Alexander McCall Smith, the author of the award winning novel The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency spoke in a recent interview in The Sydney Morning Herald (December 2006) about his famously optimistic views of Africa and its people. The works of many African authors express rather grim and bleak views in comparison to McCall Smith’s view. In a “Foreign Correspondent” interview McCall Smith says Botswana is a very beautiful country and that Africa transformed him into a best selling novelist and made
In the novel, The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, it is evident that all the characters act in an evil manner due to poverty. The novel is set in Botswana, Africa. In one of the cases that Mma Ramotswe has to solve, a man arrives on the doorstep of Happy Bapetsi, claiming to be her “daddy”. As the man is too poor to sustain himself, he seeks the care, shelter and food from Happy. Meanwhile, Mr Moretsi, who works for Hector Lepodise, claims that he cut his finger at work in order to get compensation
This famous quote by James Baldwin begins and ends with the everlasting, controversial and much heated topic of racism, stating every structure that is intricate in the process of withholding and promoting the system of racism. Racism is a system that functions inherently in people’s activities economically, educationally, in form of labor, law, politics, religion, sex and gender and other existing systems within our society. An inescapable system that draws distinction on the basis of color and
Behind the Lines: Spies in the Civil War The Civil War was the bloodiest, most devestating war that has ever been fought on American soil. It began on April 12, 1861, at 4:30 in the morning. The main reason that the war was fought was because Southern states believed that they should have the right to use African-Americans as slaves, and the Northern States opposed that belief. Millions of American men and women fought against each other in this war, and more than half a million died. Yes, that
Guide which included tips for supporting the war effort. Women's magazines were the favored venue for propaganda aimed at housewives, particularly the Ladies' Home Journal. Magazine editors were asked to depict women as coping heroically with the sacrifices of wartime. Fiction was a particularly favored venue, and was used to subtly shape attitudes. Ladies' Home Journal and other magazine also promoted the activities of women in the armed
Throughout the episode, climactic plot twists and shocking “aha” moments keep our viewer enthralled. The CSI team detects miniscule evidence to miraculously convict the monster, and the court case ends with a decisive guilty charge. Commercial break. The lady sorts through the mail, bills, ads, jury duty, charity case. Who cares? CSI is back on. Zero in on the inconspicuous jury duty notice, enhance it with the specialized forensic camera. The viewer nonchalantly discards her
The Ghost of Superman Kids had stars in their eyes when they talked about their hero Superman. A DC comic superhero who was incredibly strong and to top it all off he was as fast as the wind and he could fly. However this was just what they could get from the pages of a comic book. Then in 1952 came the TV series “The Adventures of Superman” putting their hero on the screen. The actor playing Superman was rightly chosen since he looked strong and muscular and was a handsome figure. Now the kids
Constructing Fantasy in Hitchcock's Vertigo The amount of critical analysis surrounding Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo is itself dizzying, but as the film has recently been restored, it seems appropriate to provide it with a fresh critical reading. The purpose of this paper then, is to draw this film out of the past with a reading that offers not only a new way of understanding it, but a close look at the culture that produced it. Specifically, Vertigo offers its most exciting ideas when contextualized
and law enforcement activities ever since its "invention" in 1955 (Jones 1991:75-76; McDonald 1988a:294-302). However, since the formation of the PMRC in 1985, a new, more organized and systematic attack to control popular music has been launched. 1. The Invasion of the "Washington Wives" The Parents Music Resource Center was founded in 1985 as the result of the unusually combined efforts of a few concerned parents (Coletti 1987:421-426; Gray 1989a:151-153, 1989b:6-8; Kaufman 1986:228-231; McDonald
This brief history of more than 100 years of the modern trade union movement in the United States can only touch the high spots of activity and identify the principal trends of a "century of achievement." In such a condensation of history, episodes of importance and of great human drama must necessarily be discussed far too briefly, or in some cases relegated to a mere mention. What is clearly evident, however, is that the working people of America have had to unite in struggle to achieve the