No man's land

communicates the importance of young Native American’s cultural struggle to fit into the white world within the history of America. This struggle is a direct link to the whites battling and conquering the Native American to create the civilized white man’s world. The young Native American yearns to return to the familiarity of home when he encounter may foreign concepts, he perceives…

into America faced multiple challenges including conquering the land, battling natives tribes in a bid to secure settlements, while at the same time trying to stay true to their religious, entrepreneurial, and socio-ethical roots acquired in their former lands back in Europe. Through their writings, the soldier, administrator and adventurer John Smith, Poet Anne Bradstreet and Governor William Bradford depict an America whose lands were initially hard to subdue and inhabited by a people wary of…

series of on and off religious wars fought between the years from 1096 to 1487 under the authority of various Popes. The Crusades were basically fought for the recovery of the Holy Land. They were ordered by Pope Urban II in 1095, and within months the first Europeans had arrived in the Middle East to rid the Holy Land of Muslims. One story particularly boosted the flames of morale and added to the religious zeal and zest of the crusaders. It was the story of Jakelin de Mailly, a knight who…

At the surface, “Wall-E” is an enjoyable movie about a lonely robot, whose main task is to collect garbage on Earth. Beneath the surface, the movie is so much more, Wall-E is needed to save the planet from permanent destruction, while becoming smitten with EVE. When the audience first meets Wall-E, he is alone on Earth with nothing but a pet cockroach. Even though the planet is deemed as uninhabitable for humans, Wall-E must continue to follow his directive of cleaning the garbage off the planet…

While in a three-month Spanish–American War; the United States felt the urge to take up the “burden” of empire, as had Britain. The author of the short poem, "White Man's Burden" believed in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries that white men took responsibility for educating ethnicities who considered to be uncivilized and/or ignorant. This pretty much applied to anyone who was not white. “Your new-caught, sullen…

Discussion I. Suffering is caused by man’s imperfect decisions (1:1-5). A. During the time of the Judges, Elimelech left Israel and went…

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an American children 's book written by author L. Frank Baum. The book was written in May of 1990 and was known by most people from seeing the popular 1902 Broadway musical, as well as the iconic 1939 musical film. The Wizard of Oz film and novel had been widely translated due to being so well known and popular. The movie and book of The Wizard of Oz can be analyzed in the way the author made use of its characters, colors, and environment within the text in…

In the past accusations of witchcraft ran rampant causing panic wherever it went. 75%-90% of those tried and executed during this occurrence were female as opposed to the 10%-25%, which were males. It was apparent that women were linked to negative beliefs about dangerous magic and association with the devil, or judged based on systems of power in communities and courts worked against women rather than men. The concept of Gender plays an important role in shaping ideas about witches. In the…

Is this land our land? In Woody Guthrie’s poem, “This Land Is Your Land,” the tone is set to be a joyful song, but the tone twists towards the end. As I read, I interpreted the poem in the tone of joy which transforms into disillusion when the speaker questions, “Is this land made for you and me?” (Guthrie line 24). Reading Guthrie’s poem, I came to the conclusion that because of all the hardships America went through in the 1930s, the American dream is not for everyone regardless of one’s…

The Wilderness “For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land” (Deuteronomy 15:11). Biblical scripture itself does not omit poverty from its pages. Messages of the vulnerable and poor are interwoven to express how pervasive their plight has been and will be in society. Religion assumes a righteous and perfect image outlined by preachers and painted by its followers.…