Daniel Schafer, the author of Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner, hopes to convince the reader that Anta Majigeen Ndiaye is an heir to the royal lineage by describing the state of Senegal before and during the time she was born up until her arrival in the United States. He stresses the political, economic, and social factors by stating that the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries of Senegal featured numerous wars and slave raids. Rivalries heightened as Kajoor became the most powerful of the four Wolof states. Internal religious wars broke out in Kajoor between 1790 and 1809. This quickly spread to the surrounding area as the tyeddo warriors heightened the hostility by attacking other Wolof…
2. In Baker's profile on Jimmy Santiago Baca, he provides information on Baca's troubled upbringing. Baca grew up in and going through difficult times. In the profile, we learn that Baca grew up drinking, fighting, and doing drugs. he was never interested in education or learning so he never really attempted poetry. However, that all changed once he was in prison and began writing poetry to avoid prison conflicts. In Baca's hardest times he wrote his way out and ended up saving his life with poetry. Through educating other troubled people about expressing themselves through poetry he is making sure that others do not end up in prison like he did.…
What makes a man, a man? In the First Part Last, the author, Angela Johnson, gives examples on what it takes to be a man. There are also plenty of symbols that helps you make connections from the beginning of the story to the end of the story. First off, the basketball symbolizes and represents childhood. When Bobby’s friends wanted to play basketball with him, he went and forgot Feather behind.…
Our Lady of La Vang, also known as Đức Mẹ La Vang in Vietnamese, is a Marian apparition. In 1798, when Vietnamese Christians were persecuted for their faith, many of those Christians hid in a jungle in La Vang. While they were taking refuge in the jungle, they would often pray and say the rosary. However, many people became ill because of the conditions in the jungle. One day, a lady dressed in an áo dài, a traditional Vietnamese dress, carried a child in her arms with two angels beside her and appeared to the Christians. The lady told them to boil leaves from the jungle to use as medicine to cure the people who were ill. She also told them that if people came to this spot to pray, their prayers will be heard and answered. Therefore, the people…
The strong belief humans have in idols and superstitions is utterly absurd. People aren’t free to pursue what they believe but rather are forced to comply with rules and beliefs people have made up in form of religion. When it comes to religion, individuals should be free to practice whatever they believe in and shouldn’t feel obligated to partake in a particular form of religion.…
Reading Barbara Ehrenreich interview was very interesting and made me actually think about how others feel or how others are living, who appears to be joyful and look like their living good. I agree with just about everything Ehrenreich said. As far as well established businesses that make a plethora amount of money but only pay their employees minimum wage. I personally can't relate to her interview, unfortunately i know a few people who can. Growing up i had a really close friend who parents were a waiter at The Cheese cake factory and her mother was a maid at the Embassy suite hotel. Being so young with not so much knowledge i always thought her mother and father made so much money due to them working at top notch businesses until i went…
For centuries Spanish composers were overlooked due to the simple fact that they were never given the opportunity to become legendary. However, the Spanish composer and famous pianist Alicia de Larrocha made certain that she, as well as her fellow Spanish composers, were not overlooked any longer. Beginning in the early 1920’s, she began her extremely successful life and accomplished every one of her dreams and aspirations before she passed away in 2009. Alicia’s success can be exemplified through her personal relationships with those around her, by her distinct playing style, and the astonishing way she overcame obstacles she was faced with throughout her life that lead to the abundance of rewards she received.…
Barbara Mellix (1999) in "From outside in" explains how a person of different ethnicity is also able to succeed in appropriating his or her own academic discourse through determination and diligence. She reveals her nostalgic as a little girl of two diverse but similar languages. She used to speak 'Black English' in her yore time as a lingua-Franca and tried to speak in 'Standard English', which was used for articulate Communication with the public that built her more motivated, enthusiastic and appear to be more educated. Mellix states that how she felt uncomfortable when she tried to speak in standard English with public but she understood when she Could speak Black English or Standard English.…
