She is most recognized for her career in poetry, whereby her style of writing was directed to self-empowerment, and to encourage people to rise over all odds and take personal pride of one's identity. ... Maya Angelou's was an African American, thus shared the totality of meanings, ideas, and beliefs with the black Americans. ... According to Bloom, her writing style can range from complex symbolical ideas to easy to understand and direct concepts (33). ... Angelou relied on black literature theories in writing whereby her poetry complements the search for self-identity among African...

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

Just as she casts aside men when she is done with them, Sula takes Eva's altered "cultural narratives of femininity and desirability" and uses them to recreate her own version of woman (de Angelis 174). Eva fashions her own cultural narrative by not allowing the departure of BoyBoy to devastate her life and the lives of her children. ... The focalization in this chapter is Nel-centric - ideas, descriptions and observations are only offered in reference to her. ... The narrative goes on to describe a changed Medallion, a place where blacks are assuming jobs traditionally held only by whit...

• Word Count: 2386
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Through modernism, many of today's innovative ideas have developed. Modernism is a movement toward modifying traditional beliefs in accordance with modern ideas. ... So accepting their modernistic ideas was very farfetched. ... Du Bois states, "The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing, -a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. ... " Celebrate the idea of being different from the majority. ...

• Word Count: 1517
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• Grade Level: High School

She states that the idea to write this novel came from her childhood friend who wished to have blue eyes. ... Morrison uses two narrative voices. ... In "The Bluest Eye," Morrison shifts to varied narrative situations, which are: Claudia the first-person retrospective narrator and Claudia the first-person experiencing narrator. ...

• Word Count: 2371
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• Grade Level: High School

Abstract Hip-Hop has long been demonized for its militant language and outlawed narrative as a part of American society. ... The Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA contends that Hip-Hop is not just a genre of music but also a complex system of ideas values and concepts that reflect newly emerging and ever-changing creative correlative expressive mechanisms including but not limited to song, poetry, film and fashion (quote). ... Since the 1980s the American nation state has increasingly defined what it means to be American through ideas of whiteness, Christianity, wealth, masculinity a...

• Word Count: 1971
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate