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“Tell me more about english life,” I pled. As we sat by the river, my friend Levi began to tell me about the amazing restaurants, movies, and the exciting English life of the twenty-first century. I was mostly intrigued by the clothing and fashion that did not exist at all in my town. I longed to leave the Amish community. The more I learned more about what I was missing, the more I realized I had to escape this dreadful town of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. I am the daughter of John Beiler, one of…

enlightenment period, literature saw the rise of the novel as a genre and dry wit, sarcasm and satire became popular forms of political, social and religious criticism. Jonathan Swift’s Essay, entitled A Modest Proposal for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden to their parents or country and for making them beneficial to the public focuses on the ills that befell the society. The author uses satire to highlight the issues in the society and he proposes a radical…

“The True Story of Pocahontas, The other side” the authors, Linwood Custalow, Angela L. Daniel writes about the Powhaton Nation and its people. This following summary will be given on Chapter Two. In this chapter Linwood describes the oral history passed down from generation to generation of the first encounters with the colonists. He tells all on how when the English colonists first arrive when Pocahontas was at the age of ten years old. Then it is explained that there were/are very clear and…

of culture. Cultures and people are unlike in nature, quality, form and degree. Because of cultural differences, it is easy to get stuck in the single story of other people or cultures. Single stories are incomplete and because of lack of knowledge, it will create problems between people from different cultures. To start with, the single story of a culture can really influence they way people communicate to each other. They have this picture in their mind, about people from other cultures, that…

book because it shows that even though people do this they don’t always have a bad reason for doing…

the universality of slavery, its legitimacy was rarely questioned or explained. By the 1660s, English settlers clearly believed that enslavement was a normal, if unfortunate, position in society for which Africans and their descendants were perfectly and naturally suited. However, racism—far from being the original justification for American slavery—emerged over time. In the early seventeenth century, English colonists used a longstanding rationale for enslavement: Africans were not Christian.…

When the Declaration of Independence was written, it stated that all men should be created equal, but yet at the time, most Africans were still seen as inferior and were still slaves. In the 1800s, some of the American people started lynching Africans, simply because they were seen as subordinate. Lynching became such a big issue, because it was occurring often as one to every four days , and 9 out of the 10 victims were Africans. From 1889 to 1936, almost 4,000 African…

2.0 Discussion of personality of Bill English according to the Big 5 Personality Model 2.1 Extraversion Some reporters who have interviewed him identify him as being dry and monotone when speaking, quieter and less populist compared to his predecessor, Mr. Key (Davidson, 2016). But this seemingly negative description never stopped the leader from expressing his viewpoints when necessary. Whenever he speaks during interviews, it is noticeable that he carefully thinks things through before he let…

work is considerably different from Gulliver’s Travels. Swift’s more popular full length novel is a story about the human condition and the interactions among people. “A Modest Proposal” is noticeably different and, without the proper background, perplexing work due to its subject matter. It handles the complex interactions between the English and the Irish and attempts to criticize both governments and even criticize the United States. However without the proper knowledge beforehand, the…

face discriminatory employers and home-sellers. There is great ethnic and racial diversity in the world we live in. Races, religion, sex, and age, are all factors that identify us humans. A lot of countries in the world are heavily populated from people of different cultures and countries. The Unites…