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Unintentionally, humans throw powerful words around not knowing how much of a big impact they can cause on an individual person or situation. “Words can hold [an] enormous weight, sometimes more than we [one may] think, they often impact people for decades, providing the courage to move on or another reason to give up” (Haytt)….

Culture is when intangible objects like values costumes beliefs merge with material objects like a certain type of food, clothes, or even architecture, to form a way of life. The shared values, customs, and histories characteristic of culture shape the way a person thinks, behaves, and views the world. There are a lot of elements…

The term itself, “Gothic,” derives from a term given to the style by Renaissance scholar. Giorgi Vasari, who incorrectly attributed the form to the Goths, Germanic invaders. Who helped lead to the downfall of the Holy Roman Empire and its classic ideals. In it’s own time; Gothic architecture was referred to as “modern” or “French”…

The term Magical Realism derived from what one Fritz Roh coined “Magischer Realismus” in 1925 or as we know it today, Magical Realism. Magical Realism is a very interesting genre in the literary world it looks at the world with fresh new eyes, it celebrates the mundane, and in stories that are apart of this…

During the 1960s -70s there was a surge of underground films and a formation of new experimental film genres and styles, the most important of them being structural film. Structural film was named by P. Adams Stiney, an American critic, Structural film contradicted the emphasis of shocking subject matter which was the common style used…

In “Paul’s Case” written by Willa Cather she tells us about Paul, a boy who is struggling with his hatred for his lower-class life. He feels as if the people in his life and the place he lives are holding him back from what he thinks he deserves in life, such as money, recognition, and…

During her time spent in New York City, within the midst of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston created works which in return made her a focal point with the movement. Hurston wrote many works and published a handful of articles, short stories, her novel Jonah’s Gourd Vine and “Spunk”, an anthology of written pieces…

Josephine Baker Background Freda Josephine McDonald was born on June 3, 1906, and died on April 12, 1975, due to a cerebral hemorrhage. She converted to Josephine Baker after her marriage. Josephine was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Her mother was Carrie McDonald, but her father’s true identity had remained a mystery to the world….

Kate Chopin, author of The Awakening, and quite a number of short stories, was born on the eighth of February, 1850 in St. Louise, Missouri. The reason some of her stories and novels contain some of the French language is because due to her mother’s side of the family being French, Chopin grew up speaking…

Harlem Renaissance was a social, artistic and intellectual wave of expressions by oppressed African-Americans spanning the nineteen twenties. It took place in Harlem, Manhattan, New York. The movement was previously known as The New Negro Movement. This name was gotten through Alan Locke’s anthology in the nineteen twenty five titled The New Negro (Harlem Renaissance…