La Amistad In 1839‚ Africans being carried from Havana‚ Cuba‚ to Puerto Principe‚ Cuba‚ revolted against their captors aboard the ship La Amistad (Spanish for ’friendship’). They were stolen from Africa‚ transported to the Americas‚ and were “passed off” as having been born in Cuba. After the revolt‚ the Africans demanded to be returned home‚ but the ship’s navigator lied to them about their course‚ and sailed them north along the North American coast to Long Island‚ New York. The schooner was subsequently
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Within this scene Brashear and other sailors in training were given task to assemble a flange underwater using a bag of tools‚ Sunday sabotaged Brashear’s bag and cut it open throwing it into the sea to discourage Brashear not to finish. Brashear nevertheless finishes the assembly and graduates
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Close Reading of a Poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a great example of a typical English ballad tradition. The poem‚ as a result‚ provides the reader with a lengthy narrative. The poem is a part of the Lyrical Ballads published by both Coleridge and William Wordsworth in 1798. This work differs from many others in the collection as it is more ballad than lyric. The phrase "lyrical ballad" was intended to signify the authors ’ intention to combine the two genres: the lyric‚ dedicated to personal
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This value reminds me that I must welcome service users such as other members of staff within the laboratory‚ nurses and doctors within the hospital and the patients as well as their parents regardless of their religious beliefs‚ ethnicity‚ gender or creed. For example‚ I greet each member within that laboratory with an equal amount of respect in the morning. I also greet nurses who enter into the laboratory with
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sailed down near Antarctica to get away from a bad storm‚ but then they get caught in a dangerous‚ foggy ice field. An albatross shows up to steer them through the fog and provide good winds‚ but then the Mariner decides to shoot it and soon the sailors lose their wind‚ and it gets really hot. They run out of water‚ and everyone blames the Mariner. The ship seems to be haunted by a bad spirit‚ and weird stuff starts appearing‚ like slimy creatures that walk on the ocean. The Mariner’s crewmates decide
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OLE MAS IN TRINIDAD The festival dates back to the 18th century‚ and the influx of French Catholic planters – both white and free coloured – their slaves‚ and free blacks in the 1780s. The white and free coloured both staged elaborate masquerade balls at Christmas and as a “farewell to the flesh” before the Catholic Lenten season‚ with each group mimicking the other in their masking and entertainment. The West African slaves of these planters as well as free coloureds had their own masking traditions
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The Use of Animal Figures in Oral Narratives Animals can be personified in a way that will convey messages to others through the use of stories or narratives. During one’s childhood‚ parents share stories that include animals to teach us different lessons. The Tortoise and the Hare is a common and popular story that most children often hear. The main plot of the story is centered on a race between the Tortoise and the Hare. Once the race begins‚ the Hare pulls far ahead of the Tortoise. He becomes
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December the 7th‚ 1941 is a day that President Roosevelt described as “a date which will live in infamy” (Matt Pearce). The United States and Japan had been butting heads for several decades over land‚ mineral rights‚ and China (Deborah Bachrach). This clashing led up to the most ferocious surprise attack and American loss on the United States soil known to this day. The Japanese had scrupulously planned‚ successfully struck‚ and triumphantly destroyed the naval base Pearl Harbor‚ which left many
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ship ends up in a dead zone- no wind. The sailors begin to think the bird was a good omen and a bad thing it got shot. So as punishment‚ they hang the dead bird around the mariner’s neck. Later on‚ they see a ship sailing towards them. They realize that it is a ghost ship. All the sailors get killed except for the mariner. He begins to pray and the bird falls off his neck. Then when the moon comes out the ship begins to move again and all the dead sailors wake up as zombies who sail the ship home
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My Sigma Chi Creed A lot is required from someone to be considered a gentleman but it is not hard to posses all of those things. I aspire to be of a character that embodies a gentleman and goes beyond those parameters so that I both respect everyone and am respected by everyone. I aim to become man of Sigma Chi who not only embodies the ideal of the fraternity but can give back and add on to the code by which members of the fraternity live there lives each and everyday. For it is a gift to be
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