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  Christina Woodson Professor Mannone English 211 2 February 2022 Whitman Answered The Call Ralph Waldo Emerson was a renowned essayist whose works continue to astonish world readers every day. He was an advocate for the ideas of self-reliance, beauty in nature, and treating this life as a gift in all ways possible. Though he was able to convey those ideas thoughtfully and persistently in his essays, there came a time when he wanted and encouraged a new voice in American Literature. In his essay, The Poet , he beckons that there should be a new poet who is “The sayer, the namer, and represents beauty… a beholder of ideas, and an utterer of the necessary and casual.” Walt Whitman began writing Song Of Myself a little over ten years later, immediately portraying a direct answer to Emerson’s request. The influence of Emerson is scattered throughout the whole poem and is a work that is consistent with the ideas that society should consider and take more into consideration. Through di...

Christina Woodson Professor Saunders English 380 19 April 2023 Cultural Appropriations and the Adjustments Made Through Socioeconomic Changes Percival Everrett’s work The Appropriation of Cultures presents an interesting perspective on how economic value functions, primarily in the South, and how it moves around race, even when least expected. The protagonist of the story, Daniel, is put in the circumstance to purchase a truck with a racist adornment from a, presumably racist white couple. Through the course of the story, there are multiple examples and instances where it is implied that, if not for Daniel’s access to wealth, the juxtaposing white couple’s absolute lack of wealth, and economic need, the situation would not be able to present itself or advance further in the actual sale of the truck. Considering these ideas, seeing how the functionality of economic status prevents and hinders this white couple from being able to have more access or say in who they are selling their truc...