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The beginning of the twentieth century contained many themes of racism, ignorance and devious politics in Canadian history. While many of these themes although may be routed in the British Empire, Canadian discrimination and injustice are of its own creation. Hugh Johnston’s The Voyage of the Komagata Maru: The Sikh Challenge to Canada’s Colour Bar tells a tale of how Canadians closed the door to Asian immigration and manipulated a system to which foreigners were not meant to succeed. In May of…

F= Facts: The case title is R.v. Dudley and Stephens (1884) 14 QBD 273. On May 19, 1884 a yacht set sail to Sydney, Australia from Southampton, England. There are four men involved in this case the crew of the Mignonette, Tom Dudley, Edwin Stephens, Edmund Brooks, and Richard Parker. The captain Dudley and crewman Stephens were charged with the murder of the cabin boy Parker. The yacht sank off the coast of South Africa on July 5, 1600 miles away from Cape of Good Hope. The crew could access…

malls and consumerism. After Naomi graduated college she traveled the world and found that women were living in inhumane ways and working in what is known as “sweat shops” to produce goods for the kept the factories of the United States and Canada open. The findings of her travels helped mold her view as an adult. This among other things helped shape her best-known piece No Logo. In No Logo, Naomi Klein explores the rise of the “brand”. instead of the improvement of products the focus was…

Soon Aboriginals didn’t have the rights of the land that they lived on and were not counted as an Australian citizens. Eddie Koiki Mabo was an Indigenous activist that fought for the civil rights of Indigenous Australians and believed that the land he lived on belonged to his ancestors. Once Eddie Mabo won the Mabo Decision, The Native Title Act was established in 1993 which was where Indigenous Australians could gain back their land if they have a traditional connection with the land before…

The authors explore the implications of colonialism on the shaping of space within Modernity. Discussing the various influences on Modernity, Penelope Edmonds explores the impact of Indigenous culture and history on colonialism and its impact on the development of the ‘new world’ of Melbourne. Similarly Sibel Bozdogan commends history and culture and its important role in influencing modern architecture. However Bozdogan also expresses the postcolonial criticism of modernity being wrongfully…

to 1970 children of Indigenous or mixed descent were forcefully removed from their communities, families and mothers with the intention of integrating them into white Australian culture, this is now known as “The Stolen Generation(s)” (Kennedy, 2011, p.333). This happened to an estimated one in three to one in ten Indigenous Australian children and then sent to organisations run by churches or government missions (Atkinson, 2005, p.73). This review will discuss the effects on the Stolen…

The Europeans meet the Australian Aboriginals Before European explorers landed on the coast of Australia the natives of the continent, known as the Aboriginal People, occupied much of the land. The Aboriginals believed that the land owned you and that it would provide for you if you respected it. The British came to the continent and originally wanted peace however as expansion began the Aboriginals fought back forcing the British to break their peaceful ways. In the year 1606 there was a…

Statistics Canada reports that in 2017, the predicted life expectancy for the total Canadian population is projected to be 79 years for men and 83 years for women. Among the Aboriginal Population, the Inuit have the lowest life expectancy of 64 years for men and 73 years for women. Metis and First Nations people have a life expectancy of 73-74 years for men and 78-80 years for women.( 2015-11-30) There is a fifteen to five years life expectancy in male and ten to three years life expectancy for…

of the larger vessels (Brown 251). Canoe in figure 11.6 contained different shades of darker brown wood, the end of canoe is long, narrow and shallow so it is a “Shovel nose” canoe. There are two male figures carved on the canoes with their mouth open. The paddlers appear to be singing while one of them holding a bottom- dwelling sturgeon (252). The second paddler is holding a small shovel maybe giving direction and speed to…

5.1 Conclusions The study aim was to assess community perceptions regarding heritages well as the attached values; furthermore, documentation was done to show the ambition of every culture to transmit tradition in a landscape. Extensive research on the importance of managing heritage from a local community values orientation has been done (de Merode, Smeets and Westrik 2003; Chirikure and Pwiti 2008; Africa Biodiversity Collaborative Group 2014; Maposa 2014; Tayi 2017; Katekwe 2017; Chirikure,…