...For those of you that don't know me my name is Brittany. I work at The Willows at Citation where I took care of Julia. For the short 3 months and 11 days that I knew Julia. I've learned something that no book could possibly ever teach me. On our Journey together I was constantly being moved and touched in ways that I often cannot describe. To live with Alzheimer's and still laugh, love and find joy is nothing short of amazing. I never got that chance to meet Julia when she was full of life and energy. Instead God blessed me with Julia on May 6th of this year. God had also blessed me with the ability to really connect with Julia. I spent many nights by her bedside, I've spent many hours listening, I've shared many tears with her daughter's and I've experienced many lifelong connections. Julia taught me the importance of living in the moment and finding joy in the small things. No two minutes were alike. Things were constantly changing and it put us on the wildest roller coaster ride imaginable. I must say it took a while and I'm sure I'm speaking for a few others when I say this but I came to realize that in order to survive, you must live in the moment and appreciate each and every good thing that happens, no matter how small. Sometimes you really have to dig deep to find the good in a lousy situation. The interesting thing is that bar is constantly moving. That thing that may have seemed completely insignificant a few months ago, can suddenly become the joy that gets...
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...First Television Interview." Fox Movietone News. Fox Movietone News, FMN, April 30, 1931. I found this source important to my research due to the fact that it’s a firsthand interview with Mahatma Gandhi and it shows his values and beliefs during that time period. Also within the video he says what his “plan of attack” is which is useful to hear from Mahatma Gandhi himself. However since this picture is a newscast they could have taken things out that they didn't want other people to hear or didn't believe themselves which is a negative. Another negative is that it doesn’t show the peoples beliefs at the time it just shows Mahatma Gandhi’s. Gandhi, Mahatma. "Mahatma Gandhi." Speech, Mahatma Gandhi from India, London, October 17, 1931. I found this source useful due to the fact that is a speech and it shows Mahatma Gandhi’s views himself and it’s not an interview its him speaking to a crowd, However due to the fact that during a speech you’re trying to persuade a group of people. Mahatma could’ve said some things that he really didn't mean and he could've said it just to have people agree with him. Also it could be considered unreliable because it’s on YouTube and someone could have edited it and took things out. Gandhi, Mahatma. The Labor Monthly. Vol. 14, April 1932 I found this source important to my research due to the fact that it’s a firsthand interview with Mahatma Gandhi and it shows his values and beliefs during that time period...
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...Short Essay on Mahatma Gandhi Full name of 'Mahatma Gandhi' was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He was born in Porbandar of Gujarat, India on 2 October 1869. After passing the Matric Examination he went to England for higher studies. Gandhiji completed his law in England and came back to India in 1893. He started his career as a lawyer. Gandhiji started his legal practice in South Africa. In South Africa he faced many hurdles. He discovered that white men were ill treating the dark Indians there. He himself was tortured and insulted by the white often. One day, he was traveling in a first class compartment of a train. He had booked a ticket for him. Still he was evacuated and punished out of the compartment by the white men. Gandhiji fought against this unjust and cruel treatment. He observed Satyagraha there and became successful. Gandhiji returned to India and took part in freedom fight. He was sent to jail many times. Now all the countrymen were with him. He started the Non-co-operation in 1930 and the Quit India Movement in 1942. He became famous as the 'Father of Nation'. Due to his leadership, ultimately India got freedom on 15th August 1947. Gandhiji's style of living was very simple. He was follower of 'Simple living, high thinking'. He taught us the lesson of 'Ahimsa'. He removed the caste barrier in India. He was a reformer. He was shot dead by an Indian on his way to attend a prayer on 30 January, 1948. Mahatma Gandhi is remembered in the world for his major...
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...Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in the town of Porbander in the state of what is now Gujarat on 2 October 1869. He had his schooling in nearby Rajkot, where his father served as the adviser or prime minister to the local ruler. Though India was then under British rule, over 500 kingdoms, principalities, and states were allowed autonomy in domestic and internal affairs: these were the so-called 'native states'. Rajkot was one such state. Gandhi later recorded the early years of his life in his extraordinary autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth. His father died before Gandhi could finish his schooling, and at thirteen he was married to Kasturibai, who was of the same age as Mohandas himself . In 1888 Gandhi set sail for England, where he had decided to pursue a degree in law. Though his elders objected, Gandhi could not be prevented from leaving; and it is said that his mother, a devout woman, made him promise that he would keep away from wine, women, and meat during his stay abroad. Gandhi left behind his son Harilal, then a few months old. In London, Gandhi encountered theosophists, vegetarians, and others who were disenchanted not only with industrialism, but with the legacy of Enlightenment thought. They themselves represented the fringe elements of English society. Gandhi was powerfully attracted to them, as he was to the texts of the major religious traditions; and ironically it is in London that he was introduced to the Bhagavad Gita. Here, too, Gandhi...
