The recent Ebola epidemic is an example of how historical systems still impact the modern world on a global scale. These structures have affected parts of the globe in different ways and are apparent in the responses to Ebola. Colonialism and slavery are just some of the systems that had long-term c...
During the years of slavery, education was an extremely controversial issue among these individuals. The entire nation's economy depended heavily upon the free labor of slaves, which made so many oppose the idea of abolition. The main fear in the education of slaves was that they would revolt; and t...
Samuel Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem in which an "ancient mariner" accosts one of three men on their way to a wedding, and recounts a tale of his voyage to him. In the tale, the mariner kills an albatross and, by this crime, is subject to a slew of punishments which come in t...