Alma Lopez is a visual and public Chicana artist who was born in Mexico and raised in Los Angeles, California. Lopez received her Bachelors degree in fine arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1988 and her Master’s of Fine Arts (MFA) from the University of California, Irvine in 1996. Her work is based on a mixture of paintings, murals, prints, digital, installations and graphic prints. Alma Lopez incorporates the historical and cultural Mexican figures, such as the Virgin of Guadalupe, that is meant to empower women and native Mexicans by reclaiming the important roles and hardships Mexican women played throughout history. Alma Lopez art pieces are showcased in museums, galleries, universities and community centers. Furthermore,…
The Lady of Landuc’s actions were a consequence of Yvain's dishonorable oath on courtly love. Yvain married The Lady of Landuc saying, “I’m wholly yours; I’ve pledged today to yield to you and to obey all your commands.”(Bédier, 1973, p. 56) Yvain’s pledge is relevant because it plays a major significance later when he neglects her. Yvain ignored his oath completely when she commanded him to come back to her within a year of fighting for his pride of self-reputation as the best knight. Yvain became aware of how he overstayed and his lady sent a maid to take what she had given him to protect him in battle, “The ring will be your mail and shield.” (Bédier, 1973, p. 73) When the maid confronts Yvain she accuses him of treachery and makes it clear…
My Ántonia begins as an account between an unknown narrator and Jim Burden, both of whom grew up together in a small Nebraska town. While on a train ride across Iowa, the two begin reminiscing about their childhoods and the conversation continually returns to a mutual friend, Ántonia. The narrator suggests that Jim write down what he remembers about her. Jim’s story begins at ten years old. Newly orphaned, Jim endures a trip to Black Hawk, Nebraska to live with his grandparents. Coincidentally, the Shimerdas travel on the same train and move to the farm next door to the Burdens. Upon arrival at his grandparents farm, Jim settles in and begins exploring the landscape of his new home. Mrs. Burden, Jim’s caring grandmother, insists on…
Summon a vision of yourself in a crowded setting, surrounded by white men, women, children and seniors. With that image carved, draw yourself as a young African American in the 1960s, despised by the white man. Though you stick out like a sore thumb, eyes glance past you, blinded in your midst. An ‘outcast’ has now become your terminal label- segregated, judged, despised. Does this story sound familiar? Yes, it does, as millions of books in the 21st century alone, have exhibited these themes. While eloquently written, Melba Patillo Beals unoriginality in the subject of hardships in African American lives in the time of severe oppression makes this story a tale told too often, which should not be exposed to a classroom of easily distracted teenagers.…
“What’s the Matter with Kids Today?” is an article written by Amy Goldwasser, an author of young adult books. She has edited and written for various publications including, but not limited to Vogue magazine, The New York Times. Amy has been writing for many leading publishers for fifteen years. She currently lives in Manhattan where she teaches editing and writing in the Columbia Publishing Course and the Lower Eastside Girls Club. In this article, Goldwasser’s thesis is that although people think the internet is terrible for teenagers, the internet actually proves to be an educational resource with the advances of technology.…
Most of the beginning of American history seems like a race of conquest between the Spaniards and Europeans with Native Americans caught in the crossfire. A seemingly peaceful group of people, the Native Americans were under constant attack from the moment settlers arrived into their territory. Historians can pull from first-hand accounts and primary sources to piece together the history of this nation. One Spainard exploratory mission wrecked off the coast of Florida with about 400 men (OTP S1-6, OTP 22). After long battles and shipwrecks, the expedition was cut short and only four men survived, one an African slave and Spanish explorer named Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca. De Vaca wrote a narrative explaining his encounters with Native Americans who had never seen white or black people before. De Vaca described the Indians as “war like people…and protect themselves from their enemies as they would have if they had been raised in Italy and in continuous war” (OTP S1-6). He explains in his narrative…
Alma on the other hand has gone completely off track and has become a pill popper, doped out woman. Now, realizing she cannot be with John, she begins to give her body away. She must find a getaway for the wild side of Alma. Even though she was hoping to have sex with John she realized that that would not be as she thought, but it would actually be a rather animalistic experience. Now that she is in doubt of love, she decides to pleasure herself where possible, causing her to become a big whore. In the last scene Alma appears in Dr. John’s office offering herself to him. What she doesn’t know is…