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...I think we find Equiano’s story to be so interesting for two different reasons. The first reason being that nobody has ever really read anything like this before. The story about the journey of a slave from start to finish was not experienced before by the white audience who would be reading this narrative. This was an alien thing to them and would immediately catch the reader’s attention. The other main reason I believe the reader will find Equiano’s story to be interesting is because of the slave to free man type story he explains. His story reminds me so much of the “American dream” or your typical “rags to riches” type of story. This slave was able to sell his goods on the side of being a slave and eventually save enough of his money to buy his freedom from his master. He was an extremely hard worker who had a dream of one day being a free man and he was able to accomplish this dream. His master kept his word and let Equiano gain his freedom. One of my favorite parts of chapter seven is when Equiano is describing what it is like to have his freedom, he comments after his master lets him go free saying, “These words of my master were like a voice from heaven to me: in an instant all my trepidation was turned into unutterable bliss, and I most reverently bowed myself with gratitude, unable to express my feelings, but by the overflowing of my eyes”. The amount of joy that Equiano must of felt to finally by the master of himself and not the slave to someone else was an incredibly...
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...I want to say this was a very enjoyable class for me. I will briefly discuss my favorite readings during this course, and I will also discuss my least favorite as it pertains to this course. Number one on my list of favorite readings during this class was the Exploration and Colonization. This was the first reading we had during this class and it covered some really important explorers who helped shape our country as we know it today. De Vaca, De Champlain and Columbus were among the those explorers. Their respective missions were to go out and...
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...The Atlantic slave trade started on the Gold Coast, present day Ghana, about twelve million Africans were transported to the America’s. African slaves became the main focus of trade between Africa and Europe. American colonization demanded labor, but since the Native American’s could not work with European’s because theytheir populations were thinning out, they focused on the enslaved African people. African slave trade helped the wealth and growth of America but at the cost of humanity. African American Mosaic by John H. Bracey Jr. tells the stories of the slave trade in West Africa, on the middle passage and in America. It suggests that West Africa were willing to capture other Africans for weapons and wealth. The story of Olaudah Equiano was about how he was kidnapped by other Africans and taken through the woods to the beach where a slave ship was waiting for him. “Was carried on board I was immediately handled, and tossed up, to see if I were sound, by some of the crew; and I was now persuaded that I had gotten into a world of bad spirits, and that they were going to kill me (Bracey, 16).” This is probably how every African felt when they were forced onto that slave ship to sail to an unknown land. Equiano also talked about how dirty and digusting the slaves ships were. “I was soon put down under the decks, and there I received such a salutation in my nostrils as I had never experienced in my life (Bracey, 16).” Also according to Alexander Falconbridge, “The deck, that...
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... Whether it is to tell the reader about an experience or inform the reader about a situation. In Narrative of Frederick Douglass his goal in the story is to not only to show/inform the reader the cruelty of slavery but to persuade the reader of the evils of slavery to the slaveholder and the slave. He uses many devices to portray his thinking, and to persuade the reader that not only are slaves affected by slavery, but the slaveholders too. He uses literary devices to show slavery in a different light such irony, anecdotes, and imagery. • Throughout the book Douglass uses many rhetoric and arguementive strategies to persuade the reader. He often uses irony to show the reality...
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...Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Terry McMillan’s The End and Maya Angelou’s Willie are significant literary pieces to discuss. It is important to consider factors such as historical, socio-political and cultural climate because these factors contribute and influence an author’s point of view as well as each author’s unique voice and message depending on the time period. Harriet A. Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, is a slave narrative. The literary conventions of the slave narrative define the work. Slave narratives echo biblical stories that often reflect persecuted groups attempting to escape to freedom. Jacobs’s piece details her struggle to escape her master from sexual abuse. Vivanco (2003), “The process from sin to rebirth in spiritual autobiographies is paralleled by the process from slavery to freedom in slave narratives. Slaves experience a change from chattel, enduring suffering, to man or woman living in the Promised Land, the North,” (para. 5). Further distinction of the slave narrative is how authors shape the story, often chronologically. Slave narratives illustrate an author’s personal experience though many share common themes of extreme violence/abuse and racial prejudice. Slave narratives are essentially autobiography, which offer an author’s own experience for readers to find meaning. Jacobs’s female voice sheds light on issues affecting slave women; sexual abuse and losing children to death or slave trade particularly. Jacobs’s narrative...
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...In the story Stealing South by Katherine Ayres, 16 year old abolitionist William Spencer is ready to gain independence from his parents and work the Underground Railroad disguised as a peddler. A peddler is a traveling merchant who loads up his wagon and brings his goods farm to farm, Girl Scout style. This job is reserved for men. His first “delivery” is of a young slave named Noah. After Noah arrives to the safety of Canada, he musters up enough courage to ask William to go back to Kentucky for his siblings, Noah and Suzanne. Excited to embark on his next adventure to save slaves and leave slave owners dumbfounded, William scurries deep into Kentucky. On his way to Kentucky, William finds himself dilly dallying in Cincinnati. When buying...
