The changing of perspectives becomes evident throughout these texts by means of structure and language devices. ... As his father tries to tech him this language the narrator states that he is drifting away from his father and his birth culture. ... The story is about a Baptist minister, Nathan, who drags his wife and four daughters deep into the heart of the Congo on a mission to save the unenlightened souls of Africa. As the family arrives I Africa to say that Nathan and his family are woefully unprepared would be an understatement. ...

• Word Count: 1417
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He had a close friendship with the writer Giovanni Boccaccio and together with Dante; the three of them were responsible for making the Tuscan dialect of Italian the written language of Italy. ... They felt they were part of a new age of artistic and intellectual achievement and that the language and style of the great classical works should be celebrated and studied. ... Petrarch believed in using classical Latin as a language of international communication. He wanted to restore the ideals of Ancient Rome by unifying Italy and wrote a Latin epic, Africa, which dealt with the results of t...

• Word Count: 645
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Maya Angelou's was an African American, thus shared the totality of meanings, ideas, and beliefs with the black Americans. ... As an African American, Maya experienced racial discrimination in Arkansas. ... In her poem titled Phenomenal Woman, Angelou expresses and emphasizes self-empowerment to the African American women that goes beyond conventional beauty. ... This includes the oppression of African Americans including some of the people who the media during this period presented as criminals, such as drug pushers, welfare mothers, and prostitutes among others. in her writings, Angelou...

• Word Count: 1524
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), while living a life of seclusion, was very audacious mentally, revealing a complex psyche struggling to press her inner conflicts, which she interprets through the creative and reflective act of language. ... Dickinson's works, in contrast, condense intense feelings and thoughts in a few terse lines, in which, despite innocent and simple language, her symbolic and careful word-choice makes the main message very ambiguous and difficult to interpret. ... "That certain truths must remain unspoken is a roundabout way of saying that one knows what these truths...

• Word Count: 2619
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

By calling himself this, he suggests that he posses many races "African, American, Caribbean. ... People; even though they possess many unique characteristics, such as traditions, languages, and appearances; are not so unique that they cannot get along. ...

• Word Count: 595
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate