These legacies of the slave trade are prominent through the idea of race‚ as “Atlantic slavery came to be identified wholly with Africa and with blackness” (689) Racism was used in this time period to justify actions‚ as through racism‚ “Europeans were better able to tolerate their brutal exploitations of Africans” (690). This racial discrimination became a reoccurring theme that has lasted well into
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disturbing environment for the story. One example would be the nightmare like imagery used in the beginning. "..And then my vision fell upon the seven tall candles upon the table...and seemed white slender angels...their flames went out utterly; the blackness of darkness supervened; all sensations appeared swallowed up in a mad rushing descent as of the soul into Hades.." Typically in Gothic literature‚ there’s mystery‚the supernatural and dread in the atmosphere. With this quote‚ it follows this‚ since
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Perception as a pramana or method of knowledge has not been discussed at length in Western logic. In so far as it has been discussed‚ it has created a divide amongst the realists‚ the idealists and the empiricists. Many schools of Indian philosophy have taken up a critical examination of perception as a means of gaining valid knowledge. The Nyaya is one of them. According to the Nyaya school of philosophy‚ valid knowledge or prama can be gained through four different means namely; perception (Pratyaksa)
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“Why Were Africans Enslaved” After reading both articles‚ I feel these two writers are arguing which side of the same coin is the‚ “right side”. Eric Williams argues that while the Irish European slaves‚ the native American Indian‚ and the Chinese laborer could be used in certain jobs a slave would have‚ that their bodies were unable to keep up with the needed labor of a cotton‚ tobacco‚ and sugar plantation. He states that it was the African slaves superior endurance‚ strength‚ and economic cost
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just what America needs right now. "Dear White People" not only illustrates exactly what plagues our country and it’s youth but forces a conversation about race that many are too afraid‚ ashamed‚ or ignorant to have. Depicting the complexities of blackness and all of its forms‚ dear white people embraces its’ colorful (pun intended) cast and delves into personalized storytelling through varying its directors. Additionally‚ as a young black woman soon to be entering college‚ the show spoke volumes
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In Edgar Allan Poe’s story‚ “The Pit and the Pendulum‚” Poe‚ uses the horror elements of isolation‚ fight or flight‚ and anxiety/distortion to add suspense to the story. In summation of the story it is set in the 1400’s in Spain and is following the pov of a man thrown into a dungeon to die. Over the whole part of the story the protagonist is faced with just being by himself also known as isolation. In the story it says all “...sensations appeared swallowed up in a mad rushing descent as of the
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power of creativity‚ giving birth to all forms.” Walker presents Kali as the “fount of every kind of love” and her blackness is as symbolization of the “formlessness beyond the veil of death; a psychic return to the womb‚ to be united with Kali’s oceanic being” (23; 224‚ 225). This is exactly what Edwards presents through his website description of Kali. She is‚ as he describes‚ the blackness that what we all return to when meditating. How is she this one and only primordial being that‚ according to Edwards
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Memories are more important than history in showing us our past. Do you agree with this statement based on your reading of the Fiftieth Gate? History alone is insufficient in understanding the past as it discounts the personal perspective that memory provides. However‚ this distinctiveness results in varying viewpoints of individual or collective memories‚ making memory alone insignificant as it does not have a singular truth. Memory forms the basis of history‚ while history clarifies certain
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“Ralph wept for the end of innocence‚ the darkness of man’s heart…”(Golding 235). Lord of the Flies by William Golding stages a group of english school boys marooned on a tropical island. Through the course of their stay they find that the rules of civilization no longer apply to them and adults no longer have a dominating role in their lives. A few hold onto the ethics of humanity the others finding a love of bloodlust‚ killing pigs and slicing their throats the blood painted across their face
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In Shakespeare’s play‚ The Tragedy of Othello the Moor of Venice (1603)‚ the issue of whether Othello’s weakness lies only in himself‚ and not in the xenophobia or malice of others‚ is one that is enmeshed in a great deal of complexities due to the extenuating circumstances which can be seen to deeply impact the protagonist’s sense of self throughout the course of the plot. Furthermore‚ these extenuating circumstances do indeed involve the xenophobia and the malice of others to a large extent. For
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