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A Contemporary Post-Colonial Novel: Race and Identity in “Americanah” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It is fundamentally important to understand the different life experiences of people to enable real insight into society. A way to develop a critical understanding of the relationship between an individual and society is through works of art. The arts are an expression of the cultural values and beliefs of the many communities that form our world. Also, art as language helps to communicate and share ideas and thoughts that probably are not easily expressed in any other way. For instance, Aristotle, the Ancient Greece philosopher, believed that art is the realization of a true idea in an external form. As Aristotle stated, “ The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance ...” (Durant 59). In other words, the meaning of ideology is portrayed and conveyed to human society through art; moreover, a work of art is the triumph of a particular concept. For this reason, literature texts are an inspiring example of art because they can help exa...

A Memorable Speech: Structure and Stylistic Devices in “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick Douglass

                  Mankind has constantly raised questions about what is the nature of reality, which leads to another question, what is the principle of truth. As human beings, to make clear our reality as consciousness in evolution, one must look into the thoughts of the great philosophers and thinkers from the past. As an example, for Socrates a teacher and philosopher in ancient Greece, the process of asking and answering questions lead to the truth; therefore, the source of knowledge. In the same way, for Ralph Waldo Emerson an American poet of the 19th century, “Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense". Considering these thoughts, one can say that through language society is in communication, and through communication, society can understand their reality. Taking this into account, the power of language relies on how a great communicator ins...