Colonial Williamsburg

included a belief in the system of democracy, secularism, and in equality in all areas of life without regard for societal identifiers. To rationalize imperialism under the justification that it would spread and glorify French culture, France’s “colonial ideology explicitly claimed that they were on a ‘civilizing mission’ to lift the benighted ‘natives’ out of backwardness to the new status of civilized French Africans” (Iweriebor). France’s foray into Africa was extensive, but…

Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa explores French colonization in the Maghreb region of North Africa, specifically: Tunis, Morocco, and Algeria. The book, unlike many of the others that we have read so far in class, focuses almost exclusively on the viewpoint of the controlling colonial power, rather than on the indigenous persons being ruled. Stripped of cultural context, these chapters provided a striking contrast to the narrative presented in the book Medicine and the Saints…

Is colonization as much of a thing of the past as Europe is trying to make it? Paul Rusesabagina once quoted “The individual’s most potent weapon is a sudden belief in the triumph of common decency”. However, if he were to take a closer look at the number of horrors that were being demonstrated on a day to day basis, he would reconsider his statement. The legacies that aggressive globalization has left on various colonized countries are a bloodstain on the records of the various European…

brutal years, from 1791-1804, and it resulted in 62,000 dead Frenchmen and over 100,000 Haitians deaths. In the end, the Haitians reigned victorious and gained their independence. The sheer length, number of casualties, and overthrow of the French colonial government certainly satisfy the first requirement. The next requirement, fundamental change in the political institution was also attained. After Haiti attained independence, the Haitians assumed control of their own government, set up an…

Question 1 The invasion of the Americas was a long drawn out process. It took many years for a successful attempt was made at colonizing the Americas. Starting with the Spanish and Cortes, in 1519, an attempt was made by the Spanish conquistadors to take over Tenochtitlan. The conquistadors were primarily around to steal money and goods and split it with the Spanish government. Cortes took along with him, eleven ships, five hundred men, and thirteen horses to the Yucatan try and conquer the…

After the fall of Faisal I in 1920, the French colonized the region through military force. The formation of the Syrian National Congress was conducted by French colonial control, which led to the fierce military resistance of Sultan al-Atrash to reunite the French states that were created in order to control political resistance. Al-Atrash was a major figure in the nationalist movement to take back Syria from the…

World was gaining momentum. The beauty of architecture is every country has their own personal style. What separates America is the diversity that has inspired architecture up to this point. Numerous stylings such as Georgian, British colonial and Spanish colonial that originated in parts of Europe have carried over to America permanently to provide a sense of culture that had not yet been seen. Culture change in the New World America was associated with religion, a practice that was strongly…

Everyone knows that football players enjoy playing football, but what most people do not know is the reasons why. A football team is like a family you have when you are away from your family. When you need someone to lean on there is a coach, a player or even an academic advisor around to help you through your hard times. For my essay I will talk about my family, the James Madison Football team as well as our values and beliefs that shapes the culture of this organization .The football team here…

THE HISTORY OF PONCE DE LEON HALL Flagler College’s Ponce de Leon hall, located at 74 King St, St Augustine, Florida, was built in 1888 by architects John Carrére and Thomas Hastings, who were still new to the field at the time (Horn). The main building of the hall is now used mostly for student housing purposes, but the exterior architectural features and domed lobby space showcase impressive design features and elements of styles that we have covered this semester (Branch). It originally…

slavery: in a word, Frenchmen who groan under the yoke of oppression”. The free people of color wanted protection for their land, end of discrimination against their class of people, liberty, and representation. So, when the idea's of French reached the colonial, it not only started to sink deep into the minds of the slaves but also the free colored men of Saint-Domingue. In Dubois and Garrigus book it stated: “The slaves were not the only people who were eager to participate in the…