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Essay Instructions: Directions:
First, write on only one of the topics below;
Second, compose a multi-paragraph essay that has an average length of five double-spaced pages, excluding the work cited page;
Third, plan to spend several weeks on the essay, being careful to
??provide a clear and precise thesis that addresses and answers the question;

??use facts from the works selected to support your argument;

??use critical secondary sources (at least three) to support your essay;

??utilize standard English in the essay;

??employ essay structure and essay map (studied in class) in composing your essay;

??demonstrate familiarity with the context of the works selected; and

??provide adequate details and explanation of ideas to support your argument

1. Things Fall Apart and the Collapse of African Culture
2. Missionaries as necessary Evils in Things Fall Apart
3. The patriarchal System in Things Fall Apart
4. Classes and Clashes in Things Fall Apart
5. The Rise and Fall of Okonkwo: A Metaphorical Death of a Vibrant African Culture.
6. Crises of Identity in Fugard?s Sizwe Bansi is Dead.
7. Fugard?s Plays: A Mirror Image of Apartheid in South Africa
8. Fugard?s The Island and the Torture of a People
9. African writers: On the defense of a culture

Essay Instructions: This is a research paper for my graduate African History class. The topic is "time-awareness/time-perception" in African culture. This topic needs to be written and contextualized within capitalist transformation. The paper needs to push beyond the understanding that Africans were "late" to an understanding of exactly what types of temporal awareness they had and when. The paper should begin with the 19th century. Look at missionary accounts about Africans and time perception. What did Africans think about time? What were their ideas about time? How did they spend their time? Leisure time? Work time? How did they measure time? Explore the relationship between nature and time (stars, moon, sun, seasons, bells, etc.) Africans were not naturally obsessed with time until influenced by Europeans. So how did missionaries teach time to Africans? Explore slavery''s impact on African''s sense of time. How did colonial authorities impose time on Africans? How did colonialism impact on African ideas about time? How did African perceptions of time conflict with European perceptions about time? How was time used in racial discourse? Did Europeans say that because Africans had a different sense of time then they were inferior? lazy? idle? backward? etc. What is the relationship between making the most of time and production say about a certain civilization? How did Africans transition from traditional modes of time to industrial time? What is the legacy of this history? What does all this mean now?

The paper should have a clear, concise introduction, the minimum number of quotations should be about 2-3 per page, there should be parenthetical citations, footers, etc. There should also be a bibliography. I would also like to incorporate some interesting historical narrative(s) to tell the story and making this paper interesting and colorful. I''d like the story to grab the reader and make them interested in this topic so if it could be colorful throughout that would be great. Most history papers are pretty boring. I don''t want this to be one of them.

thank you

Essay Instructions: MUST USE HEART OF DARKNESS BY JOSEPH CONRAD, THE MOVIE APOCALYPSE NOW , THINGS FALL APART BY CHINUA ACHEBE, AND SEQUEL- A HANDBOOK FOR THE CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF LITERATURE BY ELIZABETH SCHMUHL AND RICHARD C. GUCHES.
Concerning Sequel, I have to provide only one concept that, in the book, is one paragraph long.

Thesis: "As the title explains, Heart of Darkness, Things Fall Apart, and Apocalypse Now present to us a negative aspect of colonialism and imperialism."
I have this piece of introduction that I have to continue, too: "Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now replicate the Anglo and Euro-centric point of view. Things Fall Apart has to do with the effects of the Africans after colonialism. Heart of darkness and Things Fall Apart concern colonialism in Africa; Heart of Darkness shows African culture as "beasts" and "creatures" while, on the other hand, Things Fall Apart is more humanitarian in showing African culture and civilization before Imperialism arrived."

Have to introduce Carl Jung's idea of the Shadow and how they relate to the characters of Kurtz in Heart of Darkness and in Apocalypse Now. Here is where Sequel is involved. This is the paragraph that is in the book to which I have to refer to: "Jung believed that, in addition to the collective unconscious, the mind has a collective subconscious. He refer to the darker part of this region as the shadow. In the shadow resides the less pleasant aspects of the personality. Often dangerous, this region belongs to the primitive, uncivilized, pre-evoutionary past of the species. The shadow is represented as jealousy and repressed desires like avarice, aspects which most people would prefer not to recognize as part of their being." this is all I have to refer to, there is no need to go into further investigation about Jungian concepts.

In my conclusion there has to be mention of at least one idea on how they relate to current political ideas or issues.

Please try to avoid very formal language because English is my second language. Also, If you need to change anything of the thesis or introduction is okay as long as you consider the concepts of colonialism/imperialism as they relate to each story,discuss in detail the meanings inherent in each title, and discuss the Jungian concept of the shadow. Please try not to add any external sources other than these works. Thanks

Essay Instructions: Compare American culture to African culture on the issue of gender, gender roles, their treatment of men and women. Include how this might affect them.