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- 1061: A Raisin In The Sun - Women
- ... is right. Lena is so demanding and intolerant; she is the God of the house. Lena and Beneatha also disagree about marriage. Beneatha says, "Mama, Asagai-asked me to marry him today and go to Africa-."(p. 129) "You ain't old enough to marry nobody," Lena said. Beneatha seems to agree with her. Lena thinks of a more traditional marriage, with the husband ruling the roost. When Beneatha thought of ...
- 1062: 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 ...
- 1063: Heart Of Darkness 6
- ... s accuracy in following the story line of the Heart of Darkness is amazing although the settings of each story are from completely different location and time periods. From the jungle of the Congo in Africa to the Nung river in Vietnam, Joseph Conrad's ideals are not lost. In both the book and the movie, the ideas of good and evil, whiteness, darkness, and racism are apparent. Also, characterization in ...
- 1064: Heart Of Darkness 11
- ... meant to have. Dark and twisted though this knowledge is, it still succeeds in astonishing Marlow with its eloquence and power. Kurtz has stared so long and hard into the darkness during his stay in Africa, that he has gained some insight into its workings. As he enters his final moments, his eyes seem "wide enough to embrace the whole universe, piercing enough to penetrate all the hearts of darkness" (p ...
- 1065: Heart Of Darkness 10
- ... into the mind and morals of a sailor named Marlow as he treks through the literal Heart of Darkness. This actual land is found deep within the dark jungles of the Congo River region of Africa, and serves as the central setting for this story. Throughout his journey, Marlow is confronted with the atrocities of slavery, and the cruelty that some men express to men whose only difference is the color ...
- 1066: Heart Of Darkness 2
- ... told in extraordinary circumstances. It is told to "the intended" so that the image of her dead fiance would not be destroyed. She has waited at least two years for her lover to return from Africa, and now he is dead. During this time she has built his image up in her mind. To her Kurtz is a man to be admired. She feels it would be "impossible not to love ...
- 1067: The History Of The Drumset
- ... steps back' proposition from the start, with trends coming and going and repeating themselves later" (30). That statement just barely begins to illustrate the extensive past behind the history of the drumset. The influence that Africa had can be traced back to the drumset's earliest forms. That influence was originally brought over by the North American slave trade. The slave trade brought over new percussion ideas and instruments. When Americans ...
- 1068: Mesopotamian Art And Arquitecture
- ... of fantastic creatures, probably made in the middle or late Assyrian period. These were used as ornaments for horses, weapons, and utensils. Syria, Phoenicia, and Palestine were on the land route between Asia Minor and Africa, and the ancient art of this area always shows the influence of those who conquered, passed through, or traded with its inhabitants. Mesopotamian-style cylinder seals from the Jamdat Nasr period have been found. Pottery ...
- 1069: History Of Photography
- ... successful telegraph message between Baltimore and Washington. James Knox Polk is elected President of the United States. 1846 The Mexican-American War begins. Elias Howe patents sewing machine. 1847 Liberia becomes an independent republic in Africa. (The American Colonization Society founded Liberia.) Gold is discovered in California. 1848 The Mexican-American War ends. Zachary Taylor is elected President of the United States. 1849 William and Frederick Langenheim acquire the American rights ...
- 1070: History Of Arabic Music
- ... now the capital of Iraq, under such rulers as Harun ar-Rashid, who was a patron of the musical arts during the late 700s.3 The cities of the Islamic empire, from Spain across North Africa and throughout the Middle East, boasted many fine musicians. These early musicians were often composers and poets as well as performers. Although the major writings on Arab music appeared after the spread of Islam in ...
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