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In the “Mayflower”, Nathaniel Philbrick dissects the relationship between the Native Americans and the English settlers. He focuses on pointing out the honest truth of what caused King Philip's war, disproving what many of us know to be true. Philbrick does so by dividing up this story into four sections, discovery, accommodation, community, and war. Each part portrays the real events that led to the fall of the once unified community. Humanity is often questioned throughout the book on both…

Kovalam in Kerala is one of the hot tourist destinations in India. Kovalam is called as the beach town in the Thiruvananthapuram city on the Arabian sea coast. The literal meaning of Kovalam is “a grove of coconut trees”. There are plenty of things you can do in the enchanting beach destination town of Kovalam. Sun bath lying on the beach or swimming in the cool waters, have an oil and Ayurvedic massage, savor your tongue with seafood or try your hand at fishing. Have a ride on surfboards and…

Human rights are one of the basic rights that people are born with regardless of their gender, race, religion, nationality, and social status. Nowadays, people take human rights as granted; however, history shows that human rights are earned instead of given. Many bloody and costly conflicts occurred in the past were actually caused by discriminations against race, religion and sex. Without being too sensitive about contentious topics, one has to admit the fact that Africans suffered the most…

Explorer Bartolomeu Dias ventured to Cape of Good Hope and back to Portugal. Later, Vasco De Gama sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and over to India, building off of Dias’s findings. The Portuguese idea of making a profit off of ocean-based trade networks, as well as the advancements which helped them along the way, sparked a…

stranger, but eventually became his co-worker or moreover his employer, to attain success towards his own personal goals? The character of Petrus in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace represents a symbol of payback emerging from the oppression of the Eastern Cape / country side residents. Petrus’ attitude and demeanor towards the unfortunate events, crimes and tragedies around him heavily display how many Africans in his same region felt toward whites in post-apartheid South Africa. Petrus’ actions…

heart of the small town of Fairport, New York. Grace has a passion for music. Whether dancing her heart out in her studio, playing baritone in the school band, or taking piano lessons, Grace is always busy. While some people know her for her big heart, many also know her for her tremendous writing skills. Grace has a small family. She has a loving and caring father and mother, and a brilliant sister named Madison, who she adores. Every year, Grace and her loving family visit Cape Cod, in…

Tell us about your previous internship experience. The summer after my Freshman Year, I worked as an Economic Research Assistant at the University of Michigan. I took on data analysis and visualization projects with limited direction and developed proficiency in R and Stata despite having little prior knowledge of either tool. Last summer, I worked as a Data Science Intern at Drift, an energy software startup seeking to make clean energy affordable and accessible to everyone. Here, I developed…

confused with the desert biome because they share many similarities such as both being hot and dry. “The chaparral biome is found in small sections of most continents, including the west coast of the United States, the west coast of South America, the Cape Town area of South Africa, the western tip of Australia and the coastal areas of the Mediterranean.” (http://blog.nwf.org/2014/12/8-wonky-and-wonderful-woodpecker-adaptations/ 9…

The quaint town of Salem is found in Essex County, Massachusetts on the Northwest coast of the Naumkeag River. The town centre is an eight-acre common in Washington Square with a statue of the town founder. The square is “Surrounded by beautiful 18th-century mansions”, and other streets are aligned with historic buildings (OldSalem.com). Salem State College was started in 1954 but was originally founded as Salem Normal School and opened in 1854. During 1874, $25, 000 was anonymously donated…

1.1 Why Postcolonialism? It is difficult to say what postcolonialism exactly is. There is no ‘tradition’ per se as there is a philosophical tradition for deconstruction or psychoanalytical theory. In anti-colonial movements and postmodern critique of colonialism as a project of modernity one can find ideas that preceded postcolonial theory. The most important feature of postcolonialism is a shift in the dominant ways in which relations between Western and non-Western people and their worlds were…