Diagnostic Essay Throughout my whole academic experience in school, I have had many challenges the biggest one being, english classes. Every other class I had for the most part was pretty smooth but when it came to english it was just like a hurdle to good scores. Nevertheless, it was not that I didn’t like english, it was just a subject that even with my countless attempts I was just not good at. Many of my english classes of previous years have been pretty lenient courses, which in my opinion
Synthesis Essay “Chicken Hips” or “Love or Hate Yourself” The “Chicken Hips” and the article “Love or Hate Yourself” both have similarities that talk about women’s self image. They explain their views on how women are treated in society now and how an ideal image is engraved in girls’ minds. Although both pieces or writing have the same train of thought, the authors have a different approach to the topic. The article “Love or Hate Yourself” by Laurie Essig expresses her words in the most positive
Baldwin and Audre Lorde have shared similar experiences all due to the color of their skin. In their writing they display internal and external conflict. Baldwin contemplates the feelings his father had towards whites and why he had those feelings, and Lorde constructively suppresses her deep anger throughout her essay. In James Baldwin’s “Notes of a Native Son”, the narrator makes the statement, “I learned in New Jersey that to be a Negro meant, precisely, that one was never looked at but was simply
PO Box 607 San Andreas,CA 95249 October 3, 2014 Mr.James McBride PO Box 829 New York, NY 10108 Dear Mr.McBride I just currently read your article “Hip Hop Planet”, in which you showed how you used to hate Hip Hop, but how you now think of Hip Hop as an art form.I understand that why you wrote this article in recognizing how the world is growing for its love for Hip Hop.You showed how you at first hated Hip Hop ,and that even though you tried to avoid it you couldn't.Then you learned to embrace
suitably how I would define literacy too. Just like the whole world, I also have had a very long and exciting literacy life. My literacy life started when I was a little baby and is continuing on now with this essay. Literacy is a very important aspect in my life, and it definitely is a helpful the more we learn about it. During my early education, my literacy classes always had motivated me. My reading ability began when I was a little kid. I can’t remember all the way back to when I was a baby for
Mini Essay on Romeo and Juliet In the romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare depicted many types of love into the story. After reading the story, I selected two types of love which had a significant influence in the story, and was worth writing a mini essay about. That is unrequited love, and parental love. The reason I chose them is because I wanted to write about the not so obvious ones, and I think people don’t put too much of an emphasis and pay too less attention on these two types
Virginia Woolf is considered to be one of the most influential modernist writers of the 20th century. In order to demonstrate the modernist elements of Woolf’s works, two of her essays will be compared and contrasted. “Modern Fiction” and “A Room for One’s Own” are regarded as modernists texts and share feminist themes but differ in terms of focus. Despite feminism already being present in English literature at the time these works were published, Woolf displays her modernist qualities by discussing
One obstacle King faced in his fight for freedom was relating the suffering that minorities were enduring to the privileged white class. Wisely, King used allusions in his writing that allowed readers to draw from well-known events in history and relate them to their own world. King engaged in civil disobedience, but as he points out, so did biblical figures. "It was evidenced sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to obey the laws of Nebuchadnezzar; on the ground that a higher
self-confident writing for equal rights for Black Americans. The theme of inability to stand up against evil acts that is shown in Hughes work like in “I, Too”, “Theme for English B” and “Dream Deferred”, the reason to challenge racism. With A diverse African American heritage, Hughes is challenging racism and oppression by bringing attention to the foreground narratives of humiliation and violence of Civil Rights Movement motivating change against racism at its core through his writing. 1) In the “I Too”
Macbeth is bad and Shakespeare should feel bad Overall the play “Macbeth” is, at best, just...ok. The play is sporadic at points throughout the play, the focus of the play shifts so frequently that most readers are left confused by the basic storyline of the play. This as a piece of literary work should never happen, a piece of literature should not make reader's question if the frequently skipped important information because it lessens the effect the piece will have on the reader. In “Hamlet” there