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The Dream: One Day It Will Be Fully Realized
Harlem, written by Langston Hughes and published in 1951 refers to a dream of freedom and equality. The Harlem Renaissance began in the...

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Dec 2, 20233 min read
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Poor Emily: No Roses for You
Have you ever seen a movie where the scene is creepy while the music is light hearted? I will share some examples: In Face/Off with...

bluekara13
Dec 2, 20234 min read
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What Do You Want From Me?
In 1978, Jamaica Kincaid published Girl, which is a story written in the voice of a mother speaking to her young daughter. The mother,...

bluekara13
Dec 1, 20233 min read
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Wallace Stevens as the Accidental Winter Sports Marketing Guru
In 1921, Wallace Stevens published the poem The Snow Man, which uses beautiful crystalline imagery to depict a winter scene and a person...

bluekara13
Nov 28, 20232 min read
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An attempt at realism
Realism in Literature is identified by text that is not overly dramatized and which focuses on the mundane. The story told could be of a...

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Oct 24, 20235 min read
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Strength and Resilience: The dark side of these labels
Once again, I find myself in a class that has supercharged my thoughts on a topic. After reading Walt Whitman's America and comparing and...

bluekara13
Oct 15, 20233 min read
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Aged Appropriate
In the Intro to Studies in Humanities, module six scholarly analysis essay intro video, Dr. Haddad mentioned that we may have read a...

bluekara13
Oct 3, 20225 min read
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Shining light on the situation!
I started my college career in the year 2000, which to me sitting here today, sounds like ancient history. Now in the year 2022 and...

bluekara13
Sep 18, 20221 min read
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Kenya ~ June 2022
This year, my husband and I have done some pretty amazing travel! This series of photos is from some of our time in Kenya. We visited...

bluekara13
Sep 4, 20221 min read
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