Autobiography College Essays Samples For Students

Benjamin Franklin and Democratic Citizenship

Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706, Boston, Massachusetts. He was the tenth born son of a candle maker and soap. In his early years, Benjamin went through a formal education. However, he was among people who were self-taught and principles at that time. He worked for both his father and his brother as a printer. In the year 1721, he established the New England Courant, which became the fourth paper in the colonies. His first writings were 14 essays which he published in this newspaper. Due to his unconventional beliefs on religion coupled with his disagreements with Bostonians, he ...

There are so many factors and fronts from which an autobiography can be criticized. Ake: The Years of Childhood is an autobiography written and based on the childhood encounters of Wole Soyinka. It highlights the enchanting accounts of the author’s childhood experience in a small town of Abeokuta located in Western Nigeria. While most childhood experience exhibits various similarities, the region of child development highly affects one’s childhood experience. This autobiography presents the childhood experiences exhibited across the region of West Africa. While these encounters may not represent Africa as a whole, there are certain childhood encounters ...

Introduction

In Latin America, there were different forms of labors that the slaves were assigned to during the slavery era. Juan Francisco Manzano was one of the slaves who wrote about the slavery and their daily lives through an autobiography. In Latin America, the works of Manzano is considered to be the few narratives that was done by a slave about slavery. Manzano is claimed to have taught himself how to read and write. In looking at Manzano’s tell of slavery, it proves to be almost similar to other works done about slavery in the Latin America especially in the ...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin wrote one of the most intelligent and purposeful autobiographies in history. Franklin emerged from the American Revolution one of the most famous men in the world. An inventor/entrepreneur/publisher/writer with a keen sense of self-promotion, Franklin was spectacularly successful at using his celebrity as a platform from which to share the wisdom collected from a life of remarkable achievement. Perhaps the most notable aspect of his memoir is the fact that it combined simple language and personal examples with brilliant, often deceptively complex personal philosophy. The result is a truly “democratic” literary work in that it offers something beneficial for everyone.

Keywords: Benjamin Franklin, autobiography, American Revolution, memoir

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Contrary to popular belief, history is not only the scholarly, formal, recorded, writings found in texts; it can take several forms: autobiography; biography; letter writing; and diary.

An autobiography is the details of one’s life written by that person. Autobiographies utilize any number of the following aims: to inform; to justify; to reveal; to communicate; to reflect, and to record. Just imagine what this world would be if no footprints were left in ‘the sand of times.” A world without history, what reason would there be to hope? What would be the meaning of hope if there is ...

The Autobiography of Malcolm X was published after Malcolm X’s death in 1965. It is said that this posthumous publication managed to change the public’s opinion of Malcolm X as of a violent activist. The Autobiography shows Malcolm X from the other perspective, viz. as a person capable of self-criticism as well as the one who had a long hard way to self-improvement and spiritual growth.
In general, Malcolm X’s route to being an educated person was a complicated one with many obstacles on the way. He did go to school, but quit it when he ...

Suzanne observes that; for decades, Hemingway scholars have used the term remate to describe the uniqueness in Hemingway's approach to autobiography and memoir. She also notes that Mary Hemingway's definition and use of the word remate is wrong. This wrong definition necessitates her to argue that reconsidering how we define and use the term remate would change our understanding about A Moveable Feast. She does manage to convince us through her well-dissected arguments, why Mary's definition and use of the term remate as well as that of other scholars is wrong, and that reconsidering the definition of the word ...

The book “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”. Is one of the most celebrated and finest slave narratives of the nineteenth century. It is an autobiography of a well-known Afro-American during his life as a slave. The whole book exploits the author’s early life, a life that ended soon after his escape from slavery. At the time of his escape from slavery, it is said that Douglass was approximately twenty years old. The book is a formative of some of the experiences that he faced in his lifetime during his demonstration for the cruelty of the slavery as well as his ...

