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W.E.B Du Bois Theory of Self - A Critique of Contemporary Globalization Process

“The consciousness of men can neither be independently understood nor entirely abstracted from the specific social contexts and experiences within which they were developed. Consciousness therefore includes fundamental elements of criticality, which are indomitable and are also not mechanically determinable"(Jeremiah O. Arowosegbe, 2008). ABSTRACT No one puts a new wine into old bottles; else the bottles break, and the wine runs out, and the bottles perish neither can two sailor sail a ship to the right destination, one has to be a captain while the other has to be the subordinate. Our culture is eroding away gradually and if nothing is done to rescue the “sinking culture on the sea”, the havoc will be more devastating. Our grandfather and great grandfather have been enslaved, lose our heritage on the hand of the white. They have been Americanized, exploited and brainwashed making them to forgot their heritage and homeland (Africa). It is no...

Charles Spencer-The Comic Actor

Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best-known for his work during the silent film era.[2] He became one of the most famous film stars in the world before the end of the First World War. Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency from the end of the 1920s. His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice in 1914.[3] From the April 1914 one-reeler Twenty Minutes of Love onwards he was writing and directing most of his films, by 1916 he was also producing them, and from 1918 he was even composing the music for them. With Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith, he co-founded United Artists in 1919.[4] Chaplin was one of the most creative and influential personalities of the silent-film era. He was i...