What Is Benito Cerreno Worth Dying For

Beah shows how poor leadership could have been the cause of war. Africa suffers from human rights violations which characterize the era of the civil war (Correa - Velez, Nardone, Knoetze 143). The civil war in Sierra Leone brought abrupt changes to children's lives due to the power of the Sierra Leone government. Beah goes on to say that “sometimes we were asked to leave for the war in the middle of the movie. We would come back hours later after killing many people and continue the movie as if we had just returned from intermission. We were always either at the front lines, watching a war movie, or doing drugs. There was no time to be alone or to think” (Beah 124). Beah explains that soldiers freedoms were taken away as they were asked to “leave” for combat often. This shows the abuse of power of the government of Sierra Leone as they revoked the freedoms of its citizens for war. Many believe that due to corrupt governance, child soldiers were not given the choice or option to become a soldier (Spencer 222). Beah finds that it’s “…not easy being a soldier, but we just had to do it” (Beah 199). Beah discusses how he did not have any decision in “being a soldier” and is instead forced to. He further explains how he has to force himself to survive. Throughout the novel, Beah

would almost always challenge the person who made him angry to a duel, and he

In the novella, Benito Cereno, Herman Melville demonstrates the conflicting issue of racism and how it has been a part of our society for centuries. In the novella, we go on an adventure with two captains of Spanish descent and an overpowering amount of African Americans slaves. Melville has captured the importance of the slave trade and the risks that have been taken over time by African Americans trying to earn some justice within their lives. As a reader, we are shown the heart wrenching experiences a slave trader and an African American must endure over the bloody trading seas. Melville creates a clear picture that Americans over history were not always the heroes. This novella, shows the morality of our American history and how race has created such a strong role within our culture.

Although he believed slavery was wrong, it should not give him the excuse to spill innocent people’s blood. At the

Delano's first description of Babo compares him to a "shepherd's dog." (p. 41) Not only did Delano compare him to something that was not human, but the assertion that Babo was a "shepherd's dog" is important to understanding Delano's obsession with hierarchy and possession. Delano must understand everything in terms of its relationships and its place in his hierarchy. Delano describes the San Dominick as "a Spanish merchantman of the first class, carrying Negro slaves, amongst other valuable freight." His first reaction to the fact that there were blacks on the San Dominick was to classify the blacks as "valuable freight." He describes the black mothers as "Unsophisticated as leopardesses; loving as doves.." (p. 63) After Captain Delano discovers that the blacks have mutinied, they are no longer dogs but wolves: "Exhausted, the blacks now fought in despair.

The Sambo was a stereotypical portrayal of blacks that helped whites alleviate their guilt over slavery. This story helped them to continue to see themselves as the principled, righteous and the rightful dominant race, “…The myth of sambo resolved both Moral and political conflict of allowing slavery in a free society” (Film: Ethnic Notions) This story of Sambo, the happy slave and later Zip Coon helped provide whites proof that blacks were meant to be slaves, “…provided a double edge defense of slavery. Zip coons proof of blacks ludacris failure to adapt to freedom and sambo, the fantasy of happy darkies in their proper place.” (Film: Ethnic Notions) Instead of slavery as an abominable thing, the propaganda of Sambo flipped the

This article is about the mistreatment of people fleeing from Boko Haram who thought that the Nigerian soldiers would save them. As hundreds flee from Boko Haram claimed territories, Nigerian soldiers are picking them up and holding them as prisoners in detention centers, claiming to be trying to protect others from extremist claiming to be victims. This has lead to some accusations of mistreatment because these detention centers are holding men, women, and infants for months on end in unsanitary and unsafe areas. The article then explains that the Nigerian government and army are being accused of being too extreme in its persistence and ways of trying to eliminate Boko Haram. While Nigeria is struggling to handle the threat that is Boko Haram,

"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; It must be demanded by the oppressed"-Martin Luther King Jr. There are two different approaches to achieve freedom. The first approach is that you only have to fight for freedom once. On other hand, another approach to gain freedom is to fight repeatedly for it. Sometimes when freedom is given, it does not give every right a person should have. An example, of this is seen in the Civil Rights Movement, when the Africans Americans and women fought for their freedom. They had to continously fight for equal rights among white men.

