Sandra Cisneros's short story "Woman Hollering Creek," and "Still I Rise," a poem by Maya Angelou both make statements about race, power, and gender in America. Cisneros is a Chicano author and Maya Angelou is an African-American author and poet. B Continue Reading...
structure and content of the outline met the objectives of the assignment. I narrowed down the topic further to differentiate between Angelou and Cisneros because I recognized that Angelou sends her readers an optimistic message of self-empowerment, Continue Reading...
Down These Mean Streets believe that every child is born a poet, and every poet is a child. Poetry to me was always a very sacred form of expression. (qtd. In Fisher 2003) Introduction / Background History Born Juan Pedro Tomas, of Puerto Rican and Continue Reading...
