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Wikipedia Article

The Negro Spoke of Rivers

I've known rivers

 I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the

 flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.

 I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.

 I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.

 I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln

 went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy

 bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

I've known rivers

 Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

 

As I begin the research for my wiki article  I have realize that I am so into the symbolism of this poem.

In the poem Hughes speaks of rivers, and I decide to quickly google the symbolism of the poem. To my surprise it is exactly what I thing it symbolizes according to  http://www.shmoop.com/negro-speaks-of-rivers/rivers-symbol.html website  .

The rivers are the main symbolism. The rivers are viewed as a metaphor for the black community. James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. During an era where segregation and racism was still extrusive.  This poem was written when he was still in high school. I feel like the rivers symbolize the connection of the heritage of African Americans and the adversities that they faced. To me is like he is speaking of the connections of generations in the black community.

 

The theme

The theme of " the fall of the house of usher"

The fall of the house of usher is a  great story. The fall of usher can have so many themes. It can have a theme of madness ,fear, and isolation.  The madness drives character Rodrick to his illness and believes the family is hunted by this house in a supernatural way. The fear seems to play a key factor in this story. Rodrick seems to fear "fear" itself. Could fear be the responsible for  some deaths in this story?  As for isolation, the Usher family isolates themselves . They have excluded themselves from the outside world.  Their isolation  has made them develop their own reality that would be strange to an outsider.

What my pockets carry

   What my pockets carry

As a medical assisting/ Surgical cooridnator I have the  deepest pockest. For five days a week I wear scrubs. Now theses scrubs are bright and colorful but what is awesome about them is that they have some good pockets.  I wake up at 6 am and slap these bad boys on. One thing about me is that 90 % of the time I do not carry a  purse. I just hate feeling like I have to drag something around to but my stuff in.
In these pockets I carry my keys. Very important keys to my office, car and house. My phone pretty much lives in my left pocket.Through out the day my pockets accumulate all kinds of treasures. They collect notes , pens, and at times unusual objects end up in my pockets. At the end of the day when my day is ready to come to an end. I take every thing out on my night stand. As I dump all the things out my pockets I evaluate all the important notes, decide if the pen or pens are worth putting in my new pockets for the next day and what is just simply garbage.  You can say I pretty much work out of my pockets.






 

The yellow wallpaper 

In the short story of the yellow wallpaper, the setting is set in an era where mental illness were a premature exploration. It seems that in this era the oppression of women was greatly alive.  I relate the setting to a time period because the husband reactions to his wife emotions. They seem unfamiliar to  him .  This  was a  time period where  women were  oppressed and a form of breaking free was seen as depression. Rather than embracing it they were shut from the world. 

The miserable fool

 Roderick usher

In the story of  the Fall of the  house of usher ,  one of the characters is Roderick usher.  He is described as a gloomy , nervous agitated person. He faces an acute bodily illness , which does not help facing the death of his sister .  This character is perceived as  a hypochondria . He is set to take on a role as a sickly individual because of   his family history. A tragic  story of depression and gloominess. Rodrick usher is chain to his mindset of living in misery.   

Negro speaks of rivers

Negro speaks of rivers

 

The Wiki article that I chose is Negro speaks of rivers. I want to focus on the style and tone of the author.

At this time the wiki article can use more resources . It does not have a style and tone. When I first read the poem I enjoyed it. I got the sense of connection with the earth. The author projects lots of feeling and depth. The reason I want to focus on the style and tone is because I like the way the author chose to write his poem . How he uses his arrangement of words to paint a picture and capture the feeling of the connection with the rivers . I am still trying to figure out the tone of this poem but so far I like were I am headed with this.

My favorite movie (Protagonist)

 I love movies. You can say I am a bit of a movie junkie, but my favorite movie of all time is the Selena movie. The protagonist is actor Jenifer Lopez. Interesting enough it is said that this movie put Ms. Lopez on the map. Jenifer Lopez spends time to live with the family and really takes the time to study Selena's mannerism. The movie is a biography of Selena Quintanilla, a famous tejano music artist. Jenifer Lopez portrays Selena very well. This Music drama takes you into the artist life. From her childhood dreams, to the struggle of breaking through as a woman tejano singer . Eventually Selena becomes the first Latin woman to do a crossover album of English and Spanish music. Shorten from her career Selena was killed by the president of her fan club. Jenifer Lopez not only portrays the singer very well, but gives Selena's fans a chance to remember her as the great singer she was.

Introduction

Hello class,

My name is Sandy Gonzalez. I am a mother of a beautiful 3 year old girl. I work as a Surgical Coordinator for a  plastic surgeon.  I struggle in english class , spanish was my primary lanuage. Excited to be here hoping I get the gist of this online stuff.