Even during the time that the buzzard was supposedly helping the rabbit and the other animals were inquiring about the well being of the rabbit, the buzzard lied to them in order to continue the pursuit of his own wants. He was tricking the others t Continue Reading...
American Ethnic Literature
Analyzing the Nature of American Ethnic Literature
America has a distinct history: like ancient Rome, its inhabitants have come from all over and few of them can truly say to be natives of the place. This fact alone makes Continue Reading...
Ginsberg in fact spent some time in a psychiatric ward and his poem Howel makes the implication that his and his contemporaries madness is caused by the madness of society which, due to its infatuation with technology, has become a demon far worse t Continue Reading...
Indeed, the period now spanning the so-called Modern Era and the Industrial Revolution has been dependent upon humanity taming and turning nature to our own ends. This has led to a process whereby we downplay the natural world and of native peoples Continue Reading...
Multicultural education does not only have to be comparative, however. "Family Drama" tales may lend themselves to creative involvement with the narrative. Children can use modes of expression from modern culture, like creating a play that depicts t Continue Reading...
Native Mythology to North America
The Native American Mythologies are myths of lessons that every man can apply in his daily life. Many have misconceptions that Native American mythologies are just stories that are capable of entertaining the liste Continue Reading...
Coetzee and Defoe
Coetzee's novels like Foe and Dusklands are an explicit rejection of the old cultural and literary canons, of which Robinson Crusoe has always been part. Indeed, his stories reverse the standard narrative of white male narrators, a Continue Reading...
Slave Narrative and Black Autobiography - Richard Wright's "Black Boy" and James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography
The slave narrative maintains a unique station in modern literature. Unlike any other body of literature, it provides us with a first-han Continue Reading...
yellow back radio BROKE-DOWN
Assertion
Yellow Back Radio Broke-down is a highly interesting piece of fiction that introduces readers to deeper aspects of black narrative and exposes him to a freedom of style that was hitherto missing from African-A Continue Reading...
Slave Culture
The trans-Atlantic slave trade shackled together persons from disparate cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Forced contact and communion, pervasive physical and psychological abuse, and systematic disenfranchisement became the soil in Continue Reading...
Crow & Hawk: the Bird Spirit Poetry of Ted Hughes
Poets and prophets from Aesop to Isaiah to Blake have traditionally used animal figures to convey a criticism of existing culture, endowing the natural with metaphoric import. In most preliterate Continue Reading...
Pedagogic Model for Teaching of Technology to Special Education Students
Almost thirty years ago, the American federal government passed an act mandating the availability of a free and appropriate public education for all handicapped children. In 19 Continue Reading...
She also learns the value of what she and Joe shared before Slemmons entered the picture. May and Joe "now know that the promises of the city and of the open road are often gilded and that, for the fulfillment of their dreams, they must fall back up Continue Reading...