Maya Angelou is a well-recognized American author, primarily from the period of the Civil Rights Movement, where she participated as an activist. ... According to an article by Danielle Dorky, as a writer, Maya Angelou acquired her inspiration from different authors who had written books and poems, which she used to read from her childhood (1). ... Wolfe is among the most celebrated authors of the early 20th century, and is credited for paving the way for autobiographical fiction genre, thus there is no doubt that Angelou's respect and knowledge of the author's work assisted in stren...

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It seems that the only way to present honesty is through the use of satire and tragedy since no one can suffer through a completely realistic self-examination, including the author. ... The author's early work often dealt with man's internal fights with his own conscience. ... (Gillman, p.58) The clockwork functioning of the Siamese twins master/slave relationship is juxtaposed against the disorder inherent in the antebellum slave society (and in Twain's contemporary post-Reconstruction society) where definitions of color are arbitrary and there is no clear agent of powe...

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The Civil Rights Movement in Miami The Truly Prolonged African American Experience in Miami How strange it all seems now equality. People had to fight for it? Kill for it? Go to court to defend it? Not too long ago, it was all true and clearly evident in any regular functioning day. The...

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