An example is in the two poems "Immigrants" one by Pat Mora and the May Flower circulation poem by Robert Frost. Pat Mora's poem is about how immigrants who came over and try to make their children as American as they can. ... This poem is about how immigrants kept coming over to America. ... Another line of the poem reads: "but Pilgrim manned the May Flower in a dream". ... The two poems and the film showed us how different people acted to the immigration policies....

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Let America Be America Again Langston Hughes The Poem "Let America Be America Again" is a very emotional and moving poem. ... As the poem goes on it shows more and more the cruelty and hardships certain people would have had to experience in that time and how hard it was for these obstacles to be overcome. The poem speaks of America's dream for freedom and for all to be equal. ... The poem speaks of young men who dream of growing up and making their own profit but finding the world an "ancient endless chain of profit, power, gain, of grab the land". ... The charact...

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In the first part of the poem the poet creates two very distinct voices, his and that of his recently widowed father. ... In the first line of the poem it is as if the poet is talking directly to his father but in reality he is not. ... The use here and throughout the poem of colloquial language and a conversational tone makes the poem easy and clear to assimilate. It also instils the main theme of the poem into the readers mind, the theme of hope and denial. ... This is similar in the second part of the poem as the focus of the last stanza changes completely. ...

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The poem on the bottom of the statue of liberty means exactly what it says. ... At the time the poem was written and given to American it was very true, but now it is not at all. ... But, I would have agreed with the poem when it was given to us in the late 1800's because we were still a developing country. ... All I am saying is that now the poem is wrong, but at the time it was written I would have agreed with it. ...

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Claude MacKay's "America" is a poem about the African Americans" life and the bitterness of that life resulting from the prejudice and hatred of whites" against them. ... His other poem "If We Must Die" is a rather rebellious one that makes a call to fight against the racial prejudice and segregation and the brutal fact of lynching, which this line implies: "What though before us lies the open grave?". ... What attracted my attention is MacKay's general tendency of the pattern of rhyming as "abab cdcd efef gg" in both of these poems. ... It is a perfect poem about the race-relations ...

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Race Separation "Theme for English B" is a poem by Langston Hughes in which a black student in a predominantly white college takes a writing assignment as an opportunity to ponder over the complicated issue of race relations in America. ... He provides plenty of information about himself in the first half of the poem where he lives, some of the things he likes, and so on. The second half of the poem is more concerned with the similarities and differences between the speaker and the instructor. ... In one of the last lines of the poem, the speaker calls the instructor "older - and white -...

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I read a great poem in Chicken Soup for the Christian's Soul. ... Although my dream was to become a doctor staying in one place called "home," after reading this poem, I realized what I really want to do is to become a doctor in third world countries. ... The last line of the poem "That is why I made you" stuck in my mind and felt like God was talking to me. ...

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The poem "America" also speaks to dichotomy, the decision to come to America and continue to live here even though you hate it. It is a closed poem, a metaphor with emotions running raw throughout. ... This poem is so full of strength we can see the muscles bulging, glistening with sweat as the man works to survive, representative of love, hate, and the dichotomy of heaven or hell. ...

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Letting America Be In the beginning of the poem, "Let America Be America Again," Hughes writes about America as if it were once a country which people were able to "dream," and be "free," or never did "scheme." ... Hughes continues into the poem with the party is he representing. ...

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The American Dream is based on the ideology that everyone, no matter what his origins are, can be successful through his own effort and by cultivating his qualities. The old American Dream was about the desire of a land, where life should be better, fuller and richer for every man. The old Amer...

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In his poem On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country, Freneau writes,From Europe's proud despotic shores hither the stranger takes his way, And in our new found world explores a happier soil, a milder sway where no proud despot holds him down, no slaves insult him with a crown?... In 1791 Philip Freneau, a northerner from Maryland, also took up the cause of slavery in his poems titled On Mr. ...

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Throughout the course of history, civilizations have been at their strongest when there are many ways in which the people are unified. This has been the case with the United States as seen in the 1800's. The challenges of slavery and sectionalism were difficult to overcome, however, due to a unified...

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Racism is reinforced and perpetuated through the media in subliminal ways: lyrics of songs, poems, movies, literature, these are all means of communication which influence the public and fortify negative thought patterns by glorifying racist behaviour. ...

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American Values By Nicolaj Bundesen What are American Values? I decided to ask a few people as to what they thought it was. One person told me that the American dream was to be rich. Another person told me it was having a perfect family situation. The last person believed the Americ...

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After reading and discussing the poems: "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus, "I Too" by Langston Hughes, and "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman, I realize that culture is all around us. ...

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Racism (according to Webster's Dictionary) is an excessive and irrational belief in or advocacy of the superiority of a given group of people or nation on racial grounds alone. Racism in this country has been a problem since the beginning of civilization in America. Although not all people have a p...

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The events of American history are very much connected to the influence of American literature and what it has become today. The inspiration that a writer needs is mostly gathered by the effects of the world around him/her, and this is how the geography and history of America have made an impact...

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I am currently pursuing higher education as I have done in the past. I've enjoyed a fruitful career in both software and financial services marketing. However, my most rewarding gig (not financially, but certainly a major step for me in lifelong learning) has been working with adults who have psychi...

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The society is influenced by ethnic diversity in several ways that draw so much discourse in the current world. Diversity alters the societal character by redrawing racial and ethnic boundaries. It also promotes racial and ethnic identities that help to challenge negative images. Moreover, it introd...

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Mother's in the kitchen Washing out the jugs; Sister's in the pantry Bottling the suds; Father's in the cellar Mixing up the hops; Johnny's on the front porch Watching for the cops ( Kobler 272) This small poem above refers to the illegal booze-making that occurred in the 1920's during the time of prohibition. ...

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