Category: Biography

Introduction: The Unparalleled Journey of Lionel Messi ‘I am not crazy enough to compare myself with Messi because he is the best there ever was and the best there will ever be'(Gomez). There are many professional soccer players in the world who have overcome adversity such as poverty but persevered and made it to the…

The issue of slavery in the 1800s had the means of being very brutal and carried dehumanizing factors that affected the lives of many men, women, and children who were colored. The autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, highly demonstrated the cruelty slaveowners exhibited towards their slaves, whom they saw as merely…

The romantic period in history and literature was a time that we now see was uneasy and full of turmoil and distress all over England. We started to see a rise in a revolution that completely split different class levels right down the middle, as many working class people started to notice that they were…

Abstract: The women writers in the 19th century represented themselves in the form of writings and presented their ideas through the medium of autobiography, a genre in the literary world. Genre, according to Collins dictionary is a particular type of literature, painting, music, film or other art form which people consider as a class because…

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass was a heartfelt book of his enduring life. This book gave me a great appreciation for all Frederick has endured, all he overcame and lived through and for what he became. What an inspirational story that helps us all appreciate the life he lived and the impact…

Introduction to Frederick Douglass’s Narrative ‘For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage.’ (Douglass, 93). Frederick Douglass is known as one of the most prominent abolitionist speakers and activists in history; furthermore, creating one of the most sought after novels, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, regarding his life as a…

Douglass experience with his few owners varied in different aspects, but everywhere he went there was always injustice. The way Douglass explains the behavior of his masters is with stories including specific details of the physical actions taken by his masters to him and to others. He goes into depth and paints a picture of…

One might not remember a time when women did not have a say in the world. Women today have the right to vote, join the army, and get any job they want, all because of Mary Wollstonecraft and other worldly known feminists. Throughout her life, Mary Wollstonecraft advocated for womens rights during a time when…

Frederick Douglass was a prominent abolitionist, a powerful force for the movement through his speaking and writing. His short story, The Heroic Slave, in conjunction with his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, help spread his ideals widely throughout the United States. In The Heroic Slave, Douglass writes about a white man who…

What justification do the planters and slaveholders use to justify slavery? In the book, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, the author focuses on the life that she lived during her enslavement days. But as noticed, she was not the only enslaved African American, so she discussed the stories of her and some…