The poet quickly establishes an ‘us’ and ‘them’ narrative structure which he uses to criticise his European education and the lack of black history in his schooling. He explains how he has been taught about such iconic British historical events as the Battle of Hastings (1066) and major fictional characters like Dick Wittington, but not Toussaint L’Ouverture, leader of a revolution on the island of Haiti led by slaves who eventually overcame their French colonisers and established Haitian independence. He goes on in a similar manner explaining how he has learnt about ‘de man who discovered the balloon’ and ‘de cow who jump over de moon’ but not about Nanny of the Maroons, a Jamaican national hero who escaped from a life of slavery and formed the Jamaican Maroons, a community of runaway slaves who became a guerrilla army freeing other slaves and destroying plantations. Similarly, the speaker explains that while he has been taught about Lord Nelson, Columbus, Florence Nightingale, and Old King Cole, he has not heard a word said about Shaka or Mary Seacole, a Jamaican nurse who saved the lives of
The main goals for this paper is to compare and contrast the main ideas and views of the great pieces of literature: “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King and “Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau. Both authors attempt to argue for the rights to disobey authority is there is social injustice. Both of these authors seem to have the same ideas and views, but Thoreau was writing during the mid 1800s during the time of slavery in America and King was writing in the 1960s during the time of severe racial discrimination in America. Because Thoreau came before King, he was a big influence for King and his writing. Although Thoreau was not the first to introduce these ideas, he may have been the first to bring it to the attention of many Americans.
Temporarily, he worked as a legal apprentice before deciding to return to Yale University in 1808 as a graduate student where he obtained a Masters of Arts degree. Feeling like he’s calling was to the ministry and after some hesitation he decided to enter the Theological Seminary at Andover in 1811. He became an ordained minister at the age of twenty-seven years old. Gallaudet, working as a traveling salesman, returned to Hartford, Connecticut where he met a prominent physician, Dr. Mason Cogswell and his daughter, Alice Cogswell. Alice Cogswell was believed to be 4 years old at the time (some say she was 9).
He tries to persuade you to feel a sympathy for the blacks and Native Americans but he puts down the white man and government at the same time. The audience Zinn is trying to reach is anywhere from high school students to adults. His book is unlike Walker, who writes her novel in a story form. This story comes from her family though it was passed down from her great-grandmother. Her story is also semi-fictional as seeing it was passed down there are opportunities to miss or add a part of her story.
He spent 10 years in Connecticut attempting to assemble missionaries that would assist him in spreading the gospel to the Sandwich Islands. Henry’s ideas influenced the establishment of the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut in 1817. This institution served as a place where non-whites could learn about Christianity and Western Culture. Henry later died in 1818 due to typhus fever. However, other missionaries were inspired by him to finish what he had started.
Auto ethnography can be defined as describing people by way of comparing to another. In The Life of Olaudah Equiano, the narrative is taken from the author’s African home and thrown into a Western world, completely foreign to him. Throughout the narrative, the author maintains his African innocence and purity of intent; two qualities he finds sorely lacking in the Europeans. Olaudah Equiano takes on Western ideals while keeping several of his African values; this makes him a man associated with two cultures but a member of neither. Although Equiano is initially frightened by new Western ideas and customs, writing “and I was now persuaded that I had gotten into a world of bad spirits, and that they were going to kill me” (Equiano 755).
Curtis Keim is a professor of African history, politics and culture at Moravian College in Bethleham, Pennsylvania. He has lived and traveled to Africa many times over the last thirty years. Mistaking Africa: Curiosities and inventions of the American Mind takes readers inside the history behind the inaccurate and stereotypical words and ideas about Africa. The author also offers alternative ways to get around these stereotypes and see the real Africa. The book focuses on white American myths because Keim feels they are the most dominant, negative, and in need of change.
When David graduated with theology and medicine under his belt [not literally] he wanted to go to China as a missionary, but because of the Opium War, he was held back, and went to Africa. As God does in our lives [when we pray], He did in David’s life, He guided him where
Jewell A. Moon ENG 1101-325 Professor Felicia J. Monroe 16 March 2015 Literacy Behind Bars Malcolm X will always have a long impression on many people when they read about something he have said or wrote or seen on television from prison studies. This short story is about Malcolm X best know, as a militant Black Nationalist leader who advocates for Pan- Africanism Malcolm X is a movement that aims to unite all people of African descent. Malcolm X was replacing the name little with the leader X because he felt little was a slave name. The X stands for his lost African tribal name.
Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Martin Luther King was born on 15th January 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He was originally born Michael Luther King but later changed his name to Martin. His father, Martin Luther King, was a Baptist minister and his mother a schoolteacher. He attended Booker T Washington High School, where he skipped ninth and twelfth grade and when straight to Morehouse College at the tender age of 15 without officially graduating from high school. He later graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology and then later graduated with a Bachelor of divinity from crozer Theological seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania in 1951.