Ngugi wa Thiong’o 1938- (Born James Thiong’o Ngugi; also transliterated as Ngũgĩ) Kenyan novelist‚ playwright‚ essayist‚ short story writer‚ children’s writer‚ and critic. The following entry presents an overview of Ngugi’s career through 2002. See also Ngugi wa Thiong’o Criticism. As a spokesman for his people and a chronicler of Kenya’s modern history‚ Ngugi is widely regarded as one of the most significant writers of East Africa. His first novel‚ Weep Not‚ Child (1964)‚ was the first English-language
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Multiple sclerosis has conquered the lives of many of its victims‚ one of which includes Nancy Mairs. However‚ Mairs writes an essay describing her experience with the disease and how it has not affected her negatively‚ as society assumes about the disease’s effects. Mairs does not write her essay to make her audience feel pity for her disease‚ yet writes to allow people to be more accepting of the disease and of people that have it. She incorporates the word “cripple” to describe the strength MS
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the book is named Nancy and she is important enough to have her diary published because her life went from being a normal teenage girl with normal problems‚ to an abnormal girl with AIDS and abnormal problems. She agreed to have her diary published so that other people who think that AIDS and rape can’t ever happen to them can have a different perspective. The times in which this diary takes place is from April 14‚ 1991 to April 12‚1993. the book starts out when Nancy is getting ready to
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Analysis of “Disability” Nancy Mairs’ “Disability” is a short story from Carnal Acts that describes how Nancy Mairs‚ the speaker of the short story‚ studies the media’s view on disabilities. She is a victim of multiple sclerosis and feels inferior to everyone because she has a disability. The audience knows how she feels about this; she feels that handicapped people should be treated equally. She knows that she is not alone‚ but she feels like she isn’t accepted by everyone. This short story depicts
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Goodbye‚ Columbus? I agree with this article for numerous reasons. Mainly because if we start taking down statues of our history because someone is shook up we will have to take down and put up new statues as soon as some people are angry about what went on in that time also. Continuing on that topic‚ not just Washington but almost if not all Presidents owned slaves before it was outlawed. By the left’s view point here they were all bad people and should not be remembered because they stood for
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James Hilton’s novel Goodbye‚ Mr. Chips is the story of an English schoolmaster who dedicated his entire adult life teaching young boys. He was a somewhat shy person. Nevertheless he was a competent school teacher‚ professional and attractive in many different ways. Although his first teaching experience was not successful‚ he was determined to become a good schoolmaster. After coming to Brookfield‚ he began to warm up to his students. But more important he brought discipline to his school which
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As humans‚ people often times create their own ideas and perceptions over certain individuals or a place. In Goodbye‚ Columbus‚ by Philip Roth‚ the story’s main character‚ Neil falls into that trap when he meets a girl‚ Brenda‚ and his entire life is turned upsides down. “and though we did not want to go‚ the little boy and I‚ the boat was moving and there was nothing we could do about it” (Roth 74). When Philip Roth decided to add Neil’s dream of him and the little boy visiting an island and then
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“It always takes about 10 years to have some distance. And distance allows you to laugh about yourself and things you wouldn’t dare laugh about when you’re right in the middle of it‚” director of Goodbye‚ Lenin!‚ Wolfgang Becker‚ stated in an interview discussing the movie. Goodbye‚ Lenin! focuses on the drastic shift in the lives of East Germans following the fall of the Berlin Wall. With the rise of communist nation‚ Russia‚ after World War II‚ came the conflict between communist and capitalist
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Propaganda can be used in a positive way such as the just say no movement that Nancy Reagan created about drugs. “Drugs take away the dream from every child’s heart and replace it with a nightmare‚ and it’s time we in America stand up and replace those dreams.” This all started when Nancy Reagan was at a school in Oakland a little girl raised her hand and asked “what do you do if someone offers you drugs?” Nancy replied “well‚ you just say no.” That is how the just say no campaign all started.
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Year of Impossible Goodbyes is book where girl face war with her family and her life is like in the country North Korea and towards the end how she escapes to the south.In beginning of the book it talks about how Sookan had a grandfather and how he has medicated under his pink tree and how he teaches her how to wise peaceful person.After with grandfather everyday sookan go’s to town with her mother to the sock factory to work on socks and how Captain Norita has to watch them work and they
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