Zora Neale Hurston
Early Life:
huston was the fifth of the eight children of john hurston and Luey Ann Hurston (nee potts). Her father was a baptist preacher, tenant famer, and carpenter, and her mother was a school teacher. Though Hurston claimed as an adult that she was born in Eatonville, Florida in 1901, she was actually born in Notasulga, Alabama in 1891, where her father grew up and her grandfather was the united states, when she was three. Her father later became mayor of the town which Hurston would glorify in her stories as a place black Americans could live as they desire, independent of white society.
College:
in 1918, Hurston began undergranduate studies at Howard University, where she became one of the earliest Zeta Phi Beta Sorority ans co-founded the Hilltop, the University's student newpaper. Hurston left Howard in 1924 and in 1925 was offered a scholarship to Barnard College where she was the College's sole black student, Hurston received her B.A. in anthropolgy in 1927, when she was 36. While she was at Barnard, she conducted ethnographic research with noted anthropologist Franz Boas of Columbia Universitey she also worked with Ruth Benedict as well as fellow anthropologhy student Margaret Mead.
Adulthood:
As an adult, Hurston traveled extensively in the Caribbean and the American South and immersed herself in local cultural practies to conduct her anthropological research in 1927, she married Herbert Sheen, a jazz musician and former classmate at Howard who would later become a physician, but the marriage ended in 1931. In 1939, while Hurston was working for the WPA, she married Albert Price, a 23-year-old fellow WPA employee, and 25 years her junior but this marriage ended after only a few months. In later life, in addition to continuing her literary career, Hurston served on the facutly of North Carolina College for Negroes (now North Carolina University) in Durham, North Carolina.
Death:
During a period of financial and medical difficulties, Hurston was forced to enter St. Lucie County Welfare Home, where she suffered a stroke and died of hypertensive heart disease. She was buried in an unmarked grave in the Garden of Heavenly Rest cemetery in Fort Pierce in 1973 African-American novelist Alice Walker and literary scholar Charlotte Hunnt found an unmarked grave in the general area where Hurston had been buried and decided to mark it as hers.
Literary career
1920s
When Hurston arrived in New York City in 1925, the Harlem Renaissance was its peak, and coon became one of the writers at its center. Shortly before she entered Barnaed, Hurston's short story "spunk" was selected for the New Negro, a landmark anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays focusing on African and African American are and literature. In 1926, a group of young black writers including Hurston Langston Hughes, and Wallace Thurman, calling themselves the Niggerati, produced a literary magazine called fire!! that featured many of the young artists and writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
"How I've Grown As a Writer
I grown as a writer by listen to freed and how i've grown as writer i grown alot how when i writen on a paprer visualized when i first enter ms.enszer class i know there was going to be alot of work to be done to. A week when i first enter ms. Enszer class she had autobiography which is about overself like, who support me and what i wanted to be in life and what grade do i deserve in her class and i said i think i deserve a whole lot. The reason why i say that because everything she teach me, ms. Enszer i take it to the heart and to tell the truth ms, you are my best english teacher i ever had.
In the past year i've learned new things like vocabulary parts of speach, and laterary terms i think that i have come a long way since being in middle school in terms of writing i use to write things that didnt make since and grammar errors, this year. in english class we've been doing things to help us better understand grammer and literary terms.
In the past year i've learned new things like vocabulary parts of speach, and laterary terms i think that i have come a long way since being in middle school in terms of writing i use to write things that didnt make since and grammar errors, this year. in english class we've been doing things to help us better understand grammer and literary terms.
Friday, March 19, 2010
FROUND POEM:
LOVE WITH DREAMS,& NIGHTS Short Story By O. Nicole
FOUNDPOEM
I love, because in my thousand LA TIMES
and one nights of dreams, I never Published in Canada
once dreamed of you. Division Of Schdlastic Inc.
Copy Right (c) 2002
I looked down paths that traveled from afar,
but it was never you i expected. suddenly I've
felt you flying through my soul in quick, lofty fight,
and how beautiful you seem way up there, far
from my always idiot heart! Love me that way, flying
over everything. And, like the bird on its branch, land
in my arms only to rest, then fly off again.
