Angolan Civil War

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the story of a boy living on the Mississippi River during the 1840's. It relates the experiences of Huck and Jim, a runaway slave. The book is a continuation of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and recaptures its playful, lighthearted spirit. The book begins with Huck living with Widow Douglas who is trying to "sivilize" him. He finds this lifestyle terribly constricting but he tries to make the best of the situation. The…

The novels Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulker and Beloved by Toni Morrison both tell elliptical, multigenerational stories of families that are impacted by the struggle of slavery. As demonstrated in both novels, this concept is a never-ending hardship that affects each character mentally, physically, and emotionally. Through the lens of each characters’ words and behaviors, they are able to display the impact that slavery has on each generation. It not only leaves a permanent scar on each…

In the article “What Candidates Need”, David Brooks discusses the foundations of the “Lincoln Standard” by dissecting one of the most influential presidents America has ever seen, Abraham Lincoln. According to David Brooks, “Lincoln had in fullness: a fundamental vision, a golden temperament, and a shrewd strategy” (Brooks, “What Candidates Need”) that aided him in political matters and are the qualities that make up the “Lincoln Standard”. The qualities observed in Abraham Lincoln and his…

I read The Classic Slave Narratives: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, pages 405-410 as well as my assigned reading 425-445 plus Chapter 1 which was written and experienced by Harriet Jacobs, who is known in this book as Linda Brent due to the fact that she used fictitious names for her many different characters in order to protect their identities. This book was also updated by a well know author named Lydia Maria Childs. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in 1813 in Edenton, North…

means that secession is unjust. With states like Florida, Alabama, and Georgie leaving the U.S, they wanted slavery, it's no wonder why that sparked the Civil War. The eleven Confederate states that made up the South were Texas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Mississippi. After the war these states were removed from the Confederacy. By doing this, they betrayed themselves, their country, and the citizens of U.S.A. Like the great…

In the first chapter in Railway, George Revill opens his volume on the history of the railway with a recounting on the associations between the landscape and the railway and the emergence of tourism geared to railroad travel . Revill traces this history from the establishment of the public steam-powered railway between Liverpool and Manchester which opened in 1830 to the proliferation of railroads in America , and due to the spread of this technology, greater travel distances became more…

Back in the 1800s and 1900s, the African Americans were considered a lower class race, and treated as such. Many of these people, as well as others who found this unfair, fought for the equal rights to freedom and success for the African Americans. Peaceful protesting was a huge way that people thought would help achieve the equality that was being fought for. One way that people fought peacefully was in writing, commonly poetry, and the poetic devices the authors used. The two poems "Sympathy"…

The 1966 film The Battle of Algiers produced by Gillo Pontecorvo (The Battle of Algiers) is based on the Algerian War of Independence, in attempts of gaining independence from France (Algerian War). It is clearly depicted how problematic this film was and the problems contextualized. One of the major problems this film showed was the dehumanization of the colonial experience endured by the Arab Algerians in Algeria. Of the many conflicts, Algerians endured them by the hands of the French. A…

During the United States slave era it was thought that there was approximately four hundred and fifty thousand brought to America from the African continent. In Frederick Douglass’s autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl were both slave narratives that talk about their experiences as being being a generation of slave in the United States. Both text clearly describe how the inhumane treatment of slaves by their…

Early on in Annie John, the mid-twentieth century Antigua narrative, there arrive a conflict between the main character Annie and her manners teacher, “someone who knew all about manners and how to meet and greet important people of the world” (AJ 27-28). This incident prefigures many other complications and troubles that she has in dealing with gender and sexual inequalities of the African-Caribbean females under British colonial rule. The Autobiography of My Mother also signals that Xuela too,…