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Ezekwesili, Meka5/13/18

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Think About It

The story of The Lottery is filled with suspense and mystery. The villagers of a small town gather together in the square on a beautiful day, for the town lottery. There are only 300 people in this village, so the lottery takes only two hours. The village children, run around collecting stones, they put some in their pockets and make a pile in the town square. Mr. Summers is one of the main characters and offers a lot of foreshadow. He runs the lottery because he has a lot of time to do things for the village. He arrives in the square with the black box, followed by Mr. Graves, the postmaster. Over years Mr. Summers always suggested they make a new box because the current one is shabby, but no one wants to change tradition. Mr. Summers did get them to replace the wood chips they usually use with slips of paper. As Mr. Summers calls their names, each member of the family comes up and draws a paper. When they open their slips, they find that Tessie has drawn the paper with the black dot on it. Mr. Summers instructs everyone to hurry up. The villagers grab stones and run toward Tessie. Tessie says “it’s not fair” and everyone begins throwing stones at her.

Many of the seemingly innocuous details throughout “The Lottery” foreshadow the violent conclusion. In the second paragraph, children put stones in their pockets and make piles of stones in the town square, which seems like innocent play until the stones’ true purpose becomes clear at the end of the story. Tessie’s late arrival at the lottery instantly sets her apart from the crowd, and the observation Mr. Summers makes—“Thought we were going to have to get on without you”—is eerily prescient about Tessie’s fate. When Mr. Summers asks whether the Watson’s son will draw for him and his mother suggests that Mr. Watson may have been last year’s victim.

Jackson builds suspense in “The Lottery” by relentlessly withholding explanation and does not reveal the true nature of the lottery until the first stone hits Tessie’s head. We learn a lot about the lottery, including the elements of the tradition that have survived or been lost. We learn how important the lottery is to the villagers. As we go through the entire ritual, hearing names and watching the men approach the box to select their papers, Jackson never tells us what the lottery is about, or the purpose. The goal of the lottery becomes sinister when Tessie protests Bill’s “winning” paper, but not fully until the moment when a rock actually hits Tessie. By withholding information until the last possible second, she builds the story’s suspense and creates a shocking, powerful conclusion.

A Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allan Poe provides a study of paranoia and mental deterioration. The narrator opens the story by telling us that he is nervous, but not mad. He says that he is going to tell a story that will defend his sanity but confess to killing an old man. His motivation wasn’t passion, money, but rather a fear of the man’s “pale blue eye.” He continuously reminds us that he is not crazy because his cool and measured actions–though criminal–are not those of a madman.

Every night, he went to the old man’s apartment and secretly watched him sleep. In the mornings he would act normal. After a week of this activity, the narrator decides he’s finally fed up and ready to kill the old man. The old man wakes up a bad dream and the narrator hears a dull pounding that he interprets as the old man’s heartbeat. Worried that a neighbor might hear the loud thumping, he kills the old man. He dismembered the body and hides it under the floorboards in the bedroom. Then the narrator hears a knock at the street door, the police have arrived. They were called by a neighbor who heard the old man shriek. The narrator tries to have small talk and appear normal. He leads the officers all over the house without acting suspicious. He even brings them into the old man’s bedroom to sit down and talk.

The policemen don’t suspect a thing. Then the narrator starts to hear a low thumping sound. He recognizes the low sound as the heartbeat of the old man. He panics, believing that the policemen must also hear the sound too and know he’s guilty. He drives himself crazy by the idea that they are mocking his agony with their pleasant chatter, he confesses to the crime and shrieks at the men to rip up the floorboards.

The narrator of “The Tell-Tale Heart” views his hypersensitivity as proof of his sanity, not a symptom of madness. This special knowledge enables the narrator to tell this tale in a precise and complete manner, and he uses the stylistic tools of narration for the purposes of his own sanity plea. However, what makes this narrator mad—and most unlike Poe—is that he fails to comprehend the coupling of narrative form and content. He masters precise form, but he unwittingly lays out a tale of murder that betrays the madness he wants to deny.

