I feel the movie, "The Patriot", gives an accurate description of the way of life during the American Revolution. It accurately depicts the feeling of patriotism and loyalty to a country. In a film who's main focus is war between countries, a deeper war exists, the protection of a family vs. the p...
They went without resistance; they offered cooperation as proof of loyalty to America. ... She states that her elders gave up their freedom without even saying a word just to prove their loyalty to America. ... One reason she is mad her mother is because at least her mother knows what her true self is but Noda is still trying to find it. ...
The acceptance of the rights of the entire human race supports his ideas of having a true democracy. ... Nussbaum thinks that an extreme loyalty to a nationality makes individuals work for, and value their own rights and interests, and disregard and disvalue those of individuals from different identities. ... This to her is the meaning of true citizenship. ... He believes that identity is the key factor for achieving a true citizenship. ... Black Americans were not true citizens because they were unaware of their true identity. ...
Ignatiev gave other examples where the Catholic Church was influential in convincing the immigrants that loyalty to America came before loyalty to Ireland. ... Many characters which were presented in the book had some sort of confusion as to where their true loyalty lay. ...
While the Victorian concept of "true womanhood" defined white women as possessing unquestionable moral character, African American women were defined as immoral and sinful. ... They have been caregivers and breadwinners, showing incredible strength and resilience, unflinching loyalty, boundless love and affection. ...
In struggling against the brutal dynamics of a system that simultaneously set before her ideals of "true womanhood," yet refused to acknowledge her as a human being, Jacobs rises scarred but victorious. ... This theory postulated that the person who embodied its principles would experience a divided loyalty to each culture, as well as difficulties with identification. ... This is very true of Douglass. ...
Heart of Darkness opens on a boat called "Nellie." Marlow and his shipmates, including the narrator whose descriptions of the scene fill the few breaks in Marlow's stories, loll on the deck waiting for the tides of the Thames River to change. To entertain his compatriots, Marlow begins to talk about his philosophies on colonization, his personal history, and his voyage up the Congo River into the heart of Africa. Like many storytellers, Marlow speaks in a stream of consciousness, skipping forward and backward in time without warning. The reader is left to infer from symboli...
