Decolonization

The British Empire is often described as the largest formal empire at its peak in terms of its massive expansion of authority and far-reaching influence all over the world, as is evident from its territory comprised of more than a quarter of the land area of the globe. The Suez Canal which was opened in 1869 hugely contributed to maintain the empire by providing a shorter link to the sea between Mediterranean and Indian Ocean. Its geo-strategic importance is illustrated in the comment of…

disputes between the two Asian behemoths. India and China faced off in a border war in 1962, in which India was embarrassed. In addition to this, India and China are both nations who sought to remain relevant to the powers of the world after the decolonization period post-World War II, and more recently striving to become superpowers in their own right. As we saw in Europe over the last few centuries, when some of the most prominent nations in the world are neighbors, wars tend to pop up very…

Abstract The paper makes a postcolonial feminist reading of Jean Rhys’s novel, Wide Sargasso Sea which is a subversion of Charlotte Bronte’s celebrated novel,Jane Eyre.It tries to show how in the novel, Rhys lends voice to Antoinette Cosway, the most silenced character in Jane Eyre and how she foregrounds the importance of creolized gendered subject within the hierarchy of European patriarchy. The paper unravels the way in which the sense of unbelongingness and gendered discrimination…

Room for a Truthful Story: Critiquing Toronto 's Reconciliation Methodology as Appropriation Canada 's existence as a colonized nation in a post-colonial environment requires its citizens and its institutions to have an understanding of decolonization and reconciliation methods. As a majour city within the established nation, Toronto has employed a simple method of acknowledging Canada 's history by naming streets after people that the nation believes to be worth honouring. Yet these surface…

self-governed by the rule of law, but the Europeans and North Americans found it difficult to recognize and accept it. Not more than 60 years later, Europe found out that it had gained nothing from territorial possession; it went back to its policy of decolonization. These years of colonization thus became wasted as Europe had frozen all indigenous institutions. Tribalism became pronounced with the British strategy of divide and rule. It's invented weapon of self-defense though a genuine…

The relationship between identity and France has been one colored by pride, lofty ambitions, and political fragmentation. Perhaps no Frenchmen represents this convoluted arrangement of ideals better than Pierre Poujade. As a simple shopkeeper, Poujade rose from an artisan background to become a French politician whose political views were as obscure as they were sharply worded. A truly polarizing figure, Poujade exploited the true weakness of the failed Fourth Republic, the inability to restore…

Undoing Border Imperialism by Harsha Walia provides a wide overview of the consequences of settler colonialism and capitalist neoglobalization. Most of her framework focuses on how to abolish border imperialism and give migrants justice against antioppressive Western regimes. As stated in her introduction her book tries to provide solutions to the various forms of violence such as, deportations, illegal suspicion and control over migrant workers. By doing this she also shows different…

“Explain and evaluate two of the main post-World War II development theories (Modernization and Dependency) and highlight some of the values and forces that shaped them”. World War II ended in 1945 after Japan and Germany surrendered to the Allies and U.S.S.R. The imperial countries offered available options for their colonies, whether those nations required to remain as colonies or exited from their regimes. Thus, dependence countries were becoming decolonized from the mother countries. These…

Gram Negative Unknown Lab Report #20 BIOL 3444-008 Giang Nguyen TA: Malini Kotak 11/05/2014 Abstract The experiment is conducted in order to identify a randomly given unknown gram-negative microorganism. By comparative analysis of biochemical tests that were performed throughout the semester to find out its characteristics and determine the identification of bacterium out of four potential unknown was given. To figure out the characteristics, T-streak was performed to isolate…

‘France’s problems during the War in Indochina were more political than military.’ How far do you agree? Most probably it would wrong start if we approach the war between France and Vietnam as the consequences of two single opposed interests. At some point, you would agree with me the war between these two sides was the result of two contradictious ideology such as capitalism and communism which at some point increased the scope of war…