Nigerian Civil War

In the first chapter in Railway, George Revill opens his volume on the history of the railway with a recounting on the associations between the landscape and the railway and the emergence of tourism geared to railroad travel . Revill traces this history from the establishment of the public steam-powered railway between Liverpool and Manchester which opened in 1830 to the proliferation of railroads in America , and due to the spread of this technology, greater travel distances became more…

Back in the 1800s and 1900s, the African Americans were considered a lower class race, and treated as such. Many of these people, as well as others who found this unfair, fought for the equal rights to freedom and success for the African Americans. Peaceful protesting was a huge way that people thought would help achieve the equality that was being fought for. One way that people fought peacefully was in writing, commonly poetry, and the poetic devices the authors used. The two poems "Sympathy"…

The 1966 film The Battle of Algiers produced by Gillo Pontecorvo (The Battle of Algiers) is based on the Algerian War of Independence, in attempts of gaining independence from France (Algerian War). It is clearly depicted how problematic this film was and the problems contextualized. One of the major problems this film showed was the dehumanization of the colonial experience endured by the Arab Algerians in Algeria. Of the many conflicts, Algerians endured them by the hands of the French. A…

During the United States slave era it was thought that there was approximately four hundred and fifty thousand brought to America from the African continent. In Frederick Douglass’s autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl were both slave narratives that talk about their experiences as being being a generation of slave in the United States. Both text clearly describe how the inhumane treatment of slaves by their…

Early on in Annie John, the mid-twentieth century Antigua narrative, there arrive a conflict between the main character Annie and her manners teacher, “someone who knew all about manners and how to meet and greet important people of the world” (AJ 27-28). This incident prefigures many other complications and troubles that she has in dealing with gender and sexual inequalities of the African-Caribbean females under British colonial rule. The Autobiography of My Mother also signals that Xuela too,…

man who spoke in front of thousands of people whose speeches are still read and lectured today, and this man’s name was Martin Luther King Jr. The ‘I Have a Dream Speech’ is important when looking at segregation in the U.S., his involvement in the civil rights movement, and how his speech helped change history. A major conflict in the 1960s was segregation. Blacks were not treated equally with whites, and they were rarely seen together. They had different facilities, like waiting rooms and…

Many years ago in Africa was a lot of injustice and segregation which separated African-Americans from the rest of the world. Some Africans didn't speak up about this, but some did. From reading 'mother to son' written by Langston Hughes we can make an assumption that the poem is about a mother who is telling her son to stay strong and preserving in the life of adversity. Being in America during the times of segregation was really hard for African Americans, and it's something we don't…

Africans have been portrayed and depicted as savage animals by many people throughout history. Things Fall Apart is a novel written by Chinua Achebe about the Igbo tribe in Africa and their true way of life. Chinua Achebe is a black man originally from an Igbo tribe, and he believes that the portrayal of Africans as savage animals is false. Because of this, he writes Things Fall Apart. In an interview with Achebe he states, “There is that great proverb—that until the lions have their own…

Morrison has made a constant effort to bring to the consciousness of her readers the history of black slaves in America. Her texts The Bluest Eye and Beloved vivdly portray this. Rushdy asserts to this thus: ‘Beloved is the product of and a contribution to a historical moment in which African American historiography is in a state of fervid revision’ (44-5). In a bid to bring these experiences to the consciousness of her readers, Morrison traces Beloved to the story of Margaret Garner, a slave…

was a major reason for the unavoidable ruination of Spanish Colonial Rule. It also led to the hostile relationship between the Spanish and Americans, and supposed to have caused the Spanish-American war for…