Humanization

Arjun Gopisetty Dr. Ernst The United States, 1492 - 1865 06 April 2015 Humanization of Slaves (?) For a large portion of the United States history, slavery was legal and prominent in Southern society. Slaves working on plantations were the main proponent of Southern American economy. Slaves working in the United States during this time, especially those working on plantations in the South, suffered through horrible living and work conditions and punishment. Slaves were forced under duress to work

Christianity and Buddhism are two very prominent religions dating back from early years up until today. Both are offshoots of other religions-- Christianity from Judaism, and Buddhism from Hinduism. The Buddhists follow the teachings of Gautama Buddha, while Christianity is centered upon the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Christianity is monotheistic while Buddhism is nontheistic. Christians believe that Christ is the son of God, while Buddhists do not believe in God as the creator of the universe

Hypervisibility and Invisibility of the Black Body in Citizen Citizen, written by Claudia Rankine in 2014, narrates testimonies of systematic racism and every day micro aggressions through poems, essays, scripts and images. Rankine documents the racist encounters through the second person point of view for the reader to feel and understand the effects racism has on the body and mind. This paper will examine hypervisibility and invisibility of the black body embedded in the novel because of decades

Spain’s First Novelist Tortured, dispirited, and without the use of his left arm, Cervantes returned home to Spain in 1580 after being held captive in Algeria for five long years. He returned not as a war hero but another man ravaged physically and mentally by the battles he had lived through, but he did not let this experience kill him. Thirty two years later, on the same day England mourned the loss of William Shakespeare, Cervantes finally passed away. Within these thirty two years Spain had

emotionally by working fourteen hours a day’ , and his character portrayal reveals nothing about his personality or his relationship with his children, but rather focuses the reader on that with which he is truly concerned: money. This prioritization of wealth over family is implied many times throughout the novel. A clear section of the text that clearly demonstrates the issue is regarding Phoebe’s play. When Holden returns home unexpectedly, Phoebe describes the Christmas Pageant in which she will

The Sun Rising is a poem written by John Donne in the late 1590s consisting of 30 lines divided into three stanzas of 10 lines each following the rhyme scheme ABBACDCDEE. John Donne was a leading English poet of the Metaphysical school often considered as the greatest love poet in the English language. If we take into account the rhymes of each stanza, we may note that within a stanza, three units are being proposed : first of all the first unit of the stanza is composed of introverted rhymes following

Author James H. Cone uses the phrase “the shadow of the lynching tree” to describe what many African Americans are still living under in the decades following the terror that reigned across the South. Lynching was not only a violent event, but a way to keep fear in the forefront of communities and a form of terrorism used to enforce, enact and trigger trauma. The collective identity of African Americans has meant that trauma from lynching can be felt on a personal level, whether the violence was

In recent years, America has experienced a surge of a new movement which encapsulates the concerns of its minority groups and youth. A prominent issue in American society is the treatment of African-Americans, and how they have become increasingly criminalized and targeted. The Black Lives Matter Movement sprung from the increasing mistreatment of black people by police, i.e. the homicides of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, and Michael Brown. Black activists have created the movement and offered their

In Susan Farrell, the author of “Just Listen”: Witnessing Trauma in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, mentioned “...all theorists agree that the process of recovery from trauma must involve a narrativization of traumatic event--putting a sensory images into words in order to integrate trauma into a person 's life story” (186). However, without reading Cathy Caruth’s Trauma, readers will not understand that not only integrating trauma into a narrative will help them recover but it also allows

1984 by George Orwell was a novel of a totalitarian society consisting of two main characters, Winston and Julia, who are eager for a normal life without the Party. The Party in a simpler form is their government that controls everything including normal human interactions. Winston worked in the record department for the ministry of truth and Julia worked as a machine operator in the fiction department also for the ministry of truth. In the novel they are stripped of their human rights and forced