Alan Paton

Before Alan Paton wrote his novel, Cry, the Beloved Country, he was the warden of Diepkloof Reformatory school, which was a juvenile correction center for delinquent African boys. The conditions of the school were brutal, such as the sanitary needs were ignored, there was no plumbing and the youth in the facility were locked up during the night. Paton worked to fix the harsh conditions and restrictive rules that had been in effect before his tenure and the results were gratifying (Iannone…

The Author, Alan Paton, is a dedicated and opinionated Christian, linking his writing to his beliefs. Since he was born, he has been a Catholic, giving him a deep religious background. Because of his deep Catholic background and what he’s done because of it, Bishop Clayton named him a member of a diocesan commission appointed ‘to discover what it believed to be ‘the mind of South Africa””(Callan, 35). He also developed a strong conscience because of his theological virtuesd. “Because I am…

In Alan Paton’s Cry the Beloved Country, three books depict the separation between the blacks and the whites, and use the land to exemplify the interactions between the two races. Paton’s use of symbols and metaphors connected to the land, convey the tarnished social and human conditions displayed throughout the book. In this portion of the book, the most prominent metaphor of the land is how it becomes more barren and lifeless because the natives leave the countryside for the more…

torn about the racial segregations and he even wrote comparisons to that with South Africa and a cheating woman: “It is only that one's love grows deep and passionate, as a man may love a woman who is true, false, cold, loving, cruel, and afraid” (Paton 158). Arthur sees the flaws and problems in South Africa, and these difficulties have only made his love for his country even more deep and passionate. Therefore Arthur was not a racist man who provoked any men to murder him for absolutely no…

during this time became filled with fear and uncertainty that they would never reclaim their country again since the white man was taking it over. In “Cry, the Beloved Country” by Alan Paton, James Jarvis, a white man and a loving father, eventually exhibits an understanding and sympathy for the people of South Africa. Paton emphasizes that although Jarvis transgressed throughout his life, he later began to heal his relationship with the natives of South Africa with discernment and charity in…

The book I chose for my leadership essay is The Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun by Wess Roberts, P. This book was recommended to me by a former Ohio State University Military science professor Ret. LTC Mike Lear. Through the ages Attila the Hun has been branded as a barbarian that just leaded from fear and concurred by destroying every living thing in his path. That is far from the truth. Attila was a skilled leader that instilled many of what we would concise modern value into his…

Wherever this man went, destruction and ruin left a path behind him. He was called the “Scourge of God” but most commonly known as Attila the Hun . Attila lived from 406 CE to 453 CE , and most of his battles took place in or around the Roman Empire. Some view Attila the Hun as unsuccessful and unable to finish his military goals and conquests, but Attila’s strategies in military made him successful, as well as the influence his upbringing, reputation, and appearance had on the people. Attila…

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The question of what consciousness is or what we can deem as to be conscious is most fiercely debated topic in this dissertation because its subjective nature; what you and I may consider to have its own consciousness may possibly or rather probably will be different, how then can we build a machine with its own conscience when we has humans still haven’t figured it what it even really means to be conscious. I think therefore I am This very famous statement written by French mathematician and…

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