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Hace 2 días · Nonviolence is the personal practice of not causing harm to others under any condition. It may come from the belief that hurting people, animals and/or the environment is unnecessary to achieve an outcome and it may refer to a general philosophy of abstention from violence. It may be based on moral, religious or spiritual principles, or the ...
Hace 2 días · Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (/ ˌ tʃ ɪ m ə ˈ m ɑː n d ə ə ŋ ˈ ɡ oʊ z i ə ˈ d iː tʃ i. eɪ / ⓘ; born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian writer, novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright of postcolonial feminist literature and public speaker. She is the author of the award-winning novels Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) and Americanah (2013).
Hace 2 días · Essay Example: Rebellious action, a notion popularized by Henry David Thoreau in his 1849 treatise "Civil Disobedience," denotes the deliberate defiance or rejection of statutes, ordinances, or decrees enacted by a governance body or occupying authority in order to instigate societal or political
Hace 1 día · I guess I like them”); on the other side was Ivan Morris, a professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia. Morris seems to have been on the left as well—he was chairman of the American section of Amnesty International—but he drew the line at revolutionaries occupying buildings and university offices.
Hace 4 días · Considered the masterpiece of the long career of John Maxwell Coetzee, which spans more than a dozen novels and various collections of short stories and essays, Disgrace is a pivotal work of post-apartheid South African literature. It tells the story of the fall and reconciliation of Cape Town university professor David Lurie, while also depicting the state of a nation in which society, power ...
Hace 2 días · 1.1.1. Trauma, Pictures, Colours. In Morrison’s writing, the transgenerational trauma of slavery Footnote 4 is often negotiated through the maternal body, with the mother-daughter bond offering a unique paradigm of the transmissibility of traumatic memories. As Hirsch has shown, Beloved offers an example of how the voices of mothers and daughters can speak the unspeakable plots originating ...
Hace 3 días · This view of Emerson as “the cow from which the rest drew their milk,” as Matthiessen put it, 49 has been challenged by those who bring attention to other culturally influential authors; but there can be no doubt that Emerson’s pamphlet Nature (1836) and the first and second series of his Essays (1841 and 1844, respectively), as well as his later speeches and writings, had a remarkably ...
