...Counteé Cullen Biography Counteé Cullen, an African-American, was born March 30, 1903. He’s location of birth is not a known fact but has said to be in Louisville, Kentucky, Baltimore, Maryland and New York City, New York. Cullen was raised by his grandmother, Elizabeth Porter, until she passed away in 1908. After her death, Cullen was adopted by Reverend Frederick Cullen and his wife. Cullen went to high school at Dewitt Clinton High where he edited the school paper. He didn’t discover his love of poetry until he saw that his English teacher had published a poem he had written for class in a magazine. Cullen began writing poetry that was recognizable during his high school years. He was seen to be an outstanding student; He graduated from New York University in 1925. Cullen’s first published book of poems was in 1925 named Colors. In 1926, Cullen graduated Harvard University with a Masters of Arts degree. After touring France, Cullen married Yolanda Du Bois, daughter of W.E.B Du Bois. They divorced two years later due to conflicting desires. Cullen began teaching English and French in 1934 at Frederick Douglas Junior High School. In 1940, he married Ida Mae Roberson, an old friend. Cullen dies in 1946 from gastrointestinal disorder. Cullen became one of the first poets to be published during that Harlem Renaissance. Cullen’s favorite poems came from the writer John Keats. Cullen’s many themes in his poems are often racism and disappointment. He had a close connection to...
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...Countee Cullen 1. The metaphor of the dark tower is significant because it represents a foreshadowing of the slaves eventually rising up in the future, while the white people will fall apart. It could also be a representation of a connection that the slaves made to their future. They knew that even though the white people had all the power and control over them at that point in time, they knew that it wouldn’t be like this forever. 2. The last two lines represent the underlying message that the slaves are aware of, which is that their conditions and struggles will not always be this way. They know they will not always be slaves, and that some day they too will have their opportunity to rise up against the white people that treated them so poorly for the entirety of their existence. 3. The title of “Incident” is ironic because to the boy, the situation he experienced was something much greater than an incident, but rather consumed a great amount of his thought. Between May through December, the boy is completely consumed with what seemed to be a minor encounter between two children of different races. So to call it something so insignificant as “Incident”, when it was so much more than an incident to him, makes the title ironic. 4. After reading this poem, I realized that the influence you have and the way you act towards other people is much more important and effective on them often then you are aware of. The one memory that the boy remembers is an insulting...
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...main characters of Twilight are Bella Swan and Edward Cullen. Bella Swan is friendly, selfless and clumsy. She always fell and hurt herself accidentally or get into dangerous situations daily. Edward Cullen is frozen in his 17 years old body. He was changed into a vampire by Dr. Carlisle Cullen after Edward's mother, Elizabeth, begged him to save Edward as her dying wish. Edward has a special ability to read minds. Twilight is a story of Bella Swan and the vampire she falls in love with, Edward Cullen. Bella Swan moves from Phoenix, Arizona, to Forks, Washington, to live with her father, Charlie. First day of her school, she sees Edward Cullen in cafeteria. Edward is attractive and almost unhumanly beautiful. Edward and his family have lived in Forks for two years but they never be accepted by the townsfolk. He is so different to other peoples. Soon, Bella Swan in love with Edward Cullen. One day, Bella learns from family friend Jacob Black that Quileute legends say the Cullen family are vampires. Realizing Edward is vampire changes nothing for Bella, she knows that she still loves him even if he is not human. For Edward his love for Bella is both a delight. A delight because she is the first person he has loved since he was made a vampire. Bella wish to become a vampire but Edward is unwilling to change Bella into a vampire. The moral values from Twilight are making the right choices and doing what is good. The Cullens were changed into vampire without their will. They...
