The Indonesian invasion and occupation of East Timor is one of the worst atrocities of this century. The occupation has claimed the lives of over 200,000 Timorese people, one-third of the original population. It continues in defiance of the United Nations Security Council which has twice called on Jakarta to withdraw "without delay" as well as eight General Assembly Resolutions. It has been maintained with the help of the United States. East Timor, occupies the eastern half of the island of Timor, which lies between Indonesia and Australia (approximately 300 miles north of Darwin), East Timor is has lots of mountains and is culturally diverse. There are 12 main language groups in East Timor. Today, Tetun is the main East Timorese language with Portuguese spoken among older generations and Bahasa Indonesia among the young. A former Portuguese colony, East Timor is recognized by the United Nations as a non-self-governing territory due for decolonization. It was on the agenda of the U.N. agenda long before Indonesia invaded and has been the subject of on and off negotiations, mediated by the U.N. Secretary-General between Portugal and Indonesia since 1983. These talks resulted in the Tripartite agreement to allow a vote on an Indonesian plan to grant East Timor a degree of autonomy. That Indonesia government has agreed that if the East Timorese reject autonomy in the U.N.-organized vote, it will repeal its annexation of East Timor. A U.N.-supervised transition to independence would then occur. Right now, Peace Brigades International is establishing, upon the written request of the East Timorese Human Rights groups, a permanent presence of international volunteers in East Timor.
Genocide is a pressing issue with a multitude of questions and debates surrounding it. It is the opinion of many people that the United Nations should not get involved with or try to stop ongoing genocide because of costs or impositions on the rights of a country, but what about the rights of an individual? The UN should get involved in human rights crimes that may lead to genocide to prevent millions of deaths, save money on humanitarian aid and clean up, and fulfill their responsibilities to stop such crimes. It is preferable to stop genocide before it occurs through diplomacy, but if necessary, military force may be used as a last resort. Navi Pillay, Human Rights High Commissioner, stated, “Concerted efforts by the international community at critical moments in time could prevent the escalation of violence into genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity or ethnic cleansing.”
(Feminism In Their Eyes Were Watching God). Instead of having to depend on a husband, for the first time Janie relied completely on herself (The Concept of Love and Marriage in Zora Neale Hurston 's Their Eyes Were Watching God). With Joe gone, Janie was free to let her hair down and bring her voice back to life (Feminism In Their Eyes Were Watching God). After the way that Joe treated Janie throughout their marriage, she was not depressed over his death, and instead enjoyed her independence through being a widow (Feminism In Their Eyes Were Watching God). As Janie had said, “’Tain’t dat Ah worries over Joe’s death, Phoeby. Ah jus’ loves dis freedom” (Hurston 93). Logan and Joe did not compliment Janie through marriage, because they did not truly love her (The Concept of Love and Marriage in Zora Neale Hurston 's Their Eyes Were Watching God). Due to Janie’s transformation in voice and independence over her first two marriages, she desired to have a loving marriage where she would be free to be
The arrival of multinational troops could bring more violence, destruction, and chaos to East Timor. On the other hand it could also bring protection to the many people who have fled the violence from the Indonesian Militia. Force should not have to be used to make or keep peace in any country; therefore it is not necessary for American troops to have to risk there lives trying to make peace in a country that won’t make peace until they get what they want, INDEPENDENCE. Sending troops into Dili, East Timor may help persuade the people to make peace, but it is not necessary to send all of those troops. Just a few mediators would be sufficient to help make peace. If the nations at battle would just talk they might be able to negotiate a peace treaty and there would be cooperation without more violence.
In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston chapter 10 begins when there is a big baseball game in Winter Park and Janie stays back by herself to work in the store. A man walks into the store just as it is about to close and they completely hit it off. After he invites Janie to play checkers and she does not know how to, so he teaches her. Janie starts to get really excited because she feels he is everything a woman could want in a man. They talk and joke around the whole night and ends up walking Janie home. By the end of the chapter, we know his name is Vergible Woods, however, he goes by Tea Cake. Even though Janie is a little cautious, she feels like she has known him her whole life.
Janie Mae Crawford is the main character in Their Eyes Were Watching God. She is a very well-known woman and becomes the talk of the town when she returns to Eatonville. Janie is a black woman who has caucasion features, which is highly praised in this time period. Janie's best friend, Pheoby Watson, is there to comfort her and understand her story while nobody else can. Instead of trying to talk to Janie, the "Mouth-Almighty" makes everything she has done sound evil. Janie and Pheoby sit down on the steps and talk about where she's been and what's been going on with her life. Janie was married three times. The first marriage to Logan Killicks was forced by her Nanny because Janie was young and had her first kiss which led to sexual feelings.
