Urchin

whose duties were to work and obey, not read and write. But, he felt a strong urge to be educated thus leading him on a search to find white people -mainly male children- to help him read and write. Douglas writes “I would bestow upon hungry little urchins, who, in return, would give me that more valuable bread of knowledge” (pp.259-260). “I would tell him [boys] I could write as well as he” (Douglas, p.260). At this point, the boy(s) would except the challenge of Douglas and tell him to try,…

The June days uprising, a conflict of the working masses of France against the provincial government in which the provincial government defeated the rebels to bring order to the state. The liberals would win while quelling the social and democratic issues of the republic. Mark Traugott gives a very in-depth look at France, especially in the June days uprising of 1848, focusing on the forces of the repressors and the insurgents. He places the Mobile Guard and the National Workshop as the central…

Naturalism in Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Crane’s Maggie:A Girl of the Streets is fundamentally a work of naturalism with a few elements of realism. Donna M Campbell explains in Naturalism in American Literature, that much of the naturalistic literary movement focuses on taboo topics such as violence, poverty, prostitution. Naturalism has other characteristics such as static characters and Social Darwinism, characters who are controlled by their environment and have very little “free…

The Roaring 20s definitely roared back in the day. Filled with fun nights and music, the 1920s decade revolutionized jazz. Jazz not only changed the music industry, but also the way the world celebrated life. Jazz started out as a combination of ragtime and blues. People also state that it sounded like a bit of brass band and syncopated music. No one really knows where the word ‘jazz’ originated, but there are many theories. One theory states that jazz’s name stemmed from a musician named Jazbo…

spirit. To further his learning, he made friends with the poor white boys. He would carry bread to exchange for a lesson from his friend. His friends sympathized Fredrick’s situation. He wrote, “This bread I used to bestow upon the hungry lil urchins, who, in return, would give me that more valuable bread of knowledge.” Fredrick would also challenge the other boys, saying that he could write better than them. He was then show off the little bit that…

Johannesburg started out as a beacon of hope and wealth to many, and through the years it has grown more sinister and yet many flock towards it every day in hope of a new and better life. However being in a city shapes each person in a different way and by using concepts from Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome To Our Hillbrow, L. Bremner’s Theme Park City and M. Mzamane’s My Cousin Comes To Jo’burg I will try and explain how the city has transformed and changed my views on various aspects in my life. Crime…

Choices (Draft) All humans are created equally and are born with free will. Every person has the natural right to be the author of their life, meaning that they can make their own choices and pursue their dreams. Nevertheless, humans bent nature to their will by adopting slavery, a practice in which humans are owned and are brutally forced to work. In the excerpt “Learning to Read and Write,” Frederick Douglass masters the literacy skills he needed to fulfill his role as an…

My New York Walkathon “Excuse me madam, you need help?’ I saw an old man wearing rags, carrying a sandwich in one hand and his phone in the other. Dressed in a blue collared shirt, neatly buttoned and belted up, he looked nothing close to a street urchin. It was my first day in the most wanted city of the United States of America-New York. I thanked him for his help, and decided to figure out the route of the subway (tube trains) as they call it there. It took me time, to get myself accustomed…

Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. New York: Dover Publications, 1995. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass depicts one slave’s journey from the heartache of slavery to joyfulness of freedom. Frederick Douglass is one of the most renowned American authors. His narrative is one of the most read slave accounts. Its focus is on white’s treatment on innocent African Americans and covers many horrid experiences of slave life. The book ingeniously opens the…

The Western Honey Bee and its twenty sub species have been extensively spread across the planet due to economic benefits relating with pollination and honey production. Honey bees live in colonies and split the division of labor among individuals. There are three castes of Western Honey Bees: Workers, Drones, and Queens (Krell 1996). Worker bees are non-reproductive females that make up the largest group in the colony. They specialize in the collection of pollen/nectar and feeding the young.…