James Baldwin's I Am Not Your Negro

The profound effects of Progressivism had done little for African Americans, with very few that managed to gain a foothold by services and products to the black community. Especially in the South, where racism was much more prominent, and where many more white Americans possessed the ideology that blacks were inferior to whites. W.E.B. Du Bois was the very first African American to receive a PhD, and he published several books and essays, describing in great detail the numerous hurdles they were presented with. In his own journal, The Crisis, he displays an example after World War I, explaining the lack of recognition African Americans received for fighting “gladly and to the last drop of blood; for America and her highest ideals” (Document I).

Emmitt Perry Jr., best known as Tyler Perry, is an actor, comedian, producer, and screen writer and so on. Born on September 14, 1969, he was raised in New Orleans by his mother, Maxine Campbell and father, Emmitt Perry Sr. Being raised in a Christian setting, as he grew up, he made sure to incorporate his religion into his future work, which made him the person he is today. Growing up, he was extremely close with his mother, but his relationship with his father was very strained. Even though his father was a carpenter and worked hard everyday and was barely home, he was abusive to Tyler and by him being abused, he went into a state of depression.

The date of Douglass 's birth is unknown, but later in life his chose to celebrate it on February 14. Douglass first lived with his moms mom Betty Bailey. At a young age, Douglass was sent to live in the home of the plantation slave owners. Frederick Douglass was eventually sent to the “Baltimore home of Hugh Auld.” It was there that Douglass learned the skills to read and write which became a big part to national celebrity. A ban on teaching slaves to read and write, Auld’s wife “Sophia” secretly began to teach Douglass the alphabet when he was about 12.

BACKGROUND OF THE CASE Theodore Robert Cowell Bundy ( Ted Bundy ) was born on November 24th 1946. He was born in a Home for Unwed Mothers. His father’s identity was not disclosed. Till nine years of his life he lived with his mother in his maternal grandfather’s place. People who knew him expressed that he was mentally unstable and prone to violence.

Hughes supplies his reader with multiple literary devices such as imagery, flashbacks, and irony to present this comparison of his younger self and his older self. In Hughes’s short essay, which he ironically titles “Salvation,” he tells the reader about one of his most significant childhood memories. Hughes provides background about a huge revival at his aunt’s church. He flashes forward to the day where he was supposed to be called upon by Jesus and greeted by a bright light his aunt repeatedly tells him about. Hughes recalls that he sat on the mourners’ bench right in the front row with the rest of the unsaved children.

He died May 2, 373, peacefully and surrounded by his supporters. He spent some of his last years fixing some of the damage done during the years of his exile. He kept preaching, writing, and even made his view of the Incarnation more known. The life of Athanasius, one of the greatest Church Fathers, was well-lived for Christ; he opposed Arianism, he was exiled for his beliefs, and wrote some of the greatest works of theology in Church history. Saint Athanasius spent many years of his life opposing Arianism.

Gandhi faced a lot of struggles during his journey of justice and freedom.Gandhi was born in the town of Porbander on October 2, 1869. His father was Karamchand Gandhi who served as a chief master in Porbander; his mother putlibai was Karamchand’s 4th wife. Mahatma has two brothers and a sister. He went to school in Rajkot, and recorded the early years of his life in his biography “The Story of My Experiment With Truth”. At the age of 13 Gandhi was married to 14-year-old Kasturbai Makhanji.

World War Ⅱ impacted American society in many and varied ways. However, there was one shining light in the forest of darkness and depression, The Beat Generation. No one could ever have guessed that a group of men could have created one of the most iconic cultural rebellion in American history for decades to come. The Beat Generation started out with only four people the iconic Jack Kerouac, his best friend and novel inspiration Neal Cassady, the older but wise William S. Burroughs, and Kerouac’s other close friend and writer of Howl a piece of poetry that first shaped the culture of the U.S. in the late 1950s and early 1960s Allen Ginsberg. No one had more recognition with The Beat Generation than Jack Kerouac who wrote On the Road which was the single most important novel that made the epitome of the Beat Generation, and even though the Beat Generation did face criticism toward the way they saw America they never even thought about giving up, and nothing helped shape the Beats

In Robert Hayden’s Those Winter Sundays, the poet tells the story from a child’s point of view, reflecting on all the things that his/her father did on Sunday mornings for him/her because the father loves them so much. The author of Those Winter Sundays purpose in writing it is to show the reader that parents make sacrifices out of love all the time for their children, but the children don’t always see it at first. The poet communicates his theme through figurative language and sound devices. In this poem, Hayden uses figurative language, such as hyperbole. Things such as “blueblack cold”(2), and “banked fires blaze”(5), show the sort of exaggeration of the endures his father did for him.

My involvement in the church has hopefully positively impacted many people in my parish and outside of it. I did not become truly involved in my church until I was in eighth grade. During eighth grade I was preparing to receive the sacrament of Confirmation. This is a very important sacrament when young men and women become adults in the church. Becoming confirmed is a very long process but is very rewarding, especially if you truly want to become a faithful servant of God.