said‚ “ I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education‚ but my major was wrestling.” Dan Gable did get married in life‚ but I believe his first love in life will always be wrestling. He didn’t just compete because he felt people wanted him to or because he felt obligated. He competed because he loved the sport of wrestling. After Dan Gable won the olympics he didn’t just settle for a high pay coaching job and let his athletes slack off. He recruited the most hardworking
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deterioration of the African clans‚ lineages‚ cultures‚ beliefs and ways of life. The particular religious practices of the Ibo people of Umuofia are focused on respecting and praying to their ancestors for life‚ health‚ protection and sacrificing to different gods for fear of over worrying the Master‚ “Our fathers knew that Chukwu was the Overlord” (181 Achebe). The Ibo people followed what they had been orally taught and passed down from their ancestors to lead a balanced way of life. This led to an
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Good governance comes from having a strong leader‚ like Kubilai Khan‚ and good governance is essential to keeping the people of a city content and cared for‚ which enables them to take advantage of the resources their land provides them with so they can trade. A city would not become wealthy without hardworking people living there and these people most likely would not be motivated to work to improve their city if they do not believe in their leader. Good governance and a good city
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Okonkwo witnesses his culture fall apart‚ an example being the massacring of the Abame tribe. Achebe ’s use of a proverb highlights the diversity of cultures and the logical inevitability of changing values‚ "The world has no end…What is good among one people is an abomination with others".
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which the people believe there are many gods. The people of the tribe feared their gods and believed they could be punished by them. The Umuofians often thought of their god as being violent. In the Ibo religion‚ the followers use icons to worship in place of their gods because they believe that the icons they use are messengers sent from the gods and that they are kind of like the head of the church on earth. This polytheistic religion and Christianity are very different and when people tried to
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The invasion of this new way of life brought about changes‚ both positive and negative‚ to the Ibo culture. After the Europeans learned more about the culture of how the Africans worked‚ they built up a school and hospital in hopes to educate the people and create potential leaders. Here‚ both young and old were taught to read and write‚ and the results were quickly evident. Court messengers‚ clerks and even teachers arose from the educated. The schools expanded in other regions also bringing
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Power Structure and Corruption in Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart “Nkali. It’s a noun that loosely translates to ‘to be greater than another’” (Adichie). Chimamanda Adichie Power plays a large role in everyday lives. Power drives people to have more influence in things. Power is what sets up a civilization and it is what is needed to maintain the stability of the civilization‚ so it does not become vulnerable. In Chinua Achebe’s historical fiction novel‚ Things Fall Apart‚ the defined power structure
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Free From His Blemishes A Nigerian tribal hero is a man who has achieved a well-known victory and who is highly respected among his people. The book‚ Things Fall Apart‚ written by Chinua Achebe tries to be sensitive with the traditions and culture of an Ibo village‚ Umuofia. Okonkwo‚ a man who has captured fame with the act of wrestling‚ received the title of a hero. Okonkwo fears his lifestyle would become the idle and improvident custom like his father‚ Unoka. “Okonkwo had clearly washed his hands
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Nigeria‚ to a village known as Umofia where the Ibo people live. The Ibo people form a very archaic and agriculture based society. Achebe introduces us to this new world that was seen by the Europeans as an unsociable and savage place and shows that the African culture was destroyed by the arrival of the Europeans in that land. But not only that‚ he brings up different points of social analysis like religion‚ the taboo “white people vs. black people” during the colonial period and the role of women
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bold courage. He achieves fame by throwing Amalinze the Cat and bringing back five human heads from wars. Throughout the story‚ Okonkwo is "afraid of being thought weak" and he strives to eliminate any feminine characteristics within him and the people around him (Achebe 61). Unoka‚ Okonkwo’s serene and happy father who does not demonstrate any masculine characteristics‚ is not respected in the society and is absolutely despised by Okonkwo. Okonkwo‚ the embodiment of masculinity in the Ibo society
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