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call for freedom, the colonists rose in defiance to Great Britain in the War of Independence. In the United States, the image of liberty, of self-independence is reflected by many artworks and literary works. Notably, among these artworks, “Caged by Maya Angelou and Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar are the typical examples which most obviously express the hope of self-independence. Although “Caged Bird” and “Sympathy” use the similar literary device—caged bird—to convey the same message, which…

Maya Angelou’s Captivating Use of Imagery In the following craft analysis of poet, Maya Angelou, we will be able to learn more on how he incorporates imagery throughout her work. The poems that I have chosen to analyze are “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me” and “Alone.” Her poem “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me,” is about going through life without fear, and doing what you want to do even if it might scare you. The poem “Alone” is about how no one can go through life by themselves. She paints a picture of…

A major motif in Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening is the image of a bird, appearing frequently throughout the story. Compared to the image of the bird towards the beginning of the novel, the image at the end of the story signifies a significant characteristic change in the bird: it struggles to fly with a “broken” wing and dies. This transition from an image of a bird that initially succeeds in flying to a bird that struggles to explore the skies serves to demonstrate the parallel change that…

“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life is hard. You’ve got to go out and beat it.”- Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou was a prominent woman who lead the way for civil rights and spearheaded women’s right and freedoms. These rights and freedoms that Maya is fighting for were previously non-existent. This deficiency of rights can be seen in the Shakespeare play Hamlet in which the few female characters have been treated as though they are less than the men of the play.…

symbolism the stories relate to the slaves and slave owners of the 1600-1800 centuries. The theme in “Caged Bird,” and “World’s Reward,” is spiritual freedom is possible even in the midst of physical enslavement. In the passages the authors, Maya Angelou and James A Haney, keep the theme positive by having the characters think of freedom as such a good thing. In “Caged Bird,” a bird is caged unable to have physical freedom, trapped with just it’s spiritual freedom. In “Caged Bird,”…

guatemala it was first explored by American archaeologists in 1916. The excavations at the temple pyramids of Uaxactun significantly furthered our understanding of ancient mayan civilization. The scholarly article Multispectral imaging of an Early Classic Maya codex fragment from Uaxactun, Guatemala by Nicholas P. Carter & Jeffrey Dobereiner outlines the process of analyzing small fragments of a codex from an ancient Uaxactun temple made of plaster coated bark dated back to 400-600 AD. Using the…

The Aztec Civilization were recognized in the 13th Century from 1300-1521. They originated in countries of Mexico, Tenochca, and Texcoco. Temples were buildings that the Aztec had used for Religious purposes. To construct the temples they had used primitive tools such as stones, chisels, and blades. To form the base of the temple they used colorful and easy to cut volcanic stone called tezontle and they used rubble and limestone. Tenochtitlan was built on the island of Lake Texcoco. The Aztec…

Civilizations I Professor Wallace Ancient Aliens Final Paper Mayas The Maya Empire, centered in the tropical lowlands of what is now Guatemala, reached the peak of its power and influence around the sixth century A.D. The Maya excelled at agriculture, pottery, hieroglyph writing, calendar-making and mathematics, and left behind an astonishing amount of impressive architecture and symbolic artwork. Most of the great stone cities of the Maya were abandoned by A.D. 900, however, and since the 19th…

Experts Have Found an Old Mayan Statue That Looks Like an Alien in Mexico Experts found a mysterious statue in Mexico. It is believed to be an ancient Mayan statue. In fact, this mysterious statue shows an alien that is holding a human hand. You can see a snake that is surrounding a small alien. In the profile view of the artifact, the alien is holding a human head. The eyes of the statue are in an oval shape and the head is pretty strange as well. This incredible discovery was revealed by…

behind the occurrences of the natural phenomena. The Maya were a Mesoamerican civilization. Though the civilization isn’t wiped out today, diseases brought to them by 16th century settlers devastated there population. Additionally, the Spanish forced the Maya to convert to Christianity, going so far as to burn their books of religion. The Maya lived in three separate sub-areas with distinct environmental and cultural differences: the northern Maya lowlands on the Yucatan Peninsula; the southern…