what awards did langston hughes achieve?
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rare artist who has won awards for both poetry and and film making.
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You ever tried the classics like... Shakespeare  also  Edgar Allen Poe  is awesome\nI love William shakespeare's sonnets
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He won it by writing a number of books that the selection committee had great respect for and thought were especially notable. The wording they used in the award was "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception."
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Elbert Frank Cox (December 5, 1895–November 28, 1969) was an American mathematician who became the first black person in the world to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. He spent most of his life as a professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he was known as an excellent teacher. During his life, he overcame various difficulties which arose because of his race. In his honor, the National Association of Mathematicians established the Cox-Talbert-Address, which is annually handed out at the NAM's national meetings. The Elbert F. Cox Scholarship Fund, which is used to help black students pursue studies, is named in his honor as wel
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I also have a list given to me by a college bound program I attended. I'll name several (it has more than 20):\n\nAnimal Farm, George Orwell\nBrave New World, Aldous Huxley\nFahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury\nLord of the Flies, William Golding\nGreat Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald\nScarlet Letter, Nathaniel Harthorne\nSiddhartha, Herman Hesse\nTo Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee\nPride and Prejudice, Jane Austen\n\nI also provided a link in sources where there are many others. Enjoy :]
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Actually, he got the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the photoelectric effect, which showed light to be a particle.  That more or less ushered in most of modern physics...
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Writers\nZora Neale Hurston, novelist, anthropologist \nNella Larsen, novelist \nLangston Hughes, poet \nJessie Fauset, editor, poet, essayist and novelist \nCountee Cullen, poet \nClaude McKay, poet \nJames Weldon Johnson, poet \nArna Bontemps, poet
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I was going to say the exact same.  Ghandi!  Fantastic leader, interesting journey and a lot of things to find to research him.  \nAlso Nelson Mandala, he's still alive today.  Not sure if that's criteria or not...\nAlso, Albert Einstein!  He's lead an interesting life to say the least, and theres plenty of ways you could write an essay on him\nGood luck!
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She was a black slave who was also a great poet. Her slave masters allowed her to learn how to read and write. her poetry bacame very famous and ultimately allowed her to gain her freedom. Her biography is pretty amazing!
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First Black wins Pulitzer Prize for photography \nOn this date in 1969, Moneta Sleet became the first African-American photographer awarded the Pulitzer Prize for journalism. \n\nPulitzer Prize winner: Gwendolyn Brooks, 1950, won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry.
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Oscar Wilde - Charmides, Requiescat, San Miniato, Rome Unvisited, Humanitad\n\nAlfred, Lord Tennyson - Enoch Arden, Aylmer's Field, Sea Dreams, The Grandmother, Northern Farmer\n\nWilfred Owen - Strange Meeting, Greater Love, Apologia pro Poemate Meo, The Show, Mental Cases\n\nRudyard Kipling - TO WOLCOTT BALESTIER, To T. A, DANNY DEEVER, TOMMY, FUZZY-WUZZY\n\nJohn Keats - The Eve of St. Agnes, Fancy, The Human Seasons, Hyperion, If by Dull Rhymes our English must be Chain'd
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http://members.aol.com/olatou/hughes.htm\n\nhttp://www.who2.com/langstonhughes.html\n\nhttp://www.redhotjazz.com/hughes.html
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"Presidential material, through and through!\nAfter reading the enclosed story "The Pet Goat," I was stunned by its lyrical beauty and easy cadence. The tempo, the choice of words, and the layout on each page captured my imagination so much that it took me about seven minutes to recover my bearings."\n\n---Amazon Reviewer "Lolla Fallujah" (FIVE STARS!)\n\ncopy/paste
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hm. check out gwendolyn brooks, she was the first black to win a pullitzer. "the bean eaters" (1960) was full of poems about racial injustice.\n\nrita dove comes to mind as well.\n\ntry langston hughes "theme for english b" poem . good stuff!!
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http://www.classicalgas.com/awards.html
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Similie This is pretty straightforward.\n\nCheck out T.S. Eliot. http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html has some of his work.  My favorite is in the first stanza of "The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock."
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Ooh - so many to choose from: \n\nJames Joyce, Samuel Beckett, the Duke of Wellington, Brian Boru, Padraig Pearce, William Butler Yeats, Wolfe Tone, Daniel O'Connell, Charles Stuart Parnell, Michael Collins, Saint Columba, Tom Crean, Ernest Shackleton, Bram Stoker, Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde etc.\n\nTo Irish people, Daniel O'Connell is one of the most famous. Worldwide, I would think that James Joyce is better known.