Both stories develop a mysterious and sinister theme. In each story the fate of the characters is held in suspension until the end. Foreshadowing in the beginning of each story reveals the ending. “In the Tell-Tale Heart” the narrator is haunted by the sound of the old man’s heart. This foreshadows the ending confession. In The Lottery the focus on the stones reveals the purpose the lottery. At first the children introduce the stones. They are collecting them into a pile in the time square. This hides the malice of the real intention of the stones behind the innocence of the children. Then at the very end everyone picks up their stones and begin to throw them at Tootsie, revealing their actual purpose. In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the narrator fixates on the idea that an old man is looking at him with the “Evil Eye” and transmitting a curse on him. The narrator obsesses over the eye, he wants to separate the old man from the Evil Eye in order to spare the old man from his violent reaction to the eye. The narrator reveals his inability to recognize that the “eye” is the “I,” or identity, of the old man. During his psychiatric breakdown he’s turned the man’s damaged eye into a metaphorical “all seeing eye” what he really upset about is judgement. He feels that he can put on a mask for others and seem normal, but this eye he can’t hide from. To him, the eye sees the real him and he projects his evil onto the old man.

THE SUCCESS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

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Introduction

The US remains the most developed nation in the world, and while at it, also the most influential country on a political scope. This was however not the case a few centuries ago, as American colonies at the time, had to unite, and fight for independence. This would later on be called the American Revolution. While there are many aspects of this revolution that have always been easier to understand, one area still remains grey and this will be the center of focus for this paper. To be precise, this paper expounds on the success of the American Revolution, given that it was not a traditional war involving one state and the other. At the same time, this paper also narrows down on how Americans succeeded, against what was the most formidable empire on earth.

The challenges Americans had

It is imperative to begin by highlighting some of the challenges Americans faced, because the same helps in understanding how they ended up on the winning side. The following are the main challenges faced by Americans at the time;

Leadership challenges: In order to go against an empire as strong as the British Empire of the time, then Americans needed to have proper leadership, and yet they came short in this regard. During the earlier year of the revolution, the Americans had leaders who were incompetent, and because of the same, they didn’t push for the agenda as they ought to have (Coleman, 2021). This became a challenge in the grand scheme of things, and one that also undermined the efforts of every other American.

The lack of unity: As cliché as it may sound, there is always the need for unity during a war or even a revolution in this case. The American colonies were very different from each other in culture, political understanding and many other smaller optics. With so much difference between them, divisions were witnessed in most cases and this, worked against their goal of attaining independence from the British Empire which was their main goal. While counting some of the main challenges faced by the Americans, then it is worthy to highlight this one as well.

These aren’t the only challenges faced by Americans, as there are other ones such as economic strain on their side, the British controlled every beat of the sea until the French arrived, and most importantly the lack of support from other countries until later on.

An explanation of American success

There are a number of important events and factors that contributed to the American success over the British during this revolution. In this part of the paper, they will be analyzed, and they are as follows;

American’s Diplomatic Relations: In order to stand against the empire that the British were, Americans needed strong diplomatic relations, and this is where Benjamin Franklin came in. His visit to Paris, ensured that Americans, who were a rather small opponent to the British Empire, were equipped with necessary arms, food and sometimes even warfare insights. It is this same diplomatic relations that ensured the French could step in, and compromise the British from the seas (Coleman, 2021). While counting reasons why Americans won the revolution, despite it not being a traditional war, and against a formidable opponent that the British Empire was, then it is imperative to mention the one herein.

The British’s own economic problems: A key part of winning any war, is weakening the opposition, or rather the opposition being weak for internal reasons. The latter was the state of affairs for the British, as they had their own money problems. It is clear that wars need money, and with a lot of its resources spread across the empire, and as large as it was, then very little was left to fight in the American Revolution. This created what can only be referred to as a “match” between the two. In the long run, and with the growing support of allies such as France, the Americans got an upper hand. At the end of the revolution, they were winning, hence another worthy explanation.

The insurgency in the South: At first, it was just the Northern colonies that were actively partaking in the revolution. However, when the Southern Colonies saw it wise to join with the North, so that they can preserve slavery, then the insurance became a game changer. The British who had now grown accustomed to fighting Northern colonies, now had a new front of enemy-power, and that is through the Southern insurgence. This insurgence, also acted as a source of motivation for the ones who were already partaking in the revolution, with an increase base of rebellion, the British Empire, even with all its might, was facing a group united by one strong ideology and that was powered with the need for both social and economic freedom. This is, therefore, an explanation and an analysis of why the Americans won, despite them having the slimmest of chances.

The intervention of the French: It is no secret that the French were an equally formidable force in the world at the time. When they joined the Americans later on in the revolution, then the dynamics of the revolution changed. The seas that were completely under the control of the British, had a new visitor, and this divided the thoughts and resources of the British. With the French joining as allies to the Americans, then wining became even easier, and hence another explanation (Bailyn, 2017).

