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He said that the power of resilience presented in the poem is a hope Walker holds out not only to black people but to all people, to "all the Adams and Eves." [ 11 ] Walker's second published book (and only novel), Jubilee (1966), is the story of a slave family during and after the Civil War , and is based on her great-grandmother's life. [ 12 ]
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse is a 1927 book of poems by James Weldon Johnson patterned after traditional African-American religious oratory. African-American scholars Henry Louis Gates and Cornel West have identified the collection as one of Johnson's two most notable works, the other being Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man .
The James Watt collection includes "plans and letters written by James Watt, tools and items used by him and images of him in the form of paintings, sculpture, prints and books." [ 3 ] [ dead link ] Also featured is a history of Inverclyde , a Maritime Transport collection, social history material, and exhibitions of Scottish and British ...
It is stylised as a poem describing the deaths of 26 children, with the initials of their first names corresponding with each consecutive letter of the alphabet. (For instance, "A is for Amy who fell down the stairs." and "D is for Desmond thrown out of a sleigh.") The book's instructive quality is in teaching the alphabet using a mnemonic device.
A number of his poems and books are war-related. [3] I Bind My Heart this Tide (hymn - 1907) The Tryst: A Book of the Soul (1907) Scottish Life and Poetry (1912) In the Land of War (1915) The Soldier's Friend (1916) The Heart of a Soldier (1918) The Gordon Highlanders (1918) While the Candle Burns (1933) Scottish Ballads and Ballad Writing; The ...
Christian Watt was born in 1833 in Broadsea, in the fishertown of Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire. [1] She was the seventh of eight children of her parents, James Watt (1787–1868), fisherman, and Helen Noble (1788–1860), [2] and their only daughter. [3] At the age of eight, Watt worked as a domestic servant, and in 1843 she became a maid to ...
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on af.wikipedia.org James Watt; Usage on ar.wikipedia.org جيمس واط; Usage on arz.wikipedia.org
James Watt (1736–1819) was a Scottish engineer and inventor of a revolutionary new steam engine. James or Jim Watt may also refer to: James Watt junior (1769–1848), Scottish engineer, businessman and activist; James Cromar Watt (1862–1940), Scottish artist, architect and jeweller