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  • Opal's Greenwood Oasis; A Black Wall Street lesson with a Children's Book
    Text taken directly from the Publisher; 
    Calliope Group. 
    "The year is 1921, and Opal Brown would like to show you around her beautiful neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Filled with busy stores and happy families, Opal also wants you to know that "everyone looks like me."
    In both words and illustrations, this carefully researched and historically accurate book allows children to experience the joys and success of Greenwood, one of the most prosperous Black communities of the early 20th Century, an area Booker T. Washington dubbed America's Black Wall Street.
    Soon after the day narrated by Opal, Greenwood would be lost in the Tulsa Race Massacre, the worst act of racial violence in American history. As we approach the centennial of that tragic event, children have the opportunity through this book to learn and celebrate all that was built in Greenwood."
    https://bookshop.org/books/opal-s-greenwood-oasis/9781733647441
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    6 min
  • Black Wall Street Lost and Found
    The beauty of Black Wall Street and the influential and wealthy community and the pain that was left and hidden.  Why do we continue to hide from our truth as Americans? We continue to hide away from history because many, who have written and lived on the history of superiority are not ready for the harsh reality of their past racist behaviors beyond slavery.  We are ashamed to see our scars and many want to continue to believe they have superiority and that racism is only alive if we keep brining it up. Allow our children the truth, the harsh and bitter truth.  Also included is an introduction to a book for educators to help guide the conversation and teaching our children our True American History and giving African and Native American's a voice, their rightful heritage as Americans.
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    15 min
  • An introduction to the children's book Opal's Greenwood Oasis

    A brief introduction and explanation of the book designed to help educators start conversations on a community that once flourished and ran in an eloquent and upscale way beyond what the history books tell us.  Greenwood In Tulsa Oklahoma in the 1900's to May 31st of 1921, 

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    7 min
  • Emily Bronte' and the analysis of Wuthering Heights, the first wave of feminism and the love/passion of the characters; Catherine and Heathcliff

    A literary analysis of the Gothic/Romantic Novel written by  Emily Bronte'. The connection of the single novel written by a young literary artist during the Victorian Period and the pre-feminist period. Two years prior to Emily's book, that was originally a flop, the proto-feminism wave had begun, and soon after Wuthering Heights would be a novel considered throughout the ages. 

    Charlotte Ballet.org states the following examples of Withering Heights in Pop culture;

     "Though the novel is now considered a literary classic, Emily Brontë did not receive such praise at the time of its publishing. Wuthering Heights shocked the public, and critics mentioned it could not have possibly be written by a women. Being rejected by publishers, Brontë had to self-publish the 1847 novel and use a male name, Ellis Bell, as the author. The next year, 1848, she died at age 30 from tuberculosis, thinking that her book was a failure." 

    https://charlotteballet.org/2017/04/07/wuthering-heights-in-pop-culture/

    "The first “bad boy” of literature | Author, Christina Bartholomeo’s states Heathcliff is an unforgettable archetype and “is the original “bad boy”; without him, so many great bad boys of literature might not exist, from Dracula to Jay Gatsby to James Dean.”

    The Twilight Series – Eclipse | Stephanie Meyer, the author of the popular Twilight Saga novels, drew inspiration from each book in the series from literary classics: Twilight on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, New Moon on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Eclipse on Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, and Breaking Dawn on A Midsummer Night’s Dream. here are also many allusions to Wuthering Heights in her novels. Bella says it is her favorite novel and is worn out from reading it so much. In Eclipse, Bella and Edward both compare themselves to Catherine and Heathcliff of Wuthering Heights, as the love triangle between the two and Jacob relate to that off Catherine, Heathcliff and Edgar.

    Special Guest, Ella Han from Beijing.   Ella will read a poem that she wrote in reflection to the poetry Emily Bronte has written as well as her famous novel, Wuthering Heights. I will give a brief analysis of the love and passion that Bronte builds to cause friction, revenge, resentment, love and passion with the theme of the story, the four seasons.  How would you compare each of the love relationships to one of the four seasons?  Please take the time to view the website where the Bronte Parsonage Museum shares the literary legacy of the Brontes.  https://www.bronte.org.uk/about-us

    In addition credits go to;

    Litcharts.com, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emily-Bronte, https://www.bartleby.com/essay/Feminist-Ideas-in-Emily-Brontes-Wuthering-Heights-FK83ES5H3GEZ, 

    25 min
  • 1984 Part 3 Book 2

    1984 continues to the end of Book 2.

      An analysis of 1984 sharing direct quotes from the text by George Orwell, analysis points from Litcharts.  and a shared clip from BBC news, https://youtu.be/EuVYvkdTYWc

    Clip from "Pattern Integrity Films"  speaking; George Carlin 

    Manipulating the past, creating fear and hatred out of nothing, and wiping out the existence of individuals; reality control once been applied will demolish people’s freedom. In 1984 Oceania built a dictatorship of totalitarianism. The party rules with fear, brainwash, and manipulation. History may be regarded as truth from the past, but it sometimes can also be a means to convey ideology or patriotism in modern society. If the government wants their citizens to remember a defeat in history that was shameful they will write accordingly in the textbook, so the next generation can hold the same agreement. The extreme measure of manipulating history is described by George Orwell as reality control in the book.

    25 min
  • 1984 Part 2

    1984 continues to the end of Book 1.  An analysis of 1984 sharing direct quotes from the text by George Orwell, analysis points from Litcharts.  and a shared video from BBC news, https://youtu.be/EuVYvkdTYWc 

    Manipulating the past, creating fear and hatred out of nothing, and wiping out the existence of individuals; reality control once been applied will demolish people’s freedom. In 1984 Oceania built a dictatorship of totalitarianism. The party rules with fear, brainwash, and manipulation. History may be regarded as truth from the past, but it sometimes can also be a means to convey ideology or patriotism in modern society. If the government wants their citizens to remember a defeat in history that was shameful they will write accordingly in the textbook, so the next generation can hold the same agreement. The extreme measure of manipulating history is described by George Orwell as reality control in the book.


    19 min
  • 1984 George Orwell Ch. 1-4

    Manipulating the past, creating fear and hatred out of nothing, and wiping out the existence of individuals; reality control once been applied will demolish people’s freedom. In 1984 Oceania built a dictatorship of totalitarianism. The party rules with fear, brainwash, and manipulation. History may be regarded as truth from the past, but it sometimes can also be a means to convey ideology or patriotism in modern society. If the government wants their citizens to remember a defeat in history that was shameful they will write accordingly in the textbook, so the next generation can hold the same agreement. The extreme measure of manipulating history is described by George Orwell as reality control in the book. 

    13 min
  • Join me each week with music and literature.
    With just a kiss we will explore music and literature each week. I hope to bring joy to your day, calmness to your night, passion to your heart. Literature that expands our minds and music that reaches the soul is one way to identify with your truth in this journey we call life. I hope you will join me.
    1 min

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All The Beautiful Letters focuses on the love of books and the importance of literacy in search of the literary binge. The host has a MaEd in English and is a credentialed Literary Specialist, with a…