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Aqsa Malik Engl 11000 Constantine Jones EXPLORING INWOOD HILL PARK Travel is an adventure of a lifetime. There are so many wonderful places that everyone should visit. Every place has unique history and characteristics that make people feel curiosity about that site. As Eleanor Roosevelt said, “… particular characteristics that make people feel curiosity about that site.” The place that is most significant for me and where I love to go is Inwood Hill Park. The place is far from the bustling…

It has come to my attention that the recent obesity epidemic will soon be addressed during next week’s combined town meeting. Students from Algonquin have demanded policy change regarding the requirements for our school lunches. The food currently being offered to adolescents in the cafeteria, school store, café area, and are filled with sugars and carbohydrates, that likely promote an unhealthy diet and continued obesity. Upon watching the documentary FED UP in Health, a coalition of students…

According to Roach (2002: xxv–xxvi), “[t]he Salem witchcraft trials erupted during an eight-year war [King William 's War] while Massachusetts steered an unauthorized government with a nearly empty treasury through the hazards of French imperialism, Algonquin resentment, and English suspicion.” The new charter government in Massachusetts in 1692 heightened the colonists’ negative attitude toward civil authority (Breen & Foster, 1973) (King and Mixon)…

aboriginal people? The monument holds aboriginal language plaques; these plaques depict the words equality, dignity and rights (Figure B). Among these language plaques is a large plaque stating that the monument stands on the traditional territory of the Algonquin Anishnabe People. However when creating this monument with the key points being the Human Rights declaration did they take a moment to consider the history between Aboriginal peoples and white people. If colonialism was taken into…

Before they could establish themselves as an independent American nation, the English colonies had to endure hardship in their attempt to settle in the New World. The first arrivals in the early 1600s did not have all the required tools to survive in a different environment, but had a string willingness to learn. The opportunities offered in the different regions allowed each colony to develop in its own unique way. In the span of a little more than a hundred years, the colonies gained the…

chickenpox, influenza, malaria, and yellow fever.” Smallpox was one of the many diseases that killed a large number of Native Americans. According to the author, “the first recorded pandemic of [smallpox] in British North America detonated among the Algonquin of Massachusetts in the early 1630s.” With the deaths of Native Americans, the Europeans are able to control the resources in the area. As more Europeans settle in America, new populations of Native Americans are given diseases that set off…

Black Robe gave its audience a depiction of early colonial times when missionary work was a prominent goal in colonization. Upon first contact, the Native Americans were an essential resource for survival. As the years came the Native Americans became major trading partners with colonists, at least until their resources ran out. Over the duration of these relations each tribe reached a point of dependency on European goods. Black Robe provided us with an understanding of how misunderstands…

countries at play, other countries became involved through alliances, causing the war to become a possibility for the first global war. Nevertheless, the war’s main focus was in North America. Native American tribes were also involved such as the Algonquins, who sided with the French in battle; the Iroquois alongside the American colonists fought for the British. As for the front in America, scholars and writers have differing opinions as to whether the Seven Years’ War transformed the colonial…

given to a worthy man in 1800s and 1900s. The bags were closely identified with the aboriginals of North America in the Great Lakes are and notably the Anishinaabe or Anishinaabeg, in plural which is an autonym, is used by the Odawa, Ojibwa and the Algonquin First Nations in Ontario, Canada and extended down to the natives in Kansas too. These communities speak similar Anishinaabe languages that are part of the Algonquian language family. They all articulate closely related…

Media controls the way a society thinks. It controls what people see or don’t see, what people know and don’t know about any and all topics. All of it depends on the media consumption and what the media decides to release. It can be twisted to fit anyone’s personal opinion or point of view and can make whoever reads it, think in a guided way. It creates ideas, opinions, presumptions and judgments. Media is such an important source of information that often times does not get looked into any…