Be not like the romatic ones who, in love, set me on fire.
when you climb up my man slon, enter so lightly, that as you
enter the dog of my heart will not bark.
LOVE WITH DREAMS,& NIGHTS Short Story By O. Nicole
FOUNDPOEM
I love, because in my thousand LA TIMES
and one nights of dreams, I never Published in Canada
once dreamed of you. Division Of Schdlastic Inc.
Copy Right (c) 2002
I looked down paths that traveled from afar,
but it was never you i expected. suddenly I've
felt you flying through my soul in quick, lofty fight,
and how beautiful you seem way up there, far
from my always idiot heart! Love me that way, flying
over everything. And, like the bird on its branch, land
in my arms only to rest, then fly off again.
Be not like the romatic ones who, in love, set me on fire.
when you climb up my man slon, enter so lightly, that as you
enter the dog of my heart will not bark.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
SGA Work Shop Reflection...
well i like when mr Fred was here because he thought everybody im my second period class alot like place the words that you think that you think are most importent at the end of the time, and how to set off powerful single words on line by themselves with useing. A repetitive refrain to all of your lines with prepositionsing words or onomatopoetic words, and allowing yourself to add, subtract , or change words to fit your screemplay or the essay of what you doing.
Well and he thought us diffrent job but one of them i liked wen he was teaching me was the Connector and the reason why because the connector job is to do is find connections between the material of what you doing and then you have the world outside. And that mean tracking down connections from the reading to your own life, happenings at school,
places you go this life happenings in the community then after they find what every thing doing then she or he think of what are going to be the ideas/occurrences in the book so it cam remind them of what they did and how can they set it up.
so now we can see the connections between the material of other writings on the same topic its whatever the reading connects you with, and thats is worth sharing of the connector; And the reason why i did a whole essay on this because the connector means alot to me, and they have serious job to do but thats why i was really listing to what mr. Fred had to say when he was teaching, and explaining to me and my class mates.
"Post By: Leroy Roberts
Publish About: Mr. Fred".
well i like when mr Fred was here because he thought everybody im my second period class alot like place the words that you think that you think are most importent at the end of the time, and how to set off powerful single words on line by themselves with useing. A repetitive refrain to all of your lines with prepositionsing words or onomatopoetic words, and allowing yourself to add, subtract , or change words to fit your screemplay or the essay of what you doing.
Well and he thought us diffrent job but one of them i liked wen he was teaching me was the Connector and the reason why because the connector job is to do is find connections between the material of what you doing and then you have the world outside. And that mean tracking down connections from the reading to your own life, happenings at school,
places you go this life happenings in the community then after they find what every thing doing then she or he think of what are going to be the ideas/occurrences in the book so it cam remind them of what they did and how can they set it up.
so now we can see the connections between the material of other writings on the same topic its whatever the reading connects you with, and thats is worth sharing of the connector; And the reason why i did a whole essay on this because the connector means alot to me, and they have serious job to do but thats why i was really listing to what mr. Fred had to say when he was teaching, and explaining to me and my class mates.
"Post By: Leroy Roberts
Publish About: Mr. Fred".
Thursday, February 4, 2010
so long so far away is africa
Not even memories alive
save thoes that history books Afro- American Fragment
create, save thoes that songs
beat out of blood with word sad- Before the english began to colonize Australia at the end
sung in strange un-Negro tongue of the 18th century, the australian aborigines the
native peoples
so long,
so far away
is Africa.
subduced and time lost
are the drums- and yet
through some vast mist of race
there comes this song
i do not understand,
this song of atavistic land,
of bitter yearnings lost
without a place
so long,
so far away
is Africa's
dark face.
the song is gone; the dance
is secret with the dancer in the earth,
the ritual useless, and the trilbal story
lost in an alien tale. Only the grass
stand up to mark the dancing- ring:
the apple- gums posture and mine a
past corroboree, murmur a broken
chant.
