|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 101 - 110 of 1292 matching essays
- 101: Things Fall Apart By Chinua Ac
- ... Things Fall Apart, which is a great piece of African literature that deals with the Ibo culture, society, and history. One place where the Ibo religion is practiced is in the village of Umuofia in Africa, where the story takes place. On the other hand, Christianity is a very common religion that is practiced all over the world. Although Christianity and Ibo are both types of religions, they have many differences ... believe in ancestor worship. They believe that when a respected person of the clan dies they will be worshipped. The consequences of treating the Ibo religion as culturally inferior led to the falling apart of Africa. Since Okonkwo was a symbol of Africa and he committed suicide at the end of the book, Africa also fell apart. The white people came to Africa to try to convert the Ibo to Christianity, and most of the white people ...
- 102: A Touch Of Jazz
- A Touch Of Jazz When I hear people talking cheerfully of "Negro music" or the Africa roots of jazz; he often wonders what in the world they can be talking about. What Negro music? What part of Africa? What kind of jazz? Africa is groups than any comparable land mass. Not all Africans are Negroes, and not all Negroes are Africans. African music isn't necessarily Negroes music, and all Negro music isn't necessarily African. Surely, ...
- 103: Heart Of Darkness By Joseph Co
- ... appearances of success and power. Inevitably Kurtz collapses, his last words epitomizing his experience, The horror! The horror! (Dorall 306). The horror to Kurtz is about self realization; about the mistakes he committed while in Africa. The colonizers' cruelty towards the natives and their lust for ivory also is spotlighted in Kurtz's horror. The white men who came to the Congo professing to bring progress and light to "darkest Africa" have themselves been deprived of the sanctions of their European social orders. The supposed purpose of the colonizers' traveling into Africa was to civilize the natives. Instead the Europeans took the natives' land away from them by force. They burned their towns, stole their property, and enslaved them. "Enveloping the horror of Kurtz is the ...
- 104: Ah, Woe Is Me
- Ah, Woe Is Me A) Summary of The Story: In the beginning of this short story we are introduced to Sarah, an aging black servant living in South Africa. She works hard for an upper-class white family and spends all of her money on education for her three children who are sent to a boarding school. They come home once a year at ... crying and can only mutter that her mother is very ill. Unsure of what to do, the narrator hands her a handkerchief. B) An Essay About the Text: The setting in this story is South Africa in the 1950's. Apartheid and segregation are words that describe the conditions under which the blacks (the native Africans) live perfectly. The blacks nearly have no rights and must accept being oppressed by the ... afford to pay for the school. This is what could look like the final blow to her children's future success in life. No education means no chances of getting a better life in South Africa (and just about everywhere else, too). But what if she did have enough money to give her children a proper education - would that guarantee the children a good future life? I gravely doubt it. ...
- 105: Mahatma Gandhi
- ... London. In 1891, after having been admitted to the British bar, Gandhi returned to India and attempted to practice law in Bombay with little success. Two years later an Indian firm with interests in South Africa hired him as a legal advisor in its office in Durban. This changed his life. In South Africa, Gandhi was treated as a member of an inferior race. He was disgusted at the lack of civic liberties and political rights available to Indian immigrants to South Africa. He then committed himself to the struggle for elementary rights for Indians. Gandhi remained in South Africa for twenty years, suffering imprisonment at times. In 1896, after being attacked and beaten by a mob ...
- 106: Female Genital Mutilation
- By: Angela Hazel E-mail: anghazel@yahoo.com The practice of female genital mutilation, also known as female circumcision, occurs throughout the world, but it is most common in Africa. Female genital mutilation is a tradition and social custom to keep a young girl pure and a married woman faithful. In Africa it is practiced in the majority of the continent including Kenya, Nigeria, Mali, Upper Volta, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Mozambique and Sudan. It is a cross-cultural and cross-religious ritual, which is performed by Muslims ... dated 163 BC refers to operations performed on girls at the age they received their dowries. A Greek geographer reported the custom of circumcision of girls he found while visiting Egypt in 25 BC. In Africa female circumcision has been reported in at least twenty-six countries and can be viewed as a public health problem “because of its wide geographic distribution, the number of females involved and the serious ...
- 107: History in Langston Hughes's "Negro"
- ... and 17). Then Hughes describes the works of the Negro by using the terms "slave," "worker," "singer," and "victims" (4, 7, 10, and 14). The first example is a situation that has taken place in Africa; the second in the United States. Finally, Hughes uses repetition of the first and last stanza to conclude his poem. To thoroughly understand the point that Hughes is making, one must take an enhanced inspection ... in America. The continuous usage of "I've" before he names a description demonstrates the bond that he feels with his ancestors (4, 7, 10, and 14). Hughes makes use of the pronoun in "my Africa" to reveal the possessive emotional ties he has with Africa (3). When Hughes says, "I've been a victim...They lynch me still in Mississippi," we see his real feelings (16). Since, in 1922, the reading audience consisted of a predominantly white makeup, he ...
- 108: AIDS
- ... age group. On a global scale, the AIDS epidemic is rapidly expanding. Of the estimated 22.6 million people worldwide living with HIV or AIDS in 1996, about 62 percent were living in Sub-Saharan Africa, 23 percent in Southern and Eastern Asia and the Pacific , 6 percent in Latin America, 5 percent in North America and the Caribbean, and 2 percent in Europe and Central Asia. In Asia and Africa, most people contract the disease through heterosexual contact. The major strain of HIV in the United States, Europe, and Central Africa is known as HIV-1. In Western Africa, AIDS is also caused by HIV-2, a strain of HIV closely related to HIV-1. Other distantly related strains of HIV-1 have been identified ...
- 109: The Sun Also Rises
- July s People is a story of a white family who experience life as black people would in South Africa at the time. They leave their home and their jobs in the United States and follow their servant, July, to live in an African tribe. The whole time that they are living in Africa they depend on July for survival yet they still treat him as a servant. July wishes that he would be treated more as an equal but besides that he does not mind being their servant ... and made good money, that is evident because they can afford a servant. They decide to leave their home and to move to a new and unfamiliar place. July leads them to his tribe in Africa. The change occurs right there, to the Smales United States is home but to July it is a foreign place, whereas Africa is where July feels at home and the Smales feel like they ...
- 110: Term African Slave Trade
- ... bits-n-pieces of information from previously thought of unimportant publishing’s. His sole purpose was to try to determine a more accurate account of the number of people brought over from what parts of Africa and to what final location. He goes on to make it clear his findings should not be construed as being accurate or to be relied upon with any degree of certainty: but rather an accuracy ... measure this shift, but the increase in incentives and profits imply the change to have been significant. Not only was the actual enslavement of people an atrocity but also the societies that remained in West Africa were severely underpopulated.4 Most scholars of the subject would agree there was no mention of slaves coming from the interior of the continent until 1669 by Francisco de Lemos Doelho. “The first business of ... sell his or her own people? What were there reasons? Walter Rodney gives his explanation in The Unequal Partnership Between Africans and Europeans. “Many things remain uncertain about the slave trade and its consequences for Africa, but the general picture of destructiveness is clear, and that destructiveness can be shown to be the logical consequence of the manner of recruitment of captives in Africa…In order to whitewash the European ...
Search results 101 - 110 of 1292 matching essays
|
