Colonial Williamsburg

“I can’t believe that I have to eat, sleep, and breathe on this college campus. The people are so bizarre. Can I just lay in my bed and not go to class?” contemplated Paul, as he lay awake in his bed the first Monday morning of the semester. Paul had walked around James Madison University’s campus during FROG week with the feeling of dread; James Madison University had not been his first choice (he had his eyes set on Harvard), but it was the only college that he got an acceptance letter from.…

Profile of Mister William Ashcraft It’s a cool spring after noon on Friday and Araria Campus has some lingering students, teachers and campus workers. Some have classes, meeting to attended, papers to write, or papers to grade. As I head to my interview with Mister William Ashcraft in the kings building on the 5th floor. I hear 60s rock music coming from his office, as I walk in he, is sitting behind is desk grading papers. A man over 50 years old standing about 5’6 foot tall. He wore a light…

Senegal started as a French colony, and was one of the oldest. It started off with a strong and equal trading relationship with multiple other nations in Europe, and continued until the full realization of colonization in the late 19th century. The history of the independence era was markedly lead by Leopold Sedar Sengor, who would eventually become independent Senegal’s first democratically elected president. Much of its economy relies upon its agriculture, specifically peanuts and gum trees.…

if they felt anything was going wrong. Troops and enforcement could arrive very quickly to the coasts of French territory within Africa unlike a colonizer who had a lot of traveling to do so before their arrival. This allowed “the interests of the colonial state and its subjects could be met by means of one and the same policy: that of a close association between old and new elites in the running of the federation.” The proximity of the Algerian colony to the French nation allowed the ideas of…

(Helgerson 1992).” (Pels, 174) Colonies continued to be the primary means of national expansion, providing a new, efficient way of population and territory growth previously limited by natural and political barriers in Europe. “By the occupation of a colonial area, new political connections [were] created between the colony and the mother country, between the new colony and its neighbours, and in its internal territorial organization.” (107, Church.) It is clear that “colonies were superior as…

The Stranger is set in colonial Algeria in the 1940’s. At the time Algeria is under French rule. The country’s inhabitants are French Indigenous Algerians, Arabs, and the Pieds-Noirs. The Pied-Noir like the protagonist, Meursault, is a Frenchman born and raised in Algeria. Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation is set in post colonial Algeria. The setting of the two books is pivotal in understanding the underlying theme of racism and sexism towards the Arabs. During colonial Algeria the French…

In the early 1800s, the British tolerated everyone who was not part of the British Empire. It did not matter to them whether someone was European or carried different beliefs; they simply wanted bodies to populate the large country. They encouraged colonization to keep more for themselves rather than giving it away to the Americans to the south. The British believed that anyone could have been a threat at the time, and so they settled with keeping everyone separated. They built a colony based on…

Thaqif Kamaruszaman Enlightenment and the French Revolution Marques The fires of the revolution that swept the nation of France during the 18th century were fueled by Enlightenment ideas brought in by thinkers, coming from the recent Scientific Revolution, to France composed of various backgrounds. From the execution of a monarchy, to the creation of a monumental empire, the French Revolution was ravaged and fought on the ideas of freedom and justice for all. The people of France were…

New France was the first major French settlement in what is now the country of Canada. Prior to French settlement in the early 17th century, various aboriginals tribes lived in the region for millenniums. The encounter between the French and the aboriginals during the establishment and development of New France affected the aboriginal population in several ways. In the following, the establishment, government, trade, and the following developments of New France will be described with specific…

discourses of rights in terms of British Colonial rule in India. These distinctions emerged alongside the British ‘civilizing mission’ in which the question of rights came to the forefront of the discourse and were matched with the invention of culture. Edmond Burke’s analysis of rights in the context of the French revolution reveals that natural rights are inherited and passed down from generation to generation, as they are forms of tradition. In contrast the colonial project in India rejected…