Keinan Abdi Warsame: 'Just Like A Waving Flag'

Somalia is a long, narrow country that wraps around the Horn of Africa. It has the longest coast of any African nation, bordering on both the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. The inland areas are predominantly plateaus, with the exception of some rugged mountains in the far north. The northern region is more arid, whereas the southern portion of the country receives more rainfall. Many Somalis are nomadic or semi-nomadic herders, some are fishermen, and some farmers. Mogadishu is the capital and largest city. Somalia is composed of a single, homogeneous ethnic group. Although Somalis may differ in nuances of local lifestyle, they share one language, religion, and culture, and trace their heritage to a common ancestor.

This poem focuses on the lynching of a African American male. The speaker of the poem appears to console a woman who appears to be distressed due to the events taking place. In the first four lines of stanza 1, the speaker says:

The history of Somalia is a bloody one, filled with failed occupation, anarchy and civil war. Early Somalia established itself as a merchant state. Its key geographical location by the natural strait between the Horn of Africa and Yemen made it a focal point for trade.This essay will explore the history of internal struggles of the Somalilands and its many wars. It will investigate the colonial influences and conflicts between Somalia and its imperial occupiers and how these influences set the stage for future conflicts between the clans. Also, it will attempt to define the reasons why Somalia has become a failed state. The importance of United States foreign policies will be discussed as they have

Next, King then appeals to pathos by telling the truth about what his people have gone through. He does this by using lines such as, “When you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim.”, and “when you have seen hate-filled policeman curse, kick, and even kill your black brothers and sisters.” In these lines he is using language to incite a dark emotional feel. He then uses parallelism, such as “lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim.” By using this kind of language and sentence structure King is making you envision and feel what he had to see his friends and family go through in those hard times. Throughout the whole paragraph using this kind of sentence structure and a lot of imagery the audience starts to feel what it would be like to be in King’s position and feel the pain and troubles he had to go through. It is an emotional paragraph, and using this strategy at the beginning of his letter captures the attention of his audience. This is what King

Bill Clinton wrote the “Oklahoma Bombing Memorial Address” in order to comfort the families who lost a loved one the night of the bombing. Anna Quindlen wrote “The Quilt of a Country” in order to send a message to the readers about how they unite specifically. She is saying that how they unite is similar to a quilt.Even though the “Oklahoma Bombing Memorial Address,” by Bill Clinton, and “A Quilt of a Country,” by Anna Quindlen, both emphasize the importance of uniting in time of tragedy, they differ in that Clinton’s address compels the audience to move on from tragedy while Quindlen’s essay appears to stress ironically the importance of embracing tragedy.

The flag used for the second song, Wishing You Were Here, is special and different than the other three flags. It is called a swing flag. This means that is has a shorter pole that is more flexible and bends easier

"Flags of Our Fathers" by James Bradley tells the story of the six men raised the flag in the battle of Iwo Jima. The story begins with James Bradley who is the author and son of one of the flag raisers named John Bradley, and wat is driving him to pursue the story of these men. Bradley and his seven brothers and sisters knew that their father fought in World War II, their father didn’t like to talk about the flag raising and its aftermath, those were subjects that was painful for their father to recall. Not long after the death of their father, James want to find out what cause his father to react the way he did and how the six flag raisers met each other on Iwo Jima and the event after the war.

- Somalis are aware of foreigner and the fear of possible renewed colonization because of past colonization with the British, French, and Italians

The second Somali-American, Ahmed Eyow, was a father of three. He had recently received a degree at the Metropolitan State University and had also wanted to pursue a master's degree. His brother Bashir Eyow had said that, “He was a great father” and “, I’m very

I am originally from Somalia a country located in the East Africa also called “Horn of Africa”, bordered by Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya. I was born and raised in Kenya. However, both my parents were born and rise in Somalia, they went their school in Mogadishu, Somalia, and built their family there. Five of my siblings, we were born in Mogadishu Somalia, but unfortunately, they did not had the opportunity to experience them early childhood in Somalia. In a brief history the Republic of Somalia has had its ups and downs with unrest, starting with a war, which broke out in the early 90’s. With these conflicts came unbearable life situations and many people searched for opportunities all over the world, mainly the western continents.

Somalia is one of the world's poorest and least developed countries (Campbell). Because of the Civil War, which broke out in 1991, much of Somalia's economy has been devastated. The war left many

[...] wishing for dreams of our old life,/of fine, strong cattle/gently complaining/like tired children/as we guide them safely home.” (pgs. 125-127) In this quotation, the fact that Kek still maintains hope and certainty that he will coincide in America is a key determinant in the progression of the novel; for without his essential faith and optimism to negate the apprehensions and qualm surrounding him, Kek would not have been capable of persevering and continuing to move forward through the challenges and struggles of building a new life in a new country. When Ganwar begins to express his distrust and fear at coinciding with a new culture so foreign from his own, ascribing it to the fact that they don’t belong in America and that it isn’t their country - being so incommensurable and disparate from what they have grown up in - Kek acknowledges his misgivings, yet continues to find the fortitude and tenacity needed to persevere throughout the events subsequent to this

The Black Lives Matter movement is a waste of time, money, and political effort. The article, “The Flag is Drenched With Our Blood”, is all fluff. I understand people are very very very easily offended, but please, why are we still bringing up slavery? (I can feel the hate seeping through my computer). Written like an english essay, this article fails to mention as it does in the other, “Hard Data, Hollows Protests”, how most of the violence is blacks to blacks. How the statistics are taken in the slums of beaten down parts of cities all across the US. And in regards to police brutality only on the rarest of occasions do we see the abuse of power over manipulation and false accusations of the plaintiff. Even spoken in class, we discuss how

The first major point left out by Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down is the initial conditions that lead to the state of civil war, anarchy, and famine that existed in 1992-1993. The first scene of the movie shows many Somalis that are dead or dying from starvation. The audience is told only that “Years of warfare among rival clans causes famine on a biblical scale” and that one of the most powerful warlords, Mohamed Farrah Aidid, is a brutal dictator who is willing to starve his own people. The famine causes the death of 300,000 Somalis, which is enough to prompt a response by the US and UN to restore order to Somalia and to save the population from starvation. The audience is then told that after the withdrawal of the US Marines “Aidid’s militia

Located on the Horn of Africa, Somalia is a small country colonized in the late 1880s by Britain, Italy and France. In the 1960s, Somalia gained its independence but remained a very unstable place. In 1969, a group overthrew the government and Mohammed Siad Barre, the general of the group, became Somalia’s president and dictator until 1991.