Jewish diaspora

Our world as we know fascinating, multifaceted, and cultured because of the literary aura that has been present throughout mankind. Just like the people that fill our world, some literature is hurtful, some is beneficial to certain groups and cultures, and some is for pure entertainment. However, the great thing about it is that literature has the ability to connect any form of art through the past and present. Literature has no age and therefore can speak to generations and help enlighten…

The Negative Portrayal of Black Men in the Media Racial profiling and the idea that Black men are innately more threatening than White men is a phenomenon that shapes people’s daily behavior every day. Whether it be a storekeeper’s decision to keep a more watchful eye on an African American customer, or a woman crossing to the other side of the street when approaching a Black man, people are influenced heavily by the stereotype that African American men are more prone to violence and crime…

Major historical events often inspire authors to produce works of literature that capture the essence of the time period. Eavan Boland, a popular Irish author, has produced many works of literature that shed light on both history and culture. Born in 1944 in Dublin, Ireland, Boland was the daughter of a diplomat and a painter. At a young age, Boland and her family moved to England, where she was rejected by many people because of her Irish background. Her struggle to gain acceptance sparked…

Many of the creative works by African Americans promoted freedom through cultural unity. “All God’s Chillen Had Wings” takes place on an island ruled by a cruel cotton-plantation owner. The master of the plantation overworks the African slaves to death and then quickly replaces them with more African slaves. The power dynamic changes when a young female slave, who just gave birth, is overworked almost to the point of death; as a result, she turns to the eldest slave there (an old man at…

Between the World and Me is a book written in 2015 by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Coates is an American writer, journalist, and educator. Coates has also written for the Atlantic and has been an advocate of many different cultural, social and political issue specifically those of the African American people. The book Between the world and Me is written as a talk of sorts between a black parent and his child . It is a preemptive conversation about the racism and injustice going on in society provoked by…

Judgement Immigration in the United States Over the history of time human beings have had different opinions on where they would like to live. Some may stay in one place while others choose to leave and live somewhere else. For the ones that move it could be an hour away to the next city of a different country altogether, but it isn’t always out of choice, war or other events can force people to move too. Those people who move between countries are called immigrants. Lately there has…

Japanese Culture Lives in Hawaiian Business The Japanese archipelago sits to the east of the Eurasian mainland. The land area is about 378,000km², making it the sixtieth largest country in the world by land mass. It is about one twenty-fifth the size of the U.S. Japan also has extraordinary business sense based on their customs which gathers the interest of other countries. With the progress of globalization, Japanese people and Japanese concepts spread across national borders and are a huge…

During the period of enslavement, African American women worked extremely hard, and endured a lot of pain and suffering. Many of these women have different stories, and in the novel Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler, she uses female characters, and gives them stories that likely could have happened during this period of time. With the use of African American women characters such as Dana, Alice, and Sarah, Butler’s narrative supports our perception and understanding of enslaved women. Dana, a young…

During the semester we have read several text from “Harlem Renaissance” such as the “Returning Solider” by W. E. B. Du Bois is one of the text, that I will talk about on this essay. More on this paper will specifically focus on to inform college students as audience. W. E. B. Du BOIS’s “Returning Soldiers” is about African American soldiers coming back from war to America. These soldiers were recruited in large number in military to help France against Germany at that time. The core point of the…

George C. Wolfe’s, The Colored Museum, uses the play dynamic in order to create, celebrate, and critique the African American past and future. The African American legacy is carefully dissected in an almost carefree attitude about the impacts it had on the people. The Colored Museum explores the ideas of African American. George C. Wolfe uses clever wit to say the unthinkable about a serious topic, which leaves the audience in an uncomfortable ruin. The audience is left to navigate though each…