These are the main reasons why the Americans won the revolution, but not mere justifications on why it happened. It is important to underline the fact that through these points, it is easier to conceptualize why Americans, from a point of low vantage, won against a formidable opponent that the British Empire were. It is also rational to acknowledge the fact that there could be many other justifications not mentioned in this case, but ones that are equally worthy.

Conclusion In a nutshell, the progression of this paper, has highlighted American success in the American revolution, bearing in mind that it was not a traditional war, but one where the opponent was a formidable empire at the time,. While using success optics by the Americans as the anchorage to this analysis, the paper herein also managed to justify American success. It is imperative to note that this paper didn’t fall short to mention the challenges Americans faced, and how they mitigated the same, to emerge victorious at the end of the day. This paper also managed to define the thin line on why the American Revolution was not a “war” or even “revolution” per se. With a keen eye to detail, this paper has indeed managed to cover the topic at hand.

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Bailyn, B. (2017). The ideological origins of the American Revolution. Harvard University Press.

Coleman, K. (2021). The American Revolution in Georgia, 1763–1789. University of Georgia Press.

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The Straw Man Fallacy

A straw man fallacy usually takes place when an individual takes another individual’s opinion or argument, exaggerates it, distorts it in some extreme manner, and then attacks the extreme distortion as if that is truly the assertion the first individual is making. During disagreement of moral issues, individuals have the temptation to put into practice the straw man fallacy for many motives (Aikin et al., 224). Among the reasons is the fact that it is easier to disprove a straw man than the concrete claim. An individual can quickly point out the mistake in it on the foundation of ethical values by transmitting an individual claim to something out rightly immoral.

I usually feel so irritated and upset when a person uses the straw man fallacy in a disagreement with me. I find it usually challenging to flip the argument around when this is done in front of a group. Showing that my claim is not the same as the presented distorted version becomes so difficult. Most of the time, it disheartens me from continuing with the disagreement. There are several examples of the straw man fallacy that happen in everyday arguments. Below is an example of such an argument.

Person A: Alcohol consumption legal drinking age should be 17 years. The human body is ready to manage the complications of alcoholic drinks.

Person B: That sounds crazy and senseless. Alcohol consumption by young individuals affects society and the community at large.

This example illustrates Straw Man because person B didn’t respond to person A’s argument. As an alternative, person B took the view to the extreme. As a result, they did not proceed to discuss a plan or rational solution.

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Aikin, Scott, and John Casey. “Straw Man.” Bad Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Fallacies in Western Philosophy (2018): 223-226.

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#1. The summary of the speech.

Baldwin is a firm believer in the power of educated citizens to speak out against social injustice. He examines American society by portraying Americans as being more susceptible to myths about their own superiority than to critical, open-minded thought and action. I believe Baldwin’s historical perspective emphasizes the ability of individuals to affect social and historical realities. It’s important to note, as Baldwin does, that the teacher’s role can help develop the most independent thinkers and intellectually free individuals. For over three decades, he was the Black Revolution’s gadfly: an angry, incessant entity with strangely bulging eyes and a wickedly pointed tongue that tortured the American conscience. If James Baldwin were still alive today, his fame would soar as a result of his contributions to the United States of America. A member of a historically underrepresented group has provided the “exquisite sting of truth” to the United States’ highest authority. It is not my intention today to discuss the enduring value of or place in the canon of James Baldwin’s work, but rather to discuss why he chose to leave the very place where all of these diverse perspectives and knowledge came together for the purpose of writing these brilliant essays of truth ADDIN CSL_CITATION {“citationItems”:[{“id”:”ITEM-1″,”itemData”:{“DOI”:”10.1353/cal.2000.0032″,”ISSN”:”1080-6512″,”author”:[{“dropping-particle”:””,”family”:”Henderson”,”given”:”Mae G.”,”non-dropping-particle”:””,”parse-names”:false,”suffix”:””}],”container-title”:”Callaloo”,”id”:”ITEM-1″,”issue”:”1″,”issued”:{“date-parts”:[[“2000″]]},”page”:”313-327″,”publisher”:”Johns Hopkins University Press”,”title”:”James Baldwin: Expatriation, Homosexual Panic, and Man’s Estate”,”type”:”article-journal”,”volume”:”23″},”uris”:[“http://www.mendeley.com/documents/?uuid=8615c41f-b89a-3120-bdcf-d9963e3c6bbf”]}],”mendeley”:{“formattedCitation”:”(Henderson)”,”plainTextFormattedCitation”:”(Henderson)”,”previouslyFormattedCitation”:”(Henderson)”},”properties”:{“noteIndex”:0},”schema”:”https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json”}(Henderson). A fascinating task is learning about James Baldwin’s life, which is full of stories, realizations, and struggles that seem to go on forever. The move from America to Paris, where he made a complete 180-degree turn in his life, surprised me the most. This may seem like a non-event, but Baldwin left America because he couldn’t bear to be trapped in his own skin any longer, bound to American culture.

