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Margaret Walker's Jubilee, the precursor of a wave of neo-enslaved tales and African-American historical fictions, is the subject of this essay, which aims to provide light on its evolution. Revisionist movements in African-American history were spurred by the advent of Walker's book in the 1930s, despite most reviewers' implicit linkage to this period. It is a significant stage in African American historical mitigate in Jubilee by Margaret Walker. The tales of the slaves, which Walker reshapes to produce a new style of representation that would only become prevalent in the sixties, are based on feature traditions. New historical studies and novels on slavery written after 1965, like Walker's work, focus on the agency of the slaves; describe their community- and culture-building activities; display modes of resistance; and question the myths and stereotypes that have been spread in Anglo American depictions of the enslaved. Walker's view of history has influenced a generation of African-American authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we discuss ways and usefulness of using authentic advertisement materials inside the classroom. Media and technology play a major role in our life. Students are usually aware of the value of using these in a proper way. But using media and technologies for their educational practice in a graded manner requires some discretion and skill. Advertisements (Ads) can relate to more than one branch of knowledge. Advertisement can provide plenty of ideas/concepts to write about and suggest many interrelated words. Thus, ads are a good source to develop all language skills, in particular writing skills. This paper will present some ways as to how we can incorporate advertisements in a proper way inside the ESL classroom. Through appropriate activities, both group as well as individual activities, given to students they were able to develop their language skills and also develop communication among themselves using English. These activities led to positive inclination to learn English more effectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]