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...about how she is about to die at the hands of a hunter. She is dying in the place of someone she loves, and the narrator does not regret any of the choices that brought her to this point. The past few months have been extraordinary, and she can’t complain. Zip! Now we’re following the life of Isabella “Bella” Swan, our seventeen-year-old narrator. Bella is moving to Forks, Washington, to live with her dad. We later learn that she volunteered to do this so that she wouldn’t hold her mother back from spending more time with her mother’s new husband. Forks is isolated, cold, dreary, and wet, and Bella’s relationship with her dad is distant, since she was raised by her mother in Phoenix. Bella's new life is dull until she gets a glimpse of the Cullen family – five gorgeous, mesmerizing siblings who attend her high school. She learns they do not socialize with anyone but each other. One of the boys in particular, Edward, pays her close attention and seems to regard her with alarming hostility when she's forced to sit next to him in Biology class. The next day, he is absent from school. Bella continues to adapt to her new life in Forks. She gets a lot more attention from boys than she was used to in Phoenix. She makes several friends quickly. A few days later, Edward finally is back in school. Now he’s friendly to Bella. His mere presence excites her. That afternoon in the school parking lot, a boy’s truck almost hits Bella after skidding on some black ice, but Edward uses his body as...
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...Bella Swan, who moves from Phoenix to Forks. She is falling in love with Edward Cullen, a vampire. Additional novels in the series are New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn. A seventeen year old Bella Swan leaves Arizona to live with her father in the small and clouded house in Forks she doesn’t like it. Living in Forks, with its constant mist and rain, wasn’t bad much she will have to make a whole new friends a new school. Edward and his whole family are vampires. Edward himself was made a vampire when he was seventeen years old. Edward and his family are vampires who drink animal blood. First day at school, he seems disgust her. He disappears for a few days. Another day Edward saves Bella by stopping the van with only his hand because Bella is nearly crushed by Tyler's van in the school parking, it makes Bella want to know Edward more. Bella is saved by Edward again when she is almost attacked after that Edward takes Bella to dinner and home. On the car, she tells him of the stories that he is a vampire. Edward says he tried to stay away. Over time, Edward and Bella fall in love. While Cullen’s family and Bella playing sport in woods there were another vampires, James a tracker vampire who knows about Cullens' relationship with a human, He wants to hunt Bella. The Cullen family try to separate Bella and Edward, and send Bella to Phoenix to hide in a hotel. James attacks her , Edward and other Cullens rescue her and destroy James. Bella says she wants to become a vampire, but...
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...06.04B Countee Cullen 1. Explain the significance of the metaphor "dark tower." Cullen’s metaphor of a “ dark tower” is serves as a symbolism to showcase the struggle of African-Americans, and from the dark tower, he sees their struggles and those who oppresses them. The dark tower could also be seen as a means of escape, a means of someone of having the way out from the current situation which African-Americans were in. 2. Explain how the last two lines of the poem "From the Dark Tower" complete the message expressed in the first two lines. These lines “So in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing needs” shows me the determination which Cullen saw in African-Americans. His determination for a change is evident in this sentence as he’s sure of an incoming event that will come which will change everything. It’s as if he’s saying subtlety ,soon, a message of hope for those that are going through agonizing pain, that their needs soon will be met. While reading the poem, I believed in Cullen’s words not just as assurance but as a promise, a promise that he’d sure keep. 3. Explain the irony of the title "Incident." As suggested by the title, the incident in the poem is completely downplayed by Cullen. The incident is so traumatizing to the narrator that he stills remembers every excruciating detail of it; such an incident wouldn’t linger on someone’s mind, if it wasn’t one that affected one very deeply. 4. Write your reaction...
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...Swan moves from Phoenix, Arizona to live with her father in Washington to * * allow her mother to travel with her new husband, a minor league baseball player. After * * moving to Forks, Bella finds herself involuntarily drawn to a mysterious, handsome * * boy, Edward Cullen. She eventually learns that he is a member of a vampire family who * * drinks animal blood rather than human blood. Edward and Bella fall in love, while * * James, a sadistic vampire from another coven, is drawn to hunt down Bella. Edward * * and the other Cullens defend Bella. She escapes to Phoenix, Arizona, where she is * * tricked into confronting James, who tries to kill her. She is seriously wounded, but * * Edward rescues her and they return to Forks. * * 1.1 SETTING or CONTEXT * * Most of the story takes place in Forks, Washington, and its surrounding areas. * * According to Bella, Forks claims the highest rainfall per year in the United States. To put * * it bluntly, it's dreary and gray 99% of the time. The cloudy, rainy climate is one of the * * reasons the Cullens have chosen to live in Forks – because it's rarely sunny, they can * * go out in the daylight without having the sun sparkling off their glittery skin. If Forks is * * the land of the dark, Phoenix is the land of the light. When Bella hops on her plane to * * depart from...
