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Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Annie Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri. She was the second child of Bailey Johnson and Vivian Baxter. At the age of three her parents marriage ended and she and her older brother Bailey ( who was 5 at the time ) was sent to live with their father’s mother, Annie Henderson in Stamps,Arkansas. Angelou’s grandmother Annie was the child of freed slaves and also became the leader of the black community in Stamps. She was the owner of the only…

Jamal Eric Watson the author of the article The Caged Bird Flys was published in Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Volume 31, Issue 10 on June 19th 2014. Watson is a respected writer and lecturer. He is a senior staff writer for Diverse Issues in Higher Education. It is one of the country’s leading periodicals whose focal point is minorities and various related issues. Some of his writings has been seen in an array of publications such as The Baltimore Sun, The New York Sun, USA Today, The…

Marguerite Annie Johnson, better known as Maya Angelou, carried many talents, but was best known for her prize winning work as writer. In her lifetime Angelou held numerous jobs to include cook, teacher, singer, dancer, and actress to name a few. Her many jobs and role as a mother made Angelou the “Phenomenal woman, /That’s me” (1. 12-13). Being eager to learn allowed her to pursue her education, shape her career choices and motivated her to write. Although Maya Angelou faced many difficult…

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the autobiography of Maya Angelou, is filled with many experiences that shape and mold Maya Angelou into the literary powerhouse known today. The fact that Maya Angelou fearlessly wrote an autobiography she shows the audience that she has confidence in herself and that she likes to defeat social norms because autobiographies are known for being dreadfully boring. The autobiography also includes large uses of humor and the examples of human influences, for the…

Introduction We all have a journey in life: every man and woman. For, women, in particular, the journey is a bit different; Maya Angelou’s journey is a part of the reason she wrote and became the woman she was. Men, Still I Rise, and Phenomenal Woman particularly focus on the phases that women have gone and go through in life. Maya Angelou Background Information Maya Angelou was born April 4, 1928, in St. Louis Missouri. In 1936, after being molested by her mother’s boyfriend, Maya Angelou…

Maya Angelou was a well known poet and civil rights activist. In her poem, “Still I Rise” the speaker describes being sassy, and what it’s like to be beaten down but get back up. They talk about being confident to whatever it is that’s bring the speaker down. The speaker taunts the pain. In “Still I Rise,” Maya Angelou uses the poetic device of simile to let the readers know that when life knocks you down, you have to get back up. In the poem, Maya Angelou uses the poetic device of simile in…

thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson. She is creating a metaphor of Hope through the bird. She is describing hope as a bird “the thing with feathers” that perches in her soul. It sings silent and without hesitate. The Rhythm of hope sounds peaceful “in the Gale,” and it would require a terrifying thunderstorm to ever “abash the little Bird, That kept so many warm.” Emily says that she has overheard the bird of hope “in the chillest land And on the strangest Sea, but never, no matter how…

Annie Johnson April 4,1928, and she was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Maya was called Rita in public, she was given the nickname Maya by her older brother who was calling her “my” or “mine”. Her father Bailey Johnson was a doorman and naval dietician, and her mother Vivian Baxter Johnson worked variously worked as a card dealer and nurse. Shortly after their daughter’s birth they had moved their 2 children to Long Beach, California. Three years later they had been divorced and the 2 children had…

Does one know that Maya Angelou received two presidential medals? Angelou received both the Presidential Medal of Arts in 2000 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (Caged Bird Legacy). Angelou dropped out of school at the age of 14. Even without a full high school education, she went on to write 36 books and poems, 30 of them were best sellers. These are just a few of the examples of the amazing things Angelou did in her life and poetic career. To begin with, Maya Angelou was an African…

Maya Angelou is one of the greatest person to ever live. She is known to be dancer, actress, composer, and Hollywood’s first female black director. She is most famous as a writer, poet, essayist, editor, and playwright. Maya has gone through many things in her lifetime. For example, sexual abuse and her parents divorce. Maya was born in St. Louis, MO, on April 4, 1928. Her birth name was Marguerite Johnson. Her family is African American. Maya’s dad was a doorman and her mother was a nurse.…