Samuel Doku
Contributing Writer
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Professor Samuel O. Doku is a lecturer in Freshman English Composition at Howard University. Before switching professions to become a full time lecturer, Doku was a seasoned journalist with the Washington Informer newspaper in the nation's capital.
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A Grammar Lesson on Adjectives and Adverbs
Many college students enter their freshman year unsure and unsettled about the importance of grammar. This is the second part of the parts of speech lesson.
Jan 7, 2011
- Samuel Doku
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A Grammar Lesson on Parts of Speech
Many college freshmen enter their first semester confused and unsettled about the importance of grammar as such. This lesson is designed to help them.
Jan 7, 2011
- Samuel Doku
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Master Sentence Variety and Avoid Comma Splices in Your Essays
Across many college campuses today, writing excellently and effectively is a dilemma for many students. What should we do about it? Just read on!
Jan 7, 2011
- Samuel Doku
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Hurston's "Drenched in Light" Is a Dispersion of Joy
Hurston's "Drenched in Light" is one of the few African American short stories with a child protagonist to dismantle picaninny imageries.
Jan 5, 2011
- Samuel Doku
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Hurston's Jonah's Gourd Vine, an African American Allegory
Hurston's debut novel, Jonah's Gourd Vine, is a revision of life in the rustic South where the law of civiliter mortuus was extant during Reconstruction.
Jan 5, 2011
- Samuel Doku
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Poetic Justice in Zora Neale Hurston's Short Story, "Spunk"
Spunk is a ghost story in which Hurston illustrates that the teleological and ontological miasma of violence is death.
Jan 5, 2011
- Samuel Doku
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Loud Dreaming as an Agent of Death in Toni Morrison's Sula
Toni Morrison's Sula is a tall cautionary tale that seemingly redeems the novel's characters through death because of their moral turpitude.
Jan 2, 2011
- Samuel Doku
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Subversion in Ishmael Reed's, Mumbo Jumbo
Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo is a satire that critiques residual thoughts embedded in ethnocentrism and questions Western identity of supremacy.
Jan 2, 2011
- Samuel Doku
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Re-Fashioning Homophobic Bigotry in Giovanni's Room
Set in France and published in 1956, Baldwin's Giovanni's Room is evocative and provocative; indeed, it is homoerotic love gone tragically awry.
Jan 2, 2011
- Samuel Doku
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Are Computers Oxymoronic? The Demerits of Computers and Writing
Some critics have argued that obsession with computers is seriously blurring the writing and thinking abilities of our students.
Dec 16, 2010
- Samuel Doku
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