All That

In order for me to make a clear argument about Self-realization and Self-sufficiency in Life, Above All, I will use Mamdani’s analysis (1994). He makes the four main arguments One, there can be no renaissance without an intelligentsia to drive it. Two, an African Renaissance requires an African-focused intelligentsia to drive it. Third, let us reflect on the sober morning-after realization that South Africa lacks an African-focused intelligentsia in critical numbers. Finally, there is a need to…

may have a very different experience, and also because Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie stuck to discuss social perception and nors rather than making grand claim about biology based on this anecdote. This is a delight to read and quite charming. We Should All Be Feminists describes the perspective of many women today. Not many publication highlight this perspective. Although non-fiction and is taken from an interview, the flow of short story was fluid and perfectly paced. Adichie…

All Eyes: A Memoir of Deafness Themes Belonging and Acceptance Bainy B. Cyrus (2010) uncovers that the search for who we are is driven by a need to find our place in the world and that a sense of belonging arises from identity and inner experience. The book in its entirety is a catalogue of this theme, with its conclusion describing how the author through her work as a Disability Coach, helps others towards their journey of belonging and acceptance (Cyrus, 2010, pp. 111-126). Communal…

All Is Not as It Seems I was taught two things while growing up: stay out of drama and stay out of a mother and daughter fight. When the day came that I saw a mother and daughter fighting about going to a concert, staying out of it was something I could not bring myself to do. Growing up I was never allowed to go to a concert, and with all the attacks happening at concerts, I do not blame my parents for keeping me from attending them. I know what you must be thinking, “What kind of an idiot…

Bullies don’t know how are the kids they are bullying. Taylor Swift once said, “If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.” In the short story “All Summer in a Day” written by Ray Bradbury the character Margot is being bullied because she is not like the other kids in the planet she is being herself and the kids don’t like that and bully her, in here she needs to be more like herself more to not be bullied. The theme is that bullies don not know how are the kids they are…

Constitution, all men are said to be created equal. This law is simply saying that people are of equal moral worth, and deserves equal treatment no matter who you are, a man, woman, slave, non-slave, gay or strict. But if you think about it and compare one person to another person are we all actually created equally? from the time America was discover until now, there have been several great changes and improvement in our society pertaining to equality and how people are treated now. Despite…

assumed by most individuals but in All Our Kin, Stack proceeds to present a different implication as to where Blacks are both committed to black culture and mainstream culture and most importantly that the two are not mutually exclusive as generally assumed. When looking at society as a whole one can see that many different cultures share the same values. This notion presented backs this understanding…

I am an HBCU All-Star, because as an HBCU undergraduate student, I have: had three years of research experience, had over 200 hours in hospital experience shadowing, and clinical observations, had over 100 hours volunteering in community health based projects within a third world country, had over 350 hours volunteering in underserved communities surrounding my university, been active in 5 student-ran campus organizations, been crowned as queen of 3 different campus organizations, attended 21…

the United States in February of 1861, and the country was one the brink of a Civil War, the rest of the world watched to see if the ideals of freedom and democracy would defeat the institution of slavery and tyranny. In Don Doyle’s book The Cause of All Nations, he explains how at the outset of the war, European nations had taken great interest in America’s struggle and ignited a division between those who sided with the North and those who sided with the South. This division involved the…

Big corporations have been using internet to wrongly approach youth through advertising that is immersed in entertainments content, and it is difficult to protect them from so much publicity. As Joel Baker explains in his article “Kids are Not All Right,” “deregulation, privatization, weak enforcement of existing regulations and legal and political resistance to new regulations have eroded our ability, as a society, to protect children” (7). Baker’s point is that the lack of societal advocacy…