Discussion and Journal Questions

Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath’s tale and her prologue are deemed by many to be some of the best parts of The Canterbury Tales. The story vividly describes the role of a woman in the Middle Ages through the character of Alison. However, her position does not seem to be very typical for that period of time, as she believed her experience in marriage matters could dominate the male authority. This idea is constantly expressed with the help of the notion of woman’s “sovereignty” over her husband.
In The Wife of Bath’s tale, the ...

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This is of great importance for colonized people. The books about different life paths of colonized people and their culture, no matter if they are historical or fictional, act upon other people’s beliefs about themselves. They make a lot of others never give up in spite of any adversities, see flowers in every hardship and motivate them to pursue their dreams notwithstanding the cruel reality around. Also, the books proved that the world did not belong to colonizers but to colonized people who could not only survive in the savage conditions but furthermore achieve their end and change ...

The creation of spiritual autobiographies helps readers to understand the intensity of the spiritual growth that the authors experience. Examples of significant spiritual autobiographies include John Woolman who creates “In the Journal of John Woolman” and Anne Bradstreet who creates “To My Dear Children”. There are significant differences in the denominations of the two authors. For example, Woolman is a Quaker while Bradstreet is a Puritan. They create their narrations in similar ways because of the respective attachments that they seem to have with religion. In both their autobiographies, the

y take their time in exampling significant religious occurrences throughout their ...

The Autobiography of my Mother and Fresa y Chocolate are masterpiece works that comprehensively develops the idea of rebellion. Authors of the articles explore this subject from unique and diverse perspectives. Characters in these works present attitudes and undertaking that seem to be very rebellious. Examining this rebellion is of high significance as it attracts serious conflicts in the society in different ways. The Autobiography of My Mother focuses on a young woman who is brought up in a loveless household. The girl’s mother died while she was giving birth. Fresa y chocolate (which is a Spanish phrase ...

The classic American myth of rags-to-riches can be seen in the lives of Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass. These self-made aspects of their lives can be seen in the narratives of the stories of their lives. Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass became very successful in achieving their goals. Their lives paint a clear picture of self-made individuals who fought odds in their lives and struggled to become famous and highly revered individuals in America. Even though they were separated, by time, place and circumstances, the two writers had a similar chronology of life events in their narratives. Benjamin Franklin is an ...

English

Benjamin Franklin was born on the 17th of January, 1706. He was also known as The First American” as he was one of the founding fathers of the United States of America. In addition to this, he was also a dominant author and printer as well as a postmaster, politician, statesman, diplomat and most importantly, a civic activist. Franklin had made many discoveries and inventions in the field of science as well. The invention of the lightning rod, Franklin stove and bifocals were some of them. As a civic activist, he had founded and facilitated a university and Philadelphia’s fire department. He had ...

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a story that features the coercion Fredrick Douglass encountered before his escape to freedom. In this autobiography, Douglass offers the readers with first-hand information about the pain, brutality, and humiliation of the slaves. He points out the cruelty of this institution on both the perpetrator and the victims. As a slave, Douglass witnessed the brutalization of the blacks whose only crime was to be born of the wrong color (Cruse 32). This narrative of Douglass is a very personal description of a worrying time in the author’s life, but it also appropriately portrays ...

Mary Shelley’s famous work, "Frankenstein," marked the beginning of the whole new genre of literature, science fiction. Studying the critique of this work of Walter Scott and Sherry Ginn, the reader comes to the same conclusion with the critics: this book is extraordinary in nature and it is unlikely that before "Frankenstein" there was something like the work of Shelley. Although both of the above critics write about different aspects of "Frankenstein", though, Scott and Ginn agree on the fact that Shelley has created something truly new, what does not fit into neither autobiographical work, nor fiction, nor ...

In James Weldon Johnson’s

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
For the novice reader, James Weldon Johnson’s fictional odyssey of a biracial individual is difficult to classify. It neither is an autobiography on race relations nor is it a celebration of racial identity. Rather, it is a compelling narrative on an individual’s perception of race. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man also provides awareness of how racial identity influences the connection to community identity or dampens the bond. The author’s narrative provides a stark portrait of a young man’s coming of age in a world that he cannot fully ...