#2. Similarities:

Racial Discrimination

When it comes to being a black American, James Baldwin likens being an unloved stepson to the United States treating blacks like an ugly stepchild. In 1948, a terrible thing happened in a diner in New Jersey. The waitress’s words had sent a wave of rage through him, “We don’t serve Negroes here.” His eyes began to grow dull, suddenly he threw a glass of wine at her. When she sprinted away, she smashed a mirror against the wall opposite him. It took him some time to regain consciousness and realize that his life was in danger due to the hatred he harbored in his heart, which led him to flee the diner.

No Knowledge of Laws

The use of force by law enforcement against African Americans is as American as the bald cypress and the Southern magnolia. Every generation have seen the heartbreaking ritual of a Black family grieving in public for the death of a loved one at the hands of the police.

Identity Issues

To be free of the tyranny of the Negroes, he must accept the fate of a black man and share in his suffering (Baldwin, 1963, p. 341). Even if white Americans disagreed with the strategy, they would appreciate the fight if they themselves were black. People must overcome their psychological insecurities in order to engage in genuine emotional engagement and revelation, and the country must avoid turning this struggle and fraternity into an attitude ADDIN CSL_CITATION {“citationItems”:[{“id”:”ITEM-1″,”itemData”:{“author”:[{“dropping-particle”:””,”family”:”Glaude Jr.”,”given”:”Eddie S.”,”non-dropping-particle”:””,”parse-names”:false,”suffix”:””}],”container-title”:”Time.com”,”id”:”ITEM-1″,”issued”:{“date-parts”:[[“2020″]]},”title”:”How James Baldwin Told the Truth About Racism in America | Time”,”type”:”article-magazine”},”uris”:[“http://www.mendeley.com/documents/?uuid=5445be27-6eff-3ab1-8ccc-9f57c1de7ccf”]}],”mendeley”:{“formattedCitation”:”(Glaude Jr.)”,”plainTextFormattedCitation”:”(Glaude Jr.)”,”previouslyFormattedCitation”:”(Glaude Jr.)”},”properties”:{“noteIndex”:0},”schema”:”https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json”}(Glaude Jr.). Our true American identity will not be realized until a majority of white people share our views on this issue, until white people march alongside black people and risk their lives together in the face of brutality and injustice.

No Equal Opportunities in Job Places and Education

The ability of a person to see things from his or her own point of view, make decisions for himself, and decide whether or not something is black or white is what education is all about, according to Baldwin.

#3. Differences:

In the article – the role of the American writer

His works on race and social issues set new literary ground for one of the 20th century’s greatest writers, James Baldwin. In addition to his literature, he wrote extensively about the African American experience in the United States.

In the speech – the reasons for riotesAs Baldwin put it: “The reason that Black people are out protesting has to do with the lives that they’re forced to lead in this country, and they’re forced to lead these lives because of the indifference, apathy and a certain kind, an extremely wilfully ignorant part of their co-citizens.”

The goal of the article – to inform people about the position of the African Americans

The goal of the interview – to analyze the reasons for riotesQuote 1: According to Baldwin “I knew what it meant to be white and I knew what it meant to be a nigger, and I knew what was going to happen to me. My luck was running out. I was going to go to jail, I was going to kill somebody or be killed. My best friend had committed suicide two years earlier, jumping off the George Washington Bridge.”-James Baldwin

Paraphrase: In other words, “I’m not your slave.” That’s when it dawned on him that racism was nothing more than a symptom of Baldwin’s larger existential or “human” illness.

Response: I agree that Baldwin makes an effort to help us deal with those rare and precious instants when dilemmas undoubtedly bubble to the substratum of our minds.

