My research essay will focus on “Salvation” by Langston Hughes. Everyone has different religious experiences. Young Langston Hughes religious experience was in an African American church. In this church he experienced the church singing songs and hymns. There was a spiritual word from a preacher reading directly from the King James Version Bible, dissecting the words of God for sinners to understand and hopefully get some sort of spiritual healing. Young Langston had high hopes and expectations of what was told to him about God and being saved. In my essay I talked about what he was informed, his experience, and how he felt after his experience. Some secondary source information that I feel will support my thesis is black religion, influence in an African American church, and Langston Hughes autobiography, because this story was a real-life experience. So far, I have searched the Gale and JSTOR databases on the BMCC library website. I received a lot of results in which I explored “Make A Joyful Noise Unto the Lord” and “The Church, The Family, and the School in The African American Community” so far.
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I have chosen for my research essay, ” A good man is hard to find” by Flannery O’Connor. My thesis will be focused on southern femininity and the deceptive image of wholesomeness through god fearing and charm, which allowed the grand mother to constantly maneuver every decision to suit her wants. Through out most of the story, she uses her overbearing charisma to manipulate every outcome or get a pass for inappropriate speech and behavior. Using past southern teachings as the standard and imposing herself and her beliefs onto everyone else in the story. I initially explained how I found the grand mother harmless. In the beginning I thought she was trying to gain ground on how her upbringing is important and was using certain tactics to get through to stubborn grand children, including her son. She wanted to feel important. Which means I also fell for her southern charm. Her moment of grace was short lived and didn’t redeem the grand mother at the end. However, her ignorance didn’t seem to be harmful until the very end and it seemed easily missed by me because of the image she portrayed as a southern god-fearing woman who only wanted to share her roots with her family. I will be using the BMCC Library to collect information on white southern womanhood.
I am focusing my research essay on “Araby” by James Joyce. My thesis statement is that this story shows how people’s ideas of love are warped by what they see around them. This is shown by the relationship that the main character’s aunt and uncle have with each other and how this changes his mindset on what a loving relationship looks like. I am using a biographical paper to back up my research paper and as my secondary subject. I am talking about how the examples of relationships that people see in their lives set up the foundation of what they think relationships should look like. So I want to look at James Joyce’s life and his parents to actually examine what he say and how it affected him. I want to see if I notice bits from his life that made their way into his work and shows how his parent’s relationship affected his own ideas.
My essay is about the short story “Salvation” by Langston Hughes. The main idea in my essay claims that this story is about expectations and disappointments, as well as that the resulting epiphany in the story makes him doubt what he has believed in all his life. I would like to use it for my research essay on Langston Hughes’s Biography. Langston Hughes was one of the most promising black writers, and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance (The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics, and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s). they put art before religion and that connects to the part in my essay where young Langston lost his faith in Jesus at a such young age (He was around his 20s when was part of the Harlem Renaissance, and his experience in the story was when he was 12). I would also like to use critical analysis about “Salvation”, or if I will be able to find articles about the connection of the African Americans to church during the same times (1900).
My essay is on “Araby” by James Joyce and my thesis statement is: Although it seems like a love story “Araby” is really about a boy who creates a fantasy to help him escape from the harshness of his reality. As for the BMCC database I have looked and have seen some articles and literary critiques about the boy in the story and other resources about the story in general which should help me to prove what my thesis statement is saying.
In “The Wife”, The poet portrays an unmarried woman and contrasts her with a wife. ‘I’m “wife” – I’ve finished that’ explores personal themes of independence, society, and womanhood. Dickinson takes the reader through several differences, emotional and mental, between being a “spinster,” or an older, unmarried woman, and being a wife. In “The Story of an Hour”, the theme of the story is freedom. Once the grief of finding out her husband died passes over her, Louise begins to realize that with his passing she has the freedom to live her own life. You can see the moment this realization hits as she whispers, “free, free, free. Chopin’s view of the repressive role that marriage played in women’s lives as the protagonist, Louise Mallard, feels immense freedom only when her husband has died. While he is alive, she must live for him, and only when he dies does her life once again become her own. Both stories are common in having independent life where Kate got her independence after her husband’s death and found peace where she feels like a relive because to her being in a relationship, she is a slave to her husband and doing whatever he says. They both intend to have their own life and not be under someone that they rely on.