Introduction

The book “Country of My Skull” has been written by Antjie Krog, who strives to include her own as well as other individuals’ stories about the creation, development, and conclusion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The truth and reconciliation commission was in charge of uncovering past wrongdoings in Africa and was established to bring the perpetrators and criminals to justice. The books have been the center of much debate as the author has not followed any clearly defined chronological order but rather, the fragments of the testimonies of survivors, victims, and criminals have been included. History, personal ...

Book Review: “Pointers to Insight” by Soko Morinaga Roshi

It was some time in 100 AD that Mahayana Buddhism of India began to enter China through the merchants that travelled the sea through the Silk Road towards the land of India (Andreasen 5). Three mainstreams began to take form (i.e., Ch’an Buddhism, Cheng-yen Buddhism, and Pure Land Buddhism), as it emphasized how human beings had had the ability to free themselves through meditation. By 500 AD, Ch’an Buddhism reached the shores of Japan, where it was called Zen Buddhism—using the word Zen to mean meditation (Andreasen 6). Thus, Buddhism in Japan became well developed by ...

Although slavery has been condemned as a crime against humanity, there was once a time when men and women were considered as less than animals and were made to work under the harshest circumstances. While treatment towards both the genders might have differed, the general attitude towards slaves was the same which was exhibited by those who were well off and had enough money to afford servants. The premise of this paper is to compare and contrast the arguments which have been given by Fredrick Douglas in his autobiography. Douglas was the son of a slave and saw very little of his ...

My Lobotomy is a memoir written by Howard Dully who is among the youngest people who underwent trans-orbital lobotomy. This procedure was performed on him while at the age of 12 and it was initiated by his step mother who disliked his behaviors. He explains how he was diagnosed by schizophrenia, the procedure and how it affected his life and how he learnt that it was not right for the procedure to be performed on him.

Dully’s mother died of cancer and left him under his step mother’s care. Dully grew up in an environment of emotional abuse ...

REFLECTIVE PRACTICE IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

Reflective practice is referred to as a professional development process that ensures that people acquire an awareness of their normal actions and assumptions while considering the importance of those actions relative to the consequences (Nolan & Sim 2011). Reflective practice can be applied in early childhood education setting to enable the practitioners to achieve positive behavioral change. Reflective practice basically refers to creating a routine or structure to enable a practitioner to examine his or her experience.
The following paper describes how I engaged with reflective practice in a childcare setting. I applied my reflective practice in the day-to-day work as a Childcare practitioner. ...

The autobiography of Malcolm X provides insight into the life of a man who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most influential civil rights activists in the United States. In his autobiography, it is apparent that Malcolm undergoes three keys states: the first stage reflects his early life, troubled youth, and struggle for identity; the second stage reflects his struggle to find God; and the third stage is his political work. In the course of the three life stages, Malcolm X held different convictions ranging from racial separatism to indifference in the later stages of his ...

How were the life experiences of Liu and Ning impacted by the historical events and changes of the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
Liu from ‘A man awakened from dream’ and Ning from ‘A daughter of Han”’ are both the protagonists of works of autobiography by Harrison and Priutt respectively, in an effort to depict the impact of Chinese history on its people during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Since Chinese history was sharpened by communist tones, it becomes challenging to understand the true meaning of waking up from a dream. It is important to ...

The Fifth Chinese Daughter

“The Fifth Chinese Daughter” is the story of a Chinese-American girl’s journey from childhood to adulthood. The story, told in third person, is actually the author’s autobiography. In the book, Jade Snow grows personally as well as physically, but throughout never loses the lessons taught by her Chinese heritage traditions.
As a child, Jade Snow is subjected by random beatings by her father, along with her siblings. It is clear to Jade Snow that she has no value in the eyes of her parents (Wong 108). She is the last among many daughters, and has brothers who ...