Quote 2: In accordance to interview, “Well, part of the reason is one is doing one’s best to avoid violence. One of the reasons it could happen that way is because for so long, four hundred years, the American republic, in general, has ignored and denied the whole situation that Negroes have operated within – to be a source of cheap labor, for example, north or south, is to be, in effect, oppressed. Now, the oppression is bad enough. But the myth that the country’s created about the object of the oppression: the myth about the negro being happy in his place, is something the republic has managed to believe and, so that in addition to the fact of the oppression, one has also the fact that within the country for one hundred years there’s been a way of life occurring in the country, which most of the country knows nothing about. And it’s reflected, for example, in the way Negroes talk to each other. It’s a kind of language which does not really exist on what we like to think of as a major level of the American culture.ADDIN CSL_CITATION {“citationItems”:[{“id”:”ITEM-1″,”itemData”:{“ISBN”:”9780472027613″,”abstract”:””This fine collection of essays represents an important contribution to the rediscovery of Baldwin’s stature as essayist

A Stable Government Is The Solution For The Famine In Somalia

This paper seeks to give an analysis on how the recurrent famines in Somalia can be solved through having a stable government. Somalia is experiencing the worst drought in about 60 years, as they try and struggle with the civil war. Around 3.7 million people are affected by the drought, and many lives are being lost. The children of Somalia are the ones, who are suffering greatly, as a result of the famine (Dixon, 2011). According to the United Nations, malnourishment levels among children are at 30%. UNICEF has confirmed that in every six minutes, a child dies in Somalia, due to famine. The country is extremely insecure, thus making it difficult for the United Nations to deliver food and aid.

A stable government needs to exist, so that the security issue is addressed, and a solution found. Most Somalis have to travel dangerous land in search of food, not knowing if they will be alive, before they reach the food. Most of the Somali people are finding their way into Kenya. It is estimated that around 1800 people enter Kenya on a daily basis. These numbers are extremely high and they cannot be all catered for by the Kenyan government. Since the Somalia government is supporting the activities of the United States, the group known as Al-Shabaab is causing a lot of problems. Somalia is guarded by militia, who are in support of the existing federal transition government.

The Somali government ought to become stable, so that the international community is able save the people who are starving. Aid in the form of medicine, water and food, is needed urgently (Qasim, 2011). Those working in the United Nations and transitional government should work together if the problems of the famine are to be solved. A strategy must be set up by the transitional Somalia government to eradicate famine, as this should not be taking place in the 21st century. The warring parties in Somalia, who are all fighting for power, are the cause for the famine tragedy .Instead of focusing on the needs of the citizens; they are only interested in matters concerning power.

The Somali people have for a long time suffered due to the civil war. In the year 1991, President Siad Barre was over thrown, thus becoming a failed state. There are no human rights in Somalia, as well the country being extremely poor. The worst hit regions by famine are Lower Shebelle near Mogadishu and Bakool near Ethiopia. The government is the root cause of all the problems affecting the Somalis (Allison, 2011). The existing Somali government has not done anything to control its population from exploding. The result is that the food resources in Somalia cannot fully cater for all the citizens.

Currently, famine occurs as a result of people not receiving food supplies, which they need to receive. In all the famines, which have occurred in the world, 90% have been in Africa. Politics has been the lead cause of the famine in Somalia, which is as a result of the malicious government. The other reason is that the Somalia government has not come up with effective policies to govern the country (Arab news.com, 2011). Politics in the country has brought about nothing but conflict. Famine would not be in Somalia, if there was a responsible, united and stable government. Unfortunately, the government has left it self be affected by Civil war. There are at least ten warring parties who are all competing for power. Thus ignoring what is important as the expense of its people. Somalia should not be facing famine.

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Allison, Simon. (2011). Al-Shabab: Bruised but not beaten yet. Daily Maverick. Retrieved from http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2011-08-08-al-shabab-bruised-but-not-beaten-yet

Dixon, Robyn. (2011).Famine in Somalia: Will U.N. Aid be enough. International Business Times. Retrieved from HYPERLINK “http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/184491/20110721/somalia-famine-un-declares-al-shabaab-united-states-aid.htm” http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/184491/20110721/somalia-famine-un-declares-al-shabaab-united-states-aid.htm

Editorial. Famine in Somalia. (2011). Arab news.com Retrieved from HYPERLINK “http://arabnews.com/opinion/editorial/article475366.ece” http://arabnews.com/opinion/editorial/article475366.ece

Qasim, Maryan. (2011). Why can’t we end famine in Somalia? Guardian.co.uk. Retrieved from http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/28/somalia-famine-crisis.

