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388. DSC 251- Harlem Renaissance (1)

The Harlem Renaissance. Harlem Renaissance: Harlem in New York city in North America brought thousands of blacks from the South because of New York's economic prosperity. They brought their art, music and literature and Harlem became the cultural capital of the world.  1910-30s saw the African American artists, writers, visual artists, and intellectuals, broke barriers and soared to new heights. Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston demanded equality through their writings and black culture stirred the blacks. Jazz legends like Duke Wellington and Louis Armstrong, Aron Douglas an artist together filled the air with same vibes. They were victims of black sufferings and they wanted to share their music and art with the world. Blues and Jazz got best space here and spread to the whole world. It was also political movement. Du Bois was a political writer. Together it reshaped American literature. But racial segregation continued. Riots broke out. Literature : A True Relation of Virginia ...
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387. DSC 251- From the Arrival of the Puritans till The Framing of the Constitution, Lincoln and the Civil War (5)

1. Chronology of American History: Puritans to Harlem Renaissance Colonial Period (1620-1763) The Puritan migration began in 1620 when the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock, carrying religious separatists seeking freedom from Anglican persecution. These settlers established a covenant-based community governed by the Mayflower Compact, America's first written framework for self-government. The Massachusetts Bay Colony followed in 1630 under John Winthrop, who envisioned a "city upon a hill" as a moral example to the world. Throughout the 17th century, English colonies expanded along the Atlantic coast. Virginia developed as a tobacco-based economy reliant on indentured servants and increasingly on enslaved Africans after 1619. New England focused on small farming, fishing, and trade, while the Middle Colonies became centers of commerce and religious diversity. By the 1700s, colonial society had developed distinct regional identities while remaining under British authority....
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386. DSC 251- Because I could not stop for death (1)

1. Critical appreciation "Because I could not stop for death" is written by Emily Dickinson who had very radical views upon life and death. She was one of the most famous poem who ever lived in 19th century America. She chosed a life of seclusion not mixing with many people. She never married and spent her life reading and writing rigorously. But most of her poems were discovered after her death and published by her sister. She was greatly influenced by metaphysical poetry. She was greatly influenced by metaphysical poetry. Her life was very short. She was born in 1830 and died in 1886. But within this short span she developed unique poetry with her own signature style- utilising short sentences loaded with extensive meanings. Her topics were life, death, and immortality. These same topics also made her poetry very controversial. Critics engaged in huge discussions over just one line of her poem. The title of the poem is actually the first line of the poem. So, the unnamed p...
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385. DSC 252- The Old Man and the Sea (2)

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Model-37: AEC101 Dec 2025. 1ST Sem

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Model 35- DSM 101 December 2025

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Model 50: DSC 102. (British Drama) Dec 2025

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