J. McDonald
Explain the effect of each of the following upon interest rates and upon the price of bonds: Maturity Risk Inflation
August 3, 2017Discuss Poverty in the United States (stratification, food scarcity/hunger, lack of adequate social services/health care/access to educational, race and gender, life chances and choices, and so on)
August 3, 2017Choose One
1. Discuss Dickinson’s views of death and/or the soul.
2. Discuss Dickinson’s views of Nature, God, and heaven.
3. Dickinson wrote: “My business is circumference.” How does this statement reflect the notion of conformity and “irreverence” found in her poems? (note: this question may be combined
with either #1 or #2 above).
4. How does Dickinson’s poetic diction create ambiguity in her poetry?
5. Discuss the themes of racial pride and personal dignity in the poetry of Langston Hughes.
6. Discuss the influence of jazz/blues music in the poetry of Hughes.
7. Some have leveled charges that Hughes was too much of an optimist, that his lack of a sense of evil was a flaw. Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not?
