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    of segregation in speeches or boycotts. Langston Hughes‚ a poet and author from the harlem renaissance era chose to advocate his civil rights through his poetry. His poems A Message to the President and Dream Deferred are able to do that. Langston Hughes conveys the external conflict of segregation obstructing black people’s rights to equality in A Message to the President and Dream Deferred. Black people in the ‘60s were segregated. Langston Hughes addresses this in A Message to the President by

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    Poetry and the World of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes enchanted the world as he threw the truth of the pain that the Negro society had endured into most of his works. He attempted to make it clear that society in America was still undeniably racist. For example‚ Conrad Kent Rivers declared‚ "Oh if muse would let me travel through Harlem with you as the guide‚ I too‚ could sing of black America" (Rampersad 297). From his creativity and passion for the subject matter‚ he has been described as

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    Outline and evaluate the behavioural approach to abnormality This approach focuses on the behaviour of the person to explain psychological abnormalities. It believes that the behaviour is learnt‚ and therefore can be unlearnt. It focuses on 3 different things: classical conditioning‚ operant conditioning and social learning theory. Classical conditioning was developed by Pavlov through his work on animals. He explained the development of abnormal behaviours through stimulus-response associations

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    One of Langston Hughes’s most famous works‚ A Dream Deferred‚ is a poem taught in many schools. Hughes wrote "Harlem" in 1951‚ and it addresses the theme of limitations of the American Dream for African Americans. The poem has eleven short lines in four stanzas that contains questions‚ mostly derived from: "What happens to a dream deferred?" In the mid 20th century‚ America was still racially segregated. African Americans were still challenged by society after their emancipation during the Civil

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    LANGSTON HUGHES DORIS YAO INTRODUCTION James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1‚ 1902 – May 22‚ 196 7) was an American poet‚ social activist‚ novelist‚ playwright‚ and c olumnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new liter ary art form called jazz poetry. Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "the negro was in vogue"‚ which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue". THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS • I’ve known

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    Notes Business Communication and Behavioural Studies Principles of Effective Business Communication INTRODUCTION CONCEPTS OF COMMUNICATION The word “communicate” is derived from the Latin word “communicare” – to share‚ exchange‚ send along‚ transmit‚ talk‚ gesture‚ write‚ put in use‚ relate. A number of definitions have been given to the term “communication”. A few important ones are: Communication is sum of all things‚ one person does when he wants to create understanding in the mind of another

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    James Langston Hughes

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    Langston Hughes was the narrator of black life in the nineteen hundreds. Not because he wrote about the lifestyle of the black Jazz movement‚ or because he wrote about the oppression and struggles of black people‚ but because he lived it. Hughes brought the life of the black race to light for all to live through his writings. Langston Hughes’ role as a writer is vital to the history of black and American culture and many think he understood this role and embraced it. James Langston Hughes was born

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    SALVATION BY LANGSTON HUGHES James Mercer Langston Hughes began his love of poetry in Cleveland‚ Ohio‚ where he attended High School and published several poems in the school literary magazine. Hughes attended Columbia University until 1921. He left before graduation to work and travel which would lead to the launch of his career with his first publication‚ The Weary Blues. After that he was awarded his Bachelor’s degree from Lincoln University. Hughes became a prominent figure in the Harlem

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    was written during the time of the Harlem Renaissance‚ by Langston Hughes. The poem maybe only 2 stanzas short‚ but Hughes was able to demonstrate the meaning behind the content. The main idea of the poem is dreams‚ but has no physical limitations. Hughes could mean hope‚ faith‚ or family‚ but it depends how the readers interpret it. During the period of the Harlem Renaissance‚ “Dreams” was most certainly important because Hughes was a black writer that wrote about the hardships they were facing

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    and Langston Hughes‚ you can see that Whitman speaks about and based his poem on the employed people‚ working and enjoying their jobs. In contrast Langston Hughes focuses more on the other unemployed people having no jobs while maintaining optimism. Therefore‚ Walt Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing” and Langston Hughes’ “I‚ too‚ Sing America” present American way of life in two different prospective. Walt Whitman’s poem‚ “I Hear America Singing” is different from Langston Hughes’ poem because

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