Forced disappearance

At the turn of the 18th century, Morocco was the only Arabic-speaking nation not a part of the vast Ottoman Empire. The independent country was ruled by the once powerful Alaouite dynasty of sultans, who ruled since capturing Fés in 1666. Although Morocco remained independent through the forefront of African colonization, European powers had their eyes set on the “Arab or the West”. Colonization became possible when a 13-year-old from the Alaouite dynasty succeeded as sultan in 1894, reducing…

In the modernism era of literature (1914-1945) William Faulkner wrote several books, short stories, and articles about children, families, sex, race, with fixations and life in the south. I did not feel that “A Rose for Emily” should have been selected to appear in literature books or curriculums for college or high school for that time period. This short story was not a “yardstick” For literature in this era. William Faulkner refuses to discuss his works in interviews. He does not like to…

Chukwuma Njoku Book report Richard Wright’s Native Son Who Was He? What Qualifies him? Richard Nathaniel Wright was an African-American author of controversial books, short stories, some of which are very popular. Quite a bit of his writing concerns racial topics, particularly identified with the predicament of African Americans amid the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth hundreds of years, who endured separation and savagery in the South, and the North. Wright finished…

The Native and African alliance in the later part of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century could be better described as a political partnership with common interests. They both cooperated against British occupation and aggression, and later American expansion and slave raids. The tenuous partnership began disintegrating more so as early as the 1845 Treaty with the Creeks, which would be temporarily moderated with the elimination of all slavery among the Seminoles and the other…

Many have heard the century old saying, “behind every great man is a great woman” at least a thousand times in their lifetime. That may be a bit of an exaggeration, but the phrase is used commonly to showcase the contribution women have made alongside men. However, women have been able to show otherwise their accomplishments and do so without having to hide behind the shadow of a man. Through endless criticisms from men on how to live their lives, women have persevered through it all. Today more…

As Paul Rozin has pointed out, food can be frightening—particularly in regards to our bodies and diet (Rozin 1999, 16-21). However, food can be frightening beyond the considerations of the physical individual body. Therefore, this paper seeks to answer the following question: What does it mean for food to be socially frightening (i.e. dangerous for the social and communal body)? By comparing Baks consideration of the role of the McDonalds hamburger in Korea and Kevin Dwyer’s alimentary…

The misrepresentation of Native Americans in The Professor’s House is a prime example of how early American literature chooses to falsely romanticize the southwest. Willa Cather follows this pattern with the characters Father Duchene, Tom Outland, and the professor, Godfrey St. Peter. Together these characters create a dangerous false narrative outside the novel. The problematic characterization of Native Americans is initiated by Duchene, lived by Outland, and is preserved by the professor.…

because they fought alongside Americans and embraced Christianity. This lead people to focus selectively on information that agreed with the stereotype and they, consequently, ignored the information that disagreed with it. In reality, the Mashpee were forced to convert to Christianity. Churches were a sanctuary to them, where people left them alone to conduct political discussions, organize collectively, and converse in their native language. There were three vital mistakes that accounted for…

The nature of Ed Gein’s crimes and abnormal behaviors throughout his life can be connected to his tumultuous relationship with his mother and the isolation and abuse he experienced at her hands. Ed was the second of two sons born to Augusta and George Gein in Wisconsin on August 27, 1906. George and Augusta owned a small grocery store in La Crosse County but Augusta decided to pack up and move to a large farm property in Plainfield, Wisconsin to deliberately isolate the boys from city life.…

Upon reading “Beloved” by Toni Morrison, readers are faced with the dilemma of whether to identify the character beloved as an apparition, a symbol, or simply a real person. It seems to be contextually supported that the character Beloved is an apparition of the past. Allowing supernatural activity to take over their suppressed memories of slavery once they have finally reached grounds of freedom. Beloved represents magical realism in literature as she forces readers to come to an understanding…