Popular culture is the culture of everyday lives and we, according to Browne and Brown (2001:3), have seen our popular culture in ourselves. This essay compares the tragic engagements of young Africans with contemporaneous issues relating to culture and popular culture, through the fictional novels of Ken Saro-Wiwa, Sozaboy (1994), and Kopano Matlwa, Coconut (2007). Particular attention is paid to the stumbling blocks Sozaboy’s Mene and Coconut’s Ofilwe Tlou and Fikile Twala encounter with issues
Kevin Conrad Laurie A. Muffley HTY-110HM-DL02 2 October 2015 Indian Boarding School Essay First off in this essay I’d like to discuss how and why the boarding schools came into existence and what the purpose of these institutions was. These schools started being established in the 1870’s, because Americans convinced Congress that education could change the Native American populations. Americans wanted Natives to contribute to society and become Christians. One of the first efforts to accomplish
text that best express language attitudes held by migrants towards the dominant language of English and the minority language of Dutch are examined through an analysis regarding the origins of such attitudes and what influenced their development through personal and societal components. The aspects covered include societal, individual, additive and subtractive bilingualism. The second part of this essay discusses the relationship between these attitudes and language and maintenance shift by showing
At the beginning of this essay, it was hypothesized as to how Superman could reconcile killing General Zod in the Man of Steel, but then adopting a “no kill” policy for villains in Kingdom Come. The answer is, he can’t. He can’t have two doctrines. One for beings of lesser powers in one aspect, and then in his fit of rage, threaten to destroy them
English Essay: “I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I inspired the Nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar” – Winston Churchill, Speech November. 1954 This famous quote from Winston Churchill symbolizes an iconic speech, which was not used to inspire “the nation” but rather to call them forth into action. This speech was not used to motivate the public, they were
Soran Kurdi Dr. Becky Gesteland MENG 6240 April 28th 2015 Sui Sin Far’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance: Challenging the Constructed Definitions of Chineseness The United States has experienced influxes of immigrants throughout its history. The great wave of immigrants started at the second half of the nineteenth-century. Among these were Chinese immigrants. From the 1840s to 1882, “more than 100,000 Chinese immigrants immigrated to the American west” (energyofanation.org). First, they started working in the
recall of anxiety-producing experiences.” Resistance literature was about liberalism, freedom of thought and democracy. Writers such as Jack London, Aldous Huxley and George Orwell’s arose to struggle and finding a way to improve the life we live and speak for human beings. Works written in spirit of resistance truly moved us; as writers felt that it is enough and refused dictatorial rule and oppression, so paved the way to revolution. Thus they managed to convey their message and make people feel the
Abstract One of the major preceptors of Transcendentalism, Thoreau manifested the Vedantic ideals for the exaltation of axiology over pragmatism, of spiritual over material and of static over dynamic. The movement stood as an emblem of the supremacy of celestially enriched East over the materially prosperous West. Gandhi sought inspiration from Thoreau and propagated the principle of Satyagraha, “Passive Resistance”. Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience influenced Gandhi tremendously who was
Over the years Nigeria has witnessed several empty, jabberwocky inordinate promises from our political gladiators who has used the magic of language to cajole many. However, language serves as a strong tool that our political leaders used for easy communication of thought that enhance winning of political mandate. This paper shows how language is used in politics as a tool to communicate thought and how language is used as a train to which political leaders convey meaning to the heart of Nigerians
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin