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. ... She utilizes characterization, hyperbole, symbolism, similes, motifs, alliteration, sense impressions, biblical allusion, and literally allusion among others (Bloom 34). ... A motif in the poem can be viewed when Angelou writes that she could cry anytime if she wanted just by picturing her mother lying in her coffin despite the fact that she did not how she looked like (Braxton 45). .....

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

It is important to note that very little information is available on Mbaye because of his isolated location in Africa. It is known that he has a passion for historical theatre, he created small versions of theatres and plays in boxes and puts situations on stage that belong to Senegal and typically uses strong symbolism, found objects and geometric motifs which is an integral part African aesthetics and the rhythm that forms it. ... Betye Saar Betye Irene Saar was born in 1926 in Los Angeles, she is an American artist known for her part in the black arts movement in the 1970s, in her work sh...

• Word Count: 3101
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Twain is controversial primarily due to the provocative and oftentimes incendiary nature of his depiction of African Americans. ... The land of the free (except for slaves) and the home of the brave (and extremely violent and repressive) inculcated racial myths within Clemens during his antebellum childhood on the Mississippi that were slowly fractured, but never completely expunged, as he matured intellectually. ... Violence and oppression on the part of slave masters in the form of forced separation, imprisonment, beatings, rape and murder kept slaves in a continual state of submission ...

• Word Count: 3141
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate