Algeria

“Did you know class” asked the teacher “that Homer author of The Iliad and The Odyssey was blind?” After being raised in Algeria Albert Camus moved to France but he continued to write stories set in northern Africa for he treasured the contrast between bleak land and bright ocean. John Irving believe it or not includes a trained bear in nearly all of his novels and motorcycles…

focus to her prevailing lemon metaphor within the stanza. Branching away from literary setting, it's worth nothing the setting Adnan writes this piece from. Etel Adnan is a Lebanese-American poet who often wrote in protest of wars, specifically the Algeria, Vietnam, and Lebanon wars (Poetry Foundation 1). Since directly writing is less convincing, Adnan wrote poetry to use metaphor, analogy, and symbolism to speak out against war and violence. It is likely this excerpt is another one of Adnan’s…

Aaron RhodaSoardEnglish Literature30 March. 2018A Historical Take on The Canterbury TalesThe Canterbury Tales is a book of several characters and their stories. Each character is different and has their own stories. Looking at society at the time of The Canterbury Tales was written reflects the view society had on people during that time.First off, the book was written in the 14th Century, a troubled time for Europe. According to Owl Eyes, the black death had ravaged Europe and killed about…

The Question by Henri Alleg is a first person narrative about his one-month experience of being tortured by the French government during the Algerian War. With a set up of secondary sources in the foreword, introduction, preface, afterword, and with the story itself being a primary source the reader gets a satisfying feel for what it was like for Henri Alleg. He discusses a typical day an imprisoner had to go through as well as his own personal encounters with torture. Throughout the book Alleg…

injured, It was scaled to be a 5.8 earthquake. A doctor at Ain Temouchent hospital assured that besides the number of people dead, there was 120 people dead injured and 10 with serious trauma. Later that day there was another earthquake in a place near Algeria. It had a scale of 5.2 and hit the northeast side of Oujda, but it didn't harm anyone On Dec. 22 a fire was informed about. Six lives were…

“I’ve got it!” Exclaimed John as he stumbled and dropped some toxins into the furnace. Right then, a mini geyser of water erupted from the furnace. “If we use the combined power of toxins and heat we can hydrate the whole country of Imagine - Nation.”John was just experimenting in his school’s science room, it had a furnace because many students seemed to come up with many experiments relating to furnace. Later that week, John thought of a name for the machine he intended to create, Hydro King…

upper Niger river. The trans-Sahara caravan was a route from the Middle East & Far west, Europe, North Africa, to the Sub-Saharan region of Africa. That Sub-saharan region included but was not limited to: Mali, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Algeria, and Nigeria. The long distance trade was chiefly orchestrated by the Wangara people along the Niger River from Timbuktu to Senegal. It was mostly used by agriculturalist, herdsmen, hunter soldiers, and herdsmen. The trading of gold, salt,…

Legitimacy is the belief in someone’s right to rule or right to exercise power. Without legitimacy, other powers would have to be deployed (persuasion or coercion) in order to get others to obey you. According to Max Weber, there are three main types of legitimacy: rational-legal, traditional, and charismatic. Performance legitimacy is a way to keep legitimacy. To lose legitimacy, however, is the notion that somehow implicitly, any leader has to do things for the reasons indented (at least…

They were from the Salafist organisation for preaching and combat. This is a religious extremist group that is operating since many years and had specially targeted Algeria. This is a growth and expansion like a business and they have set a well-defined criteria for recruitment and selection. They are getting systematic to recruit regional religious fighters and convince them that their struggle is a major objective…

The Plague, written by Albert Camus, addressed the events of the epidemic that pummeled major parts of the world. During the 1940’s, the Plague , also referred to as the Black Death, infected the city of Oran, Algeria. Citizens living in Oran were able to relate to each other based on , “ how the people work, how they love, and how they die.” Unfortunately, all three subjects were addressed in the novel. However, the author especially proposed the importance of how the people in Oran loved.…