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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…

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 !8th century as…

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 that await you….

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…

            Tom Wingfield, the narrator in The Glass Menagerie, tells us the story in the past tense, while the action of the play brings his narration to life.  Tom is a rebel. When he tells us the story he has fled from his life in St Louis, from the tedious tyranny of the shoe warehouse,…

“A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to one.” These words, written in 1520 by the theologian Martin Luther, would later reverberate in the ears of the desperate German peasants. What happens when people start to break away from the entity that bound civilizations for thousands of years? How does one go…

The movie “REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE” is directed by Nicholas Ray, and is about a teenage boy named Jim Stark. Jim just moved into a new neighborhood, and he seems to be depressed because his family keeps moving from place to place because of Jim. This makes it really hard for Jim to have friends….