At one point, it can vividly be evident that the novel is against slavery as it starts. The ships that come over carrying different personalities have diverse people on board. However, ill-treatment is not evident in the initial parts of the novel. Babo appears to be the head of the Negroes in one of the massive ships (Melville 62). Though he is the head of the people onboard, he does not treat his fellow

Freedom is one of the most sought after ideals in 
human history. The search for freedom has taken mankind into the fiercest of protests, struggles, revolutions, and wars. The concept of freedom is often described as the breaking physical bonds or the absence of an oppressive force, but that is not true freedom. True freedom is an individual's ability to act without confining restrictions. Despite the era and the different limitations, the quest for freedom remains strong.

Whether Africans or African-Americans are perceived as docile or aggressive, they are constantly shown as having animal-like temperaments. Regardless of whether this is done consciously or subconsciously it serves as a benefit to slavers who claim the race to be less-than human, and therefore not worthy of equal treatment. As the situation on the San Dominick comes to a climax, the narrator uses animal imagery to describes the actions of Babo, “the free hand of the servant aiming with a second dagger…he was snakishly writhing up from the boat’s bottom at the heart of his master, his countenance lividly vindictive, expressing the centered purpose of his soul.” The narrator describes the slave’s final heartfelt efforts towards freeing himself and his people. To begin, the point made by “the free hand of the slave” becomes clear in the contradiction of the statement. This speaks to the fact that no part of slaves are truly free, their bodies limbs and all, belong to their masters. And yet, Babo is described as having a free hand, because, with that hand he hopes to murder his oppressor, finally freeing himself from servitude. In addition, the image of Babo’s hand acting with it’s own free will is a repetition from a previous point in the narrative, where his “free” hand slips and slightly slicing his master while shaving him. What follows, is the customary description of slave as animal.

He could have relentlessly questioned Cereno, Babo, and the rest of the people on the ship. Yet he puts it on the backburner until he can figure the whole situation out. His patience is his genius. Had he attempted to attack Babo and the rest of the ship while he and Cereno were on the San Dominick, he would likely have been murdered, and his ship would most likely been attacked. But by waiting for Cereno to come to him, he saved both he and Cereno’s lives, took over the San Dominick, and captured Babo. This secured a great deal of gratitude by Cereno, and the possibility of a large payday from the Spanish. His genius is hard to see through the

How can somebody who sucks her mother’s breast will ask why do you need Biafra? Everybody knows this very historical fact that Nigeria preside on the memory of over four million Biafrans who died on genocide under the banner of Biafra and they are doing nothing about it after 45 years. We all are aware that Nigeria unleashes harsh economic measures that have caused so much unsustainable daily living and self-reliance in Biafra land that today over 15 million Biafrans are in diaspora. We do understand the systematic killing of Biafran youths in the Nigerian Army and prisons. The rampant killing of Biafrans by Almajiri in the North in the name of religious differences means absolute rejection. What if Boko Haram is killing our people on a daily basis?

In Herman Melville’s grey novella, “Benito Cereno”, Captain Amasa Delano observers, what appears to be, a distressed Spanish slave ship navigating into the harbor of St. Maria. Disregarding the opposition from his crew, Captain Delano leaves his ship, Bachelor's Delight, and approaches the stranger vessel, San Dominick, via a whaleboat. In addition to offering water and provisions to the vessel in distress, Captain Delano encounters—who seems to be in command of the vessel—Don Benito Cereno, and his “faithful” negro servant Babo. Throughout the novella, Captain Delano witnesses many suspicious behaviors from Benito Cereno, Babo, and the other slaves on board. Although Captain Delano has mixed feelings about Benito Cereno, in which he often views him as a “paper captain” who has “little of command but the name”, Captain Delano fails to latch onto his intuition of who is truly in command of the ship until it’s almost too late.

The road to freedom is a very rough path. Numerous have freedom while some do not. To countless lives, freedoms are worth more than gold, and obtaining freedom is worth risking everything. For Papken Infarbian formally known as Azo, in Muslim, went through many trials to survive and obtain freedom to live with his bloodline.