Afrikaans

“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then, he becomes your partner.”-Nelson Mandela. This is one of Mandela’s best quotes, showing he just wanted peace. For most of the 20th century, South Africa was not a stable country. There was an incredible amount of racism, protests, and police responding to protesters, resulting in many injuries and deaths. Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years because he was convicted of conspiracy to overthrow the state…

In Griswold’s (2013) Cultures and Societies in a Changing World she introduces an analytical tool called the cultural diamond. This tool can be used to investigate the relationship between society and culture by identifying the four concepts that form the cultural diamond (Griswold, 2013). The cultural diamond is formed of four concepts each occupying a single vertex of the diamond. At the top of the cultural diamond is the concept Social world, moving clockwise the next concept is Receiver…

Invictus: Is it Hollywood or is it History? Why do people go to the theatre? Is it that they want to be entertained or do they want to learn something about what happened in real life? Invictus, for example, is about the life of Nelson Mandela, the great political leader and president of South Africa. But, how much fact is actually in the movie? In this paper, I will prove that the film, Invictus, was historically accurate by discussing the true historical people and events, summarizing the…

Freedom is not free when your identity is the price. Throughout the semester we read literature that has honed in on the idea of apartheid and post-apartheid affecting a nation. Zoe Wicomb 's You Can 't Get Lost in Cape Town and Phaswane Mpe Welcome to Our Hillbrow both share the themes of identity crisis through language. This theme has shaped what I grasped from South African literature is that identity does not belong to you but is shaped by what others perceive. Who you are is not defined…

if he isn't there then there is a language barrier. That is an example of the English language not being superior. His claims about the power of language is very accurate. He stated how he his mother picked up many different languages, one being Afrikaans because it is important and useful to know "the language of your oppressor" (p. 55). He also told a story of a person talking to a security guard in a shop, the person said to the guard "follow those blacks in case they steal something," in a…

sides, one side, foreign invaders, and on the other, the inhabitants of the invaded land. I wanted to hear both sides of the story. For example, I know there was luxury for the Europeans, but wanted to know what it what was it like for the Afrikaans, the natives of Africa. I wanted to read into the reasons why the natives…

to accommodate every different kind of cultural diverse since every student arrives with different culture or belief. The diversity within students maybe their cultural understandings and languages for instance some will be Xhosa speaking, Zulu, Afrikaans, Sesotho and many while others are international students that have no main ideas of the cultures in South Africa. All these diversity of cultures have to be maintained to create one big culture that everyone adapt…

Much of the credit is due Oedipus being presented as the “tragic hero”. He was a man who through no fault of his own was cast into a current of fate that would forever change not just his life but the life of all that were associated with him. Indeed, his story continues to deeply impact our emotions even today. Aristotle posited that a tragic hero was “such a person who neither is superior in virtue and justice, nor undergoes a change to misfortune because of vice and wickedness, but because…

“To have another language is to possess a second soul.” by Charlemagne, by being able to speak another language it shows respect and determination to those who originated with that language as their first. As for today there is a wide variety of different languages that are officially recognized, extinct, or unofficial languages, since there are vast amount of different languages, there 's a few that have adopted some of each other’s culture, by having different or similar alphabet or writing…

What is democracy? Democracy can be defined as the system of government in which the ruling power of a state is legally vested, not in any particular population group or class, but in the people. Abraham Lincoln(President of the United States of America 1861-1865), said that democracy is government of the people, by the people, for the people. The word democracy comes from the Greek word demos and knatia, in other words rule by people meaning all citizens in the city state Athens. Democracy thus…