Category: Biography

Taking place in Harlem, New York in the 1920s, The Harlem Renaissance was a great time and era for the African-American community. It was a time where time where the African-Americans community can show their talents through music, poetry and any type of writing. The migration of blacks during and after WWI was the influence…

Mary Wollstonecraft was born on April 27, 1749, in Spitalfield, London. Eight days before her birthday when she was twenty three her mom died. Before Mary was popular and famous the word feminist didn’t even exist. Her parents were Elizabeth Dixon and John Wollstonecraft, her mom was often sick. Her dad was abusive and was…

And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy (Edgar Allan Poe Quotes). This quote by Edgar Allan Poe hints at the estranged life he lived. Edgar Allan Poe was a poet who suffered a life of hardships and whose only solace came from writing poetry (Edgar Allan Poe). Poe…

An American writer, editor, and literary critic, Edgar Allan Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country’s…

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was a beloved figure of freedom and a controversial figure during the rise of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 60s. Claybourne Carson, editor of ‘The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr’ had accumulated hundreds of documents, and audio recordings to create this autobiography that allows the reader…

The book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs is an important piece of writing that sheds light on what life as a slave was really like. The book goes into detail about the terrible things that happened to one slave named Linda. This book also gives examples of how the…

A slave is a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.(Lexico Dictionaries 2019). The Transatlantic Slave Trade started in the 17th century with the first black African negro slaves reaching Virginia in 1619. Black people were kidnapped from West Africa and forcibly relocated to the Americas. African American…

Jane Austen is a female author from the Georgian era, spanning from 1714 to 1837. In my independent study novel, Pride and Prejudice, she is known for her social commentary that bridges the gap between romance and realism. Born in Steventon, Hampshire, England, on December 16, 1775. Born to Cassandra and George Austen, she was…

Abstract This is the author’s perspective and mind about how women feel why they should approve a marriage just because of social or economic class problems, and about how women’s rights are not free. The novel by Jane Austeen to be analyzed is titled ‘EMMA’. The study was conducted by using theories and also historical…

In this short essay, I will discuss the topic of marriage as an economic factor in the early nineteenth century based on Jane Austen´s novel Sense and Sensibility, which consists of a complex debate and terms like morality, economics, aesthetics, and psychology. The novel Sense and Sensibility was published in 1811 after Jane Austen did…