Borderlands

Our readings including Shadows at Dawn: A Borderland Massacre and the Violence of History, A Western Nation’s Rise and Decline: Comanche Economy on the Southern Plains, and The Winning of the West: The Expansion of the Western Sioux in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, highlighted the importance…

According to The Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, "Colonialism in Canada may be best understood as Indigenous peoples’ forced disconnection from land, culture and community by another group" (1). Additionally, settler colonialism in Canada occurred as land was appropriated and culture was diminished from the indigenous people by Western society due to the vast number of Europeans who greatly outnumbered the population (1). Western society has imposed a number of…

Federico Villalba's Texas: A Mexican Pioneer's Life in the Big Bend is a biography and autobiography about Federico Villalba’s different milestones throughout his life. It also focuses on the lives of his children and wife. The author Juan Manuel Casas brings blissful births, weddings, and family gatherings but, it also touches sadness of illness and loss of life. The book starts off when he is a young man and decides to move away from San Geronimo, Chihuahua in the 1880s. He wanted to start his…

The Bridge did not avoid the classical linear narrative where strong causality linked the past with the present and future. The Bridge’s narrative was developed through a four-line structure (A: B: C: D). Each letter corresponded to a storyline. Each one of these lines function in parallel, but they did not necessarily have the same salience for the narrative or the same duration in each episode. For example, A was the most significant, B less, and so on. Some secondary storylines, for example,…

Anzaldua grew up in southwest texas, borderland between America and Mexico. As a result, she experienced all aspects of a contact zone. From being part of the dominant discourse to being looked at as the other. Having grown up between two cultures, Gloria is able to bounce back and forth from…

“What characterizes these different states,” states Ernest Renan in his essay titled What is a Nation (Renan 2). In his essay, Ernest attempts to answer this question through the use of historical references such as the Roman Empire, France, Britain, Germany, etc. (Renan 1). However, Ernest utilizes such references not to describe what characteristics define what a Nation is, rather to depict what characteristics do not define what a nation is. Ernest’s definition of this characterization,…

My family’s migration story goes back to when my father was born in the sovereign state of Guanajuato in Mexico. He migrated to this country in 1983 at the young age of eighteen facing many challenges along the way such as racism and the fact that he had nothing to his name. His journey was long and difficult as he traveled alongside his cousin and a coyote leading the way. Although my father did not enter the country in a way that is considered “legal” he felt he needed to in order to attempt…

The systematic eventuation of a revelation is what resonates in the individual 's mind, more-so than the actual event of the discovery itself. Dante Alighieri 's epic, The Divine Comedy (Inferno), and William Shakespeare 's play, The Tempest, coalesce in articulating the significance of one 's journey towards making discoveries. Dante 's guided venture into the depths of Hell, as well as Prospero 's manipulation of the events on the island, serve to convey the amount reflection and introspection…

R. Chodkowski describe two main ways of interpreting Sophocles Oedipus Rex, as far as the main theme of the tragedy is concerned; “The first one could be marked “the tragedy about infallibility or power of divinity”, the second could be labelled “the tragedy of arriving at the truth” ” (Grelka 2013). It is the view of this author that Sophocles intended a much more progressive concept for his ancient Greek audience than simply the “infallibility of divinity”, that the main idea of Sophocles work…

Lakia Andrews Professor Sloan English 110 18 November 2014 The Ebola Epidemic In a country where people are dying every day from different diseases, Ebola has become the talk of the year. Although this disease has been around for several years, it is now being acknowledged. A few Americans have been forced into quarantine because of the outbreak. The disease can only be spread through a transfer of bodily fluids, unlike diseases like the flu and the common cold. Government officials are trying…