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In his critical work, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o posits that language is the conveyor of culture within a society. Having made the personal, artistic socio-political decision to only write in his native African language, Wa Thiong’o theorizes that the enculturation of English on African citizens is symbolic of the state of neo-imperialism, and that the ‘peasantry’ or ‘proletariat’ class is the keeper of traditional values. It is for…

Throughout history, society has influenced the way humanity thinks about and understands the world around them. Few people search to find the truth for themselves and merely end up following the way of life seen all around them. A new movement sprung up in the late 1700s called Romanticism, celebrating creativity and imagination over logic, reason, and the limitations society placed on thought. Romanticism began around the end of the Enlightenment period, a time that focused heavily on science…

The industrial revolution woke up the sense of humanity in people, yet at the same time It turned it off. To begin with, from the year 1819 through 1901, Great Britain was beginning to face an all new era called the Victorian Era. In fact, this era was named like that, because of queen Victoria. Also, this era was very important because it introduced medical advances, scientific knowledge, technological knowledge that helped increase work efficiency. However, not all the things that occurred…

Propaganda was widely used in the first world one. They were many different parties, especially in Germany, and each one wants the population to join their party. One of these parties is the Nazi party. The leader of the Nazi party was Adolf Hitler. He gave many persuasive speeches in order to win the German nation, which he then did. One of the famous and well know speech he gave was the “Proclamation to the German Nation”. He gave this speech on February 1st, 1933. it is a great example of…

Rebecca Solnit illustrated the development of new technologies during the 1800s in “The Annihilation of Time and Space,” which is excerpted from her interesting historical book, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West. In the article, Solnit argued the invention of photography, railroad, and telegraphy, which greatly impact people’s life by changing time and space. Through the paper, Solnit used other historical scholarships as evidence to support her thoughts. The…

Is it possible to be 16 years old, stranded at sea for 227 days on the same boat as a tiger and come out alive? The answer to this question will most likely be "that's impossible". But Yann Martel wrote a book giving similar instructions on how to do just that. In Yann Martel's novel, Life of Pi, readers follow Pi, a 16-year-old boy, throughout his journey of being stranded in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with a tiger for 227 days. Throughout the book, the most definitive theme is survival.…

A business can develop by organic growth or inorganic growth. Organic growth is when a company increases the turnover of its existing business. Inorganic growth describes how a business grows by joining one or more companies together. This can be done by two companies joining by agreement or buying at least 51% of another company’s shares. Furthermore, integration can happen in two ways: horizontal integration, where two joining firms at the same stage of production, and vertical integration,…

Midterm Essay Exam The European explorer are an adventurer bunch and love to explore the world by traveling long distance to find land or discover new places. Most European came from England or Britain to discover new lands and resources in the early 1600. According to the EAH “Between 1660 and 1665, York, Penn, and other English gentlemen were established as the proprietors of a string of proprietary colonies from Carolina to New York” (EAH, page 72). The successful colonization on the coast…

of spiritual and cultural awakening for the whole of Middle East. It stretched over three centuries, from the 14th to the 17th. It is thought to have originated in Florence, Italy at the end of the 13th century but quickly spread to the whole of Europe. What started out as a cultural movement soon transformed into what is now considered to be the bridge between the Middle Ages and Modern History. It was a time period of an explosion of ideas and talent which shaped the world into the finer…

The use of technology in Lang’s Metropolis and Orwell’s 1984 highlights the dystopian society, and how technology can (affect identity/challenge the future of humanity/reflect contemporary values. {Answer the question}. The Industrialisation of Europe after World War I enabled the use of new technologies that were rapidly appearing in the workplace, assisting and even replacing human labour. Technology is utilised in Metropolis as a means of control for the lower class. They are seen being…