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    I'M Awesome

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    I’m Awesome!! Life really sucks when one has nobody to talk to and very little friends. It makes days seem like months and months feel like years. One always is left to feel like only songs and family and truly bring you to your happy place in your darkest hour of need. You want to feel accepted‚ but many people just don’t understand how you could possibly be trapped and not express yourselves to them. Little do they know that expresses oneself to them is as horrible as dropping a 50 ton

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    Langston Hughes "Thank You‚ M ’am"‚ he uses imagery to convey the concept of forgiving and understanding by showing compassion. Hughes describes his characters in such vivid detail they seem to come to life. As he describes Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones‚ the reader could almost see her walking down the street. "She was a large woman with a large purse that had everything in it but a hammer and nails. It had a long strap‚ and she carried it slung across her shoulder" (158). Hughes describes the

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    I'M Not Scared

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    Niccolo Ammaniti’s novel I’m not scared demonstrates how a lust for something greater‚ the quest for greener pastures can lead one to disregard their morality‚ yet at the same time it illustrates how a strong character can overcome such desires in order to achieve a higher sense of rectitude. The secluded impoverished hamlet of Aqua Traverse and the adults that inhabit it are representations that portray the flaw within the human spirit‚ the flaw of an overriding need for something greater. In a

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    I'M Not Scared

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    Even though Michele is innocent and immature he still displays some admirably mature qualities. Niccolo Ammaniti‚ in the novel ‘I’m Not Scared’ depicts Michele as innocent. This is a significant factor of the choices Michele makes. Innocence is an important theme throughout the novel and is portrayed by many characters. Michele’s immaturity is an obstacle he defeats to display admirable qualities of loyalty and courage. Michele’s naivety originates from his juvenile youth. He is inexperienced with

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    But I'M Not Tired

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    at the same time every night and take time to replenish their body at least one time in every week. I advise the school district take a later school start into consideration because if we do have a later start there will be results. In the essay “I’m not tired” by Alice Park experts said that teens are not getting nearly enough sleep. The video on NBC‚ teens said they felt overscheduled. According to experts on sleep‚ a later start makes teens more attentive and awake during the day as compared

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    The Weary Blues

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    In the poem "The Weary Blues”‚ Langston Hughes describes an evening of listening to a blues musician in Harlem. “The Wear Blues” By: Langston Hughes Droning a drowsy syncopated tune‚ Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon‚ I heard a Negro play. Down on Lenox Avenue the other night By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light He did a lazy sway . . . He did a lazy sway . . . To the tune o’ those Weary Blues. With his ebony hands on each ivory key He made that poor piano

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    In Langston Hughes’s poem titled “The Weary Blues”‚ the speaker describes an evening spent listening to a blues musician in Lenox Avenue‚ Harlem. With the help of certain poetic and acoustic techniques‚ the poem manages to evoke the same lamenting and woeful tone and mood of blues music. This essay will be a critical appreciation of this poem in which I will discuss it in the context of the Harlem Renaissance as well as examine how the Blues music functions as a means of articulating personal and

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    Langston Hughes in these two poems demonstrates the racial discrimination that existed for so long in the United States in which African-Americans were regarded as inferior. “Red Silk Stockings” and “Dinner Guest: Me” both gives us an insight on two totally different situations yet each of them portrays the subordinate status that African-Americans suffered by the whites. In the lines of “Red Silk Stockings” we will find a setting where low class African-Americans have accepted the fact that whites

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    In the poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes‚ the speaker uses descriptive language and experiences to explain to the readers that the speaker knows rivers‚ not only geographically but historically as well. In the poem the speaker uses vivid and evocative language to describe rivers around the world. All the rivers in this poem originate from different countries and continents such as Asia‚ Africa‚ Egypt‚ and North America. The rivers mentioned include the Nile river‚ the Congo river

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    trying to give him subtle hits of what the road of life offers. "Mending Wall" gives a direct approach‚ it ’s a conversation between neighbors that happens once a year‚ once it happens they go back to the way they were. Langston Hughes was born in Joplin‚ Missouri‚ James Langston Hughes was a member of an abolitionist family. His first published poem was also one of his most famous‚ "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"‚ and it appeared in Brownie ’s Book. Later‚ his poems‚ short plays‚ essays and short stories

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