First Impressions Essay

First he puts his daughters through a test, asking each to tell him how much she loves him. Goneril and Regan, Lear's older daughtes, give their father flattering answers. But Cordelia, Lear's youngest and favorite daughter, remains silent, saying that she…

loaded with a huge number of multilingual people. A considerable lot of the people experience serious difficulties with multicultural communication in their homes, school, and other open settings. In these cases, a large number of the people whose first language is not English are judged on the grounds that they experience difficulty speaking with the individuals who communicate in English. In Amy Tan’s article, “The Mother Tongue”, she wrote how being bilingual can affect the individuals.…

The Language of Time: An Analysis of Stephen Harper’s “Statement of Apology to Former Students of Indian Residential Schools” The Indian Residential School system was, as former Prime Minister Stephen Harper describes, “a sad chapter in [Canada’s] history” (1). The Indian Act of 1876 essentially passed guardianship of Aboriginal children to the Government of Canada, causing the education of these children to be the responsibility of the government. These Indian Residential Schools were created…

“A Guy Like Me: Fighting to Make the Cut” co-written by John Scott and Brian Cazenueve is a sport memoir that takes us through NHL enforcer John Scott’s journey in life from a kid growing up in St. Catharines, Ontario to playing in the NHL. John Scott is a professional hockey player and graduated from Michigan Tech with a degree in mechanical engineering. Scott has played for the Minnesota Wild, Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers, San Jose Sharks, Buffalo Sabres, Arizona Coyotes, and Montreal…

questions of nationalism and national identity while examining the relationship between Canadian and the First Nation community. The messages in the article was also related to concepts such as nationalism and nation-state, that were discussed in class. The media narrative discusses the struggles of the Indian community through examining the hardships and struggles from perspective of a First Nation…

Article Analysis: Troubling the Path of Decolonization Indian Residential School Case Law, Genocide, and Settler Legitimacy In the article Troubling the Path of Decolonization: Indian Residential School Case Law, Genocide, and Settler Legitimacy the author, Leslie Thielen-Wilson, attempts to prove that the European settlers asserted their power over the Native people by treating them as subhuman and regarding them as settler property that had no control over their memories, thoughts, desires,…

Buckingham’s Desire for Revolution Shakespear wrote many plays during his lifetime, but possibly none as complex and busy as Richard III. It is a complex play where many different characters are portrayed in many different roles. One of those characters is Buckingham, a villain and the right-hand man for Richard for the majority of the play. Over and over again he proved himself to be a rebel in almost every scene he was portrayed in. As a rebel he fought as a revolutionist, desiring change. He…

In chapter eight of Lisa Monchalin’s The Colonial Problem: An Indigenous Perspective on Crime and Injustice in Canada, she discusses the crime that is affecting Indigenous persons. She explains that there are many factors leading to the victimization and over-representation of Indigenous persons, all of which are a result of colonialism and colonialist ideologies. In discussing this issue, Monchalin mentions that students living both on and off of reserve, face a struggle in their education and…

goes second he can use this against Brutus, where as Brutus just ends up seeming better then the plebeians and unrelatable. Another way Brutus uses gravitas to try to appeal to the plebians is when he first addresses them he calls them “Romans, countrymen, and lovers”(JC III, II, 14). Then Brutus first addresses the plebeians he refers to them as smart, trustworthy, and honest romans who are smart enough to decide high way they want Rome to go in appealing to their logic. This is an intelligent…

It is evident from the thematic study of Edward Albee’s Who’s is Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in the preceding Chapter that the play is thematically rich. Its themes often overlap and support one another in ways that make the play complex and richly textured. Both George and Martha state the theme of illusion versus reality, the most important theme of the play, explicitly in Act III of the play. Martha is horrified at the prospect of facing life without illusions, but George is not – the…