Maya Angelou was an African American

who was born as Marguerite Johnson on

April 4th, 1928. She lived with her grandma,
her cripples uncle and brother. Her
grandma began a business of selling hot
meals to workers and eventually built the
Johnson Grocery store serving both whites
and blacks. She was taught values and faith
from a young age. Angelou had a difficult
childhood. Her parents split up when she was
very young, and she and her older brother,
Bailey, were sent to live with their father's
She also suffered at the hands of a family
associate around the age of 7: During a visit
with her mother, Angelou was raped by her
mother's boyfriend. As vengeance for the sexual assault, Angelou's uncles killed the boyfriend. So
traumatized by the experience, Angelou stopped talking. This early life is the focus of her first
autobiographical work, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969; TV movie 1979), which gained
critical acclaim and a National Book Award nomination. During World War II, Angelou moved to San
Francisco, California. She attended San Francisco’s Labour School on a scholarship to study art and
drama. However, she pulled out at the age of 14 to become San Francisco’s first African-American
female cable car conductor. She had a child just after she left high school and supported him by
working as a waitress and cook. She then soon becomes a writer and poet. Maya Angelou face racism,
single parenting, over-coming poverty, seeking higher education, creating wealth, living through and
participating in the civil rights movement. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays,
several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning
over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. She died 28th May
2014 as  a celebrated poet, memoirist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and
civil rights activist. As a civil rights activist, Angelou worked for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and
Malcolm X. She was also an educator and served as the Reynolds professor of American Studies at
Wake Forest University.

Poem- Equality
In the poem 'Equality' by Maya Angelo, the theme of equality and racism is conveyed through the use
of metaphors and repetition. In the poem 'Equality' by Maya Angelo, the theme of equality and racism
is conveyed through the use of metaphors and repetition. All she wants is to be free to be her own
person and the only way that can happen is if everyone else accepts equality and treats other races
equally. "Caged Bird" was published in Maya Angelou's 1983 poetry collection Shaker, Why
Don't You Sing? The poem describes the opposing experiences between two birds: one bird is able to
live in nature as it pleases, while a different caged bird suffers in captivity. Due to its profound
suffering, the caged bird sings, both to cope with its circumstances and to express its own longing for
freedom. Using the extended metaphor of the two birds, Angelou paints a critical portrait of
oppression in which she illuminates the privilege and entitlement of the un-oppressed, and conveys the
simultaneous experience of suffering and emotional resilience. In particular, the poem's extended
metaphor can be seen as portraying the experience of being a member of the African American
community.
Bob Dylan was born on May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota. He is an American singer-songwriter,
author and visual artist. Widely regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been
a major figure in popular culture for more than 50 years. As a teenager, he played in various bands and
with time his interest in music deepened, with a particular passion for American folk music and blues.
Bob moved from folk to rock music in the 1960s, infusing the lyrics of rock and roll with the
intellectualism of classic literature and poetry. Hailed as the Shakespeare of his generation, Dylan sold
tens of millions of albums, wrote more than 500 songs recorded by more than 2,000 artists, performed
all over the world, and set the standard for lyric writing. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 2016. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when songs such as
"Blowin' in the Wind" (1963) and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" (1964) became anthems for
the civil rights and anti-war movements. His lyrics during this period incorporated a range of political,
social, philosophical, and literary influences, defied pop music conventions and appealed to the
burgeoning counterculture.
"Masters of War" is a song by Bob Dylan, written over the winter of 1962–63 and released on the
album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan in the spring of 1963. The song's melody was adapted from
the traditional "Nottamun Town". Dylan's lyrics are a protest against the Cold War nuclear arms build-
up of the early 1960s.[3]
"Blowin' in the Wind" is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1962, and released as a single and included
on his album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan in 1963. It has been described as a protest song, and poses a
series of rhetorical questions about peace, war, and freedom. 