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...victims of slavery, a lot of children also were forced to become slaves to work and serve for their masters. Twelve Years A Slave, written by Solomon Northup, is a story about a slave regaining his freedom. Solomon, who was called Platt in the story Twelve Years A Slave, was a human trafficking’s victim who was heavily suffering the cruelty and brutality under the slavery system during nineteenth century. Stanley Elkins, who was a historian, compares the Nazi concentration camp with the Southern slaves in his book Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life. Elkins’s ideas were mixed; while his ideas on the treatment of slaves were accurate, most of his ideas on the effects of slavery were inaccurate. First of all, Elkins accurately describes the harsh conditions faced by Southern slaves. Slaves faced many obstacles and punishments that they could not avoid during the time they served for their masters. To be specific, they heavily suffered much ill-treatment which affected directly to their physical body. Solomon points out, “Scars upon a slave’s back were considered evidence of a rebellious or unruly spirit, and hurt this sale.” (80) Scars on their backs proved how slaves’ bodies suffered during the time they were working for their masters. If slaves did just a little mistake or didn’t accomplish their work as how their master wanted, masters would heavily punish the slaves. Also, in the story, Solomon almost suffered his death because the unreasonable master...
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...A Slave’s Misery In this story Douglas’s purpose was to show the despair of all the slaves by recounting his memories when he was a little boy. The author begins the story with a description of his childhood of his early years as a slave. The author use begins it like this because he wanted to show us that a slaves’ hardship begins when they are young. Another reason why the author starts it like this because he is going to tell the story of his life when he was a little boy. (Douglass. l. 4) “By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses known theirs” to show us that the slaves were treated like an item and not as a human being. This also shows that his master was very strict and wanted his slaves ignorant. Douglass recounts details in his early life as a slave to induce sympathy from his reader. In the story Frederic Douglass talks about his parents for two apparent reasons. The first reason revolves around his mom. The reason why he talked about his mom is to show us that his mom was very caring and that she was someone that soothes and calms Douglas but due to slavery he did not really get to enjoy her presence. (Douglass l. 53) “I received the tidings of her death with much the same emotions I should have probably felt at the death of the stranger.” The fact that Douglass was not allowed to be present during her illness, death and burial is the reason why he said this quote. This also displays that Douglass has never felt motherly love...
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...Frederick Douglass, an American Slave The title alone speaks to the dichotomy of the life of the man we know as Frederick Douglass. Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born a slave, but Frederick Douglass was a free man. The path he took from slavery to freedom was long, difficult, and like that of many blacks in the pre-Abolition era. Through a series of events, Douglass was able to first free his mind and eventually his body from the shackles of slavery. His story still stands as a startling first-hand account of the life of an American Slave. Frederick Douglass was born in Tuckahoe, Maryland. Like many slaves, the exact year or day was unknown to him. He knew his mother, Harriet Bailey, but his father’s identity was a secret. It was rumored that this master was actually his father, though he was unable to confirm the whispers. He was separated from his mother, as was custom, at a young age. He knew very little of Harriet and when he was about 7 years old, she died. Douglass noted, “She was gone long before I knew any thing about it. Never having enjoyed, to any considerable extent, her soothing presence, her tender and watchful care, I received the tidings of her death with much the same emotions I should have probably felt at the death of a stranger.” After the death of his mother, Douglass was moved around and kept as the live property of various families. With stark details, he describes the conditions of slave life. Slaves received monthly allowances of...
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...Europe. Cotton was king! The slave trade was equally lucrative at the largest slave market outside of New Orleans “The Forks of the Road Slave Market at Natchez, Mississippi”. This market was the at the end of the “Trace” which became the road of the “second middle passage”. Samuel Scott traded and purchased slaves as well as sold cotton at Natchez. Thirty miles due south of Natchez was Poplar Hill Plantation, located in Jefferson County. The trip from Poplar Hill to Natchez would have been an all-day ride along rough, rut filled, and if raining, muddy, soft, and difficult roads to maneuver. From the 1860 United States Federal Census-Slave Schedule Samuel Scott had 167 slaves from all his plantations regrettably Delaney selected many of the 167 slaves. Was there a psychological value and a lasting effect of a slave accompanying the slaveholder to the slave markets? Absolutely! Samuel Scott, an astute businessman and certainly as a slave owner...
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...Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Jacobs, Harriet Mroz, Jessica March 23, 2011 Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Barnes & Noble, Inc. 2005). In her book, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs is a slave that was born into slavery in 1813 that has decided to share her amazing story of slavery and her struggles to become free. When she was young her parents were “property” of a really nice lady that allowed her family to have a very comfortable life for a slave family. They were allowed to work for their own money and Harriet did not know that she was a slave for until she was twelve. When she was seven her master died and left her to her sister’s daughter who was five years old. She believed that it was not right to treat blacks in the way that whites did and that someone should not have to purchase themselves or their children. She believed that the whites were way too cruel. She eventually escaped to the north and eventually had someone purchase her freedom for her. The female slaves seemed to have the most difficulties while in slavery. Harriet Jacobs says “My master met at every turn, reminding me that I belonged to him, and swearing by heaven and earth that he would compel me to submit to him” (35). I interpreted this as a grown man trying to get a 12 year old girl to have sexual relations with him. I know that this was common in the years of the slavery but it was really not a good thing. I feel that it is disgusting...
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