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the Edo State of Nigeria who played an important role in Oba Esigie’s rise to power. Esigie had brass sculptures of her head made in order to recognize her military influence and achievements, and placed these heads in her alter after her death. In 1897, during the period in which Africa was under colonial rule by the British, British men “ransacked the Benin Empire” and forcefully took the heads away to display them as a representation of their imperial grandeur. The brass head of Queen Idia,…

created a series of books on a set of characters like the Famous Five and the Secret Seven. Her novels always cantered on children as the main characters who solved many crimes and mysteries, much before the Police could do. Enid Blyton was born in 1897 and died in 1968 of Alzheimer’s disease. Enid Blyton and Writing of “Children of Green Meadows” Enid Blyton also loved animals and this love found itself translated into a number of books. One of the more famous books is Children at Green…

Vampires are mythical creatures that have been around for many years. Dracula is a book written about vampires by an Englishman, Bram Stoker during the year 1897. One hundred and eight years later, a similar book, featuring the archetypal character vampires was introduced. The title of the book is Twilight, written by Stephanie Myer and three years later it became a movie. These were published/produced in two very different eras being Victorian and Comtempory periods. The perspectives on the…

The Irish author Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker wrote in 1897 the horror novel ‘Dracula’. From all accounts, that Stoker based his horror novel on Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, who was a malicious count resident in Transylvania, the now-existing Romania. Dracula is an epistolary novel that falls under the category ‘Gothic fiction’, which combines horror, death, love and lust. The word ‘Gothic’ refers to the pseudo-medieval buildings (Gothic architecture), in which many of the narratives are set. By…

For Native Hawaiians, the last two centuries have been a struggle against extinction. Not long after Captain Cook sailed up in 1778, disease, poverty and political and economic exploitation began pushing their culture toward the vanishing point. One harsh milestone came in 1893, when American and European businessmen backed by United States marines overthrew the Hawaiian kingdom. Annexation by the United States quickly followed. “Hawaii has since thrived as a multiracial society, and its native…

families (Stolen Generations). Crucial to the understanding of the colonisers’ actions are the ideologies that underpinned their policies known as scientific racism. In Queensland the Aboriginals Protection and Prohibition of the Sale of Opium Act 1897 (Qld) was the main form in which the protectionist policy of segregation was implemented. It was used as a device for social engineering and control, essentially becoming the instrument with which Indigenous peoples could be stripped of their…

subject mindset, while also affording the student the chance to begin to learn a useable trade. Dewey believed that, “progress is not in the succession of studies but in the development of new attitudes towards, and new interests in, experience” (Dewey, 1897, para. 38). Innovation is brought about by interest and experience; in order for our youth to prosper in these aspects they must first develop those new…

such as a fishing patrol, pirating oysters, and sailing the Pacific Ocean on a sealing ship. [Stasz] London also ran for mayor of Oakland, unsuccessfully, several times. He made the career decision to begin writing in lieu of working in a factory. In 1897, Jack went to spend time in the Klondike. It was there that London would publish…

Looking at the two documents, there were several differences between the two documents. The first difference is rule number two, which states that friends of patient living close to the hospital were obligated to bring in change of clothes for patient. The second difference was noted in rule number three, where patients were to leave their valuables to the woman superintendent, before heading to their admitting floor within the hospital. The third difference was the limiting the amount of…

Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858 in Manhattan, New York and he died on January 6, 1919 in Cove Neck, New York. He was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, governor, and naturalist. He also served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. After graduating Harvard College in 1880, Roosevelt married Alice Hathaway Lee and entered Columbia University Law School, but he dropped out after only one year to enter a career into public service. He was the…