The Price of Freedom ..the true story of a Vietnamese military officer's escape from Vietnam, and its aftermath (original) (raw)
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RAP Journal, 2023
When honoring soldiers, it is common to acknowledge their sacrifice for the freedom of their citizens. Some people argue that war is unnecessary all together, and that it does not truly grant freedom for the individual. I do not only think that it is necessary to fight for freedom through armed forces, but it is also clear to me that is still not enough for freedom. In this article, I argue that the common American does not have freedom, unless one overcomes further sociopolitical barriers involving finances, time, health, and protection. All of which can be attributed to wealth, really. There are many factors working against a person to elaborate their thoughts or influence. It is furthermore dangerous to be free since others may be affected by your words. Others with more influence and power that do not want to be influenced by you.
ABC Journal, 2021
Reading the book written by Subarno Chattarji-Professor in the Department of English at the University of Delhiand published in 2019 by Bloomsbury India is an opportunity to know the main trends and themes of Vietnamese American memoirs and fiction. It is also an invitation to reflect on the interweaving of literature and politics, offering an alternative perspective on the Vietnam War and its aftermath. Throughout the five chapters of the book, Chattarji focuses on about twelve Vietnamese American works that raise relevant issues to understand the historical impasse connected to identity and memory in that community. Roberto Schwarz, a Marxist/Adornian Brazilian critic, argues that analyzing literature involves "forms […] working on forms. Or betterthe forms discovered in literary works are seen to be the repetition or the transformation, with variable results, of preexisting forms, whether artistic or extra-artistic" (25). That statement summarizes well what Chattarji notices in the Vietnamese American literary production, particularly with regard to the construction of different identities. They are constrained by the sociohistorical context that also enables their creation through literature, which assumes a political role. The first chapter of Chattarji's book draws up a framework of key concepts. They include the good refugee, 1 representative legitimacy, invisibility, literature of exile, memory and nostalgia. Based on them, Chattarji outlines the contradictions in representations of the Vietnamese American according to different perspectives within the community and outside it (including the Americans and the communist and noncommunist nationalist Vietnamese).
Freedom Comes By Struggle, Series no. 4
Freedom Comes By Struggle
As a former seminarian, I would use the unconscionable murder in bandit captivity, of my namesake (Michael) and tribesman, 18-year-old seminarian Michael Ikechukwu Nnadi, as preamble and parameter for my thoughts on the plight of Nigeria’s young people; and to represent the jagged route, the uneven trajectory of persistent and convoluted misfortunes that have been the fate of Nigeria, almost since its very beginning as a made-in-Britain political entity; as it were, which is motivative of repudiating the impostor-nation that Nigeria has become and of reconstituting a true nation.
Mandela could not express in a man made pen. He is just simple a world icon, champion of peace and reconciliation. Here is his bestselling book that reveals history from past to present.
2013
In 1575, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, future author of Don Quixote, was captured by Barbary pirates on the way home from his participation in the historic battle against the Turks at Lepanto. 2 He was to spend five years in the notorious baños, or prisons of Algiers, awaiting his redemption. The sufferings he endured marked him deeply, but were unable to quench his thirst for freedom: over those five years of captivity he made four escape attempts, despite the miserable odds against his success and the punishment he knew he faced upon recapture. At a deeper level, however, he maintained an inner, creative freedom that allowed him, it is said, to develop that rich vision of Spain and of the human person that was to characterize his works upon his return to his homeland, above all the Quixote. Similar tales abound, both historical and fictional, about other men and women who have suffered similar experiences in prison. For them, a single powerful lesson stands out: prison bonds may shackle the limbs, but the spirit always retains a spark that can be kindled into a deep, unshakable inner freedom. As Invictus, the poem that sustained Nelson Mandela during his long years on Robben Island, proclaims in Stentorian voice: "It matters not how strait the gate, / How charged with punishments the scroll. / I am the master of my fate: / I am the captain of my soul."
Freedom in " The French Lieutenant's Woman "
John Fowles (1926-2005), an outstanding English writer of 1960s, published "The French Lieutenant's Woman" in 1969. "Freedom" is the motif of John Fowles's fiction writing, one of his strategies, the important information that he wishes to disseminate to the readers who are expected to absorb, understand profoundly and comprehensively. As a postmodernist experimental writer, John Fowles's works infuse a new current for both English and American literature. This paper tries to combine the postmodernist and existential critic method with the element of freedom in Fowles's novel and writing process, although many researches and studies have been carried out by critics and scholars both home and abroad, the combination of postmodernism, existentialism and freedom element is a new perspective. Reading this paper, the readers are expected to gain a comprehensive knowledge of freedom, make their choice freely in their daily life as well as deepen their understanding of "The French Lieutenant's Woman".
Individual freedom has been a recurring theme in western literature and society. The essay argues that the word freedom connotes individual freedom in western culture and literature because of the experience of slavery. Since Asia lacked this experience, freedom in the sense of individual freedom has no meaning here. The word freedom connotes collective freedom in keeping with Asian colonial experience. Present day implications for the cultural and political transmissions taking place are profound.
London Review of International Law, 2019
The Amistad case deals with the 1839 slave-ship rebellion seeking to reverse the middle passage. The rebels reimagine freedom in counterpoint to liberal freedom and legal authority – a domain that intertwined emancipation and enslavement, the age of liberty and the Black Atlantic, the distance between continents and tides binding them together, redemption of American humanism and attacks on Black humanity.