Kingdom of Prussia

In her article, “Mother’s tongue”, Amy Tan narrates the changes of cognition of her mother’s tongue based on her own experiences. She begins her essay by introducing herself as a writer instead of a scholar of English, which ingeniously makes a closer connection with readers. She describes three personal anecdotes from different time periods of her lifetime to create a comprehensive view for the definition of “Mother’s tongue”. The first one happened recently at her speech, which is the…

Boo Radley is who I believe is the character that is often referred to in the book by other characters, and who sets the theme of the book. Boo Radley sets the theme in many ways in the book. He was often referred to in the book because he is very mysterious and nobody knows how he acts. Therefore nobody knows how to treat him. People believe Boo Radley is a mean person that only wants to be left alone. Boo is actually the opposite of what most people believe. Boo Radley sets the theme of the…

By viewing life as a curving line, Asagai is subscribing to optimism and faith. He sees that in the end, dreams can be achieved and success can be attained, even if not in a conventional way. In Beneatha’s hardest time, she loses hope and decides that life in a circular trap and the entire human race is marching in an aimless direction. Asagai’s view allows for life’s surprises. Therefore, I agree with his optimistic philosophy. Without realizing it, Walter may be making progress in the minds…

When I first entered sociology 235, I expected to learned topics about race and ethnicity in the United States. I wanted to know more about how one’s race and ethnicity can impact their daily lives. Also, I want to become more competent about diversity. As an aspiring social worker, I wanted to understand how the words “race” and “ethnicity” are define. I also wanted to learn about the relationships race and ethnicity and inequality. Understanding this would enable to better services client of…

Despite that fact, Media concentration is not a phenomenon native to North America (McQuail & Siune, 1998). Other countries liberal democracies such as the United Kingdom have been threatened by a small number of conglomerates. In the UK, 80% of the media is held in the hands of just six companies (Johnston Press, Garnett UK, Tindle News, Local World, TMR, Archant, and KM group) (Sweney, 2016) . Rupert Murdoch, global…

1. The term “unalienable right” refers to rights that people are born with that cannot be given or taken away. Natural human rights. I think that Jefferson found it important to assert this because the colonists felt that the British government was trying to take away their unalienable rights. After he asserts that these are rights that everyone has, he uses the rest of the paragraph to explain how these rights should be protected by government. Furthermore, he explains that any government…

Frantz Fanon sought to understand colonization more through minds rather than within the physical world. Living in France, he saw how people (men especially) from Africa acted once they arrived in what he calls the “host country” as compared to how they would act in their homeland. In order to advance their status and to be accepted, black people felt they needed to adopt the cultural standards of the host country. In order to do this, African men would try to emulate what they saw in white…

Don 't judge someone based on their skin color, religion, gender or cultural background, those people may be the nicest of all. “A Passage to India” is realistic fiction novel twentieth century novel written by E.M Forster. Novel takes place in India, during the British colonial era. It is very apparent in the beginning of the novel that there racial tensions between the British and Indians. Religion takes its place and women even face challenges in their current society, in this novel. It is a…

This semester, I went to Black Lives Matter by Patrisse Cullors, during MLK week. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this presentation. Racism is a hot topic and can be discussed in many different constructs. There were few white people there, and a majority of the people there where African American. I felt that the target audience that Cullors needed to impact was sadly not there. Being that most of the audience was black, they are thoroughly aware of the struggles that comes with having a…

The idea of colonialism is to take resources from one country to use for the benefit of the colonizing country. There are several viewpoints about colonization and their impacts. Many believe there are numerous advantages of colonization within a country and several are against the infrastructures and hidden political agendas it brings about within the developed country. It is quite evident that Africa was subject to Colonialism by the Europeans. Europeans extended their nation 's sovereignty…