Maya Angelou Essays

The aim of this essay is to do a comparison on two poems, Woman Work by Maya Angelou and I Aint Mad At Cha by Tupac Shakur. Maya Angelou is a remarkable Renaissance woman who is hailed as one of the great voices of contemporary literature. As a poet, educator, historian, best-selling author, actress, playwright, […]

All three anti-racial activists share similar aspects on the way they view their community, but also have several differences on how they react towards it. From same backgrounds, different time periods, and different places of the United States, they each shared one major quality. They wanted to be heard and stand up for what was […]

Maya Angelou and John Agard’s poems are both responses to someone or some people who have wronged them. John Agard sounds as though he is correcting a stranger on their use of the term “Half-Caste” and telling them exactly what he thinks is implied by these words and Maya Angelou seems to be addressing her […]

Throughout Maya Angelou’s childhood, major obstacles do not cease to be thrown at her. This includes the obstacle she was born with, which is being a black female, in a harsh world of Jim Crow laws, racism, and sexism, a real-world existing during the 1930s-1940s in southern America. She depicts this world to us through […]

During the Victorian reign. Completing school was a celebrated and prestige private school for affluent immature misss. It emphasized cultural surveies for societal activities. introduced good manners and etiquette. and taught accomplishments such as dancing. vocalizing and much more. In other words. Completing school prepared immature ladies for “future life” . The rubric Completing School […]

Everyone’s lives are shaped by their childhood lessons and experiences. Most people are directly influenced by their parents and other important adult figures in their lives. Children are prone to have certain characteristics and beliefs because of what is told to them or a specific event which they encounter. In I Know Why The Caged […]

The essay of Alice Walker titled, “In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens’ focuses on the creativity of African-American women in the South during the period of post-reconstruction South.  More than anything else, the essay chronicles the struggle of African-American women to keep creativity intact in the face of oppression.

“All of my work is meant to say, ‘You may encounter many defeats but you must not be defeated.’ In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.” – As quoted in The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Where are you as a woman? No […]

A race war between whites and blacks has blighted American history since colonial times. In her essay “Graduation,” Maya Angelou recollects the experience of her eighth grade graduation in the 1930s to examine the personal growth of humans caught in the adversity of racial discrimination. Through narrative structure, selection of detail, and use of imagery, […]

Angelou’s story describes not just a fight between two boxers of different races. The writer wants to use the fight as a metaphor to a bigger fight, that of the social conflict that exists between the whites and blacks. The outcome of the fight is seen as a reflection of how society is to treat […]

‘I know Why The Caged Bird Sings’ written by Maya Angelou and ‘The Color Purple’ by Alice Walker both express the same main themes of, abuse, racism and overcoming difficulties. Maya Angelou tends to reflect past circumstances and often conveys her views through her novels and poetry. Alice Walker similarly writes about the situations between […]

Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician and writer, was born on 10 December 1815. Originally named Augusta Ada Byron, she was the legitimate child of Lord Byron and Anna Isabella Byron. Al Capone, America’s most famous gangster, is regarded as a significant symbol of the deterioration of law and order in the United States during the […]