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Assignment:
Can you answer two (2) of the following questions (making certain, as always, to reference and analyze specific lines as argumentative support):
1.) What argument does Lorna Dee Cervantes' "Refugee Ship" make about cultural assimilation?
2.) What argument does Mark Turcotte's "Battlefield" make about cultural assimilation?
3.) What argument does June Jordan's "Poem About My Rights" make about being black and female in the United States?
4.) Does Langston Hughes' "Harlem" make a specific argument? Why is the poem entitled "Harlem"? If you decide to answer this question, be sure to keep in mind that the poem was published in 1951.
5.) Langston Hughes' "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is one of the most famous poems in the English language. Choose two lines from the poem and explain their relevance to the poem as a whole.
This is a separate question
Identify a consistent issue or theme in all three of Alyan's poems. Be sure, in the process, to make reference to specific lines from each piece.
- Read Hala Alyan's "Honeymoon" (locate online)
- Read Hala Alyan's "Oklahoma" (locate online)
- Read Hala Alyan's "Meals" (locate online)