Persepolis is a comic autobiographical novel written by Marjane Satrapi. Marjane writes about her life from childhood to adulthood during the Islamic revolution in Iran. The novel is about the protagonist’s life and the challenges she faces into adulthood and how these hardships changed her identity. As the main character in the novel, Marjane is depicted as a tough and intelligent girl who followed in her parents footsteps. She was a young Iranian girl who had to overcome great obstacles in her childhood in order to become a great person in future. Marjane grew up in a difficult and complicated setting in Iran ...

Johnny Cash arguably became one of the most influential people to ever step onto a stage with a guitar. He won many awards and honors for his contributions to music. Later in his career, which spanned over five decades, he was also a published author. These and many other achievements earned him places in not one, but three prestigious music halls of fame. However, not many know about where Johnny Cash came from, or the story of his life behind the curtain, when he stepped off stage.
Johnny Cash was born the fourth of seven children, in Kingsland Arkansas. His siblings ...

Malcom X was an African American Muslim male who converted to the Muslim faith later in life. He was steadfast in his beliefs and relished in sharing them with others. He enjoyed passing his knowledge on to the young and old, the dark and the fair. However, earlier in his days as a Muslim, he had yet to make the traditional pilgrimage known as Hajj. As he grew to know more about it, he began wanting to make the pilgrimage. Though it became evidently clear that he was unfamiliar with any of requirements to make this pilgrimage, including how to ...

Book Report on “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness” by Susannah Cahalan

Book written by Susannah Cahalan
This report is based upon the autobiographical book “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness,” written by Susannah Cahalan. Free Press, 2012, publishes this book.

Introduction of the Author

Susannah Cahalan is the author of the book, “Brain on Fire.” It is an autobiographical book of her. She presented her delirious ailment. When she was 24, she was suffering from serious mental illness. After her recovery, she described her pain and sufferings during her Month of madness. As a reporter, she could effectively present her ideas to get the attention of the readers.

Introduction of the Book

“Brain on Fire: My Month ...

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Summary
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream is a book that can be categorized as an autobiography of the first African American president in the history of the United States. This book that was written and released shortly before announcing his presidential bid, the then Illinois senator’s second book addresses a collection of topics, which was considered by several political analysts as a means of paving way for himself in the looming presidential campaigns of that time. In this book, the author gives a detailed account of his journey through politics: he explains the driving forces behind ...

Frederick Douglass is an illustrious author in the history of African American literature. His memoirs, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave is one of most read book among African Americans. This autobiography was first published in the year, 1845 and was revised several times. Frederick in his autobiography gives accounts of his life and shares his own experience as a slave. This paper intends to discuss Frederick Douglass, his life and experiences, slavery and several other related aspects.
Douglass starts his narrative by saying that he has very less memory of his birth. He says ...

A game changer in the modern world in the origins of political struggle has been the ability of enacting political changes vianon-violent struggle. From apartheid in South Africa, to the Velvet Revolution of Czech, to the Civil Rights movement in The United States, to non-violent struggle for freedom led by Mohandas Gandhi, it has change the very nature of what concerned citizens can accomplish through. As a leader and inspiration of this movement, Mohandas Gandhi is not just an important thinker for India. His influence has affected governments and promoted freedom across the globe and the change his ideas lead ...

Günter Grass reached adolescence during the last two months of World War II when all hopes of a successful resistance to Hitler had been lost. Grass was drafted into the Nazi Waffen SS tank division when he was only seventeen. At that time, anyone who still had all their limbs were being sent by the Third Reich to the rapidly retreating front. Although it has been sixty years since the war ended, but Germans who belonged to Heinrich Himmler's personal army as a member of the Nazi Waffen-SS still have a tough time. In his autobiography Peeling Onion, Grass himself admits ...

Autobiography: A Self-Recorded Fiction, John Barth

The Autobiography: A Self-Recorded Fiction is one of the short stories in John Barth’s short story collection, Lost in the Funhouse. Lost in the Funhouse is classified as a metafictional book. Barth put his stories in print form, but he used a metafictional voice that has characteristics fit for electric media such as computers. It is, therefore, evident that Barth appreciated the presence of technology when writing his literature works.

In this particular short story, The Autobiography: A Self-Recorded Fiction, Barth uses a metafictional voice to tell the story. The story has only one character who tells their own story in a ...

