Motherland

In the novel Thing Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Okonkwo, the protagonist, is a stubborn, hard-working, strong, and brave person. He has committed an accidental crime in his village, Umuofia and is expelled and goes to his motherland. The village is called Mbani, where he gets numerous help and care from his mother’s kinsmen. Okonkwo was received well by Uchendu, Okonkwo’s uncle, and learns more about Mbani’s culture and what they value. However, the culture of Mbani that Okonkwo, a stubborn man,

Kataastaasan Kagalang-galang na Katipunan nang mga Anak ng Bayan. Katipunan was forged by blood, with all its members enacting the traditional blood compact and signing their names with their own blood. This is a sign of their accountability in their motherland. The foremost goal of the Katipunan was political, the separation of the Philippines from Spain. Its members also recognized and performed a civic duty which was mutual assistance

Many old Nepalese, Bhutanese people wish to go back to Bhutan. Why do these people wish to go back to their motherland, Bhutan? By the end of 1990, people who lived in the southern part of Bhutan were forced to leave their land. They started to move in Nepal and lived in there for almost 19 years as refugees in refugee camp. Bhutanese had dream to go back to their own country, but their dream remained unfulfilled. The Bhutanese government prevented Nepalese, Bhutanese people from entering in Bhutan

Today I will be summarizing chapter thirteen and giving my opinion about it. In chapter thirteen many things has happened, the oldest man in the village Ezedu, died. Ezedu was one of the head honcho’s of the Umuofia, therefor his funeral was a big deal. During the final salute for Ezedu at his funeral a horrible accident occurred, Ezedu’s sixteen year old son had got shot right in the heart while him and his brother was performing a dance for their father. The gun that was shot was in Okonkwo’s hand

psyche, in cross-cultural experiences they struggle against an economic apartheid to secure a safe place in America’s capitalist society. The second generation immigrants (often in mixed blood) do not have the same feelings and commitments to their motherland like their first generation ancestors. In demonstration of their ‘mongrelization’, they slide away from the ethical epicenter just in a cultural metabolism. Jhumpa Lahiri is an Indian by origin, British by education and American by

as, “the foolish, even children, are made wise,” and “O my brothers, dreaming for dim centuries,/ Wake from sleeping,” (Line 10; Lines 11-12). Using the title as a hint, the author wants to exhort attention to difficulties faced by people in his “motherland,” (Line 4) Ethiopia. He uses many negative references throughout the poem. “... the very dead are waking,/ Ghosts are turned flesh… ,” (Lines 8-9) adding a dark tone that makes the reader aware of their surroundings. McKay’s use of imagery enforces

After being much pressured from his family, the boy has no choice other than to drink the “potion, familiar / from soda fountains in Brooklyn” (12-13). From the boy’s perspective, we can clearly see his emotional dissatisfaction as he states, “he was bored with this potion” (12). Espada’s comparison of Coca-Cola to “potion” suggests that the people of Puerto Rico are deeply mesmerized by American products, and that they are incapable of recognizing the copious amounts of goods that Puerto Rico has

support you and she will protect you. In the story, the mother protects her children. For example Achebe says, “ But when there is sorrow and bitterness he finds refuge in his motherland. Your mother is there to protect you” (134). After Okonkwo accidentally shoots Ezeudu sixteen year-old son, he is send to his motherland. Even though Okonkwo’s mother is not there anymore, she is still protecting him by providing a place to stay until Okonkwo’s punishment is over. Also, her kinsmen treated Okonkwo

have an increased national wealth. Such a notion of mercantilism drove many European nations to rely on the resources siphoned from their colonies. For illustration, the Spanish and the French could transport bullion from their provinces to their motherlands. The mercantilist was a system that saw the world’s wealth as fixed, which to them meant that a nation's wealth was generated at the expense of the other countries . Thus, the notion developed an economic idea in which the European nations were

People are sent to their motherland because only a mother is capable of making a child feel better. Because the saying is “mother is supreme” and not “father is supreme” it is clear that women actually do have a lot of respect in the Igbo culture. Mother was a Great Man had very