Only after her son's birth does Nnu Ego begin to feel like a "real woman" (Emecheta 54). ... With both sons pursuing further education abroad, Nnu Ego never receives the comfort she expected them to provide. ... It is imperative to note that the concept of education leading to social freedom in Africa is misleading. ... In the Rhodesian culture, a son is more valuable to a family because he remains as a family member until death. The son is responsible for caring for his parents in their old age. ...

• Word Count: 1640
• Approx Pages: 7
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During this time, the Mexican Revolution was in full play, readers were desperately seeking to be acquainted with the subject matter of Mexico and it's people's native way of life. ... This story by Mena as described in one of Doherty's notes "could also be interpreted and was probably read as a metaphor for political struggles in Mexico. ... In one of Mena's final stories, which were published in the Household Magazine in 1931, " A Son of the Tropics", sees an enormous shift in reference to the postcolonial view. This story is really different in comparison to Mena'...

• Word Count: 1733
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During this period the Portuguese attempted to acclimatise the native population to Western customs in order to stem the flow of any potential resistance to their rule and gradually eradicate the local cultural and religious ways. ... "Sacred texts" (the Dhamma for Buddhists and the Sanskrit texts for Hindus) were also ordered to be destroyed whenever discovered. (2) Indeed, given the Portuguese colonist's eagerness to resort to violence in "converting" the native populations to Catholicism, it is perhaps no surprise that the aforementioned Prince Vijaya Pala was not ...

• Word Count: 1990
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In 1960 King and his family moved to Atlanta, his native city, where he joined his father as co-pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. ... In it he seemed to foreshadow his own untimely passing, or at least to strike a particularly reflective note, ending with these now-historic words, "I've seen the promised land. ... Ray later found sympathy in an unlikely place: members of King's family, including his son Dexter, who publicly met with Ray in 1977 and began arguing for a reopening of his case. ...

• Word Count: 1675
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For instance, "I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh- (Cannibalism 1). ... On another note, endocannibalism (a society that eats their old and sick members as a sign of respect) is less known, and only few tribes practice this. ... Also, there was an essential belief held by some (like the Liverpool River natives) that through eating a dead relative or enemy who had a unique and desirable quality (great wisdom or clever hunter), the consumers would gain their attributes; "If they killed a fast runner, they ate part of his legs, h...

• Word Count: 2417
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate