First Punic War

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…

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…

According to the book’s publisher, McGill-Queen University Press, its authors include over “eighty elders from the five First Nations involved in Treaty 7 - the Bloods, Peigans, Siksika, Stoney, and Tsuu T'ina” . The first of these two articles, “A Treaty Right to Education” looks at the historical timeline regarding education in the treaties and how exactly they government of Canada has failed to provide education in…

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play written by the English playwright William Shakespeare on 1590-1596. Shakespeare's plays are known to revolve on 3 genres- comedy, tragedy, and history. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a tale that combines the genres of comedy, fantasy, and romance, which are the play’s ingredient to make it significant even until today. The writing style of the play is also deemed very impressive during the time of his people and also to us today. Aside from its genres and…

The Author Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) was born into a samurai family and was originaly named Sugimore Nobumori. After his father abandoned his Samuria duties, the family feld to to Kyoto where they attached themselves to an aristicracy for protection. It was there where he was exposed to the theatre and grew up to write over a hundred plays. In 1705, he moved to Osake to write strictly for Takemoto Gidayu's Puppet Theatre until his death in 1725. He is still known as one of Japan's most…