Northwest Passage

“His tempo is off,” Sara mutters quietly to herself. It is minutes away until Sara herself will be in the same position as the boy with the off tempo. Sara is worried. She is afraid that with all her nerves of performing in front of the massive crowd, her shakes and trembles will hinder her performance, or even worse, destroy her performance. “I will be alright,” Sara says softly, “I am simply here once more to share the world my music.” Sara pauses for a moment. “My emotions.” As Sara looks…

her brother, the hunter, transformed into a mountain lion and kept Tayo from capture by the cowboys. The idea that everything’s spirit connects it to everything else supports a key concept to the Laguna people’s magic and religion. Tayo’s rite of passage from agony to peace followed the steps outline in our textbook perfectly. First, after his modern ritual performed by Betonie, Tayo goes to Mount Taylor initiating the isolation phase. The liminal phase followed, showing Tayo’s transformation…

Begining in Africa, slaves were captured and sold by both white slave traders and also by their own people in return for weapons, gold, spices, and other bartered goods. The slaves were then forced upon a ship for months to sail through The Middle Passage until they reached their final destination in the New World to live the rest of their lives as property in servitude. The 18th Century was the peak of the Atlantic Slave Trade, large numbers of slaves were captured on raiding expeditions,…

The movie, Snowpiercer, directed by Bong Joon-Ho is about economic inequality, where the individuals in the tail-section are being treated miserably by others living in the front section of the train. Bong uses various religious theories from Religion: The Basics, in order to point out his message. In the Snowpiercer, Malory Nye’s theory on power is shown through the character development of Wilford, him arranging the people in a specific way confirms that theory. Richard Gombrich’s theory on…

His memoir begins with his capture as a young boy in southern Nigeria, and provides detailed illustrations of the terrors he experienced crossing the middle passage aboard a slave ship (Perkins 162). One such passage within his memoir portrays the event of his initial experience below deck. To reveal the horrible living conditions that slaves suffered on the ship he affords his readers with a statement bringing all senses into account…

of the fact that the Americas gave merchandise, for example, wood and flour and some made products which Africa needed. Thus, the New World picked up African slaves; which the New World clearly needed. This second leg was alluded to as the Middle Passage on the grounds that it served as the center course between the two legs of the triangle. This leg additionally went through the West Indies where a few slaves were traded for sugar and molasses which was then transported up to New England and…

Many friendships throughout the novel are explored, with the central character within them being Stephen. He forms a bond with Keith Hayward along with the one between Barbara Berrill, something that proves to be hard for the protagonist. Frayn structures the novel in short and large chapters to show that his childhood, when compared to the present day, was far more momentous. Frayn presents hostility entering the one sided friendship between Stephen and Keith through the use of different…

begins from just a moving vessel which later is transformed into the naval warfare weapon, factory(plantation), and a prison for both Africans and sailors. Being just a moving vessel it managed to carry 12.4 million African souls through the Middle Passage from 1700-1808 when slavery was finally, officially abolished. These people were making a profit, not caring about who’s exploited, working conditions, and what will happen to the future generation of this culture while in America. They did…

Van Gennep (1960) was concern with the social movement of individuals and societies, as well as with the mechanisms they use to ensure social stability during these times of change. These rites of passage were defined as the stages of separation, transition, and incorporation (Tinto, 1993) by Van Gennep, and used by Tinto. The first stage, separation, requires the individual to disassociate from the old environment (family, friends, high school, hometown)…

from a strong lineage of royal warrior leaders in his village. One day Kunta Kinte was beat and kidnapped and awoke to find himself chained as a prisoner. He had now become part of what we know as the Middle Passage. The film educated viewers on the horrors and revolts of the middle passage, the narrative of a slave, the living conditions…