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- 1041: Haroun And The Sea Of Stories
- ... Story, is reminiscent of ancient legends while being, the same time, a perfect modern computerized machine. As the Water Genie points out, imagination is not just useful but actually necessary to get hold of reality: "'... Africa, have you seen it? No? Then is it truly there? ... Kangaroos, Mount Fujiyama, the North Pole? And the past, did it happen? And the future, will it come? Believe in your own eyes and you ...
- 1042: Is Racism Still A Problem In The 21st Century?
- ... total population of Britain was 57 million, and 4 million was non-white; just 7%, showing that the ethnic population is not increasing and an expediential rate, as some may believe. The democratisation of South Africa has demonstrated that the minority white population can co-exist with the majority black population peacefully. Although some pockets of white supremacy groups exist, they are not a destabilising force on the community at large ...
- 1043: Heart Of Darkness 7
- ... the well-defined cultural values masculine/feminine and self/other that had specific segregated roles, could not be sustained in the Congo or in Vietnam. "For the Americans in Vietnam, as for the colonialists in Africa, madness is the result of the disintegration of abstract boundaries held to be absolute (Worthy 24)." "As it attempts to confront the 'insanity' of the war through Kurtz' s madness, that of the filmmakers, and ...
- 1044: Tempest Character Analysis
- ... a ship with his daughter Miranda to die. Only things are not going according to plan and Prospero and Miranda arrive on an island. Prospero is seeking his revenge. Coming back from a wedding in Africa a ship containing Prosperos enemies is attacked by the tempest and scatters its passengers about the island. Prospero uses three major character traits throughout the story including being powerful, protective and forgiving that will help ...
- 1045: Othello
- ... ways challenges the thoughts of the church and people. It is not the Turks that the Venetians should be afraid of, but the enemy within, which is obviously Iago. Othello, who is a Moor from Africa, and therefore not seen as a good man to Elizabethans in the beginning, in fact is the most reasonable of them all. When Brabrantio claims Iago has stolen his daughter, Othello is the first one ...
- 1046: The Abstract Wild
- ... and use it to fuel rebellion. Turner criticizes the cowardice of modern environmentalists in the following passage: "The courage and resistance shown by the Navajos at Big Mountain, by Polish workers, by blacks in South Africa, and, most extraordinarily, by Chinese students in Tiananmen Square makes much of the environmental protest in America seem shallow and ineffective in comparison(21)." Maybe if we knew and loved wild nature we could properly ...
- 1047: Song Of Solomon
- ... could all fly. They had never eaten salt. Those who ate salt after they arrived, stayed and became slaves because salt made them too heavy to fly. Those who did not partake, flew back to Africa. (Hurston 315). Whether Africans really fly or just escape a monumental burden, perhaps only through death, is a decision Toni Morrison has apparently left to her readers. Never the less, no matter what you believe ...
- 1048: So Long A Letter
- While women in western countries have traveled halfway in the journey towards freedom, women in Africa are still searching for the way. There are many factors that make it easier for one group than the other. Culture, customs and religion are among others at the foreground of those factors. The general ...
- 1049: Robinson Crusoe
- ... he finds himself a slave on a ship, but against the odds he escapes and starts a sugar plantation in Brazil. He sets out to sea once again but this time he is going to Africa to get slaves for his plantation. On his way he meets some bad luck and his ship gets wrecked. Crusoe, being the only survivor swims, to a island and is stuck there for 15 years ...
- 1050: Old Man And The Sea
- ... is the same as Santiago knowing that his struggle to survive by fishing is over. This is shown when the old man is sleeping. " He was asleep in a short time and he dreamed of Africa when he was a boy and the long golden beaches and the white beaches, so white that they hurt your eyes, and the high capes, and the great brown mountains. ...He no longer dreamed of ...
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