Festus Ojo was born in Ile Ife, Nigeria but now lives in Fairburn, Georgia where he is the president of Westlake High School's chapters of the National Honor Society, Science National Honor Society, and Chick-fil-a Leadership Academy. He is the community intern and aided his area's transition to official cityhood. After co-founding the Nonstop Leadership Group, a youth empowerment organization, he was named one of Georgia's "Twenty Under Twenty." Festus has interests in poetry and medicine. He performed research on pancreatic cancer this summer with the National Institute of Health. He aspires to study chemistry and later attend medicine school.…
My name is Masekella Cato also known as Massy. I was born on the 23 of December 1988, I am 5 feet 11 inches and I am brown in complexion. I grew up in the capital of Portland Port Antonio, in a small inner city community called Stony Hill district in the beautiful island of Jamaica. I attended Titchfield High School where I did six years and graduated with honors. I was also a member of the school soccer team for four of the six years of my attendance at the high school.…
Olaudah Equiano was born in 1745, in now what is known as Nigeria, but back then was known as the region inhabited by the Igbo people. He was one of 7 children, the youngest of 6 boys, and he also had one younger sister. Source 1, Equiano’s autobiography, “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African”, which tells the story of how he was kidnapped at a young age, possibly 11, from the Igbo village of Essaka in the region of Benin, where he had grown up. From here he endured the Middle Passage to the “New World”, where he was forced to into slave labour. This being said, some writers, however, claim that Equiano was born in colonial South Carolina and not in Africa. Source 2, is a map that shows the route of Equiano’s many travels throughout his long career that was said to be 8 years, at sea. It clearly demonstrates…
In the video, The Literary Realism Movement narrated by Katherine Godin, Realism is defined as “a style and type of writing that emerged during a specific time period in the country’s literary history, when writers sought to portray life as it really was.” During the 1800’s, Africans were treated inhumanly, and beaten like animals. White people only saw blacks as less, and treated them very cruel. Though these races lived in the same country, they both had completely different ideas of their “American Dream.” In Olaudah Equiano’s story, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, he writes about the miserable journey to America, being forced to work as a slave for the white men, and the “American Dream” every slave lived.…
Dr. Mandler chose to create a publishing press for this book, the “Ergo Sum Press”: derived from Descartes,’ “Cogito Ergo Sum”: I think, therefore I am. “The major negative for looking for a publisher is the time period. [It takes] at least a year or two for a book to run the course of selection. I [also] wanted to retain control over what the book looked like. When you go with a publisher, you give up a lot of control of what goes into the book,” said Dr.…
Olaudah Equiano was born in the year 1745 in an area called 'Eboe' in Guinea. Almost everything we know about Equiano's life we find from Equiano's own account in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, published in 1789. At the age of eleven he and his sister were kidnapped while out playing, and were carried through the night to a cabin and then put on board a slave ship. It sounds like Olaudah is writing in the document. The document is in first person, Olaudah is talking about his experience on the middle passage. Equiano tells us that “When I looked around the ship too, and saw a large furnace of copper boiling, and a multitude of black people of every description chained together, every…
Noble Cause corruption is a financial gain or personal gain, police officers have greater temptation to fall into corruption. Noble cause corruption is the idea that people will be unethical and obtain desirable goals by illegal means. People tend to become corrupted because they have a lack of morale and leadership, police officers have lost trust on the criminal justice system. As state by Kleinig, noble cause corruption can be the false conviction in order to secure the greater good of the public’s safety (Kleinig, 288).…
The power of words have a big impact in this world. What would be appealing without words? Even actions are worth a thousand words. Books wouldn’t exist without words. Markus Zusak, the author of The Book Thief demonstrates throughout the book the power of words.…
The Vikings came from what is known as Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. During the time from the 8th to the 11th centuries the Vikings traveled in their longboats to the British Isles and the coast of Europe raiding the settlements.…
Books provide a zest for life in all its dimensions: tragic, dull, triumphant and joyous. It is good for mankind to share…
The poetry “Amazing Grace” by John Newton is one of the most famous poems ever written and composed. “Amazing Grace” has been particularly influential and has affected lives since it was written. The reasons why “Amazing Grace” is influential are for the same reasons why I found this poem very interesting and engaging. The literary elements that attributed to the poem’s quality and importance are its form, content, and tone. These elements are what make “Amazing Grace” such an important and significant piece of poetry in history.…
Don’t judge a book by its cover. You hear that expression all the time. However, it couldn’t be applied greater than the book titled, “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch. When I first looked at the book, I expected to encounter a story filled with nothing but sadness. However, after reading this National Bestseller, I found that I had discovered a tale of life.…
Imagine living during a time where if you thought something was wrong then you would be gruesomely executed by having your head sliced strait off your head. During the French Revolution there was a time where thousands of people were being executed using the infamous guillotine. This period of time was referred to as The Reign of Terror. During this time a group of extremist were in charge of the country. These extremists were not to be mess with because they ordered over 15,000 people to be executed with the guillotine. The revolutionist would execute anyone who was suspected of speaking against the revolution and the action the extremist were taking. The Reign of Terror started in September 1793 and ended in July 1794. In some ways this was justified by the way the peasants were treated. But at the same time in was very hypocritical of them to do these acts. The Reign of terror had aspects of being justified but of course was not completely right, it was justified because they needed to resolve to violence to get their point across, because they were in desperate times and needed to resolve to drastic measures in order to get what they wanted, and the king needed to be taken down however killing many people went against what they were fighting for.…
* Books provide a zest for life in all its dimensions: tragic, dull, triumphant and joyous. It is good for mankind to share…
My father, being a literature teacher, would come home day after day and unintentionally present me various titles that all brought an aroma of mystery. Temptation would force me to reach upon the bookshelf, shovel the dust off of the bookshelf, and attempt to read strange new words. Every title would elicit a wide range of questions that would scatter my mind, but, because I lacked the wisdom brought by experience and context, there were no visible answers. Therefore, I continued to read fruitless, age accommodating, books that provided no true substance. Until one day, two particular books fundamentally shaped the way I perceived life, and satiated my longing to find significance.…