The theme of colonialism is present before anyone of the so called 'dark races' appears: right from Jane's childhood at Gateshead. In the opening scene she sits in her window seat 'cross-legged, like a Turk' and, whilst clashing with John Reed, calls him 'a slave-driver' and describes herself as 'like any other rebel slave', syntax which Susan Meyer suggests 'disguises the trope as a simile' but does, in fact, 'designate Jane a slave and then describes her as behaving like others in the same position'. ... Thirdly, they are...

• Word Count: 2218
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It gives the imagination a wild and amusing ride, but it doesn't allow you to relate the plot to everyday life. ... In the book, Twain depicts a realistic attitude toward slavery through Jim, the runaway slave, while simultaneously giving the reader a wild ride of the moral growth of the orphaned boy Huck. ... He knows nothing more than to answer and cater to a white man's call. ... They generally had on yellow straw hats most as wide as an umbrella, but didn't wear no coats nor waistcoats; they call one another Bill, and Buck, and Hank, and Joe, and Andy, and talked lazy and dr...

• Word Count: 2137
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

In 1849 Livingstone and a group of 30-40 men went into the wild to try to get to the other side of the Ngami-lake where the makololo-tribe lived. ... In November 1855 they came to the big waterfalls that the Africans called "the smoke that thunders", but Livingstone names it the Victoria Falls. ...

• Word Count: 1340
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

When they were all captured, they were chained and shackled to the coast in a procession called a "coffle". ... It was called the Underground Railroad, but it had no engines and no trains. ... So why was it called a railroad? ... Sine the word "underground" mean hidden and out of sight, they called it the Underground Railroad. ... One was called the "wild-goose chase" which was when a slave hunter came looking for his prey, he would be assured that that very slave had just gone this way, when the runaway had gone the opposite way days earlier! ...

• Word Count: 1826
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

It is a wild and unpleasant story of a man's capacity for evil and the peculiar manifestation of it. ... Set in the palaces and boardrooms of Europe and in the villages of central Africa, it tells the story of the tragedy that took place during Leopold's so called rule, a tragedy that is so familiar to African-Americans, being told of our African brothers residing in the homeland. ...

• Word Count: 2087
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Close to the kitchen was a large wooden building called the kitchen quarter in which the house servants ate. ... Vegetables from their gardens could supplement this diet, by fish or wild game, and molasses. ...

• Word Count: 2162
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Around the world one is greeted with the good news of a manchild being born to Omoro and Binta Kinte in a village called Juffure which is located north of the coast of the Gambia, West Africa(Haley 1). ...

• Word Count: 4104
• Approx Pages: 16