Looking at the nature of autography, a person writes it analyzing oneself in a historical account of him/her. In simple terms, one writes about him or herself and gives this information to others to read. Autobiographies are one of the best sources of historical data, a statement that I will critically analyze in this paper.
On support of autography as a source of historical data, one of the reasons making it a reliable source of information is the writer. One can write very crucial information about oneself regardless of the implication on the society. This is well illustrated in the just read autograph ...

William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet Prince of Denmark and Tennessee Williams’s play The Glass Menagerie are both products of their time though both plays continue to be appreciated and receive critical acclaim. Differences between the lives of the playwrights, the support they received in writing and producing their plays, the type of audiences viewing the plays, the venues in which they plays were performed, and the cultural events of their times are reflected in their resulting works of literature.
Shakespeare’s Hamlet was written around the year 1600 (Farnham 931). Its contemporary audience was Elizabethan, and Shakespeare’ ...

He is a man with a very roaring appetite to start business ventures and see them excel. He enjoys new challenges, especially situations in which the market has a few large firms as the most dominant. That is Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson, the great entrepreneur from Britain. His marketing strategies as well as his balloon adventures make him attract lots of media attention. He is an icon I would love to emulate in matters of business. As a young child with dyslexia and nearsightedness no one anticipated him to rise to fame. Despite going to an exclusive learning institution known as Stowe ...

Liberalism can be defined as the political philosophy that emphasize ons the importance of equality. The paper elaborates the objective and main argument of the author, Heda Kovlay in her book, “Under a cruel star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968”. The book is an autobiography, which has elaborated the struggles that Heda and other Jewish families faced in leading a normal life. The author has explained the flawed liberalism deeply rooted in the mindsets of society. The author has presented the historical analysis in an influential way that makes the core concept of liberalism crystal clear and understandable.
She ...

A Closer Glimpse on the Key Terms

As previously observed, it is possible to draw parallels between the following essays and movies and play “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education” by Paulo Freire and Dead Poets Society, “The Achievement of Desire” by Richard Rodriguez and Six Degrees of Separation, and “Ways of Seeing” by John Berger and The Matrix. All three works raise a number of important issues, manifestations of which may be found on the example of the characters of these films and plays. Thus, there are such key terms notions as critical thinking, education, class conflict, racial divide, and power of perspective, which can be ...

While writing this sociology autobiography paper let me introduce myself. I was born and raised in Europe and came into the United States 18 years ago. During the first few months after moving to a new place I was feeling as if I was an alien, because in most cases I did not understand what interlocutors said. In real-life situations the Americans do not make allowances for the fact that you are a foreigner, if you for sure not ask them about it. In my Motherland there were no diversity people, with only white dwellers and the few black ...

I agree with you from your first statement when you said that Sedaris’ Santa Land is a memoir and not personal essay as most of the students thought in the beginning. Ricardo, you justify your point by saying that Sedaris’ essay talks about a single topic but in different occasions. However, I don’t believe that this is the only reason you could have provided to substantiate the point that the essay is a memoir and not a personal essay.
I agree with the example you gave on humor and the funny part of the essay. No one will ...

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Slavery was always a very defined and argumentative topic in the old days. African-Americans were noticeably mistreated due to racism. Slavery was what these people were bound to. Many blacks stood up for themselves, formed groups and different movements such as the Abolitionists Movement. One thing is true, African-Americans always looked up to a brighter future, they saw themselves as equal and free people.
Harriet Jacobs, born February 11, 1813, to two slaves, Elijah and Delilah Jacobs lived in North Carolina. When Harriet was just 11 years old, ...

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History Paper
“Choices made regarding Ani’s preservation cannot escape political implications, and contests over the site’s meaning should be acknowledged rather than ignored and engaged in rather than silenced. It is possible that once admitted, the difficult issues at Ani can become opportunities for creative solutions.” Heghnar Watenpaugh speaks these words about the Turkish-Armenian archeological site of Ani. She believes that Ani’s preservation bodes well for dialogue, reflection, and maybe even reconciliation. Her work relates to physical conservation, but still underlines the importance of preserving memories. This sort of preservation in the Arab world may also ...

