Or do we still have enough common sense to understand the destructive nature of limitless and abusive exploitation and raise our voices against it? ... Hard work does not make sense in today's world that is becoming more or more senseless. ...
Such details as birth dates, family ties among slaves and parentage, which are basic for constructing an identity, were withheld from slaves in order to prevent them from establishing a sense of self that could lead to alliances or organized rebellions. ... Jacobs starts her story and states in the preface that she wants to "arouse the women of the North to a realizing sense of the condition of millions of women at the South, still in bondage, suffering what I suffered"(Jacobs XIV). ... Thus she understands that some common ideals of womanhood cannot be applied to black enslaved women, and the...
Christian Communities refers to social groups with a common Christian faith who gather together to pray and serve people suffering and living with HIV and AIDS. ... The situation particularly in Africa was quite piteous in the sense that there was so much stigma and discrimination on the people living with HIV. ... Many Christians have lost the sense of God because of the adversaries they are facing, therefore they are no longer able to serve their fellow brothers and sisters. ...
This is the result from the belief that as stable and successful societies must be based on shared values and a common culture, immigration should be firmly restricted or minority groups should be encouraged to conform into the culture of the "host" society. ... The experience of colonial rule helped to forge a sense of nationhood and a desire for national liberation. ... Further, in a sense the colonizing Europeans had taken with them the seed of their own destruction. ...
Chapter One ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF CASTE It seems necessary at the outset to point out the specific features of the caste system, in order more clearly to bring out the difference in social structure which has always existed between Europe and Africa. The originality of the system resides in the fact that the dynamic elements of society, whose discontent might have engendered revolution, are really satisfied with their social condition and do not seek to change it: a man of so- called "inferior caste" would categorically refuse to enter a so- called "superior" one....
Links via relations to other family members in other villages created the kinship ties and the same sense of identity similar to slaves in North America. ... All of this adaptation was necessary to the survival of the slaves but did not eliminate the slaves need to maintain a certain sense of their own cultural identity, achieved by learning to integrate their own norms of behavior and beliefs with those of the dominant white master class. ... Arriving in America from an assortment of different societies with varying religious beliefs slaves from West and Central Africa shared common charac...
" Tawny is a color described as light brown to brownish orange that is common color in the African landscape. ... By the end, the poet's dilemma is not reconciled, but one gets the sense that Walcott will abandon neither Africa nor Britain. ...
Joseph Conrad's depiction of the common European male exposes the extent of the denial involved with Imperialism. ... "The true center of Heart of Darkness is the subtly revealed psychology of an ethical human being struggling to maintain a moral perspective-a sense of moral cleanliness, at any rate-in a situation revoltingly immoral."" ...
The Afrikaners were a living fallacy in the sense that they thought that they could continually stop the floodgates from opening if they could contain the problem of insurrection, however, the very measures of containment that were used only further discredited their ideologies causing more international and domestic resistance to their cause. ... (Bissell, South Africa and the United States, 128-129) This quite support was visible in the sense that America and Britain alike did not initially condemn the actions of the National Party after the highly publicized events at Soweto. ... This notio...
The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history and, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, formed the major demographic well-spring for the re-peopling of the Americas following the collapse of the Amerindian population. Cumulatively, as late as 1820, nearly four Africans had crossed the Atlantic for every European, and, given the differences in the sex ratios between European and African migrant streams, about four out of every five females that traversed the Atlantic were from Africa. From the late fifteenth century, the Atlantic O...
