildred Wilson. James’s Dad was a farmer, but quit to become a…

Though many a critic of texts finds debates pertinent towards authors’ meanings to be up for debate on a high level, one cannot ignore the pounding text agendas of Toni Morrison. Morrison touches on every means by which she is desirous for those works of hers to receive reading, besides every message of hers meant to be conveyed towards readers, using respect achieved from authoring and positing to reinforce every intention of hers. By way of every work of hers, both the fictional and the…

The Harlem Renaissance occurred from the 1920’s to the mid 1930’s. It was a cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement that ignited a new cultural identity for the blacks. It was time for a cultural celebration. African Americans had endured centuries of slavery and were looked at as less than human. Even after slavery was abolished not much changed in that white supremacy was quickly restored to the south where most African Americans lived. Beginning in 1880 mass amounts of African Americans…