Without a home, one is stranded without a past, and – with no history – without an identity. ... They were stripped from a livable past and shackled into a foreign, unlivable future. ... Morrison concludes, at a fundamental level, that lives are not sustainable in isolation from these elements: past, present and future. ... In the Clearing, the ex-slaves were told to renounce their past in order to salvage their futures: "She did not tell them to clean up their lives or to go and sin no moreShe told them that the only grace the could have was the grace they could imagine.... T...

• Word Count: 2092
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Lastly four, To what extent does this work offer a significant and useful depiction of the past? ... With all this said I think that at this time I should continue to outline what the significant and useful information throughout the writings of Equiano have told us about the past. Well I believe that the past can be looked at and interpreted in many different ways though having it told through the eyes of the wounded such as a slave it can be seen in an aspect that is sometimes terrify. I strongly think that this work shows the past to be that of a time of exploration and control with lack...

• Word Count: 2057
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As she went on she made the biblical reference of Eve being the first sinner and subsequently caused man to sin. ... Jacobs was willing to share her personal, and in some ways shameful, past for the greater good. ...

• Word Count: 1369
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses satire to expose the racism, injustices and lack of morality in society. Huck and Jim's journey down the Mississippi River allows the reader to examine the attitudes, actions and beliefs of a southern community during the mid t...

• Word Count: 2378
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In stanza 105-106, there's a hair-raising wind that blows past the mariner "Like a meadow-gale of spring" The romantic element of this poem is especially strong when the mariner uses the simile of a painting to describe the stillness in the ocean: "As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.... This image of a winged predator that chases the ship directs our attention to the notion of the sin not only being the killing of the albatross, but the entire purpose of the voyage itself. ... In other words, Coleridge is saying that enslaving people is an immoral and unnatural...

• Word Count: 1986
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The resource that enabled slaves to maintain such defiance was their culture: the body of beliefs and values born of their past and their present. ... Since storytellers or griots focus mainly on the history of their people ancestors are usually the principal subjects of a particular chronicle of the past (Stuckey, 14). ...

• Word Count: 2002
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate