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Toward the end of the last of the book Auggie goes to his fifth grade graduation where he receives the Henry Ward Beecher medal. This award goes to whoever made the most progress through the year and who had the most impact on the people around them, this award went to August Pullman. The author writes, on page 306, “And then the most amazing thing happened: everyone started standing up. Not just the front rows but the whole audience suddenly just got up on their feet, whooping, hollering…

is what we can see while courage is what we cannot see, yet it is not only the lion that is there, but the lion also stands for courage. In the short story of “Everyday Use” the mother-daughter relationship is stressed and interprets the African-American Woman’s individuality in terms…

Alice Walker’s “Everyday use” focuses on the theme ‘valuing the past, and one’s family’. Like Dee, or should I say ‘Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo,’ valuing the past and our family may be challenging. This is because at times in our lives, our past and family becomes so common to us like ‘everyday use’ of items, that we often take them for granted. Everyday Use takes place in the 1960’s in the narrator’s yard and house. She wasted no time and went into details about the setting. She explained that…

In the religious context, there are two different views of the ‘other’. According to Todorov, Catholics, “regard the Indians as their equal, hence as like themselves, and try to assimilate them, to identify them with themselves,” while Protestants, “emphasize the differences and isolate their community from that of the natives, when they find themselves in contact.” He concludes by stating, “In both cases, the other’s identity is denied: either on the level of existence, as in the case of the…

The Columbian Exchange acknowledges that one of the most significant events in history started in 1492 with the discovery of new western lands. The Columbian Exchange consisted of cultural and market trades of goods and people. The trades consisted of many items but most importantly the trade of livestock and crops between America and European countries became the largest advancement towards modern day society. America has gained more knowledge, now having access to farming, they took advantage…

selection explanation stated above. Gray, Saggers, and Stearne (2015: p. 151) states, “the health status of indigenous Australians at the time of the British invasion was better than that of most people then living in the UK.” The Indigenous population was quite sizeable as well; there were roughly around 750,000 people. Once the Europeans started taking away their resources their health status only got worse. In fact, Harris (2003, p. 81) states that between 1788-1990 the Aboriginal population…

Canada has several anti-discrimination laws that are meant to protect all Canadians, the definition of which is meant to include Indigenous women. Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, passed in 1982, gives all Canadian equal rights to life, liberty, and security of the person. And yet, the law fails to protect Indigenous women time and time again. According to the 2015 NWAC (Native Women’s Association of Canada)’s fact sheet on missing and murdered Indigenous women,…

French, English, and Spanish colonists all reacted to and treated indigenous American Indians differently. The question is what exactly led to these different reactions? Based on historical evidence, the original objectives of European colonists seem to be the most influential factors regarding their relationships with American Indians. Of course, many other factors played into these historical interactions; however this seems to be the defining aspect of them all. To begin, we’ll start with…

Colin Calloway’s text is a collection of Native American events, as told through their perspective, during the colonial era. These Native American texts are a collection of letters, speeches and treaties. Their “voices” give the reader a better understanding of the differences in customs, cultures, and values from those of Europeans. Calloway’s introduction provides important background information about the early eastern North America and Canada habitation. The author’s includes the problems…

The Native Americans may have been the first humans in the Americas, but their societies were reduced to ultimately nothing. From 1492 to 1600, the population of natives dropped in millions, but that was really just the beginning as their population was never able to regain what it once was before European contact. In American Colonies: The Settling of North America, by Alan Taylor, the importance of the native interactions with Europeans, along with everything they brought with them from…