4. Review the hip-hop lyrics in the Vernacular Tradition section in the textbook and/or the hip-hop videos posted in the Week 13 module. Then compare and contrast the
development of the theme of bravado there with Angelou's development of that theme in
“And Still I Rise" and "Phenomenal Woman" alongside Lucille Clifton's "Homage to
Hips”. What specific constructs does Angelou and Clifton share with this African
American literary tradition (hip-hop)? In what ways does their gender necessitate a
revision of the "bad man” rappers and DJs?

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henry david thoreau and ralph warren emerson earned the name transcendentalists.you could assume that transcendentalists come from a well educated background from people that were alive before the american civil war.these people, mostly new englanders, mostly around boston, were attempting to create a uniquely american body of literature. it was already decades since the americans had won independence from england. and so they deliberately went about creating literature, essays, novels, philosophy, poetry, and other writing that were clearly different from anything from england, france, germany, or any other european nation.another way to look at the transcendentalists is to see them as a generation of people struggling to define spirituality and religion in a way that took into account the new understandings their age made available.

there is no image, how are we supposed to ? *shakes my head*