Not even memories alive
save thoes that history books Afro- American Fragment
create, save thoes that songs
beat out of blood with word sad- Before the english began to colonize Australia at the end
sung in strange un-Negro tongue of the 18th century, the australian aborigines the
native peoples
so long,
so far away
is Africa.
subduced and time lost
are the drums- and yet
through some vast mist of race
there comes this song
i do not understand,
this song of atavistic land,
of bitter yearnings lost
without a place
so long,
so far away
is Africa's
dark face.
the song is gone; the dance
is secret with the dancer in the earth,
the ritual useless, and the trilbal story
lost in an alien tale. Only the grass
stand up to mark the dancing- ring:
the apple- gums posture and mine a
past corroboree, murmur a broken
chant.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Expository Essay College/NFL FootBall
Ohio State is going to the rose bowl and this time its going to stick but one of the crazy corollaries to the bowl championship, Ohio State's haring won or shared five straight big ten tittles six since 2001. But preparing for its first rose bowl appearance since the 1996 season and since 1947 the big ten champion has more or less been contracted to represent the conference in pasadena but some years after that the first place team didnt make the trip because there used to be rules aganist the same school repersenting. The confernce in back to back season, and then there was 1961 ohio state faculty council claiming football had become too big nexed the trip. But two year's ago ohio state players clenched roses in their teenth after beating Michigan-but the stems were conditional.
Each Year there are superstars who reinforce their reputation by playing magnificently in the super bowl and there are newcomers who step out of the shadows and into the spotlight with a single great game... or maybe just a singlegreat play. In the end we remember the touchdown more vivdly than antthing else we recall images of a pass floating through the air and into the hand of a wide receiver, and of the wild celebration that follows his arrival in the end zone, its true that there have been blowouts in the super bowl. Its also true that there have been thrilling finishes in which placekickers have decided the outcome but its especially true that the NFL's most important game has produced more than its share of spectacular touchdowns, some of which determined the winner, and some of which merely caused us to shake our heads in awe.
More Than 100,000
football fans filled the rose bowl in pasadena for Super Bowl XVII-and every one of them knew what was about to happen it was early in the fourth quarter and the washington redskins were trailing the miami Dolphins by a score of 17-13. On fourth down from the miami 43-yards line, just one yard shy of a first down was there any other call to make? Of course not the redskin had to maintain possesession if they were going to win, and the man most likely to get that final hard-earned bit of turf was fullback John Riggins. One of the toughest and most dependable running backs ever to put on a football uniform so there was no debate the redskins knew riggins would get the ball the Dolphins knew it the whole stadium knew it millions of fans watching on television knew it.
Ohio State is going to the rose bowl and this time its going to stick but one of the crazy corollaries to the bowl championship, Ohio State's haring won or shared five straight big ten tittles six since 2001. But preparing for its first rose bowl appearance since the 1996 season and since 1947 the big ten champion has more or less been contracted to represent the conference in pasadena but some years after that the first place team didnt make the trip because there used to be rules aganist the same school repersenting. The confernce in back to back season, and then there was 1961 ohio state faculty council claiming football had become too big nexed the trip. But two year's ago ohio state players clenched roses in their teenth after beating Michigan-but the stems were conditional.
Each Year there are superstars who reinforce their reputation by playing magnificently in the super bowl and there are newcomers who step out of the shadows and into the spotlight with a single great game... or maybe just a singlegreat play. In the end we remember the touchdown more vivdly than antthing else we recall images of a pass floating through the air and into the hand of a wide receiver, and of the wild celebration that follows his arrival in the end zone, its true that there have been blowouts in the super bowl. Its also true that there have been thrilling finishes in which placekickers have decided the outcome but its especially true that the NFL's most important game has produced more than its share of spectacular touchdowns, some of which determined the winner, and some of which merely caused us to shake our heads in awe.
More Than 100,000
football fans filled the rose bowl in pasadena for Super Bowl XVII-and every one of them knew what was about to happen it was early in the fourth quarter and the washington redskins were trailing the miami Dolphins by a score of 17-13. On fourth down from the miami 43-yards line, just one yard shy of a first down was there any other call to make? Of course not the redskin had to maintain possesession if they were going to win, and the man most likely to get that final hard-earned bit of turf was fullback John Riggins. One of the toughest and most dependable running backs ever to put on a football uniform so there was no debate the redskins knew riggins would get the ball the Dolphins knew it the whole stadium knew it millions of fans watching on television knew it.
