CONTEMPORARY ICONOLOGY AND AFRICAN SACRED SYMBOLS Sophia Oduol‚ 2011 sophiaoduol@gmail.com Introduction The awareness of the power of iconography in communication can be traced back to the earliest civilizations of mankind. Production of type was through scratch marks made on flat surfaces using sharp objects. Twentieth century records show well developed type from Mesopotamia‚ Chinese calligraphy‚ Egyptian Hieroglyphics and Phoenician alphabet. How do you make any sense of history‚ art
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Aakash Mansukhani University Writing Gitlin Exercise 3.1 – Sources Sources used for Compassion & terror J.M. Coetzee‚ The Lives of Animals‚ ed. Amy Gutmann (Princeton‚ N.J.: Princeton University Press‚ 1999). Nussbaum‚ Upheavels of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions (New York: Cambridge University Press‚ 2011)‚ chaps 6-8. Batson‚ Daniel. The Altruism Question (Hillsdale‚ N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum‚ 1991). Clark‚ Candace. Misery and Company: Sympathy in Everyday Life
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the collapse of the Ibo African tribal system due to the arrival of aggressive European missionaries. Achebe focuses on “both what was strong and what was weak in the African past” (Appiah). He traces back the roots of his people to the “moment when [they] lost [their] initiative to other people‚ to colonizers” (Appiah). Throughout his novel Achebe shows the effects the Ibo culture experiences when Christian colonizers arrive. Ibo culture was thriving in Nigeria‚ up until the Europeans arrived.
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Literature is yet another genre that Africa’s intellectual elites struggle to elucidate coherence for dissemination and consumption to ingrain within viable institutions. Modern African literature is considered a byproduct as well as an explicit goal engineered at the Berlin Conference (1884-5) by the imperialist nations of Europe. The challenge for African literature is to be incorporated in the ‘universal’ standards of literary canons without the demeaning criticisms of this controlled universalism
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postamble 3 (1) 2007 Defending Feminism in Africa Simidele Dosekun Introduction In this essay‚ I argue against the popular notion that feminism or feminists are ‘unAfrican’‚ and instead argue for why feminism has a necessary role to play on the African continent today. The claim or argument that ‘feminism is not African’ is certainly not new. It is a claim to which I have been explicitly or implicitly subjected by other Africans as I have come to consciousness as a feminist‚ while still
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equally because we are human and should not be judged based off our race and culture. Race should not limit anyone’s role within the community or deprive them from who they are. K. Anthony Appiah’s “Race‚ Culture‚ Identity: Misunderstood Connections” is a perfect example as to why race should not define people as a whole. Appiah believes that we should not be catergozired in these racial groups because it takes away from our nation sticking together as a one. Both authors make it clear that race should
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Happiness‚ something that everyone strives for‚ but not everyone achieves. Happiness is intangible‚ its a feeling. In “ If you’re happy‚ and you know it” by Kwame Appiah he said‚ Happiness is a feeling‚ you are happy if you think you are happy.”(449). It is really is a state of mind. Some people might think that objects will bring you happiness‚ but none of this will ever make you truly happy. What gives people happiness‚ it really depends on the person. Different people want different things‚
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Bibliography: Appiah‚ K. Anthony. “Cornel West a Genealogy of Pragmatism: The American Evasion of Philosophy.” Nation‚ April 9‚ 1990. Bois‚ W.E.B. Du. The Souls of Black Folk. publication place: Digireads.com‚ 2005. Cara Buckley‚ “The New York Times‚” Called Far and Wide to
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E. M. Forster’s short story The Machine Stops‚ published in 1909‚ was ahead of its time and predicted many of the technologies we possess now such as instant messaging and the internet. The story takes place in a future society where humans live underground in isolation and rely on a machine for all their needs. Most of their communication is done through screens that are able to show video. The people hardly have face to face contact and when confronting each other‚ avoid touching (Forster). This
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Reflection on Gun Shooting on American Campus Nowadays the campus violence problem becomes a hot topic which arouses more and more people to be concerned about campus gun shooting. People in the world have heard and seen this kind of tragedy over and over in the news. The Safety of United States schools was seriously questioned by the world when in the news all we heard about was there was another shooting in an American high school or university. According to “School Shooting Statistics” which
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