Nobel foundation

Alfred Nobel had a vision of a better world. He believed that people are capable of helping to improve
society through knowledge, science and humanism. This is why he created a prize that would reward
the discoveries that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has
been awarded in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace, while a
memorial prize in economic sciences was added in 1968.
The economic foundations for the Nobel Prize were laid in 1895, when Alfred Nobel signed his last
will and left much of his wealth to the establishment of a prize and the subsequent Nobel Foundation,
which is tasked with a mission to manage his fortune and has ultimate responsibility for fulfilling the
intentions of Nobel's will. In accordance with the instructions Nobel left through his will, various
independent prize-awarding institutions have selected Nobel Laureates in each prize category for more
than a century.

Today, there are also several outreach organisations and activities that have been developed to inspire
generations and disseminate knowledge about the Nobel Prize through events, exhibitions, educational
efforts and digital outreach.
Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian (an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is
totalitarian or post-apocalyptic.)novel by American writer Ray Bradbury, first published in 1953. Often regarded as one of his
best works,[4] the novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found.
[5]
 The book's tagline explains the title as "'the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns": the autoignition
temperature of paper. The lead character, Guy Montag, is a fireman who becomes disillusioned with his role of censoring
literature and destroying knowledge, eventually quitting his job and committing himself to the preservation of literary and
cultural writings.

The story takes place in an unspecified city in a distant future. The protagonist, Guy Montag, is a fireman whose job is to
burn down houses in which books have been discovered. After leaving work one day, he meets Clarisse, a teenaged girl who
enjoys nature and asks if he is happy. At home, he finds that his wife, Mildred, has swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills in a
suicide attempt. After he calls for help, two men arrive and revive her. The next morning, she behaves as though nothing
happened and watches as usual the programs on the television screens that make up three of the parlour walls. Montag and
the cheerful Clarisse begin talking regularly, until one day she is not outside waiting for him; he eventually learns that she
was killed by a speeding car. Later, when the firemen are sent to burn down the house of an elderly woman, Montag takes
her Bible—an act that he thinks his hand has undertaken on its own—and the woman chooses to die with her books. Montag
begins to have doubts about his mission, and the next day he stays home from work.

Firehouse leader Captain Beatty goes to Montag in order to convince him that the fireman’s job is important. He explains that
people began to lose interest in reading after the advent of television and that objections to some passages in books by interest
groups and minorities led to censorship. Eventually it was felt that books and learning in general created inequality and
unhappiness, and so books were banned. After Beatty leaves, Montag reveals to Mildred that he has hidden several books in
the house. They begin reading, but he finds the books hard to understand, and Mildred prefers TV. Montag remembers that he
has the phone number and address of a retired English professor, Faber. Thinking that he may have the last printed copy of
the Bible, Montag heads to Faber’s home while trying to memorize passages from the work. Montag asks Faber to teach him
to understand books, and Faber agrees. When Montag arrives home, Mildred is watching TV with two friends, one of whom
announces that her husband has been drafted to fight in the current war. Montag attempts to engage the women in
conversation about their lives and politics. When he begins reading aloud from a poetry collection, one of Mildred’s friends
begins crying, while the other is angered, saying that this is why books are banned. The next day at work, Montag and the
other firemen go out on a call, and it turns out that it is Montag’s house that is to be burned down. Montag is informed that
Mildred was the one who reported him, and she leaves in a taxi without talking to her husband. After Captain Beatty orders
Montag to burn the house down, he obeys and then turns the flamethrower on Beatty, killing him. He flees to Faber’s home,
and the retired professor tells him that he can escape by following railroad lines to the countryside. Montag evades the
intensive manhunt and later encounters a group of men sitting around a bonfire. Their leader, Granger, tells him that each of
them has memorized a book in hopes of using the knowledge to rebuild society. They then watch as bombs destroy the city.
Afterward the men head back to the city to begin the task of starting civilization anew.

Fahrenheit 451’s arguments in favour of literature and critical thinking and against censorship and blind conformity have
continued to resonate since the book’s first appearance, Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451 addresses complex
themes of censorship, freedom, and technology. Unlike most science fiction, Fahrenheit 451 does not view technology as a
universal good. Rather, the novel explores the potential for technological advancement to make humans less free. Bradbury's
main message is that a society that wants to survive, thrive, and bring its people fulfillment must encourage them to wrestle
with ideas. He indicts a society that puts all its emphasis on providing people with a superficial sense of happiness.