Discuss how "Cora Unashamed" reflects Hughes' desire to write "to, for, and about" black Americans. Be sure to use specific textual evidence from the story.

In the story "Cora Unashamed," Langston Hughes touches on the subject of the Black experience. He discusses how conditions are for African Americans at the turn of the century. Moreover, Hughes shows that, although slavery has been abolished, equality is far from being realized.

Hughes writes "to, for, and about" black Americans in various ways. First, he talks about an experience that would have been familiar to many African Americans at that time: that of working for a white family. Moreover, many people would have been able to identify with the treatment that Cora got (“She worked for the Studevants, who treated her like a dog”) and with the love that she develops for the white child she takes care of (“But the child was hers- a living bridge between two worlds”). It is also a story written "for" African Americans, as Hughes shows them a role model worth admiring. Cora is passionate, brave and strong, as Hughes would wish all African Americans to be (“Cora was humble and shameless... and she didn’t care what the white people said”).

industrialization in great britain began with the global 'industrial revolution', a pioneer. industrialization in russia was the last in europe, a laggard.

great britain’s industrialization was driven by individual citizens, while russia’s was guided by the government.

wordsworth tends to see nature as 'out there'; a presence which surrounds humans, and contributes to human life, but is different from humans. if you look at a typical wordsworth poem (there was a boy, ye knew him well ye rocks) - wordsworth talks about nature as something that needs to be learned about and understood, nature is different from us.  

if you look at a byron poem (the isles of greece is a good one) - byron looks at nature mainly for what it already means to man. wordsworth will look at a landscape and see the mountains, trees, valleys, and rivers as almost spiritual presences - wordsworth wants to get to know nature.  

byron will look at the same landscape and he will want to know who lives there, what are the villages? are there any farms or mines, is there some history?  

wordsworth looks at nature for what it is; byron is forever asking what it means.  

wordsworth thinks that humans are part of nature; byron thinks that nature is part of being human