Part one of term paper
Maya Angelou has become a national celebrity since she read her poem, "On the Pulse of the Morning," at the inauguration of President Clinton. Before that, she was probably best known for her autobiographical s. What is it about Angelou's writing that is attractive to so many people? In large part, Maya Angelou's success as a writer is due to ...

Part two of term paper
... slips into banality when she abandons them, which is frequently the case in her poetry. The African-American traditions that Angelou uses so well can be traced from Africa to America through cultural traditions, music, and religion. At an English-as-Second-Language workshop I attended at Metro State University in St. Paul, Dr. Beverly Hill discussed how writers from different cultures often have distinct rhetorical traditions on which they base their writing. One of the examples she used was the o ...