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According to Zinn, in traditional history textbooks, Columbus is portrayed as a heroic figure who discovered the New World and spread religion to the people already living there. While it might mention that he was not perfect and did some things that he should not have done, it simply brushes over these aspects and pushes forward things such as “what a great sailor he was”, etc. The way it is written makes what he did seem like an exciting adventure that should be celebrated on Columbus Day, yet…

mom and dad it’s me Wounmee, I know it has been a while, but I just wanted to write to you about how my time here in New England. I moved here because I didn’t like the Protestant church is back home. When I was in England I heard about a group of people who called themselves the Puritans. They were a group who also believed that the Protestant Church was not complete and was corrupt just like the Catholics. The Puritans wanted to clean up the church and society, and believed that they could…

Jamisha Fletcher Irish Literature in English Dr. Martine van Elk September 14, 2015 Thomas Davis: Repealer or Rebel? In his essay titled “Moral and Physical Force: Violence in Irish Nationalism” Perry Curtis Jr. argues that Thomas Davis hides behind the guise of being a writer whose narrowing concern is the immediate and indefinite repealing of oppressive English legislature. Curtis claims that Davis is actually an agitator. That Davis is a rabble-rouser who uses violent language in his…

relies on British military, the most powerful military in the world at that time, to enforce laws and bring down Irish uprising. The heavy presence of British military in Ireland was a result of the reestablishment of English control over Ireland following William III’s (to be Dutch-English King) victory over the Catholic James III in the Williamite War (Hayton 29). A new ruling class known as the Protestant Ascendancy began to seek absolute dominance over Ireland and passed the first part Penal…

which to help organize the Indian community and unite it as one. When my activist movement started I opted for a passive form of protest which basically consisted of the use propaganda even the national Indian congress was propaganda to make the people of england know what was happening in Natal. With time I realized that my passive form of protest was useless so I decided to opt to a new form of protest called non-violence resistance which I called satarahaya. My political philosophy movement…

Ireland for taking arms against the Parliamentary troops . The great majority of Irish Protestants however were able to enjoy the great tracts of land that were now there’s after the transplantation of the Irish. They also had no desire for more English Protestants to arrive in Ireland to take away some of the wealth they had just begun to earn again after the long years of fighting . Vincent Gookin, one of these Irish Protestants who had grown weary of the Military’s stranglehold on Irish…

Journal Example on “A Modest Proposal”, by Jonathan Swift Style: Swift’s use of Satire to Drive his Point Swift’s use of satire is what truly makes his message so powerful. I can imagine that there were many do-gooders at the time breathlessly trying to convince the greedy British government that they need to act at solving the humanitarian crisis in Ireland, but that none likely got quite as much airtime as Swift’s outlandish essay. Through satire he must have shocked the upper class into…

They were performed originally 50 years apart, and 1000 miles apart. The plot of each story is also drastically diverse. However, they also share many similarities. It is amazing how people from varying different time periods and background can share a medium and a message. The main reason for this is because the people that produced these plays were all involved in a struggle of some kind, and it translated…

Satire is used in literature to criticize and point out society’s flaws. The criticism is usually masked in humour. Irony is commonly used in satires to expose flaws, an effective example is John Smith’s A Modest Proposal, in this essay he effectively uses irony, to communicate his argument about the poverty in Ireland. Similarly, in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale she criticizes the society that women live in. Atwood uses satire to display the oppression of women in political, religious…

poor, particularly children, in Bihar, West Bengal, Gujarat and Jharkhand in her first picture book titled “The Why-Why Girl”. It is a heart warming tale of the ten-year old Moyna who belongs to the Shabar tribe, an exploited and marginalized hill people. Moyna is burdened with the triple handicap of being a child, a female and a tribal. Not only does Mahasweta expose the extreme oppression of children in rural India but she shows the way out. Moyna is not crushed by the circumstances of her…