Anansi

For example, the first wife of a man would be commemorated with the palm wine at Nwakibie obi in Achebe’s book. Nwakibie's first wife, Anansi, had not yet arrived to her ceremony and "the [other wives] could not drink before her". Perhaps the significance of a woman's role emerges when the author outlines Okonkwo’s banishment from his clan to his motherland. Okonkwo’s uncle notices Okonkwo's…

Jackson Tillman April 12, 2024 English 100, 009 Matthew Wincherauk Graphic Novel Essay The Power Found in the Paws of Smoke Within Indigenous culture, animals hold significant roles, embodying unique traits like the wisdom of a robin or the courage of an eagle. In The Outside Circle, one creature emerges from hibernation to take center stage: the bear. Revered to symbolize strength, health, and vitality, the bear's predominant role lies in being a protector. Initially, Pete harbours rage and…

Soft Relativism; A Self- Stultifying View Paulina Panus The term ‘soft’ relativism relates to this idea that each person has his or her own values that they formulate in their lives, and “no one has a right to criticize another’s values” (Taylor 45), because it is impossible to argue or reason about them, as well as it is wrong in doing so. This term provides an opportunity for “everyone [to] have the right and capacity to be…

Fight Club: How Consumerism Affects People Jeff Bezos (Amazon CEO) says “What consumerism really is, at its worst, is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives” (IMDB). On a daily basis we are exposed to a plethora of advertisements. They are force fed to us in such a way that attempts to hide from them are proven futile. Not only are advertisers trying to sell us their product, but they are also selling us their standards. They tell us how to live our life, what’s…

economic interests with planters. Because of this, the author said they worked “to attack the slaves’ established culture, to root out their religious ideas, to divorce them from the social traditions and moral assumptions of plantation life, to replace Anansi, the supreme ginal, with Christian and Pilgrim”. With all of these issues slaves face, as well as the rising economic troubles facing Jamaica in the early 1830s, it is no wonder that they decide to fight back against this oppression. One…

“The sum total of all thoughts and intuitions, myths and beliefs, ideas and inspirations brought into being by the human imagination since the dawn of consciousness” is best defined as ethnosphere by Wade Davis, in his introduction to Wayfinders (2). He establishes the direction of this travel log with the introduction of culture: a dynamic and complex system that characterizes societies and from it flows people’s identity. As Davis immerses the reader into a series of indigenous people groups…