1. The Destruction of African Culture in Chinua Achebe
When a tragedy of this magnitude hits sometimes it takes days, months, or even years for the entire impact to settle in. When we learned about the news of a small but very dependable King Air 200 jet, crashing in Byers, Colorado (a small community 20 miles east of Denver), with 10 members of the Oklahoma State University's basketball family on board it left us all in disbelief. The cause of the planes failure is still under investigation but the probable cause of the crash is icing on the planes wings. The men onboard are as follows: Nate Fleming, Daniel Lawson, Bill Teegins, Pat Noyes, Will Hancock, Jared Weiberg, Brian Luinstra, Denver Mills, Bjorn Fallistrom and Kendall Durfey. These men died a premature death that many of us can never understand. When tragedies such as this strike we must look to others for support to help move on. We must help others, not only ourselves, and accept the fate that the Lord has chosen for these men.
The pain that is felt by these victims" families and close friends has to be unimaginable by any of us. All of these men left behind family and friends that have probably not ever had so many questions about death running through their heads. They want answers that they will probably never receive. They must try to move on no matter how heavy the heartbreak of this whole situation must seem. This not only affected the families and close friends, but also those who just knew the individuals as acquaintances. My best friend had a class with Daniel Lawson for 2 years. They were not the best of friends but they hung out, worked out, and occasionally went to lunch or a party with each other. Not two weeks before the crash my friend was telling me how down to earth Daniel was. He was not cocky like most of the other athletes, he did not want any special treatment from his professors, he just wanted to be the best student athlete he could be. When he told me this I started to follow Daniels performance in the paper or on TV.
At first there were only a few Christians, and many doubted that new religion to last since they accepted osu (outcasts). ... In a book, the characters in it are the ones who create the story; they are the ones who allow us to feel the tragedy, the happiness through their experiences. ...
The beginning chapter sets up the problems of the entire novel with great efficiency. It tells us what is going on at present with Obi's trial and backtracks to the past in order to reveal what kind of man Obi is: an educated man, a young man who is Nigerian but who has studied in England. Most significantly, this first chapter juxtaposes the two extreme cultures that are at work in the novel as a result of colonialism. The scene between Mr. Green and the British Councilman, and the scene among the Umuofia Progressive Union are juxtaposed against each other to illustrate their differen...