Intelligentsia

The emergence of the New African Movement in the 19th century can be marked as a turning in the way Africans resisted colonialism. In this essay i will identify the ideas and developments of the New African Movement during the end of the 19th century and the first few decades of the twentieth century. Around the 19th century it became more evident that Europeans where not only planning on staying in South Africa but they would further exclude and exploit African bodies. Many Africans had…

Mass killings are very devastating to hear about. They victimize the lives of innocent men, women, and children. When mass killings become a regular, along with other cruelties, it is called a genocide. Genocide, as of Dictionary.com, is defined as “the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.”(“Genocide”) Because this kind of barbarism isn’t normal and humane, it has to be stopped or prevented. Genocide could be prevented by understanding…

Defying Hitler Considered as one the respectable and most established authors, Sebastian Haffner in his book Defying Hitler brings forth to the reader an eyewitness account of a nation that was in constant influx. The influx ranged from rising of the First Corps, Hitler Youth Movement right-wing military forces set up to suppress communism and the rise of Hitler to power. The publication allows readers to be informed of the German history indicating how the German nation was forced to grapple…

Those we elect and trust, for example “the intelligentsia on the Council of Foreign Relations...policy wonks who….publishing an erudite bimonthly journal” have tried to establish one unified world government superpower (“Secret Societies Control”). Entire committees of government workers could belong…

The tumultuous nature of Poland 's economy and government during this period of communist rule caused significant deterioration in the lives of the Poles, which created a unified Polish resistance movement early on. As the Soviet Union tried to hasten its gaining of control in Poland, it was met with much resistance (Curtis 42). Regardless, the state collectivized Polish agriculture, and claimed state control of most Polish businesses, leaving only family-run shops to the private section (and…

Born and raised in a tiny Minnesota prairie town, few would have guessed that young and down-to-earth Sinclair Lewis would become one of America’s most celebrated authors and outspoken liberal thinkers. Lewis didn’t discover this exact destiny until his 20s, but from his early teens, Lewis could tell that the prairie village of his birth would be far too limiting for his future. In 1902, he travelled east to attend Oberlin Academy (Oberlin College’s preparatory high school), but it was on the…

Essay Title: The modern and the traditional as depicted in So long a Letter. “So long a letter” as a piece of contemporary African women’s literature highlights the religious, social and other aspects of an African country passing into independence. When I understood the cultural and contextual background of “So long a letter”, I came across many aspects, but the theme of tradition and modernity fascinated me. Ramatoulaye, the protagonist is undergoing trauma following her husband Modou’s death…

Gunnar Kaufman, the main protagonist in Paul Beatty’s The White Boy Shuffle, is removed from comforts of white Santa Monica and relocated into a foreign setting, the ghetto of Hillside. Gunnar considers himself to be the “whitest Negro” and as he begins his journey in his new surrounding he realizes how true this title is. He may have held some expectations to what life in a “ghetto” what be like but he never believed that he would have to live it. Beatty creates a character that is able…

In their papers on higher education in America, academics Mark Edmundson and William Deresiewicz write on the alleged crisis gripping the university system of the United States. Utilizing the terms ‘consumerism’ and ‘neoliberalism’ pejoratively, they muse on how each system has adversely affected higher education institutions throughout America. While both terms used are quite similar in nature, Deresiewicz is more pointed and explicit in his characterization of neoliberalism as opposed to…

Anton Chekhov was a talented Russian playwright and shorty story author. He was born on January 29, 1860 in Taganrog, Russia. Chekhov led a life filled with plights and hardships, and he struggled to make ends meet as his father lived on a day to day paycheck while drowning in his debt. Chekhov’s mother and younger siblings followed Chekhov’s father while he fled to Moscow in order to escape his creditors; however, Chekhov remained in Taganrog to complete his high school graduation and soon,…