In every book, symbols provide ideas that form the overall themes. Janie is represented by multiple object; this helps the reader understand her. In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, there are many objects like Janie’s hair, the mule, the pear tree, the horizon, and the hurricane that form Janie and help the readers understand who she is.
In Zora Neale Hurston’s text Their Eyes Were Watching God it is very apparent that the Janie is unsure of her life and is unsure of the things that are going to make her happy in life. Is it love that will make her happy or is to be alone? Janie values the ideas of love because of the beauty in the pear tree. Why does the pear tree symbolize love and marriage to Janie? Does Janie need to be alone to be happy? Is the destructive force of the hurricane a symbol of being alone to Janie and her life? Why are these figures so significant to the text?
In the story, Their Eyes Were Watching God, we followed the journey of a woman, Janie, who was seeking freedom and self-worth. She only had one person to confide in, her best friend Phoeby. Janie overcame many adversities throughout her lifetime, the biggest of which being her relationships. She only had three: Logan, Joe, and Tea Cake. Her Nanny was really the only reason she had the first relationship with Logan too. All her life her Nanny had told her what to do and beat her if she did otherwise, just like her partners did. None of Janie's relationships worked out, not even with her grandmother, because Janie never stood up for herself or saw her own worth. She always resented the person she was. She was always pushed around. Be that as
In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston portrays Janie’s story as she tries to find happiness. Through many obstacles and three abusive marriages, Janie Woods eventually becomes content with the things she has done and the life she has lived. Like Janie, as people age they become more wise through experiences. Then, younger people like myself look to these people when in need of motivation or advice. This group of people includes famous poets like Bertrand Russell, Walter B Pinkin, Eugene O’Neill, and Tom Lehrer. Hurston conveys quotes from each of these people when telling Janie’s life story.
The difficulties Hurston experienced during her travels throughout the South and the Caribbean—being a lone, black, woman on the road in the Jim Crow South, meeting the reluctance of some people to share stories, information, and customs while collecting folklore—are reasons that assimilation into these communities proved difficult. This placed her in the “twilight” of all the societies she chronicled, and this also positions her, significantly, as the prototypical migrant stranger. Because of her failure to adhere to northward moving patterns of migration, Hurston descended into relative obscurity before being rediscovered by Alice Walker in the late 1970s.
After reading and unpacking the novel, Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, I do not believe that Richard Wright is correct in his assessments. Considering the historical time period and context of his assessment, one can notice somewhat of an envious tone from Mr. Wright. He proclaims that "Her dialogue manages to catch the psychological movements of the Negro folk-mind in their pure simplicity, but that’s as far as it goes". He then goes on to further confirm his envy by accusing Ms. Hurston of deliberately trying to make the "white folks" laugh by belittling the intellectual integrity of the characters within her novel. Furthermore, he states that "The sensory sweep of her novel carries no theme, no message, no thought".
Within the story of Their Eyes Were Watching God, the young protagonist, Janie, is faced with hardships life and how to deal with them. Through her three marriages the reader can see a change in Janie as a person and how it affects her. When one sits down and analyzes how Hurston wrote each of Janie’s three husbands one can see how they vary from class, to goals and even their treatment of Janie. With each husband came a life changing event that would
Janie from Their Eyes Were Watching God shows us that identity is not a prize to win or a goal to accomplish, but a journey to take. She progresses from being seen as a black wife ruled by someone else, to an independent person unhindered by gender or race. Although a more obvious objective of hers is to find true love in someone else, in doing so she is seeking herself as an individual. A specific point in time marks the beginning of
Thus, their inability to relate to her does not come from hatred but form their upbringing or skepticism. Janie’s story (profoundly economic in emphasis, as Houston Baker has argued) focuses on three representative husbands (Newman, Oct., 2003). Although the focal point of Their Eyes Were Watching God correlates with Janie’s relationship with her three husbands and other people. It is the main and primary idea of Janie’s search for divine clarification and a strong sense of her own identity. Janie is alone as seen in the beginning and the ending of the story.
Bhutan is a small country located in the Himalayas. It does have a richly scenic land though. There are broad, grassy valleys; forested mountain ranges, and heavily wooded jungle areas. There are three geographic regions in which the country is divided. Northern Bhutan lies in the Great Himalayas where the mountains reach as high as 24,000 ft. and the weather is cold. Central Bhutan is in the middle of the Himalayan region where there are several fertile valleys. The Duars plain, along the southern border of Bhutan is a hot, humid, and rainy area. This jungle region is filled with malaria infested swamps. (Karan, 224)