ESSAY: EXPLORING THE SELF AND THE SOCIAL CHANGES THAT SHAPE IT

The self is a concept that we are more than we appear, and that the self is a singular concept which is either a spiritualistic entity such as a soul, a purely biological and physical entity such as the human anatomy and body or that we are a mental kinetic force that transcends full understand such as the human mind and personality.

         In this project various opinions will be gathered to try and form a cohesive argument for why the self is the latter of the three above options. Using theories of celebrated great minds and an analysis on radical social change in the modern era the self should be dissected and analysed to be the personality and not the other two entities with reasons provided.

ESSAY: SONG FOR A DARK GIRL

Poetry Analysis

Song for a Dark Girl is a poem written by Langston Hughes that describes the scene of a black girl who discovers the body of her lover battered, beaten and hung from a tree in the ‘Black Belt’ region of Southern America.

Way Down South in Dixie

(Break the heart of me)

They hung my black young lover

To a cross roads tree.

The poem begins every first line of a stanza with the same line which has a mood which is commonly associated with Blues music. This fits perfectly within the time period the poem was written (1927) and also coincides with what was popular within black culture at the time.

ESSAY: BARACK OBAMA AND THE REVOLVING DOOR OF THE AMERICAN DREAM

The election of Barack Obama was ear marked as a cornerstone in American politics and in the American nation as a whole. The campaign’s foundations were a simple one-word promise: Change.

            There are two sides to Obama’s speech, as there are to most things. The first feeling invoked by reading the speech is a powerful force of the people’s voice calling for the reform of their country, but with that sweet sentiment comes the sour. Towards the end of the speech he speaks about reclaiming the American Dream and for something to be reclaimed it must be lost or hijacked, and it has been both. So at the centre of this hope swelling speech comes the ugly truth that even now America has failed to realise one of the foundations on which the nation was founded.