1. Skeletons on the Zahara is a nonfiction book written by Dean King. It is based on Captain Riley’s memoir. The book talks about the true survival of Captain James Riley and his crew on their journey to Africa. After the war of 1812 and 1815 in America, Captain James Riley and his crew of twelve left and sailed down the Connecticut river, Riley’s family did no longer have a home, so this voyage would help them restore their fortune. After they sailed out of the Connecticut river, they went down to new Orleans and picked up a cargo of flower and Tobacco, then sailed across the Atlantic down to Gibraltar were they traded the flower and tobacco for wine and Spanish coins, they then sailed down the coast of Africa and were going to go to the Cape …show more content…
They were then attacked by stage men, they killed one man and got most of their goods, this was very sad for them as this was the only supply they needed to survive on. They then took the longboat and decided that they would rather die at sea then die with those men. They were on the longboat for nine days and survived on figues and wine. They were suffering as the tropical sun burned their skin and the salt water was deterring their skin. They decided to go back to the coast. As they climbed the rocky mountain, they came upon other nomades, the nomades were fighting against each other to decided who was going to possess these sailors. The sailors were stripped of their clothes as they were very valuable. Riley eventually went to SituHamet (a nomade) and tried to convince him to buy all of his men and to transport them 800 miles across the Zahara to Essaouira to sell them. As they go, Riley and SituHamet develop a friendship and a mutual respect, Riley then realised that SituHamet can navigate by seing the stars and smelling the sand, and that he can find water; and SituHamet realises that Riley can motivate all of the crew even though they are dehydrated and
Selection of Book: There were numerous purposes and objectives as to why I chose to read this particular anthropology manuscript of all the various other options available. For one, I selected this book initially due to the title of the book. “Dancing Skeleton” was the portion of the title that primarily stuck out to me, and made me imagine African children – who we see on commercials all the time in third world countries, which tend to look malnourished all throughout their adolescents – dancing around with skin-wrapped skeletal bones. Personally, for me, seeing children suffering from malnourishment and starvation must be one of the most unbearably agonizing pains a child can go through, not to mention the suffering of a mother having to watching her child gradually starve to death. I was additionally very much interested in understanding precisely what other individuals in different parts of the world and specifically Mali, are lacking that is affecting their health and well-being so noticeably. Furthermore, I was especially interested is reading informal stories and accounts through the eyes of the author about conducting specified field research on infant feeding and the importance of children
“This is my lab and what we do is study bones,” states Kari Bruwelheide in her video entitled “30,000 Skeletons”. Of the three resources that we were provided, “Puzzles of the Chesapeake” by Sally Walker, “Forensic Anthropology” by an unknown author, and “30,000 Skeletons” by Smithsonian Education presented by Kari Bruwelheide, the resource “30,000 Skeletons” is by far the best at explaining the role of an anthropologist. It is unbeatable because it is a video rather than just written words, and Kari Bruwelheide has personal experience in being a forensic anthropologist. A forensic anthropologist is a scientist that studies human remains, or in another word, skeletons, to try to find out information about the past.
They talk to their dad and he tells them that he worked with a man called Lice Pecking. He says the he also worked on the boat and he could testify on the fact that Dusty really did dump his waste into the ocean. It turns out he is kidnapped and is unable to testify. They meet his wife Shelly. She tells them that she will help them stop Dusty’s Casino scam. She tells him that she wants to work as a bartender in Dusty’s Boat. She tells them that one night she stays late and sees Dusty dumping the waste from the ship. A few days later he goes to a small pond and sees a park ranger putting up signs that say the water in the pond is contaminated from human waste. Since there are many boats docked in the harbors its impossible to see what boat the waste is actually coming from. They then get the idea to color the waste with a very bright dye and allow after us seeps out the trail of brightly colored water will be tracked back to dusty’s boat. They then go into a food store and purchase 35 bottles of Fuchsia dye. They then tell Shelly their plan. They tell her that Noah will hide in a box full of rum and wait till it is picked up and placed on the ship he then will go into a restroom and Shelly will tack on an out of order sign.
Equiano, Olaudah. The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African: an authoritative text. New York: Norton, 2001. Print.
Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold 's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Print.
Hines, Ellen, and Hines, William, and Stanley, Harrold. The African American Odyssey. Fifth Edition. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2008. Print.
A mighty storm sent by Zeus pushes them along for nine days until they land at the land of the lotus eaters. While searching for vittles and resupplying. Natives offer Odysseus’s men the fruit of the lotus. Being gracious guest they eat the fruit losing all ambitions of returning home, all they desire is eating more of the intoxicating fruit. The only reason they make it off the island is Odysseus actions of dragging them back to the ship, and locking them up.
Up until recently, no scholar has questioned the reliability of Olaudah Equiano and the accounts of his horrific journey from Africa to the America’s. When baptismal records and naval records were found that indicate Equiano was in fact born in South Carolina around 1747 various scholars
Wheatley, Phillis. "On Being Brought From Africa to America.” Baym, The Norton Anthology of American Literature 751-53.
A native of the Ibo tribe of Nigeria, Africa, and author of “An African Narrative by Olaudah Equiano (1791)”, Olaudah Equiano endured a cruel and inhumane life of slavery. Kidnapped and carried aboard a ship by both Africans and European traders, Equiano became a victim of slavery at the ripe age of eleven. Although Equiano was familiar with slavery, due to his father owning slaves, it became very apparent to him that the “Euro-American concept of slavery was quite different from the African one” (1791). Reduced to a lifestyle so harsh, he often saw death as an attractive alternative, with many of his fellow companions who existed in the same or sometimes worse lifestyle, in fact, choosing death to escape the ruthless, barbarous, and torturous treatment that was the life of a slave. Despite facing slavery on several fronts, Africa, West Indies and Europe, and though the treatment he received and the people he encountered differed, Equiano managed to survive. Though he
In his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Equiano describes his early life in Africa and the shattering effects of the slave trade. From growing up and learning to be a man under the watchful and loving eye of his mother, to being torn from his family and home and being forced to travel throughout Africa before ultimately finding himself aboard a slave ship headed for America, He gives readers a unique view of life as an African during the 1700s. Many themes are explored in Equiano’s tale, but one cannot ignore the most prominent theme of the evil of slavery and the destruction that ensues.
fire, on a nearby island they quickly sailed to shore to help put out the
The use of rock-cut tombs and burial caves was inherited by the Israelites from the Canaanites. However, while the Canaanite Bronze Age caves were mostly crude and undefined, one can see the deliberate shaping of rock-hewn tombs in Israel and Judah. The most common type included a square room entered through a small square opening which could be closed by a large stone. Rock-cut benches on three sides of the chamber provided space for three bodies. More elaborate examples had an additional rear chamber. Both cave and bench tomb burials remained consistent in plan, body treatments, and categories of mortuary provisions throughout the Iron Age. The only variations were in relative wealth, and beginning in the 9th century BCE, a few lavish individual tombs were cut in Jerusalem and Gibeon, and twelve of these were probably for important political and/or religious functionaries (Bloch-Smith 1992). From Judah, the total number of reported tombs are 24 cave and 81 bench tombs from the 10th through the late 8th century BCE, and 17 cave and 185 bench tombs from the late 8th through the early 6th century BCE (Bloch-Smith 1992).
Before the boat can reach Kurtz's outpost, it is "attacked" by the local natives. M...