Jay Hitherton's Blog

Honourable guests and residents of the Committee, Over the past few years there has been a significant increase in the loss of our Igbo culture and practices that was once important to all of our lives. Once a society who lived in harsh conditions of the West African environment have changed to a more "Eurocentric" society with European beliefs and a European mindset with no recollection of the Igbo culture.Not long ago people would live peacefully. People would practice their religion peaceful. People would mingle with each other peacefully. That was what our lives were like until Christian Missionaries infiltrate our land. The Church Missionary Society were the first to enter Igboland at the beginning of the Conquest of Africa . Our people thought that such actions would not be harmful to us. We did not know that they would exploit our manpower and resources. The annexation of Igboland to the British Empire truly changed the future of the rich Igbo culture in a way that i...

The most meaningful takeaway from the interview was mostly about Achebe's purpose in writing "Things Fall Apart". He had mentioned somewhere on the interview about the great disadvantages of believing in single story. This means that a person inly believes that one idea about something in the world is the truest from constant exposure of the idea. Another thing that I found interesting in the interview was when he said the reasons of how he tried to integrate his local beliefs into the story to integrate his beliefs with the dangers of a single story belief. From the quote " What the universal civilization I dream about would be, I really don't know, but I know what it is not. It is not what is being presented today, which is clearly just European and American." we can see that Achebe is trying to imply that Europe and America has the strongest influence in people around the world. Due to this their vision of the world might be distorted and also have a pos...

The text that has been provided is a Winston Churchill speech that was presented during the World War 2. This text can be identified as a political speech as this speech’s aim is to persuade its target audience into agreeing with the political figure’s opinions and ideas through the use of rhetorical devices, slogans and other persuasive devices that can convince people into agreeing into Churchill’s ideas of a specific event happening at that time (Germany’s advancements during the Second World War). He has also used a variety of literary devices that is suitable for his aim and his target audience. In this text Winston Churchill delivers a speech to the House of Commons about the British’s efforts and participation in the Second World War which has not been promising. This speech also talks about Churchill’s hopes of the so-called “New World” (The USA) of joining the war to aid Britain as well as the Allies. For this I will analyse the use of various literary and persuasive device t...