Soul

The soul boys was a working class youth subculture, which began in the early to mid-70s. The individuals of the soul boy’s subculture consist of white and blacks, which enjoyed soul and funk music. The soul boys is an outcrop of a mod, they are clothes obese, and they are also obese with black music. Also, there were two types of soul boys, the soul boy in the North, usually like the classic soul of the 60s, and the Soul boy in the South enjoyed more of a contemporary soul. Per Paul Hodkinson’s…

In 1997’s film "Soul Food," I was excited to see a movie that didn't represent an American family by typical ruins. "Soul Food" is a triumph because it never loses sight of the importance of family, even as its family members transgress and quarrel. The storyline focuses on the lasting influence of the family matriarch (played wonderfully by Irma P. Hall), Big Mama. Her kindhearted and wise soul holds the family together. When she dies due to complications of diabetes, her daughters must…

Soul Plane (2004), follows the flight Nashawn Wade (Kevin Hart) as he starts his own airline after receiving a multimillion dollar settlement from an airline he sued for being injured on one of their flights. As the story continues, it follows the flight of a caucasian family and Nashawn as he makes an attempt to make matters right with an old flame. By using various visual and sound techniques, Soul Plane (2004) is comical, absurd, and entertaining, by amusing the audience with scantily dressed…

Before watching this documentary, I had no knowledge of the existence of the show called Soul Train. As someone who was born near the end of the show’s run on television, and as an Indian-American, I was never exposed to Soul Train as a kid. I did, however, recognize the term “soul train line.” To my surprise, I already knew some of the segments that were made popular by Soul Train. This dance-music program has had a strong influence on popular culture today so that the newer generation,…

In Johnson’s book, Soul by Soul, slavery can be seen as a rising economic and social way of life for nineteenth-century Americans. Through slavery, Americans were able to transform into a higher social class and economically benefit, which would in turn also fulfill their diverse hopes and desires. Since there were many slaves in trading pens, the slaveholding owners needed to have a general idea of what type of slave they were looking for and what task they were needed to fulfill. Most…

In Plato's view of the transmigration of the soul from body to body, however, there is a difference. Plato claimed the soul tends to become impure during these bodily inhabitations although a minimal former life knowledge remains. However, if through its transmigrations the soul continues doing good and eliminates the bodily impurities it will eventually return to its pre-existence state. But, if the soul continually deteriorates through its bodily inhabitations it will end up in Tartarus, a…

In Soul by Soul, Walter Johnson analyzes the role that slave traders, slave owners, and slaves played in the antebellum slave market. Johnson discusses the distrust, power imbalance, and interdependence between the three by using literary sources from the nineteenth century. At the beginning of the book, Johnson introduces the chattel principle which is the idea that “any slave’s identity might be disrupted as easily as a price could be set and a piece or paper passed from on hand to another”…

The impact of the physical slave market on the enslaved is often underestimated. The slave market was arguably the greatest form of control that a slave master had in his arsenal because it enabled the individual to diminish the slave to subhuman form. As stated by Walter Johnson, “That threat, with its imagery of outsized power and bodily dematerialization suffused the daily life of the enslaved.” Thus, the enormous effects of the slave market were carried by slaves for the rest of their…

Often when one thinks of slavery in the antebellum South, images of powerful independent whites on sprawling plantations and cotton rows come to mind. But Walter Johnson’s 1999 “Soul by Soul” hopes to shift that focus to the volatile interdependence of slave and master and the large slave pens in the region’s major cities. Using the city of New Orleans in the country’s sprawling southwestern frontier as his primary case study, Johnson weaves his ingenious and compelling narrative from the…

The most famous of these damned souls is named Hunter Homan, who often will leave all his work to be completed at the very last second as well as spend countless hours on his computer instead of with his friends and family . The punishment for the souls and Mr. Homan is being forced to run in a circle for eternity as demons hit them with pitchforks while sitting on beds and chairs that the souls of this circle desire to rest on. The Punishment gives these souls no rest or no chance to resort…