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    What Native Americans fought in the French and Indian War, and how did the wars ' outcome affect them? What about Native Americans who did not participate in the war? Even before the war began, both the English and the French acknowledged that the conflict would be highly influenced by alliance with the Native Americans. The English had an advanced commercial economy that allowed them to offer the Indians material goods, but the French were favored by the natives because, unlike the English,…

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    Critical Thinking Option 1 I have chosen a political news conference for my final project video (NDTV, 2015). This video focuses around three of the major political parties in India. The parties are the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party), the Congress (Indian National Congress Party), and the AAR (Aam Aadmi Party). The interviewees include a former Chief Election Commissioner, a journalist and political commentator, and three former and current politicians. The host asks each of the guests how…

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    During the 1700’s, the French and Indian war involved the English and the French fighting over American’s colonial domination; involving land in the USA that was previously settled by the Native Americans. In this time era, relationships were built on a hostile foundation, considering the dynamics and the motives of everyone coming into past day America. Native American war parties assisted in the British and French colonial wars in 1757. The French and Indian war was occurring while the British…

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    According to a well-known informational database, “Britain’s Salt Acts prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt, a staple in the Indian diet” (Staff Writers). This also placed a moderately large tax on the purchase of salt sold by the British. While a seemingly insignificant law, the origins of a more cohesive Indian unified front unfolded with the occurrence of Gandhi’s mass civil disobedience stemming from his fixation on said law. He took…

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    The similarities between the American Indians that Dennis Banks discussed in Ojibwa Warrior and Americans that Russell Means describes in Russell Means: Americans are the New Indians lie in the fact that both have lost constitutional rights and freedoms that they once had. This is a social problem caused by the centralized power of the United States Government. (Macaluso, 2016). Because the power lies mostly within the Executive Branch of the government, the military, and the large corporations,…

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    2015 Ethnography paper Beatboxing and the Saxophone The style of the concert will be mash up of Hip-Hop and Classical Indian music. This is obvious from the name of the concert, but from the web it states the artist that will be performing will “present a collaborative works mixing genres of music to each of the cultural upbringing and exploring spaces between classical Indian, acoustic hip-hop, and Go-Go from D.C. (NisthaRaj).” Now it will be interesting to see how the artist are able to…

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    The Alien and Sedation Act were bills that supported the immigration of French refugees into the United States. As a result, of the chaos in France due to the revolution, many French citizens wished to flee. This caused controversy in the United States since many did not support the Act. This group, the Federalists, supported the XYZ Affair, which was known as a quasi-war between France and the United States. On the contrary, the Democratic-Republicans supported the Alien and Sedation Act. This…

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    Indira Nehru, also known as Indira Gandhi, was one of the most controversial prime ministers of India who led from 1966 to 1980. Gandhi came to power after the death of her father and India’s leader of the Indian National Congress at the time, Jawaharlal Nehru. She started Indian feminism and increased the potential power of women in the world, but she committed many crimes that prove that she was a bad leader for India. She did everything she could to keep herself in power even though she was…

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    the Gita often implies that violence is deemed acceptable and often encouraged in order for you to ascertain your convictions and identity as a person. The Gita was an essential text of the Indian culture, and its tale of the warrior prince Arjuna confronting a life-or-death moral dilemma appealed to Indians in their time of subservience under British rule . The British fueled the growing belief in the indigenous…

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    George Washington, who later became the first president of the United States, and some troops built a small fort called Fort Necessity. After many casualties, Washington and his troops surrendered. Their defeat was the beginning of the French and Indian War. The British captured Quebec in Canada in 1759, gaining them the advantage in the war. The war lasted for nine years, but the British eventually won because they were willing to fund military in the Americas. The French preferred to spend…

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