Humanity Essay

Who Was Sophie Scholl? Sophie Scholl was a brilliant young woman who was born during a tragic time. She had protested for what she believed and died a very noble death. The story of Sophie Scholl is a story widely told across the world. Only 22 when she was murdered, the legend of Scholl goes on for ages. There were many factors too her life that brought her too her end. From birth and home life and the group she joined to fight against Hitler, too the end of the group that helped enlighten many…

Sometimes, people may not fully understand the faults of a society, or how big of an impact an event is, until they are presented a piece of satirical or dramatic literature. Two great examples of pieces of literature that were used to educate their reader are A Modest Proposal, and Journal of the Plague Year. Both pieces of literature use two different styles of writing to convey their message. Jonathan Swift uses satire to try to solve Ireland's poverty dilemma, while Daniel Defoe tried to…

history in Hispaniola and beyond. Yunoir’s rewriting of history is accomplished in several ways. One notable way is through the format of the book, which uses footnotes in order to add histories of the Dominican Republic, a fantasy character, Trujillo, etc. This format at first could signal an academic text “in which there is a separation between the content and the historical data that inform it,” but the footnotes in this novel instead provide an insight into the Dominican History that…

If one wants to see what a society is like, they need only take a look at the media. Literature and other forms of art are often very accurate representations of what certain society’s value. Germinal is one such example, it is a story depicting the daily lives of French miners, and the mine owners in a capitalist society. It shows the lives that the rich led versus the lives of the poor and suffering. Not only did it contrast the different quality of living that each group had, but it also…

Learning about the history of art through chapters 4 to 7 has opened my mind to a better understanding of cultural arts. It can be expressed through many different cultures around the world. I have not only learned that the idea of art had started out in prehistoric Western Europe, but also started to spread out in different parts of the world like, Mesopotamia, Jericho, Ur, Babylon, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, and many other regions around the globe. Each place went through different eras,…

During early school years, many students were instructed to create family-trees for their history courses to explain their culture and backgrounds. Edouard Glissant’s novel, The Fourth Century, is like a family-tree of the Longoué and Béluse families being presented to a history course. Throughout the novel, Glissant tells the story of a young boy Mathieu, who is trying to understand the history of his homeland, Martinique. To do so, he seeks out to find an older man, Papa Longoué, who provides…

History is just a compilation of several compelling stories of the past put together. I love that I am able to learn intriguing and true stories about places, people, and events that I have never seen physically or experienced personally. History is very interactive and requires creative and attentive thinking to connect why and how occurrences took place the way they did. For instance, I did not fully understand why the Americans revolutionized against the British until I viewed their struggle…

The United States is often given the title of being a “melting pot” that allows for various cultural influences throughout society. Sometimes, individuals in the US, do not like that others practice different cultural traditions; however, it is important to keep these traditions alive. The preservation is crucial for individuals to understand their culture, background, and history when so much of it has been forgotten or erased. The study and performance of these folk music traditions are a way…

“Nothing seems more natural and universal to human beings than telling stories. Surely there is no human culture, however “primitive”, without its stories and habits of storytelling, its myths of the origin of the world, its legends of the tribe or groups of stories about folk heroes. Linguists use the ability to narrate as a measure of advanced language competence. From our earliest childhood we hear stories and learn to repeat them.” (Hillis Miller 1). The beginning of a short composition…

Literary Analysis Essay Cultural identity in America is often specified as the behaviors and beliefs, or characteristics of a person based on his or her ethnic or age group. In the play “Raisin in the Sun”, a character named Beneatha plays a young well-educated woman that is viewed as self-centered, obnoxious, and expensive. Although Beneatha appears this way, her family differs completely showing cultural identity in America as well as an exclusion. This theme is developed through the…