Polygamy

Throughout the novel Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe writes a realistic account about the African culture and customs of Nigeria. He never once forces the Ibo’s beliefs upon his readers, he simply wishes for you to learn and understand the ways of his culture. Achebe shows the different styles of life a woman entails, within her lifetime in the Ibo Culture from the very beginning to the very end. However during the novel we see how the woman of the Ibo culture have suffered a great deal of loss…

human dependence wealth. Wealth involves rights over people as well as rights over things One man in the video have called the librarian has a large village also he has many women, cattle’s, sheep’s, children and goats. The Masai society practices polygamy because…

“The Lottery” can be said to be one of the most well known short stories in American literature, and is described as a chilling tale of conformity gone wrong. Shirley Jackson, the author of “The Lottery” writes a story of a small town in modern-day America with a peculiar yearly tradition. Jackson centers her story on a small town, in which once every year on June 27th, its citizens randomly draw the name of one townsperson to be sacrificed, death by stoning, in order to ensure a good harvest.…

CREATING THE AFRICAN MYTH Often times, when very little is known about a topic, we as humans tend to fill in the blanks with the signs to which we have been exposed. Eventually, these signs and their meanings begin to stick in our minds and the minds of a society as unquestionably accurate, thus a myth is created. This is the case with G.W.F. Hegel’s The Philosophy of History. Hegel addresses the significance of Africa and Africans in comparison to the rest of the world by analyzing physical…

Anthropology in the 19th century was composed more so of the evolutionism of ideas, which differentiated cultural structures through different stages of evolution using the single deductive theory. Learning from the failures of the horticultural dependency dilemmas, the Neolithic Revolution began allowing people not to depend on nature to gather food, but rather produce their own food through labor. Which later developed a whole new world for humans, transcending from hunting and gathering to…

homosexual relations, unfairly discriminated and disrupted an individuals right to privacy. The anti-gay laws, that existed in Tasmania prior to their decriminalisation in 1994, equated homosexual relations with other prohibited practices, such as polygamy, pedogamy, incest, and zoophilia (Geraldine, A, & Wagner, R 2015, 1). The continued lack of legislation in favour of same-sex marriage, acts as a continuation of these unjustifiable discriminations. The states exclusion of same-sex attracted…

TITLE: A QUALITATIVE STUDY ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN THE VAAL TRIANGLE. Introduction “It ought to concern every person, because it’s a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because it tears at the social fabric. It ought to concern every business, because it distorts markets. It ought to concern every nation, because it endangers public health and fuels violence and organized crime. I’m talking about the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which must…

It is debatable as to whether or not America won the war in Vietnam. While there were many factors that played a part in the success, or failure of the war one factor that affected the war greatly was the public opinion on the war. While the Vietnam War garnered a vast amount of hate from the American population that viewed the war as a battle that did not involve the American people, the war garnered hate in Vietnam for other reasons. The American view on masculinity, among other American…

Westward Expansion During the early 19th century, the Louisiana Purchase was made between Napoleon and President Thomas Jefferson. The Louisiana Purchase, was a land purchase for fifteen million dollars, that doubled the size of America. Due to Americans lacking knowledge of the land, President Jefferson, sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on an expedition to explore the territory, better known as the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The foundings made of the land by the explorers encouraged…

The silences that exist in literature today around gendered norms, as discussed in Stephane Robolin’s essay, “Gendered Hauntings: The Joys of motherhood, Interpretive Acts, and Postcolonial Theory” are reverberated in The Joys of Motherhood not as omissions, in fact, but punctuation marks, nudging the reader to acknowledge the existence of woman not for pity of their suffering, but for validation of the foundation and raison d’etre they provide for capitalism. Through a close read of Buchi…