This book detailed how he felt about the black African people he met their ways, private lives morals, and religion. Ibn Battuta lived quite a life and kept records about his travels. Battuta’s words were edited by a scribe by the name Ibn Juzayy who stated, Battuta was “one of the greatest travelers” of that age. All of Battuta’s stories could not be verified and it was known that maybe he stretched the truth at times. The most peculiar aspect about Ibn Battuta’s travel to me were that even though he went to almost fifty countries is that he was running into people he had met before in his life.
Metafiction Within Kindred Kindred, by Octavia Butler, is a fictional novel that unpredictably is set within two different time periods, the 70’s and the southern part of the 1800’s. Kindred’s main character, Dana Franklin, is simultaneously sent into the past to protect one of her distant ancestors named Rufus from any dangers he may become involved with. As she becomes more and more accustomed to traveling back in time, she begins to teach Rufus, also including the slaves, to read. The insertion of literary works within a literary piece of work is referred to as, metafiction. In a nutshell, a book within another book.
In every culture, there are those who pass along the traditions and history of the culture through stories or oral traditions. In England, these were known as the wandering bards who would sing of King Arthur and his sword, Excalibur, to the current monarch and his court. In Arab society, these are the story-tellers who sit in the streets sharing the history of Islam or a fantasy, like “Arabian Nights”; and in West African culture, these men are known as the griots, the keepers of history, and advisors to the royalty. The griots role {text:bookmark-start} has changed over time, during the days of the kings of Mali, the griot served not only as a historian, but also as a pivotal advisor. As an advisor, the griot “served in much the same way that modern rulers are served by written constitutions, legal staff, and archival staffs”.
Adelard’s nephew was responding to Adelard’s thoughts of Aristotle and God in the article Natural Questions. Adelard was a traveling advocate of Arabic science and also was one of the scholars who was interested in Aristotle’s philosophic, naturalistic, and empirical approaches in the medieval period. Knowing this, it is obvious that Adelard was going to view things with an incredibly knowledgeable bias. An example of this bias is when Adelard said, “It is difficult for me to talk with you about animals, for I have learned one thing, under the guidance of reason, from Arabic teachers; but you, captivated by a show of authority, are led around by a halter.” Because Adelard was a highly intelligent scholar, he looked at things in a more scientific and scholarly manner rather than in the common manner of God’s will that was popular in the medieval times. Another example of Adelard’s bias is the quote, “For why not fill up sheets of paper, and why not write on the back too, when you usually have such readers today who require no rational explanation and put their trust only in the ancient name of a title?” In this quote, it is clear that Adelard was beginning to defend Aristotle’s teachings and slightly turn his back against the “God’s Will” approach.
Doing so, he was exposed the everyday lives of Muslims. When I first think about Muslims, I picture terrorists and iffy characters that cover their face and wear funny turbans on their heads. However, after reading Mortenson’s description of Muslims, I have realized that Muslims are very generous, respectful, and do not deserve unnecessary skepticism.
“Words give us symbolic vehicles to communicate our creations and discoveries to others”. When Sonny told his father that he adopted a kid, the specific words he used had a strong influence on the dad’s reaction. Beebe, Beebe, and Ivy also noted that “when you label something good or bad you use language to create your own vision of how you experience the world”. In this particular scene, Sonny was stuttering a lot and his words symbolized his confusion of the current situation. Beebe, Beebe, & Ivy (2012) noted that “words and actions are tools we use to let someone know whether we support them or not”(p.76) Jack Gibbs has researched supportive and defensive communication for a couple years now and he defines defensive communication as “a language that creates a climate of hostility and mistrust”(p. 76-77) In the scene the father uses crude language and even goes to the extent of saying that “the kid would be better off living in a dumpster than with Sonny” (Adam Sandler).
Lakeshia Brown US History 211-05 April 19, 2012 Book Review In the Slave Community, John W. Blassingame gives insight on the slaves’ life that we normally do not get to see. He starts off by discussing the horrific enslavement process. He then goes in to depth of the African heritage, cultural, family, acculturation, behavior, religion, and personality. He supports his story with the evidence such as slave narratives, autobiographies, and historical data. Chapter one begins by explaining the process that the Africans had to go through to get to America.
Alka-Seltzer Latasha Clayton English112ON R Composition Professor Ann Tschetter May 12, 2012 Would you like to have a good nights sleep? Most if not each of us would respond to that question with a resounding Yes. On the off occasion that our stomach prevents our restful slumber, Alka-Seltzer may provide the relief you need. Similar to our Author Wally Wood, often recalling to mind a commercial or advertisement to assists us in determining what product to buy for our element. In this particular case, Wally’s work began as a print ad receiving much attention it then became an animated commercial.
It is the power to uncover the truth about the injustice of slavery. One specific example is when Douglass read The Columbian Orator. He first encounters The Columbian Orator, around the age of twelve, just after he has learned to read. As Douglass becomes educated in skills of literacy, he also becomes educated about the injustice of slavery. The Columbian Orator, a collection of political essays, poems, and dialogues, was widely used in American in the first quarter of the nineteenth century to teach reading and speaking.
In Frederick Douglass’s narrative An American Slave written by Frederick Douglass (1994ed), he tells his story of knowledge being freedom. Douglass talks about the many things he had to come up with to learn how to read and write. He used the white children he meets, trading food for knowledge. Realizing that being black he will be a slave for life, Douglass determination for education helped him become free of slavery. In Malcolm X A Homemade Education written by himself, in 1965, Malcolm X understood that knowledge is the gateway to freedom.