Narrative With Song Lyrics
I've been lonely, I've been waiting for you i'm pretending and thats all i can do (that's all i can do mama) the love im sending ain't making it through your heart (i hope you here me)...
pain, since i've lost im lost to people feelin like they at the bottom like a horse shoe sorry for the trouble that i put you in your heart through god knows that i will do anything for a part two, or to be prayin' for the day you come back to me saying that you forgive me give me another chance. I'm needin' it like a kidney i dont ask for much but i no i mess up i admit i mess up but everybody mess up now this other dud lucked up telling me and my clique don't give a what cause we from los angles, she was from Georiga she was down chick i was her soldier i was her gangsta she was my shoulder. You were the pistol to my holster .. BANG!
You forgot about the house, you forgot about the ring i remember everything i just wanna hear you sing i remember the love right after the fight you can't tell me you don't remember those nights and if i would cry you would cry twice to me you the brightest star under sunlight see take away my title. take away my stripes you give me back my girl and you me back my life give see this is just a nightmare. so i blink twice open up my eyes hoping she be in my sight i remember the time i wish i could bring it back what she mean to me is what i mean to rap (what i mean to rap)...
I've been lonely, I've been waiting for you i'm pretending and thats all i can do (that's all i can do mama) the love im sending ain't making it through your heart (i hope you here me)...
pain, since i've lost im lost to people feelin like they at the bottom like a horse shoe sorry for the trouble that i put you in your heart through god knows that i will do anything for a part two, or to be prayin' for the day you come back to me saying that you forgive me give me another chance. I'm needin' it like a kidney i dont ask for much but i no i mess up i admit i mess up but everybody mess up now this other dud lucked up telling me and my clique don't give a what cause we from los angles, she was from Georiga she was down chick i was her soldier i was her gangsta she was my shoulder. You were the pistol to my holster .. BANG!
You forgot about the house, you forgot about the ring i remember everything i just wanna hear you sing i remember the love right after the fight you can't tell me you don't remember those nights and if i would cry you would cry twice to me you the brightest star under sunlight see take away my title. take away my stripes you give me back my girl and you me back my life give see this is just a nightmare. so i blink twice open up my eyes hoping she be in my sight i remember the time i wish i could bring it back what she mean to me is what i mean to rap (what i mean to rap)...
Where I'am From
Iam From a line of beauty confident high he'd heads beautiful woman skin just as fresh as a new grown pose.
Iam From
from the creator of heaven & earth from the life qiver & life taker from the only man i know as father also daddy Iam from jusus christ.
Iam From
from a beautiful independent person hardworking accomplished man, from single but proud parent Iam from the mother of Necia the woman i call mommie:-):-*
Iam From a line of beauty confident high he'd heads beautiful woman skin just as fresh as a new grown pose.
Iam From
from the creator of heaven & earth from the life qiver & life taker from the only man i know as father also daddy Iam from jusus christ.
Iam From
from a beautiful independent person hardworking accomplished man, from single but proud parent Iam from the mother of Necia the woman i call mommie:-):-*
Monday, January 25, 2010
Vocabulary Narrative
Love: The reasons why i pick love because its a deep tender feeling of affection and solitude toward a person such as that arising from kinship or a sense of oneness and a feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; The emotion of sex and romance sexual passion, sexual intercourse a love fair an intense emotional attachment as for a pet or treasured abject and a person who is the object of deep or intense affection or attraction, beloved often used as a term of endearment.
Love: The reasons why i pick love because its a deep tender feeling of affection and solitude toward a person such as that arising from kinship or a sense of oneness and a feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; The emotion of sex and romance sexual passion, sexual intercourse a love fair an intense emotional attachment as for a pet or treasured abject and a person who is the object of deep or intense affection or attraction, beloved often used as a term of endearment.
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