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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…

Residential schools have caused irreparable damages throughout the generations of First Nations people and families. Today, the children and grandchildren of residential school survivors suffer the consequences of what their past generations went through. Its effects have manifested in self-abuse, resulting in high rates of substance abuse, alcoholism, and suicide. Among First Nations people aged 10 to 45, suicide and self-injury is the top cause of death, responsible for 40 percent of…

work of native activists to a greater awareness by the public of the damage that the schools caused. - The first residential schools were established in the 1840s and the last residential school closed in 1996 - Their main objective was to convert Indigenous children to Christianity and to "civilize them" - In 1857, the Gradual Civilization Act was passed this was aimed at assimilating First Nations people. - In 1884 school attendance became mandatory by law for Indians less than 16 years of…

“Shubenacadie School” to learn how to speak English and act civilize in European eyes (Joe 3-4). The Shubenacadie School state that their purpose is to “Take the Indian out of the Indian”. The first settlers would take…

Shakespeare’s Timelessness One of the questions most frequently posed, even these days, is: What makes an author, a creator timeless? As much as skill and dedication play an important role in gaining recognition, these are not the only characteristics necessary to determine whether that certain writer has carved his/her name in the rough stone of immortality, whether he will remembered after centuries. For instance, during Shakespeare’s time, there were other playwrights too, extremely talented…

the main reason why conscription appealed to many wasn’t fulfilled, many that were involuntarily conscripted weren’t fully equipped and Canada’s reputation of a strong country was tainted by the internal conflicts that Conscription had created. The first reason why conscription was not effective is because one of the major reasons so many people were pro-conscription was because it was a way of bring back current troops from overseas. However, this was not the case because out of the 400,000…

audience. Hamlet’s use of antithesis, metaphors, and negative language throughout his soliloquy, allows him to send the message to his audience that he is deeply troubled by his thoughts. Using antithesis allows Hamlet to portray the difficulty he is facing going back and forth between life and death. He starts of his speech by asking the famous question “To be, or not to be,” to live or to die (Shakespeare 97).…

INTRODUCTION The First Nation people underwent lots of changes during the pre-contact to the fur-trading period and then again in the settlement period. The Prairies region in the western Canada consists of the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The First Nation people who lived there consist of Kwakwaka’wakw, Tsimshian, Haida, Cree, Athapascans, Blackfoot, Metis etc. During the pre-contact period the lifestyles of the First Nations peoples underwent many changes such as adjusting…

or first world country, of European descent, heterosexual, Christian, able-bodied, young and use the English language. Individuals of the subordinate group include women and transgender, people of color, poor-working class, citizens from second and third world countries, any ethnicity other than European, those that classify themselves as lesbian, gay and bisexual, they practice any religion except for Christianity, persons with disabilities, elderly persons and those that speak all languages…

Island 's first inhabitants. This is why even in discussions of reconcilliation, Canada employs words of the settlers; rather than specify each nation in discussion, they create groups which fall under phrases such as “First Nations”, delegating an entire continent of peoples to a single, homogenous group.…