Submit the final research essay about an author whose text you have recently read in class (or one of your choosing) whose work incorporates experiences or key ideas that are central to the author's culture. Your essay must be a well-researched informative essay of at least 300-500 words that explores ways in which the work reflects the author’s cultural context. Examples of cultural context or influence include topics such as arranged marriage, religious influence, forms of government, or regional or ethnic values. Information to be included:

author's biographical information
author's position and contribution to country of origin
key ideas and passages from author's work that support thesis
reflective conclusion about the author and his/her contribution to literature
Refer to the rubric as a guide before submitting your final essay.

What does sterling brown mean when he mentions the chain gang a.) brown is referring to people in general, who are chained in their minds. b.) brown is referring to slaves in chains c.) brown is referring to gangs in the ghetto chained to their crimes and poverty d.) brown is referring to men perhaps prisoners singing/chanting while working.

Select the correct answer. lyric poems often deal with intense emotions. which statement best describes the shift in emotion in "lift every voice and sing" as it moves from the first into the second stanza? lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty; let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, facing the rising sun of our new day begun let us march on till victory is won. stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed? we have come over a way that with tears has been watered, we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. a. the joyful call of the first stanza gives way to a bitter recounting of history in the second. b. the first stanza's anger is replaced by the second stanza's resignation. c. the poem moves from a sense of wonder in the first stanza toward a sense of perplexity in the second. d. there is no change between the first stanza and the second. the emotions are the same in both.

For which cause did swift not write? the tory government the devaluation of irish coins the whig wars under william iii the starvation in ireland