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...vampire those affections with a vegetarian vampire family. Everything goes nicelyuntil other vampires come to fork and want to eat Bella. It’s a combination of a great love story with great action and suspense. The main idea of this story thoughts that the author would like to convey is human falling in true love with each other, sacrifice, physical isolation and fear. http://www.fantasybooksandmovies.com/twilight-novel.html Firstly love is one of the main ideas of this book. As example, Isa Bella, who prefers to be known as Bella, is a 17 year old girl. She leaves Phoenix, Arizona, to go living with her father in Forks, Washington, in the ambition of giving her mother the chance to travel with her new husband. She feels attracted to Edward Cullen when she meets him in Forks High School. When she determines that he's a vampire, her attraction blooms into full-fledged first love. Originally, Edward just wanted to eat her, but insufficiently realizes eventually that in fact what he is feeling is true love, and after a few days they start dating. After two or three weeks, Bella is begging Edward to turn her into a vampire because of true love. http://www.shmoop.com/twilight/love-theme.html Beside that love, sacrifice also the main idea of this book. Example, Bella is a selfless character. Not only does she risk her life to keep her mother safe, but she also tolerates a lot of personal discomfort for her parents' happiness. Bella sacrifices her own personal safety for the sake of love...
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...|Country |United States | |Language |English | |Genre |Romance, fantasy, young-adult fiction | |Publisher |Little, Brown and Company | |Published |2005–2008 | |Media type |Print | Twilight is a series of four vampire-themed fantasy romance novels by American author Stephenie Meyer. It charts a period in the life of Isabella "Bella" Swan, a teenage girl who moves to Forks, Washington, and falls in love with a 104-year-old vampire named Edward Cullen. The series is told primarily from Bella's point of view, with the epilogue of Eclipse and Part II of Breaking Dawn being told from the viewpoint of character Jacob Black, a werewolf. The unpublished Midnight Sun is a retelling of the first book, Twilight, from Edward Cullen's point of view. The...
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...by the fact that Twilight boasts easily some of the worst writing and editing I've ever seen. Let's not forget about the horrid VFX and pasty makeup, either. It's one of the cheesiest films of the year, and can definitely be put in the category of "so bad it's ALMOST good". Yes, I just invented that category. The 'allure' of the film appears to be the character played by Robert Pattinson, who ironically was previously known for his role in the Harry Potter series. Pattinson succeeded there and he more than succeeds again, as he more than fit the bill for what he needed to do with the character. Most actors would believe the only requirement of the character is to be good looking, but Pattinson takes it a step further and makes Edward Cullen very likable, trustworthy, and in the end, a good hero for the audience. Kristen Stewart is sort of the queen of not showing facial...
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...Twilight Twilight is a vampire romance novel written by Stephanie Meyer. It was published in 2005. Twilight is the first book of the twilight series. The main characters' in this book are, Isabella "Bella" swan, Edward Cullen, Charlie, Renée, Jacob Black, and James. Twilight is about Bella a seventeen year old girl who moved away from sunny Phoenix, Arizona to wet and rainy Forks, Washington. Bella moved away from phoenix where she lived with her mother Renée and stepfather Phil. Phil enrolled in a baseball camp in Florida, and Renée wants to go with Phil but Bella didn't want to. So instead she moved in with her biological father Charlie in forks. isn't so bad in fact it has its perks. Her father bought her first truck that she really liked, she has her own room, and her father doesn't hover over like her mother did. Bella's new school isn't too bad either, she made friends easily and the boys seemed to like her a lot in fact they would try and catch her attention every chance they could. But Bella was not interested in any of the boys at school accept from one and his name was Edward Cullen. And it turns out that he liked her but for all the wrong reasons. The only thing he was interested was her blood. After a few weeks Bella figured out that Edward was a vampire so she decided she was going to confront him and so she did. So when she saw him arriving at school she walked into him then looked up and walked away into the woods and Bella said to him “ I know what you...
