CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF “THE TRIALS OF BROTHER JERO” Soyinka captures worldwide issues by using a West African setting. The satirical message in the text is conveyed through ridiculing of the vice and follies of the contemporary Nigeria society via religious institution. His fictive output belongs to the horatian mode of satire which ridicules the follies with the intention of correcting society. Through symbolism‚ comedy and irony‚ the aberrant and corrupt nature of our religious leaders are exposed
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UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA SYLLABI FOR THREE-YEAR B.A. HONOURS & GENERAL COURSES OF STUDIES ENGLISH 2010 1 W.E.F. 2010-2011 SYLLABI FOR THREE-YEAR B.A( HONOURS & GENERAL) COURSES OF STUDIES IN ENGLISH‚2010 HONOURS Word-limit for the answers for the honours papers Full marks of the questions → 16 7 12 8 14 4 9 5 18 10 15 35 20 Word-limit of the answers → 600 250 450 300 500 150 350 200 700 400 550 1000
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Recent activities of secret fraternities in Edo and Anambra States of Nigeria have once again brought to focus the impact of the activities of the nefarious groups on the polity. Not too long ago‚ two prominent movie stars were brutally assassinated in Edo State in what was alleged as a frat-related offensive‚ which culminated in the death of about twenty individuals. Most recently inhabitants of Anambra state were terrorised by frat men‚ who held the state capital hostage in a brutal frat war between
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personal or collective goal. This idea is portrayed through the metaphors used by Mandela and Soyinka. “I have walked that long road to freedom… I have discovered that after climbing a great hill‚ one only finds that there are more hills to climb.” This quote written by Mandela gives the reader a clear sense of an overcome suffering yet still indicates the true hardship of life and its battles. Soyinka also uses the metaphor “when I come among the women I am a chicken with a hundred mothers. I become
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dwie piąte dorosłych Polaków (37%) jest zdania‚ że lekarze powinni spełniać wolę cierpiących‚ nieuleczalnie chorych‚ którzy domagają się podania im środków powodujących śmierć‚ natomiast prawie połowa (46%) wyraża sprzeciw wobec tego rodzaju postępowania. W 2007 roku zmianie uległa dotychczasowa tendencja do wzrostu społecznej akceptacji „wspomaganego samobójstwa”. Odsetek osób uważających‚ iż lekarze powinni spełniać wolę cierpiących chorych‚ którzy chcą umrzeć‚ zmalał o 12 punktów‚ podczas gdy odsetek
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Written task two: the role of women in Igbo society In Chinua Achebe’s “Things fall apart”‚ the women of the Igbo tribe may appear as an oppressed group with little power at first glance‚ and that fact is true to a certain extant. Nevertheless‚ this conception of the Ibo women seem to be simplistic once the reader notices the many roles the Ibo women are playing in their village throughout the novel. We can see such examples in the religion‚ where women play the role of priestess. As mentioned
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Introduction to African Literature In the dictionary ‘Le Petit Larousse 2003’ literature is defined as a field embracing written and oral works to which an aesthetic aim is acknowledged. This definition upholds the assertion that African literature has ever existed in the oral form. African forms of literature are interesting not only as far as anthropological perspectives are concerned‚ but also from an aesthetic view point. Africa is endowed with epics‚ folktales and praise poems that
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R.J. Malson Introduction to Historical Methods Rwanda: Was the Genocide a part of the civil war? Throughout the 19th century‚ Rwanda was a hotbed for violence and oppression. Rwanda had been the home of oppression throughout most of its history‚ the center of the issues revolving around the Hutu and the Tutsi. The Hutu make up the majority in Rwanda while the Tutsi make up the minority.1 Ever since‚ these two groups started inhabiting the same area‚ they have struggled for power. Initially it was
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William Usdin ENGL 157 – Exam #1 8.15.12 Orientalism in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North “Prospero‚ you are the master of illusion. Lying is your trademark. And you have lied so much to me (lied about the world‚ lied about me) that you have ended by imposing on me an image of myself. Underdeveloped‚ you brand me‚ inferior‚ that is the way you have forced me to see myself‚ I detest the image! What’s more‚ it’s a lie! But now I know you‚ you old cancer‚ and I know myself as well.” Caliban
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CONTEMPORARY ARTIST ;THEIR WORKS. Aina Olabolu :art educator and painter Cheif Aina Onabolu (now late) was born in Ijebu-ode in Ogun state‚ Nigeria in the year 1882. The general impression the Europeans were having about contemporary African art was that of primitive and lacked impact on orld civilization Onabolu grew up in the midst of that notion and was determined to prove the white people wrong. He started to practice art on his own in 1900 even
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