In Nikki Giovanni's poem, “Walking Down Park” Giovanni talks about things that used to be on the land of New York that is no longer there as well as, things that could have been there but didn’t have the chance. Giovanni begins the poem by saying “walking down park / amsterdam / or columbus,” these three names are streets located in New York, which is how the reader learns about the setting of this poem. Giovanni then asks “do you ever stop / to think what it looked like / before it was an avenue.” This is the first instance where Giovanni reflects on what things used to be like before New York became a large city. While Giovanni doesn’t dig deep into this first thought of the past, she makes it apparent that things have changed.
It’s give a happy and funny mood. In my opinion, this song was a good old style country folk song. 2. “Goodnight Irene” was composer by someone and performed by Leadbelly. The style of music was blues folk.
First, they are both women making an impact in Jazz history. Both handworkers and dedicated to creating beautiful music since they were young. Williams started playing music at ge 10, while Bloom started at age 12 (4). Williams and Bloom’s passion is what lead them to their careers and allowed them to compose inspiring music. To me, Mary Lou Williams’s “St. Martin de Porres” was very inspiring.
The stories, even though they are written at different times, are written in very similar tone; both are written in a depressing tone. Most of the stories contain repetition of sad events like where Harlan Ellison uses “And it goes
In both short stories, “Cathedral” written by Raymond Carver and “A Good Man is Hard to Find” written by Flannery O’Connor, we encounter characters that have a limited perspective on life. We find that the unnamed narrator in “Cathedral” has a bias mindset towards the blind man, Robert before he even meets and gets to know him. While in “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” the grandmother is ignorant of her surroundings while being oblivious to her own flaws. Both stories demonstrate the overcoming of blindness through prejudice and vanity to end up seeing something greater than themselves through the use of characterization, symbolism, and epiphanies. In “Cathedral,” the narrator’s wife invites her blind friend, Robert, to stay in their home
Authors of short fiction always strive to communicate a message in their stories for the reader to discover. Their message makes their story memorable and it gives the reader something to take away. Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” and Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” have very comparable messages concealed behind their stories. Although these two authors share their messages with vastly different stories, the protagonists in their stories convey similar messages for the reader to uncover. The authors of both “Cathedral” and “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” use the protagonist to communicate that maintaining a stubborn mindset is human nature and it takes a significant experience to change one’s way of thinking.
I do think racial origins did affect the way these pieces were performed. African music is highly syncopated and rhythmic, often utilizing accents and outgoing behavior to draw attention to the piece. In contrast, the European influences for jazz were more introverted and subdued, resulting in soothing pieces that, while rhythmic, don 't always give extra syncopation. I liked both pieces a lot and the trouble with picking a favorite depends a lot on my mood. Today, I would have to say that I would prefer Singin’ the Blues.
One can dance to Little Richard’s version with a swing dance as it allows time for time for complex movements. Elvis Presley’s does not allow much time for more complex movements in which you probably only dance by jumping up and down in the way teens do at concerts. It would take a skilled dancer to coordinate a dance to the tempo that is presented in Elvis’ version. Even though both songs have the same lyrics, the execution of it is very much different between the two versions and shows how quickly rock music can change and respond to its
Both A Lesson Before Dying and Into the Wild use their settings to further their character’s conflicts. A Lesson Before Dying is set in pre-Civil Rights, segregated Southern America where casual Racism ruled everyday life. Exemplified by the existence of plantations and colored maids as well as comparisons drawn between the White and Colored Schools. These examples setup an environment that was hostile towards anyone who wasn’t white and kickstarted the main conflict. Jefferson, a black man, is innocent of the crimes he is convicted of but since the jury he was facing was all white he is found guilty as well as called a hog.
Soledad Brother Essay The book Soledad Brother written by George Jackson Jr first seemed to be a story of someone who was innocently kept in jail and would try to persuade himself out of jail by writing letters. In the first page I found out that he was sent to jail for stealing $70 from a gas station in Los Angeles. Even though there was evidence of his innocence he was accused because he had a record and he got kept in jail. He also was accused of killing a white prison guard after he killed 3 black inmates. When he was in school his mom put him into an all white school where the kids couldn’t learn their own culture the way it is only they way that it supposed to be taught around.
Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards are two famous Puritan authors, living in Colonial America. Bradstreet is a poet who wrote the famous poems, “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” and “Upon the Burning of Our House.” Edwards wrote more than one thousand sermons to preach, with his most famous one being, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” They are both puritans, heavily influenced by their faith, but they go about expressing their faith in different ways, as shown by their different tones and word choice. Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards use their religion to heavily influence their literature.
Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards are both extremely strong in their Puritan faith, but present it in extremely different ways throughout their writing. Bradstreet presents her faith through more pureness, while Edwards presents his faith through more aggression and intensity. Bradstreet, a poet most widely known for her poems To My Dear and Loving Husband and Upon the Burning of Our House. Edwards, an intense preacher that is widely known for Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. The two authors differ greatly in their writing styles and tone throughout their poems.
According to William Ernest Henley, an English poet, writer, critic and editor,“In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance, My head is bloody, but unbowed”(Henley 2). Within William’s poem, “Invictus”, he elaborates on the idea that everyone will have to face challenges in their life at one point or another, however, it’s important to not let these hardships destroy their spirit. These ideals can be seen within many of life’s individuals, including the Jewish Prisoners, Elie Wiesel, and Eva Kor as they take these factors head on, and channel them. For instance, the novel, Night, written by Elie Wiesel, illustrates the way the Jewish community was able to come together for survival
If We Should Die and Lilies of the Field were both stories that involved racism. Both characters from the stories, Will Harris and Homer Smith, had very similar experiences. They both had experienced some sort of discrimination. They were both very similar but had very different experiences based on their skin color. They had similar backgrounds and were encountering it around the same time frame.
Compare and Contrast A Christmas Carol is full of many twists and turns, and has been written in many different versions. Writers have taken artistic liberties and have added or taken away to the beloved Christmas story to make it their own. No two versions are going to be exactly similar, and most definitely are going to have many differences. The play and the movie both follow the basic plotline of the classic novel, A Christmas Carol.
