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    Annotated Bibliography Broome, Barbara A. “Perseverance.” Journal Of Cultural Diversity, vol. 19, no. 3, 2012, pp.71. Academic Search Complete. http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=19&sid= e28117c3-d519-4ac1-9590 Erich Maria Remarque shows a great deal of perseverance in his writing of All Quiet on the Western Front. Broome says, “Consider for a moment the perseverance of the author Dr. Suess. His first children's book was rejected by twenty-three publishers.” Dr. Suess would…

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    growth of the South African economy and created tremendous amount of wealth for the white South African minority. A significant amount of this wealth was generated from South Africa’s vast gold mines that were all owned by whites. To make these mining houses practical and lucrative there needed to be a great hoard of inexpensive and replaceable labor; which was perfect because the white minority had an endless supply of cheap labor. The Africans. Given the fact that the Africans made of the…

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    (1997) deepened the emerging body of literature of CRTE by explaining five foundational themes of CRT that are essential to research design and educational pedagogy. The works of the critical race theorists mentioned above established the foundation for other educational scholars to apply CRT in education (Ladson-Billings, 2013). Subsequently, other educational scholars…

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    Only a short while ago did the world figure out how devastating colonialism was; to the land, and the people who inhabit it. We hear a lot of stereotypes about the natives of Africa pertaining to cleanliness and intelligence. Nervous Conditions a “coming of age” novel by Tsitsi Dangarembga challenges these stereotypes with the story of two young girls. Though, her family portrays the opposite of these stereotypes it doesn’t mean that it comes without problems. We see a lot of psychological…

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    how certain customs are associated with each of them. The powerful personalities of the unique characters such as Ezinma, Ekwefi, and Nwoye, and the way that they reach out of their gender stereotypes is one of the main reasons that this piece of literature was so entertaining to read. While Ezinma and Nwoye’s actions and mindsets make them different from other children of the same gender, Ekwefi’s interests and mentality set her apart from other women as well. Achebe proves through these…

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    Many black women have long been stereotyped as angry, weak mothers who have too many children that aren’t properly taken care of. In a well-known article published in 1974, Alice Walker explores this perceptive struggle of the African American female. Within the piece, she argues: Black women are called, in the folklore that so aptly identifies one's status in society, "the mule of the world," because we have been handed the burdens that everyone else - everyone else - refused to carry. We have…

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    The book “Things Fall Apart” tells a story of a man, Okonkwo who was very well respected in his clan called the Umuofia clan from an Ibo village in Nigeria. Okonkwo comes from a father called Unoka who was a laughing stock throughout the entire village, and died leaving many debts unpaid. Becoming his father is something that Okonkwo never wants for himself or his twelve year old son. Okonkwo falls from a place of high respect in his village and this book follows his story. It also tells of how…

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    Okonkwo's Tone

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    How does the author use diction to achieve this passage’s tone? This quote has significant meaning because of how Okonkwo’s life was “dominant by the fear of failure and weakness” (13). Dismay is able to solidify the tone of this quote due to his family's fear of Okonkwo and his fear of himself. The word “temper” is able to reveal an abstract side toward Okonkwo as throughout the book, Okonkwo had a whirlpool of emotions and his temper always got the better of him. Overall, this quote sounds…

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    In Umuofia, a city in the novel Things Fall Apart, masculinity is highly regarded as a moral. It’s comparable with words such as courage and power, and with just about any other quality that proves a person in being self-reliant. Actually, it’s considered an insult if a man is called an agbala, a woman. In the novel it says, “no matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children he was not really a man”. There is a sharp contrast between femininity and…

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    Okonkwo Research Paper

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    Did Okonkwo’s actions help him or did his actions hinder him? I can say that his actions had consequences for these reasons: He killed someone after he was told not to, Accidentally shot someone and was punished, White missionaries drove Okonkwo to commit suicide. Ikemefuna was from a different village than Okonkwo but one day Ikemefuna’s family was punished for doing something horrific. The punishment was that the boy shall live with another family from a different village, so Ikemefuna was…

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