Essays on Rebellion

Teenage rebellion is not a new issue in society and every generation has had this conflict. Teenage years are not always a nightmare for parents, and most adults enjoy watching their children grow into young adults. The biggest thing about teenage rebellion, is that young people go through a period of wanting to reject everything…

Taiping Rebellion The Taiping Rebellion was a bloody civil war in China which took place in the 19th century being led by Hong Xiuquan against the Qing’s government.  Xiuquan was a Christian convert who supposedly had a vision of God who asked him to wipe out the idols in the land.  He claimed to be…

  Kin Henry IV Part I and the Motif of Robbery and Rebellion Introduction             Shakespeare proved himself to be one of the world’s most famous playwrights. As an English author he focused on writings about the history of kingdoms in England and wrote about its rulers and kings. King Henry IV Part I is…

Americans have ne’er been diffident about attaching labels to their history. and often they do so to qualify peculiar old ages or decennaries in their distant or recent yesteryear. It is dubious. nevertheless. that any period in our nation’s history has received as many tricky denominations as has the decennary of the 1920’s… “the Jazz…

Barbados rebellion 1816 Introduction The rebellion often referred to as the “Bussa Rebellion” which began on Sunday, 14 April 1816. Was led by a free West African man name Bussa from an Igbo or of Akan descent and was captured by African slave merchants, sold to the British, and brought to Barbados in the late…

Children are rebellious; it is part of childhood to rebel against parents or guardian. Through rebellion process, a child must go through challenge of their beliefs, enduring influences, acceptance and understanding. By analyzing characters from the stories about rebellion, I realize that one does not simply rebel to disappoint others; it is more of a…

Conformity and Rebellion Ralph Ellison’s “Repent Harlequin! Said Ticktockman” and Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” have one thing in common. They are tales about rebellion and conformity. As individuals belonging to a society, whether it is your family or a community, there are rules that should be followed and when you break them, there are punishments…

            American history was marked with activities of slavery for example Africans were brought against their will to Britain’s American colonies and to the new United States of America for over two hundred years. Many separate slave revolts and conspiracies took place from the 1600’s to the end of the U.S. Civil War in 1865…

Conformity             Conformity is when we do something because of the ‘pressures’ of the society to do so. For example, you force yourself to stay up late at night because your friends wanted to go out to a bar and drink; or you take illegal drugs because your roommates made you think and believe that…

Teen RebellionTeen rebellion is a problem thats been around ever since teenagers have. Almost every teen goes through some sort of rebellious stage in or after the precious years of puberty. Its a problem thats caused by a number of attributes, the two main being teenage hormones and attitude. Its a superiority syndrome that teens…