Most people, if given a choice to do something, are more likely to do that task opposed to if they were originally forced to complete the task. This way of thought is abundant in stories of colonization and westernization. Some of these stories are Things Fall Apart, Dakota 38, and Rabbit Proof Fence. In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, a man named Okonkwo’s life as a member in the Ibo tribe in Nigeria is described. Second, In Dakota 38, a tribe’s annual journey is followed and along the way…
Space Exploration And Colonization Space exploration is a wonderous thing that some people could only dream about happening.Being able to see the cosmos and floating in the nothingness, see stars, explore planets and other solar systems. There's just something extravagant about it, nevertheless it can also be dangerous and can kill you if you're not prepared just think of the climate on other planets.We also produce lots of litter when leaving earth's atmosphere but we could…
The “Tempest” In The Wilderness Savagery, Colonization, and Religion The English colonization of places such as the Americas and Ireland led Shakespeare to write his final play The Tempest. In the essay The “Tempest” In The Wilderness, written by Ronald Takaki, it is seen that the English colonizers had a very specific lifestyle that they thought the people around the world should also follow and they were not very compromising in their views. These colonizers believed that every person should…
Colonization of Indigenous people resulted in the appropriation of lands and resources for the benefit of early European settlers. Through colonization, there has been an imposition of Western ideology which enforces a patriarchal view that had negative effects for Indigenous women. In this patriarchal system, Indigenous men internalize views of superiority resulting in violent acts on women. These views are illustrated by Sherene Razak, in “Gendered Racial Violence and Spatialized Justice”, by…
women 15-64 work, while an average of 70.3% of men work regularly. This number of women in the workforce has increased greatly from 37.2% back in 1966. This country, as well as the rest of Africa, was very tribal before the involvement of European colonization. These colonists came in to take African resources and decided to colonize all of Nigeria, and majority of the rest of Africa. The aspects of Nigeria that the…
the colonization for almost seven centuries, what lead to the emergence of the postcolonial literature, which deals with the feeling of oppression. Besides the oppression from the dominant imperial centre, among this British Empire-colony parallel, there is another one, which must be mentioned, namely man-woman parallel. In the book A Double Colonization: Colonial and Post-Colonial Women’s Writing the editors Kirsten Holst Peterson and Anna Rutherford introduced the term “double colonization”…
The motives for expansion and colonization of the New World depends on who you look at. England, Spain, Portugal, private companies, and disgruntle groups mostly Religious organizes, all had similar but also individual motives for colonizing the new world. Spain, Portugal and England all desired new and unclaimed land for the natural resource and precious metals. Although England had no real desire to expand its empire into the new world till Spain and France threated English colonizes by…
Colonization, Decolonization, and Indigenous Spirituality in Leonard Peltier 's Prison Writings Within the American prison system, many individuals remain held for extended periods of time in solitary confinement. Despite arguments that solitary confinement has severe psychological and behavioral consequences for inmates, the experiences described by Leonard Peltier in Prison Writings tell a different story. Viewed from the historical lenses of colonization and decolonization, an important…
In the year of 1492, the Spanish monarchs funded Christopher Columbus on his voyage to what was later called “the New World,” initiating a race between European countries to send out explorers to become the continent’s dominating power. Driven by the promise of wealth, status, and new beginnings, explorers conquered the lands of North and South America, resulting in their direct disruption of the indigenous peoples’ lives. Following this contact, the lives of both Native Americans and Europeans…
The European settlers of North America irreversibly changed the way Native Americans lived. These settlers brought different ideologies, convictions, religion and diseases, to the Indigenous peoples. There were frequent clashes between the settlers and the Natives over land rights and usage, religious and cultural differences, and, especially, broken treaties (Calloway 3). Some tribes embraced the new ideas and began to incorporate them into their own culture, while other tribes rejected them…