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- 601: Ufos And Aliens On Earth
- ... few survived. It is very unlikely that someone would make up a story like this, especially in the 11th century. So we must spectulate about that event. It could have been anything from an alien slavery ship, to a meteorite, to a crashing UFO. But, it would most likely be the slavery ship because it "Killed and kidnapped" people from the village. A meteorite has never killed a person in all of history, not even the comet that leveled 55 square miles of forest in Russia. As ...
- 602: Using the Student Study Sheets in the Classroom
- ... home, Monticello. The sheet presents Monticello as the meeting place for two tragically intertwined aspects of Jefferson's existence, his exuberant pursuit of happiness through intellectual exploration and social exchange, and his appalling acceptance of slavery as the foundation of his domestic economy. Students are provided with an excerpt from Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia where he unflinchingly examines the moral destructiveness of slavery on both sides of the master/slave relationship. And they are asked to ponder how this peerless advocate of human freedom in all its forms could so deeply violate his most cherished principle. Students may ...
- 603: Things Fall Apart Things Fall
- ... colonialism, and the lasting effects of this imposed alien culture or what was left of colonial rule. The ideological system of colonization has been a violent destructive force on the world, as we know it. Slavery, murder, violence, rape, and torture of non-European peoples was the cruel reality of colonization. European nations, with the motives of sheer greed, brought Africans into slavery. This hostile take over was rationalized through the racist ideology that native peoples were inferior savages. In Things Fall Apart, we witnessed the destruction of a traditional native culture. More specifically we witnessed the weakening ...
- 604: The Growing Need For The Aware
- ... a nigger by a white person, despite the fact that it is the nineties, the insult becomes like a dagger through the heart. It is very hurtful because those single words can evoke thoughts of slavery, struggles of the Civil Rights Movement, and the racism and hate that still haunt the nation. It brings back all the grief, sorrow, and pain that their ancestors had to go through for freedom. On ... black person as nigger. The answer is very rudimentary because history dictates that the white race kidnapped and brought native Africans against their will, no less, to work on their plantation. The word nigger represents slavery and inferiority, which everyone is willing to acknowledge. With this in mind, no black person in their right state of mind is going to let a white person call him or her a nigger . Whites ...
- 605: The Red Badge Of Courage --
- The Red Badge of Courage Time Period The Civil War officially started in 1861, yet problems between the North and the South date back as far as the early 1830s. The North was infuriated over slavery after a woman by the name of Harriet Beecher Stowe published her book Uncle Tom s Cabin. Stowe s book analyzed the life of a slave in an astonishing and realistic way. It caused many ... people to join the Union. Then the war began in July of 1861 when a Confederate army met with a Federal army at Manassen, Virginia. Many battles were fought until finally the north was victorious. Slavery was abolished, and the federal government s power was set as supreme power over all the land. Stephen Crane was born on November 1st 1871, just six years after the end of the Civil War ...
- 606: The Nation Takes Shape
- ... and southerners stemmed from the geography of their respective states. In the south, cotton was the most important crop, and slaves were used to harvest it; while in the north it was more industrialized and slavery was not permitted. Thus the slavery question was added to the already growing sectional conflict. Another factor was the uneven distribution of wealth and national power. The north seemed to control most of this while the south was neglected. These rising ...
- 607: The Poem Sympathy
- ... the finer things in life. Sadly, "springing grass", a flowing river, and budding flowers are things that unoppressed people might take for granted (For a slave or someone struggling to get on their feet post slavery, could not take the time to enjoy life's pleasures in which Dunbar symbolically uses nature.) Dunbar uses language that reaches out, striking a personal chord with the reader. Grass, river, or flowers may be ... is a plea for help and freedom for the blacks and the caged bird. Slaves sang not out of joy, but to drown out their sorrow. Singing was a life jacket for African Americans during slavery as it is for the caged bird. The song was a plea for compassion and freedom. A reader could look at the poem "Sympathy" as a piece of entertainment seeing as he is purely talking ...
- 608: The Adventures Of Huckelberry
- ... as a solace from problems caused by society and the big city. In this novel Huck turns to the Mississippi River (nature) as an escape from society, as does Jim for an escape from his slavery. Huck Finn also shows evidence of romanticism with its instances with the supernatural. 2.Style One of Mark TwainΉs most effective uses of style in this novel is his first person point of view ... witch Twain elevates the dialect of an illiterate village boy to the highest levels of poetry established the spoken American idiom as a literary language. Twain also uses metaphors to illustrate his themes such as slavery as a metaphor for all social bondage and injustice. Twain also uses irony in order to attack the ³civilized world² and institutionalized religion. Southern Romanticism, which Twain blamed for the fall of the South, is ...
- 609: Strategies Of Containment A Cr
- ... that man could be so cruel and inhumane to his fellow man. Take the irony that surrounds the situation at the Phelps farm. The Phelps were good-natured Christians whom were taught by society that slavery was morally right. Therefore, Jim is treated accordingly and locked up in a shed for running away. One subtle part of the irony is that the cruelest person to Jim was not the Phelps , who ... stayed to help Tom when he was shot. Jim risked his freedom and yet the kind treatment the doctor suggested was the promise of ending the cursing and placing him back in his shed (215). Slavery, to Mark Twain, was another form of cruelty as illustrated by the conversation Huck had with Joanna at the Wilks home where Huck is trying to conjure up a plausible story about his background in ...
- 610: Social Stratification
- ... relationships: affinal (by marriage), consanguineal (by birth) and fictive (by adoption, godparenthood, or blood brother rites). It can be further broken down by six major patterns of kinship. The different types of stratified societies are slavery, feudalism, castes, and classes. Slavery was practiced in Africa, and in earlier civilizations of Greece and Rome. Feudalism was a rigid division between the mobility and the peasantry. It was based on their access to control over land. This form ...
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