White wedding

Sembene introduces El Hadji first appearance as a gentle, calm and respectful man, who appears to be in his close-cropped hair which is streaked in white. Sembene also introduced him as a person who carries his fifty odd years well. El Hadji lives an entirely secular life, and he is a Muslim who never took his religion seriously. To a devoted Muslim, pilgrimage is the culmination of a devout life, but…

went well with African but while the indirect rule policy was mild as accommodated some aspect of Africa’s belief system, the former was worse as enforces itself including its culture on the natives. The assimilation policy assumes its natives as whites and forces them to be like them. While this happened, it results into a negative and positive effect in the natives. Many lost their cultural values, others had psychological breakdown in trying to fuse the two cultures which leads to their dead…

“Lawrence Hill has dedicated his life to learning, to teaching, and to helping. Through his efforts, Canadians have gained a better understanding of our shared history, and of the Black experience” (Lawrence Hill). Lawrence Hill has written many fictional and non- fictional pieces throughout his career, consisting of novels, short stories and essays. Some of the titles include Any Known Blood, The Illegal and Blood: The Stuff of Life. Hill’s most popular novel, The Book of Negroes received a…

Acts of Activism: Human Rights as Radical Performance by D. Soyini Madison obviously brought up questions of the situation in Africa, specifically that of Ghana. The book also brought to mind questions of other religions and my privilege when it comes to my access to water and the right to defend myself when it comes to domestic abuse. Though I had some issues with the stylistic choices of the book, I thought the topics and acts of activism that Madison highlighted were quite shocking and pushed…

I selected three primary sources, The Trial of Andrew Johnson, 1868, Ku Klux Klan, 1868, and Kamikaze Attack, 1944. The trial of Andrew Johnson, 1868 is mainly about how the Judiciary Committee finds a way to impeach Andrew Johnson, but Johnson got to stay as a president by one lucky vote. The Ku Klux Klan is about an organization killing slaves and carpet baggers for fun, and how their organization got big in the south. The Kamikaze Attack was a battle between the Japanese and the American Navy…

Equality Sign I drew a signed that says “Equality for All” because I believe that’s what Wallace Thurman fought for. Thurman was an advocate for African American rights, which makes me think that he supported African American women as well as men. He even collaborated with women on some of his writings, plays, and publications. I think that Wallace Thurman created his writings to display a message that everyone should be treated the same, despite your color, gender, or social class. He probably…

When examining "Snow White" from an Archetypal perspective, it becomes clear that this fairytale symbolizes curiosity, death, and freedom. These main topics are specifically shown through the use of animals. When analyzing the symbols, many come into affect. The three animals that visited Snow White’s coffin could represent many different things. The order that the animals arrived in is the base of the pattern for this fairytale. When the owl visits, it could symbolize the need for knowledge…

a. In modern versions of Snow White, she is depicted as a young maiden who enjoys cooking, cleaning, and speaking to animals. Traditionally, she was the object of jealousy by the evil queen and was ordered to be killed in the name of vanity. She is asked by the huntsman to run away so she can live, but when the queen discovers that she still lives, she decides to do the job herself. Snow White is an “innocent” child whom sees no reason to think that the strange old woman giving her an apple…

loved Disney’s version of Snow White. In the version that most people are familiar with ,which is the Disney version Snow White and the seven Dwarfs ,Snow White is the fairest of them all and the Evil Queen does not like that one bit. The main idea of the whole story revolves around the idea of beauty and jealously. The Grimm Brothers version of Snow White is quite similar to Disney’s version however, it does throw us a few curve balls. In this particular version Snow white has many…

Chapter Two Ethnographic Fictional representation of tribe and gender in select fiction of Pratibha Ray Pratibha Ray’s The Primal Land is the story of Bonda tribals who struggled to survive through the development induced displacement of their indigenous ‘country’. She reconstructs the socio-cultural myths, beliefs and rituals of the past and also the present transformations in the socio-cultural setup in the Bonda lands. BondaRay’s narrative provides us the social, political, and economic…