“Harlem” by Langston Hughes describes the oppression of African Americans back then. Major themes in it included delay, sadness, and dreams.
I don’t know what you view the American identity as so I’ll give you a few questions about your perspective that you can fill in. What do you view yourself as? Do you identify as an American or would you call yourself something else. What culture do you belong in?
Finally, to summarize state what your identify has in-common to Langston Hughes poem. One thing you could do is say you also pursue your dreams in hope of it successfully occurring.
a billion people, two-thirds of them women, will enter the 21st century unable to read a book or write their names,” warns UNICEF in a new report, “The State of the World’s Children 1999.”
UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, points out that the illiterate “live in more desperate poverty and poorer health” than those who can read and write. The shocking number — 1 billion people illiterate — generated frightening headlines in major newspapers.
Poverty in the poorest countries is indeed something that ought to concern all of us, especially in a season when we pause to remember the less fortunate. But as usual, there’s more to this striking statistic than UNICEF tells us. Consider three points.
The Good News. Bad news sells, news watchers tell us. And 1 billion people unable to read and write — about 16 percent of world population — is certainly bad news. But let’s deconstruct the news.
First, UNICEF’s actual number is 855 million, a figure that did not appear in major newspapers. That’s still a large number, but it is 15 percent less than 1 billion.
The answer is C, they present the problem in the first part of the sentence (rather than...) and provide a solution in the second half.
