Sunday

The Sunday School Easter program was about to begin at Bethesda Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. For my last time speaking in front of the congregation before leaving for Tennessee State University (TSU), I was charged with introducing the speaker of the program. As I stood in front of hundreds of people to recite the introduction that I wrote, I was confident and thoughts of how far I had come since giving my life to Christ ran thru my mind. My spiritual journey began when I was about 5…

Number 1 10 March 2016 "Those Winter Sundays" Robert Hayden's poem "Those Winter Sundays" major theme is love is shown in actions and children do not understand that immediately. It is about the relationship between a father and his child. It demonstrates the love a father has for his child, the sacrifices the father makes in order to ensure his child's well being, and how ignorant and ungrateful the child is at the time. In the poem "Those Winter Sundays" it is clear the speaker is looking…

Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden the entire poem seems to be discussing a father who gets up early in the morning to start a fire. The first stanza discusses the specifics of the father’s labor. The second and third stanza, however, discuss the son’s reaction and relationship to the father’s work. While this poem does discuss the relationship between the son and his father, hidden within the poem are elements of darkness intertwined with the father’s love. Those Winter Sundays first begins…

I had to understand why Seurat used such a difficult technique for his work. I then came upon the theory that perhaps he wanted to produce a deeper sense of life in his paintings. All things in the world are composed of millions of cells, and these cells create objects, color, and everything that practically exists. I imagine that Seurat's motive was to utilize this scientific law in his work to give an atmosphere of life, texture, and movement in the scenes that he…

“Crazy Sunday” Insecurity knows no boundaries In a city full of the most valued individuals, one must conclude by their presences that these individuals believe in themselves to be of the highest standards. However, what is really happening to these people when you look past the perfected smiles and false authenticity? This question can best be assessed when looking deep into the three main characters of the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Crazy Sunday”. In the spotlight of the public,…

In the poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden, a father gets up early to warm his family up with fire. The poem starts with the father getting up early to put on his clothes. Wherever the father stood, it was dark outside. We can tell that the father works relentlessly because the poem states “cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather.” The story goes on saying no one ever thanks him for the work, but whoever is telling the poem, could hear cold splinters breaking. The…

way to learn is by trying our best. Sometimes we will realize we made the right choices, sometimes we will recognize that we committed a mistake. The best of all it is to overcome our mistakes, and many times that means apologizing. “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden is the best essay I read because the speaker by appealing to the reader’s emotions and through detailed description of his feelings recognizes that he was ungrateful to his dad who dad given him unconditional love. Hayden’s…

To outsiders you are just another dad, but to your family you represent the world. From the very beginning fathers have been looked down on and also perceived as a missing factor in a child's life. However, in “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden and “My Father's Song” by Simon Ortiz, a very different picture has been painted. Mother tend to get all of the credit; however father play one of the most important roles in every family. The very first position that a father plays is as the…

specific social problem you are investigating? Why does this constitute a social problem? (Connect to class content. For example: who is impacted, objective & subjective conditions, elements of harm.) I chose to research the repeal of Minnesota’s Sunday liquor sale ban. This constitutes as a social problem because there is clear and collective awareness of this problem, it affects a large group of people (respective to Minnesota), political action has transpired through the creation of…

such form illuminates from the fire’s blaze in Robert Hayden’s lyric “Those Winter Sundays.” The love the father has for his children is not warm, not open, and not recognized by said recipient of that love until much later in life. He is never thanked for his support and sacrifice, but this hidden familial affection is just another one of the many forms of love. To fully grasp the meaning of “Those Winter Sundays”,…