I think that the interactions between Cellini and his patrons are based on his skills where his competitive skill to support the works presented by the patrons has attained credible support among the people. However, the patrons found it tough to pull through with him in respect to his relationships with other people. There were various disputes that he had with the patrons included the immoralities and murder among fellow people (Cellini et al. 26). However, the patrons eventually sought his services as the new succeeding patrons arose. In the case where Cellini thought that he has been chosen ...

Introduction

“Choices made regarding Ani’s preservation cannot escape political implications, and contests over the site’s meaning should be acknowledged rather than ignored and engaged in rather than silenced. It is possible that once admitted, the difficult issues at Ani can become opportunities for creative solutions.” Heghnar Watenpaugh speaks these words about the Turkish-Armenian archeological site of Ani. She believes that Ani’s preservation bodes well for dialogue, reflection and maybe even reconciliation. Her work relates to physical conservation, but still underlines the importance of preserving memories. This sort of preservation in the Arab world may also be likened ...

The autobiography of Catalina de Erauso is very attractive for scholars, who investigate such aspects as identity, authorship, sexuality and gender; the most important aspect can be considered masculinity of this character. She had desire to become a man for receiving the status in society, which was dominant by males, and the possibility to show her identity. The transformation of Erauso’s conduct into masculine manners, sometimes in violent form, was necessary for persuasion and becoming powerful, successful and accepted at the times of colonial Spain. Her destination, attitude and deeds have made this person exciting and extraordinary in ...

There has been an inevitable trend among the youth, of imitating if not following in the actions of their adored celebrities, in regards to their style of talking, living, and the general behavioral aspect. Desmond- Harris’ story that was influenced by Tupac, commonly known as “Tupac and My Non- thug life” is a perfect example of celebrities influence in our lives. She perfectly describes how she adored Tupac’s artistry in music and his way of life by elaborating how much she was affected learning of his death. Her admiration of Tupac was not a hoax as it is ...

“I know Why the Caged Bird Sings” is the first and probably the most popular volume of Maya Angelou’s autobiography. The whole collection covers the period between 1930s and late 1960s. The first volume was written in 1969 and in 1970, it was nominated for a National Book Award. The book speaks about Maya’s childhood up to the moment she is seventeen. It focuses on her growing and becoming a premature black girl. The main themes of the book are also family, motherhood and self-knowledge. When Maya Angelou was three years old, her parents divorced so Maya was ...

English Literature

Introduction
Charlotte Brontë, Edith Wharton, and Willa Cather created heroines who deal with issues of love and marriage. For the most part, men play a central part in all of their lives. The narratives are told from a variety of perspectives in the three novels. The endings differ substantively as well. Jane Eyre was first published in 1847 as a kind of autobiography. Jane is plain looking but filled with good sense and bravery. She triumphs over her cruel guardian and an inflexible social class order. When Jane becomes the governess in Edward Rochester’s house, she falls in love with ...

Since ancient times, the elusive concept of wisdom has figured prominently in philosophical and religious texts. The question remains compelling: What is wisdom, and how does it play out in individual lives? Most psychologists agree that if you define wisdom as maintaining positive well-being and kindness in the face of challenges, it is one of the most important qualities one can possess to age successfully — and to face physical decline and death.
Vivian Clayton, a geriatric neuropsychologist in Orinda, Calif., developed a definition of wisdom in the 1970s, when she was a graduate student, that has served as a foundation for research ...

Nelson Mandela was a well known South African politician, philanthropist, and an anti-apartheid revolutionary, born on eighteenth of July 1918. He served as the South African President from the year 1944 to 1999. He is known as the first South African chief executive, and also the first person to be elected in a free and Democratic election. A description of Nelson Mandela’s psychobiography is outlined in this paper, basing on the developmental events that took place in his lifetime using the big five theory.
The big five theory, is a method applied in psychology to describe the five major dimensions ...

