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Maya Gods: Shaping a Civilization The Maya civilization was initially established during the Pre-Classic period (c. 2000 BC to AD 250), however, most Maya cities reached their highest potential during the Classic period (c. AD 250 to 900), and continued into the Post-Classic period until the arrival of the Spanish. Known for their art, architecture, calendar, and complex society, the Maya was a Mesoamerican civilization centered in Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, and western El Salvador. The Maya…

Mexican Mosaic tells the history of Mexico from the Spanish conquest in 1519 to the mid-2000s. The Author, Dr. Jürgen Buchenau, demonstrates Mexico’s position in the global community, the negotiations of power that happened within Mexico, and the social environment in Mexico. Mexican Mosaic is like many other history books in that it presents many. Buchenau differentiates himself from others by his analysis of events in Mexican history that are unclear and events in the modern political sphere…

great use of professional word usage inside the covers. It made me astonished when I realized the book has a Lexile of 890. There are chapters, quotes, and even sentences that sometimes confuses the reader, including me, to understand thoroughly. “Maya Angelou: The Complete Poetry” has symbolism and syllogism which make readers puzzled when reading. Since this book has many poems it is harder to adapt and to remember everything effectively. “The Color of Water” by James McBride has a powerful…

Maya Angelou writes I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings to inform the reader about how rough growing up as a “Unattractive” black child was. She writes the book using the themes of family, race to appearance, and the resistance toward racism that is shown multiple different time. She also uses multiple different symbols throughout the story like the store or the easter dress that her “Momma” makes her to support her themes. Maya supports her themes with the beautiful, intense writing styles that…

Emily Dickinson was an American poet in her time. She was well known for her many works and she was most likely one of the most famous females of her time. Taking a look into her work, a person will see how passionate she was with it. Students and teachers all over the world still use her works today as a method of education in the literature department. Many people still read her works for a good time. Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. (Emily Dickinson,…

Race ,Gender, Multi-Ethnicity and Cultural Poetics/Politics of Audre Lorde Abstract: African American women poets, throughout the centuries have always defined themselves and their community in their works. It has been more apparent in literature, especially in poetry. Audre Lorde is an African American writer, radical feminist, womanist, and civil rights activist. Writing poetry was a responsibility for her as it was necessary for her survival and the survival of others. This study considers…

Maya Angelou, born April 4, 1928 in Missouri, was a Civil Rights poet and activist and was an inspiration to many. Maya Angelou served as a voice during the Civil Rights Movement as she showed the brutality of racism, highlighted in her poem, “Still I Rise.” “Still I Rise” is written towards the white oppressors as Maya shows her defiance in overcoming their oppression and speaking up for a change. Maya Angelou lived an eventful life that inspired the themes of many of her poems. Maya Angelou…

The autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings works by singer, poet, writer, and actress Maya Angelou, it is one of the most widely read and taught book by an African American woman. The title of the book comes from Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem, "Sympathy." The connection of the poem with the novel is where a little persistence bird (Marguerite) struggles against the bars of the cage life barriers , but she gets up, she rises and pushes forward. Although I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings covers…

my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave” Born as Marguerite Johnson on April 4th, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri and raised in St. Louis and Stamps Arkansans, Maya Angelou became one of the most renowned and influential voices of her time. Multi-talented barely seems to cover the depth and breadth of Maya Angelou's accomplishments .She was an author, actress, screenwriter, dancer and poet. In Angelou’s work a lot of thoughtful reflections are going on. By the mean of writing,…

like, a depressing discussion. Far from working out how to make their dreams come true, they’re worrying about all the things that might go wrong. They’re worried that even the things they have will be taken away from them by some cruel twist of fate. Maya Angelou’s poem, “Caged Bird” presents a metaphor of two birds that are thought to represent the controversy between optimists and pessimists. The first…