The Departed

Refugee Poem Where am I going? Am I going to die? I feel like I'm going to cry Where I'm going is not showing Being eighteen is pretty hard Chills from bills and they will Make me upset and I don't have skill In survival on my own – I must keep up my guard. Well, I shouldn't be a Negative Nelly. It can't be that difficult to find an occupation But, I am going to a new nation. At least I have money for some food for my belly. This boat ride makes me feel sick The swaying at…

in August of 1966 by Natural History Magazine. Lauren Bohannan story depicts when she traveled to the Tiv, a homestead of some hundred and forty people in West Africa and by her surprise, she was taught the true meaning of Hamlet. Before Bohannan departed from Oxford she was asked by a friend if she needed guidance interpreting Shakespeare since he was "a very English poet, and one can easily misinterpret the universal by misunderstanding the particular", but Bohannan believed that human nature…

It’s a vicious cycle. A villain is found or created and he or she creates havoc amongst the locals, terrorizing them until they can take no more. Then, the hero is called to come and save the day. Whether the call comes from within or an outside influence is of little significance. There must be a confrontation in which the hero faces the villain and eventually triumphs. And when the hero retires, and it isn’t long before another villain takes the place of the previous one. But what would…

To Confucians, and therefore, the majority of Chinese at the time, the Buddhism that had entered China did not adhere to their beliefs about filial piety. To the majority of Chinese, they saw Buddhists as people who had abandoned their parents and left them to take care of themselves-- quite the opposite of filial piety. However, with the story Mu-lien rescuing his mother, this changed and allowed Buddhism to promote itself as a religion that encourages filial piety, contrary to what Confucians…

getting hurt. After a few days of talking to one of my friends at the U.S. Embassy, he secured my family and I a trip to America. We were crossing the Atlantic on a steamboat. I was assured that the ride was going to be pleasant and prompt. ‘We departed from Spain April 15, 1933. As promised the ride was smooth and easy. Us and about 200 others rode the Prometheus to Ellis Island. We landed safe and soundly no issues. As expected we were met by a flurry of people being rushed into the…

many husbands she had and preached that it was unholy and un-ladylike, but she simply backed up her life style by stating, “… God expressly instructed us to increase and multiply,” (Chaucer). “…Blessed be God that I wedded five! When my husband had departed from the world, then some other Christian man shall wed me. For then, I am free, in God’s name to wed where I wish” (Chaucer). The Wife of Bath was challenged one day by her latest husband. He would read books to her that would talk down on…

After he spoke his final words he departed the mortal world and “flew to glory” (59). A connection can be made to Beowulf’s glorious departure into the afterlife with Christ’s ascension into heaven after his resurrection. With Beowulf dead, Wiglaf fulfilled his lord’s final wishes by…

Thales’ philosophy had favored physical explanations over mythical explanations. He departed from this worldview by focusing his thoughts on things that can be observed physically. He used mythology by discrediting the beliefs and explain what really happened. He would do this by saying that a phenomenon occurred because of a certain situation…

Blacks played a leading role in the abolitionist movement. Northern blacks attracted to Garrison’s opposition to colonization and his demand for equal rights were half of The Liberator’s subscribers. Several blacks were leaders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and northern-born blacks and fugitive slaves such as Frederick Douglass quickly became major organizers and speakers. Many fugitive slaves published accounts of their experience of slavery, which became powerful tools in communicating…

“ We did not come to fear the future. We came to shape it”(said by Barack Obama). This quote could not fit any better for these two colonies. Both, Jamestown and Plymouth, came to the ‘new world’ to create a better future for themselves as individuals and a society. Of course, both were very different in many ways, from where they landed to who came. What was truly was different, but similar at the same time, was the their encounters in the ‘new world’. The Jamestown colony came over from…