Leadership starts with ‘self’ and only after we take a journey of self-discovery we are able to become effective, when leading others. In their book Culturally Proficient Leadership: The Personal Journey Begins Within Terrell and Lindsey (2009) developed a comprehensive and interactive guide for the development of cultural awareness and social responsibility that are critical for education in the contemporary world. The authors provide a step-by-step guide to discovery of ‘self’ through the idea of cultural autobiography. The core argument and learning point of the first chapter of the book is the understanding of three elements. First of all, our personal view ...

It was the 1920s. Slavery was over. African American people were moving by the hoards to the Midwest and the Northeast in search of a better, more equal life. The life everyone deserves. Many of the landed in a neighborhood north of central park in Manhattan known as Harlem. Once there, something magical happened. There was a burst of life—art and music were pouring out of this and other black communities that spanned as far as the Caribbean populations in Paris. While this decade is now lovingly referred to as the Jazz Age, it is the art of the Harlem Renaissance ...

Aesthetics refers to the nature and expression of beauty. In literature, this makes a literary work worth reading, with the combination of elements and styles both in prose and poetry showing its artistic value. Post Civil American War marked the change of America’s thought of itself (Oakes xii). Basically, the end of the Civil War led to the rise of African American writers and what they experienced during this time. However, there were also some White Americans who wrote of the aftermath of the war.
The artistic value of literary pieces after the Civil War lies in the ...

1. What is Civil Disobedience? How did Thoreau utilize this process? What was he protesting against? What is his critique of American society? How was his idea practiced in other movements?
Henry David Thoreau asserts that people should not allow the government to atrophy and overrule their conscience. The government has to govern the least. In fact, a government that does not govern at all tend to be the best (Thoreau 99). Civil disobedience refers to nonviolent resistance and the need to prioritize personal conscience over what is dictated by law. In most cases, civil disobedience entails active and ...

ENGL 2328/HIST 1302

The Depiction of Slaves in Novels and Stories, and its Significance
The narratives in novels and stories depict the lives of slaves from erstwhile era in different perspectives. The White Americans presented a fabricated picture of the reality, whereas, the autobiographies and stories from black slaves depicted the true conditions in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. The novels and stories about slavery and the depiction of slaves were fairly done by the former slaves and therefore, they made a significant contribution to American literature by provoking debates on racism and social injustice. This research will also examine the significance of ...

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born and raised in the town of Porbandar in the State of modern day Gujarat. He was born on 2nd October 1869. He schooled in a nearby Rajkot, a place where his father served as the prime minister to the local rulers. He gained fame and recognition through his extraordinary autobiography. “The Story of My Experiment with the Truth” which forms the basis of this thesis is recorded in detailed form in the autobiography. This paper focuses on the major items outlined in the book. Among the major issues that the essay seeks to address include development ...

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The concept of ‘Power’ in Political Science
Power, most simplistically defined is the ability of an individual to influence others or act in a given situation so as to influence or control or even manipulate the situation for a specific purpose. Power and its usage is something that has evolved as long as the human history itself. There is political power, power of position, power of an authority, all having different meanings and relevance to different situations. Power has been discussed and was a subject of literature right from the times of Socrates till now.
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It is a book that is an autobiography of He Liyi and about his life in a village. The family of He Liyi is one China’s minorities i.e. the Bai. He belongs to a remote area of China province Yunnan. After reading it, I come to know that when Liyi’s wife sold pig to get a radio i.e. shortwave, Liyi spend every of his moment listening to BBC. Liyi’s motive was to improve his English skills that he had learned years back. By practicing his English, he made a decision and write in English about a story of his life experience. The ...

Month Day, Year

When reflecting upon the events leading up to the abolition of slavery, the civil rights movement of the later 20th century and other such cultural milestones of equality in America, most of these events and turning points can be traced back to key figures in American history who stood their ground against adversity and overcame tremendous hardship, not just for their own survival, but for the sake of future generations to come. In terms of race relations in the 19th century, in this particular case, concerning the interaction between African Americans white Europeans in the U.S., one name that ...