First Communion

Canada has always thrived on being a country that people can trust to be welcoming and compassionate. Since the first world war, Canada’s participation and success on the battlefields did the most to create a sense of distinct nationhood; resulting in a flood of cultural nationalism across the country. However, in recent years, Canada’s familiar reputation for being a peacekeeping nation quickly changed as a certain political party took over the country. Spending billions of dollars to send…

A Statue of Shakespeare Johnson is known for his obsession with biography. In his Rambler No. 60, Johnson even claims “[he] often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful” (182). Curiously, Shakespeare seems to be one of the few exceptions. In his “Preface to The Plays of William Shakespeare” (referred to as “Preface to Shakespeare" below), Johnson does not show any interest in Shakespeare’s life. Nor did Johnson write a…

This has mainly brought the naming of the first world counties and the third world countries. The first world countries mainly consisting of the whites and the third world countries consisting of the blacks. This has led to racism when mainly the black visit the whites and they are lowly regarded and seen to come from a dark…

necessitous. Families living in developing countries, such as Madagascar or Afghanistan, have children under the age of fourteen whose societal and living conditions force them to work. Nevertheless, child labor is a subject of controversy. In the twenty-first century, society has deemed child labor unacceptable, an inconvenient decision considering poor countries demand their youth to work in order to survive. Therefore, in countries that no longer need developing, governments should regulate…

boring and code switching makes it more interesting. Every one of these students from a different countries and each one of them spoke with a certain accents which created a non clarity and that made them laugh at each other. As said by Crystal the first factor for code switching is not being able to express oneself in a certain language, as a result the speaker will not be able to express him or herself in that language so they shift to the other to repay for the lack and disability of the…

Bilingualism is the ability of a person to communicate using more than one language. Bilingualism is also the ability to communicate with more than one language, but with greater skills for one language. It results from learning the language naturally through interaction with people from different cultures. It can also be learned from school. Bilingualism has been common in United States for a period of time. In United States bilingualism is a result of immigration from different parts of the…

is located on the rich side of India. My parents were very excited and happy to have a baby girl as their first child. My dad told our relatives that “ I am very lucky to have a baby girl in my house” and he gifted everyone with a box of Indian sweets. Once I was released from the hospital and we all went to the Sikh temple to get an alphabet letter out of the bible which would be the first letter of my name. The letter that came out was “H” and after contemplating whether for a while they…

Witnessing has many different meaning associated with it. The definition that will be used in this essay is “the study of a group of people for the purpose of understanding their way of being, culture, and history.” The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) invites people to witness aboriginal culture so that they may learn about the indigenous way of life. While visiting MOA one may find themselves viewing exhibits that range from spiritual artifacts to drums played by tribes in Papa New Guinea.…

In the collection of essays presented in Civilizing the Wilderness, A. A. den Otter examines the contrasting perspectives on the definition of “civilization” and “wilderness”, in relations to Canada, throughout history. “Civilization as a term dates back to the mid-eighteenth century” (Otter 2012, xiii) and “most writers perceived the concepts of civilization and wilderness as opposing poles” (Otter 2012, xii) and as such defines each other. “There is no perception to wilderness that does not…

Canadians is lower than among non-Aboriginal Canadians. Upon researching surveys conducted with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal electors following the last four Canadian federal elections there are reasons for the gap in turnout. Aboriginals who live on First Nations reserves tend to vote less than those who reside off reserves. There are many factors that affect voting turn out for both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians such as rural vs. urban, our government,…