“Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.” Johnny Tremain‚ a very talented young silver smith living in Boston‚ dreamed for years of being a master metal crafter. However‚ one fateful day‚ Johnny was at work crafting a beautiful piece of priceless china for the one and only John Hancock (the richest man in Boston). As Johnny was toiling away‚ he requested Dove‚ one of the assistants‚ to fetch a tool. As a cruel joke Dove pulled out one with a fractured handle
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Although Okonkwo appears tough and uncaring in many situations‚ he is more sensitive than he appears. Okonkwo felt pressure when he killed Ikemefuna because he wanted to be seen as tough to his other clan members. He “tried not to think about Ikemefuna‚ but the more he tried the more he thought about him… Now and then a cold shiver descended on his head and spread down his body”(63). Okonkwo tries to push away his feelings and emotions because he always has a constant fear of being weak. The death
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Life of a Slave in the Middle Passage Dear Diary‚ My name is Emem Okeke and I am 13 years old. I have just come off of a train transporting me to a plantation in America. I have been separated from all of my family (my mother‚ father‚ my brother and my sister) and I am most likely going to a different plantation. I was living in Sierra Leone when I got kidnapped. My tribe was a peaceful one‚ and we weren’t in any wars at the time‚ but while all of our tribe was asleep‚ another tribe ambushed us
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Everyone has flaws‚ so it is unsurprising that even the most powerful leaders have shortcomings of their own. In Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart‚ Okonkwo serves as a great example for this. Okonkwo is a great warrior‚ though he constantly fears failure and weakness. Such flaws in such a powerful leader may very well impact their community negatively. Even though Okonkwo is a powerful leader‚ he still has many flaws. Okonkwo’s father‚ Unoka‚ was a very lazy and cowardly individual‚ always
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their own personal issues that make them more grounded and let them relate to the reader. Okonkwo‚ the main character of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe‚ is not an exception. Achebe uses Okonkwo to convey the fundamental similarities between all people. Although he is a ferocious‚respected warrior in the village of Umofia‚ much of his life is dictated by his fear of femininity and weakness. Because of this‚ Okonkwo commits various acts that make the reader question his morality. Is he a good person
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In his chapter‚ “Religion in Africa‚” Ambrose Moyo describes five central tenets of most African Traditional Religions. Those five central tenets are belief in a supreme being‚ belief in spirits/divinities‚ belief in life after death‚ religious personnel and sacred places and witchcraft and magic practices. In his novel‚ Things Fall Apart‚ Chinua Achebe provides illustrations of each of these tenets. Okonkwo’s interactions with various other characters in the novel are indicative of the belief in
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In life people are very rarely‚ if ever‚ purely good or evil. In novels authors tend not to create characters with an obvious moral standing not only to make their novel more applicable to the reader‚ but also to make the characters more complex and dynamic. Chinua Achebe uses this technique to develop the characters in his novel‚ Things Fall Apart. The main character‚ and protagonist in the novel‚ Okonkwo‚ is very morally dynamic showing some sensitivity to his family and friends‚ but in an attempting
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The first people who settled in Kenya in the pre-colonial time were indigenous African communities who migrated from around the world. During the pre-colonial era‚ Kenya’s social mobility depended very much on pastoral and agrarian groups‚ the agrarians depended very much on crops and plowing lands and on the other hand‚ the pastoral groups believed that the livestock was given to them by God. According to Peter O Ndege’s research‚ a professor of History and Political Science from the Moi University
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several places after himself. In year 984 CE‚ his banishment ended and he set sail for home. Half-True Lies Once Eric had returned‚ he began to boast to the people about the island that he had found and dubbed it “Greenland.” He told them about a surplus of resources and wildlife such as whales‚ seals‚ and bears. His claims convinced many people to want to go to Greenland‚ and 25 ships set sail. Unfortunately‚ only 14 ships survived the seas. 450 new colonists had arrived on Greenland… only to find
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Anthills of the Savannah This splendid short novel demonstrates Achebe’s continuing ability to depict the challenges posed to African societies by modernism and Western influence. It details the plight of three educated‚ upper-class Africans attempting to survive in an atmosphere of political oppression and cultural confusion. Set in the fictional African country of Kangan‚ it is clearly patterned after Achebe’s native Nigeria‚ though one can also see elements of Liberia and Ghana. This was the
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