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A Roman Slave Market

When anyone gets ownership of a human being so as to have the right to use the individual as he chooses, then that man is in an approved manner referred to as a slave. This statement presents a provocative glimpse into the world of Roman slave sale and the process of enslavement in the late third and early centuries. This case in point, put forward central questions of logistics, for example, where was the slave market at Rome, what did the market building look like, and what did the market process look like. Even more, the basic questions gaze at the slaves and how human beings familiarized themselves within a system that defined them as ‘human property’. In the strict meaning of slave origin in Rome, it is prudent to say that it is no different from that in any other place. Slaves could be inherited or presented as gifts. In order for the slave society to endure, legal definitions had to become social realities. Discussed herein are the views of people towards slave and slave trade.

Discussion

Free persons entered slavery through sale, an action that gave concrete expression of their definition as fungible chattel. Research on the Roman slave trade has identified places of slave sale, the self-representation of slave traders and their low, dishonored status within their communities, the architectural configuration of buildings identified with sale, the probable size of the slave population, or at least the recorded numbers of those enslaved (Phillips 70). The architectural configuration of buildings, however, cannot tell what the interaction of slave and buyer looked like, or how the audience at a slave sale reacted to the human merchandise, or how the slaves responded to his or her purchase or enslavement, or when and in what circumstances a free person began to acquiesce in his or her enslavement. Understanding the experience of the slave sale requires exploring not only what the slave society did to the slave but to what extent or conditions were the slaves sold.

Institutionally, a consideration of slave sales informs about the supply of slaves: They could also be victims of privacy, sold into slavery, or abandoned children found on q street corner, rescued and raised as slaves. Some were enslaved in punishment for certain crimes, others for debts they were unable to repay. The process of sale itself turned human beings into human property. Ultimately, the slave sale stage is central to the institution of chattel slavery: the slave is fungible, that is, exchangeable, replaceable, and suitable like cash. Marcus or of Lucius slaves were known as Marcipor and Lucipor (houseboy). They were sometimes born and raised in their masters’ households. But the enormous numbers of slaves in Rome and Italy since the 3rd century B.C. in ancient history mostly enslaved war prisoners. This was as a result of a series of successful campaigns starting with the Samnite Wars and the symbolic ending reaction at any rate. The Italian and Roman economies must have been suffering from a severe shortage of manpower; there is no other explanation for the absorption of thousands of slaves in towns and country alike. A central slave market was established on the Island of Delos (Joshel (63).

As regards the society’s view on slave trade and slavery, there is little approximation to a settlement of the question whether slavery is right or wrong. To most people in the society, there is a perfect propriety in carrying the appeal against slave and slave trade. The slave woman, for example, needs to know why she is sold and what her new master wants. She receives a generic exhortation to obedience and then a sexual innuendo, after which the scene of the immediate effects of slave trade develops not in terms of the young woman’s tears but in a series of jokes about sex Jones (Peter and Keith 76). Within this setting, female vulnerability made great entertainment. If slavery is in accordance with the principle of humanity, and is the best thing for society, there is then an increasingly large part of the world that is neglecting to avail itself of the advantages which might be derived from the institutions, and that is falling into dangerous error on a great question of morals for there can be no doubt that there is a growing conviction in the world that the institution is not one in which it is desirable to perpetuate for promoting the welfare of mankind.

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In light of the above, despite the fact that some people had ownership of other human beings as they choose, slave and slave trade was a total disrespect to human beings. Free persons entered slavery through sale, an action that gave concrete expression of their definition as fungible chattel. The process of sale itself turned human beings into human property. Knowing where the slaves are, and in what kinds of groups they were owned, illuminates some of the key questions which arise from demographic modeling of the slave population (Walsh 54).

Works Cited

Jones, Peter V, and Keith C. Sidwell. The World of Rome: An Introduction to Roman Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Print.

Joshel, Sandra R. Slavery in the Roman World. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Print.

Phillips, William D. Slavery from Roman Times to the Early Transatlantic Trade. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. Print.

Walsh, Ben. Empires and Citizens: Book 1. Cheltenham: Nelson Thornes, 2003. Print.

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The story “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne was based during the puritan era. The narrator describes that Goodman brown went on a journey into the forest, he believe he saw many members of his community out in the forest. He believed the people in his community including his wife faith were attending the “devils” ceremony. The narrator implies that Brown may have been sleeping, though the experience was real.

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The story being analyzed is the second summit between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump. The two leaders met in Hanoi, Vietnam and the primary purpose of the meeting was to decide on the fate of nuclear weapon. The two articles covering the news is BBC News with the heading “Trump and Kim in Hanoi: Your need-to-know guide” while the second article is by the Aljazeera with the title “Trump-Kim summit 2.0: What you need to know”.

