Rite of 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…

Amerigo Vespucci, Jacques Cartier, and Henry Hudson are only a few examples of European white men who helped to shape the US as we know it today. These men not only helped found America, but they brought their country’s cultures along with them. Vespucci traveled from Spain, along with supplies to find new trade routes which would hopefully make waterways around North America. Cartier, on the other hand, was from France, he explored mostly to look for gold, silver, copper and spices. He wasn’t,…

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,…

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…

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…

and Java to prove they weren’t part of a larger southern continent. His second expedition took him to Antarctica and many of the same places from 1772 through 1775, and on his third expedition from 1776 through 1779 he searched for a Northwest Passage in North America and Asia, exploring the Pacific, and finally landed in The Sandwich Islands where he was killed. John Cabot:…

The first was Giovanni de Verrazano. He was commissioned in 1524 to discover a Northwest passage through North America to India. Not far behind him was Jaques Cartier who explored the St. Lawrence river as far as present-day Montreal. Jean Ribault headed an expedition that explored the St. Johns river area in Florida. France’s last explorer was…

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…

Mahasweta Devi, a proficient Bengali writer and activist who puts a question mark on the democratic and civilized nation, India. It is imperative to have a clear understanding of “marginalised “in order to understand and appreciate the writings of Mahasweta. According to the Oxford Dictionary, the concept “marginalize” means “to make somebody feel as if they are not important and cannot influence decisions or events; or to put somebody in a powerless position”. Mahasweta empathetically restates…