Humanity Essay

Salt and Caramel, on their own they are just flavors for the human taste pallet. However, if you put the two flavors together the contrast heightens each one making two plain flavors come alive with body and savory substance. Like the concept of salted caramel, history and literature work on the same juxtaposed concept because to explore both the depths of history and literature you must contrast one with the understanding of the other. Steinbeck, a novelist who wrote prolific works like The…

Cultures can shape Identities, experiences, and your perceptions of other cultures. It can also play a hand in how you interact and react in the world. Being a young Black woman living in the south, my experiences have shaped me in many ways. Often those identities and experiences intersect with others. My experiences and identities also affect how I move around in the world and how other people perceive me whether I like it or not. At a young age, I experienced Black culture first hand. The…

Music and politics are two subjects that have long been intertwined since before the birth of our nation. The freedom of self expression, and the ability to have an expressive outlet to allow many to deal with frustration at any events happening around them is an important part of our democracy and the spreading of various messages across a range of platforms. Our heritage of music starts out with simple tunes such as “Yankee Doodle” and “John Brown’s Body”. These simple melodies set to…

Tshepang: The Third Testament was written in a post-apartheid South Africa, still struggling with the culminations of the past. Lara Foot Newton adopted a Post-modernism style in order to depict the conditions of our country and to raise society’s consciousness level regarding the issues crippling South Africa. In 2001, a brutal rape of a nine month old devastated South Africa, on which “Tshepang” was based. This act was a symptom of the conditions that an ailing South Africa was facing. In a…

Literature can express many kinds of opinions, feelings, and experiences. Literature can even be defined as the mirror of society because after all, those emotions, experiences and opinions expressed in literature are influenced by the society. Representations of minorities is an example of what we see in literature and in society. As a matter of fact, representations of minorities in literature has become more and more popular. Literature can portray minorities in a particular way with the…

I began my freshman year in undergraduate as a history major with a interest in conflict and the second world war. However, after becoming academically engaged with archaeology and anthropology, I chose to switch majors to allow a wider field of study. During my four years of undergraduate, I was determined to broaden my skill set focusing on each aspect of the discipline as a whole. My minor in forensic anthropology allowed me to gain experience with human remains and biological anthropology.…

“Carnivalization in The Journey to the West: Cultural Dialogism in Fictional Festivity”, is an essay written by college professor, Zuyan Zhou explaining how Monkey and the other characters and stories of The Journey to the West share many parallels with Western carnival in “season, duration, form and influence”(69). While analyzing the works of Mikhail Bakhtin, Zhou comes to many conclusions regarding the idea that The Journey to the West, a well known Chinese novel, is a representation of…

I am fascinated by history. I find this subject compelling because of how much it is overlooked, and also because by engaging with historical texts and stories, one is able to experience life vicariously through others in different time periods. By digging into history one can fight alongside the peasants in the French Revolution, explore new frontiers, and protest for social justice in the 1960s. Individuals can witness the brilliance of the Library of Alexandria, and can help in the…

Term Paper Dutch Dance Dance History 203-10 Faith Gallagher April 16th, 2015 Dutch dance was, and still is, an integral part of the history, culture, and traditions of the Netherlands. Fascinating history, culture, and traditions have all impacted the Netherlands to create an impressive lineage of dance. I chose this culture as my topic for this paper because my mothers’ family can be traced back to one of the original groups of immigrants on the Mayflower, and I while I have previous…

In the text Young Adult Literature Exploration, Evaluation, and Appreciation Third Edition Chapter 8 is about exploring historical fiction. Chapter 8 has many focusing points such as, historical predecessors of historical fiction, types, themes, and values of historical fiction, reasons for using and teaching historical fiction, criteria for evaluating and selecting well-written historical fiction, changing perspectives toward the genre and the issues surrounding historical fiction today, and…