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The two articles are long, they cover a lot of information, and that’s why they are long. The pieces are visible. They are at the front page with the heading written in bold. They are the main stories, and therefore they have to be on the first page. Being written in bold implies that the headlines are a piece of major news and are written in bold to attract or catch the eyes of the reader. The likes and shares are not visible for the BBC article while the Aljazeera has no icon to share the news. Various that can be identified to be key for the news has dominated the two articles. Some of the keywords include Kim Jong Un, the North Korean president, Donald Trump, the US president and the Hanoi in Vietnam as the location of the summit have been intensely used. Other words that have been used in the two articles are the nuclear weapons, which is the main reason for the summit, Singapore, which is the location for the first meeting as well as peace have been repeated severally in the texts; therefore, they are key to the news. Both of the articles have explained the reasons for the summit and as well provided a background for the first meeting held in Singapore, and therefore, the context of the background in the two articles is good enough.

Analysis

The United States and North Korea has been in misunderstandings for quite some times, and the two nations seem to almost engage in war in the battle for supremacy. Each of the nations wants the other to back off, but none will adhere to that. Nuclear weapon is the main reason as to why the meetings are conducted so that war can be evaded between the two nation. Peace, as well as good international relations, are key to economic as well as political development of a country and therefore when countries try to show dominance, their economy may be significantly affected. The United States has been seen as a superpower for a long time, but the ability of North Korea to launch nuclear weapons targeting the United States have made it seem a battle for North Korea to become a superpower by defeating the United States. The battle is more of a cold war, as North Korea has been violating previous warnings of not testing its nuclear weapons and as well stop making more weapons.

The story is relevant in various aspects as it is an issue that can affect the whole globe. World War I and II started in almost the same way. The cold war that came after the world Wars was as a result of two blocks fearing the supremacy of the other, the nations’ hiding their activities from the other hence making the other suspicious. The same thing is happening in the case between the United States and North Korea. The US being a superpower is afraid of what North Korea is capable of and therefore keeps a close eye on the nation while North Korea does the same to the US. The story thus is of historical significance.

Interpretation

Based on the evidence from the two articles, the reader is greatly informed about the news. Both of the articles dig deep into the Trump-Kim issue, providing a background for a new reader to have an understanding of what is going on and the reason for the meeting. The authors of the articles explain to the reader deeply using the relevant subheadings about what the reader may want to know regarding the US-North Korea issue. The news is placed in a useful historical context is it outlines the international relations between the two nations. The Aljazeera article provides a better historical context of how the summit came up to that point and therefore useful historical context has been provided. Through the provision of a historical context as well as a short background at the beginning of the article, the reader is able to learn important background information about the Kim-Trump summit 2.0. Much of the attention is provided to the major news, and therefore less emphasis has been provided for the unpopular news.

Evaluation

Based on the quality of the information, the beneficiaries of the information is people from all over the world and most specifically citizens of the United States and North Korea as they are directly affected. In case a war erupts, they can be the first people to be affected, and therefore the progress of the meeting is of great significance to them. The depth of analyses affects the reader in a great way, for example by not providing the background context of the story, the readers are left hanging, wondering where the story began. It might be difficult to follow a story even despite being interesting. However, providing relevant information and facts in the story makes the reader make viable and accurate decisions about the issue as they are able to infer the results.

Engagement

The Aljazeera article does a better job in covering the story. At this point, better is determined by the relevancy of the story, the questions that the reader may ask as well as the depth of the explanation. Although both articles have done a better job in explaining the issue, Aljazeera has more information that is more factual and therefore covers the Kim-Trump issue better.

References

BBC News. 2019. Trump and Kim in Hanoi: Your need-to-know guide. Retrieved from: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47208489Faras Ghani, 2019. Aljazeera. Trump-Kim summit 2.0: What you need to know. Retrieved from: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/02/190226020435999.html

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Introduction

The importance of literature cannot be gainsaid as far as the intellectual health of the society in the contemporary world is concerned. Literature has been used as a guide to the society, depicting the evils encompassed in a society, as well as outlining the heroic acts of hypothetical role models, all in an effort to encourage, discourage or demystify certain characteristics in the society. In most cases, the characters, who may be villains or heroes embody the characteristics against or for which the author is arguing. These, however, may be masked in other less desirable characteristics. This is the case for Miss Emily in the story “A Rose for Emily”. As much as there are some characteristics of Miss Emily that may be deemed inappropriate, it is worth noting that she typifies the Southern Gothic Heroine.