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...We walked into class thinking it would be a regular boring Tuesday, but then we walked into Mrs. Draper's class and saw a handsome stranger on the board. The stranger was Mrs. Tammy Chaffin, our librarian, son, Cullen Chaffin. Cullen Chaffin is an actor/actor in the making. He is a college student and is twenty years old. We began by asking Cullen questions, we asked how he got into acting and he said he has not always wanted to become an actor, he wanted to be a bus driver but his parents said no; therefor, he decided to never make any money and become an actor. Cullens inspiration is his sister because she is an actress. His role models are his closest friends that he has met at school, because they have gone off and been successful. Cullen...
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...WATER He was gone. Love, life, meaning…over. My life was torn apart just seconds after he tried convincing me that he was not the right one for me. His word felt like a hole that was punched right through my chest. My vampire boyfriend, Edward Cullen had left me. It all happened so quickly remembered the night before, the Cullens were celebrating my birthday, when one of the Cullen family’s most feared incident of happening happened to me, occurred. Jasper, Edward’s brother, almost killed me when he smelt the drop of blood that oozed out of a paper cut I received when I was opening a gift. And now, they were gone. He was gone. They had left me. Alone. Little did they know that they had left me, unprotected, from the red-haired vampire, Victoria, who was out to get me. It was months until I realized that the love of my life was gone…forever. My best friend, Jacob Black, was there for me when I was alone or whenever I felt very down. Soon the hole I had in my chest felt as if it was healing. It was very comforting to have Jacob around. We did so many activities together that made me keep my mind off Edward. Then, one day, when I was doing something reckless, I heard a voice. A familiar, beautiful voice, soft like velvet even though it was irate. It was his voice. Edward’s. My muscles locked in place, froze me where I stood. Was I hallucinating? Soon I found out that whenever I did anything reckless, Edward appeared in every situation. Jacob promised that he would take me...
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...society. These two people came together no differently than any normal human beings get together in high school, with mutual interests, like their knowledge of biology and their taste in music. Twilight encourages abstinence until marriage, and although the final novel, Breaking Dawn, has some underlying sexual themes, they purely pertain to the plot and are not described in scenes, only referenced to. Still, the books are far cleaner than what’s found in other books written for the same age range, television, movies, and magazines. The relationship between Bella and Edward is based on mostly compassion instead of the physical relationship that is portrayed on television. The media argues that all Twilight readers are infatuated with Edward Cullen, and buff hard body Jacob, yet most of the readers of the Twilight saga are not unhealthily obsessed with the characters or actors portraying them. Celebrity fixation has always been a part of teen culture, and hasn’t every generation had a teen heartthrob, do we remember, Elvis, Shawn Cassidy, The Beetles, New Kids of the Block? The New York Times review stated, "The premise of Twilight is attractive and compelling — who hasn't fantasized about unearthly love with a beautiful stranger? Many readers love the books for their entertainment value and the...
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...There is a new war happening all over the world, but it is not world war three. It is a war that is waging between the fans of two extremely popular book series that have also made their way to the big screen and in to our homes. The fans of the Harry potter series and the fans of The Twilight Saga are feuding over which one is better. I have seen words thrown back and forth on social media sites such as facebook and twitter that you would think would belong to people arguing over some important political issue or something along those lines. Harry Potter and Twilight are two of the biggest selling franchises and should both be treated equally by the fans of either. Harry Potter is a seven book series written by author J.K. Rowling that takes place in Europe, in a magical fantasy version of today’s reality. The series targets older children and young adults, but has grown into a phenomenal fad that has fans from one to one hundred. The story follows a young boy, Harry Potter, throughout his years at a school for witchcraft and wizardry. The story line has ups and downs, twists and turns and details that bring the world of Harry Potter to life right in front of your eyes. The Twilight Saga is a four book series written by author Stephanie Meyer that takes place in Forks, Washington. This series targets a little older audience than Harry Potter does, reaching out to teenage readers and older. While the fan base for this series might not reach as young of a crowd, it definitely...
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