Gothic fiction refers to a genre of literature that incorporates elements of romance, as well as horror. Miss Emily is in various ways a heroine of the southern gothic especially considering the many things that she did that were thought of as against the will, aspirations and expectations of the society.

The story, narrated via the point of view of a third person outlines the life of Miss Emily, whose funeral is taking place. Evidently, Ms. Emily was a mystery to the town’s citizen as the narrator states that no one has seen the inside of the lady’s house for almost a decade. In essence, the people of this village or town are crowding in this place so as to have a glimpse of the house, simply out of curiosity. The narrator explains that the deceased (Ms. Emily) was grandeur or a chip of the old block in the contemporary world. However, there are some things that set her apart from the other people living in the society. This is especially considering or having in mind that the story is set in a chauvinist society where all people are against the things that she does.

One of the things that set Ms. Emily apart from others as a heroine of the tragic tale is her opposition to the societal views after the death of her father. Two years after her father’s death, neighbors had complained about a foul smell. Law enforcers decided that they would sneak in to the house at night and sprinkle lime. However, Ms. Emily emerges at the window as they are leaving (Faulkner 76). The narrator outlines that this happened just when people were beginning to be sorry for her. The people had in a way become resentful of the Griersons for being too high-handed. When the ladies had gone to call on Emily after her father died, she lied that he was not dead. She only allowed her father to be buried after being threatened with the law and the possibility of application of force. This is seen as standing against the aspirations of the society, which especially revolves around the will of the men in that society. It is worth noting that the key conclusion was that she was merely clinging to the things that she had been robbed of especially pertaining to a married life as her father had not allowed her suitors close to her.

In addition, the sexuality of Miss Emily is threatening to the people in this town. It was used as an embodiment of female sexuality, which according to the imagination of males provided women with incredible power over men, as well as power exclusive of the influence of males. As Margie Burns states, the house was identified with Emily and females in general. The phrases such as coquettish decay and “heavily lightsome” anthropomorphize it and model it into an eyesore just like Emily and suggesting a veiled and threatening sexuality in the two edifices (Faulkner, 187). The sexuality of Miss Emily is outlined in artistic depiction, as well as correlating suppression.

It is also worth noting that the narrator describes Miss Emily as an idol. As much as Miss Emily has committed a foul crime, she is not viewed as a criminal, rather she is a victim of circumstances (Roberts, 65). He father had kept her under restriction, and it is commendable that she outgrows these rules and even goes ahead to date Homer. This is a way of struggling and rebelling against the circumstances that have been imposed on her by the society and especially the men embodied by her father. Scholars note that the envisioning of Miss Emily by the narrator (townspeople) as an idol is a validation of the roles that they have assigned to themselves as providers and protectors. In addition, placing her on the pedestal eliminates the need for them to accept the implications pertaining to the acknowledgement of her humanity, as well as subsequent sexuality. This tendency, however, is broken when she defies her father, the society and the law officers. This is bound to symbolize the breaking of chains by the womenfolk against the domination and definition by men (Roberts, 43).

In addition, the concept of being a heroine may be examined through the evidence and crucial nature of the relic concept. As much as the community would like the readers to see Miss Emily as a horrible murderer, it is unimaginable that she was ever exposed to positive and admirable examples on the manner in which she should live and take part in healthy relationships (Roberts, 56). This is especially considering the restrictions within which the community, as well as her father expected her to function. Pursuance of Homer Barron is the only action that this lady has executed as she only does the things that are expected of her by the society and father. The community thought that Miss Emily would bring their own healing, as she would patch the past to the future and preserve the way of life that every other member has been indoctrinated to preserve. This plan, however, backfires when this woman evolves into a woman who incorporates desires, as well as her will as to act without having to ask for permission from anybody. Emily, therefore, is a representation and demonstration of the subjugation that females or women who live in the post-confederate south experience, in their day to day life. As much as the book does not give a clear and viable plan for the modification of this aspect, it uses the character of Miss Emily as a way of insisting or laying emphasis on the reevaluation of the chauvinism and status quo present in the book (Roberts, 34).

In conclusion, as much as she Miss Emily may have a despicable past, she is an embodiment of the traits that are admirable for a heroine in southern gothic. Emily stands against the law enforces, the society and her farther so as to assert the place of women in society.

Works cited

Roberts, Diane. Faulkner and Southern Womanhood. Athens, Georgia: U of Georgia Press, 1994. Print

Faulkner, William. “A Rose for Miss Emily.” The Seagull Reader. Ed. Joseph Kelly.

New York: Norton, 2001. 73-83.