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    Residential schools began in the 1840s. The Canadian government thought they were profoundly educating the aboriginal children and putting them in the path of christianity. It began with 69 schools but was eventually was expanded in the 1930s, reaching a total of 139 schools, the final school closing in 1996. They started enrolling children in the school at age 4, if the parent or child refused, they were forced to do it under their will. In the movie We Were Children Lyna and Glen experienced…

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    Shakespeare Over the years many literary figures have come up and made an impact on the current form of the English literature. However, with more fame and value a person gets the more controversy and rumors are to be spread about them. From the many historical literary figures that have made a strong impact on English literature today is William Shakespeare. Shakespeare is known for his original way of writing plays, stories and poems. He had a way to manipulate the language in an artistic…

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    together are: quarto 1 (bad quarto), quarto 2 (good quarto), and the first folio (F). Quarto one is often not incorporated as much due to it being having the consistencies of a “rough draft”, so to speak. The first quarto “is much shorter, some 2,200 lines, just over half of the second Quarto, the longest textual version” (Tronch-Perez 16). As for the origin, Albert B. Weiner famously argues in Hamlet: The First Quarto, 1603, that the first quarto was written to be…

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    Deepa Mehta is a famous film Director which is born in India and she has done philosophy from University of New Delhi which later she migrated to Canada .She has started her professional career from Canada only. She started making many films on different social issues in Canada .She some awards too because of amazing works on social justice. The Fire and Water Distinct Image Fire: Male Domination and Patriarchy Here I want to focused on the two by Deepa Mehta which Both the movies Fire…

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    Part A. Student Identification – i.e., student name, age, school, and grade level. Alexandra R. (name of the student is changed) is a second grade female student. Her parents are divorced. She is living with her mother and stepfather, and soon she is going to have a brother. She spends weekend with her father and her grandparents. In her free time, she is enjoying swimming. Her favorite subject is math. After communicating with her teacher, I found that Alexandra is new at school,…

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    Reality In Othello

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    Gaius Phaedrus, a Roman author, had said, “Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many.” While reading Othello, this quote recurred in my mind as the realities of many situations differed from what is experienced by the characters in the play. Similar to the characters, I also have a tendency to conclude that something is real, when it is false, based on how it appears. By recollecting events in the play and my life in which the appearance of a situation overshadowed…

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    Orlando is a story that spans across many ages. We begin in the Elizabethan era and are brought age through age into the 20th century. Even more, the plot is based on a book written by Virgina Woolfe in 1928, yet all the while the theatrical experience of Orlando was constructed barely two decades ago. It plays with the past while remaining aware of the present. Sarah Ruhl's stage adaptation of Orlando is a postmodern exercise in deconstruction. Ruhl removes the veil of time away from Virgina…

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    are two that are often debated on. The first is the version created by Michael Radford in 2004, and the second is the version created by Trevor Nunn in 2001. Overall, the Michael Radford version of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice is better because the acting was of a higher quality, there was a better use of production elements such as costumes and set, and the setting of the story stayed true to the original Shakespeare script. After watching just the first 10 minutes of both Nunn and…

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    Drew Hayden Taylor’s Sir John A: Acts of a Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion, tells the history of Canada’s Indigenous People. The play shows how Canadian Confederation created a lot of resentment and mistreatment for Indigenous people which is still felt today. The play is divided between two different eras; 19th century Canada with Sir John A MacDonald and present day where the characters debate MacDonald’s legacy and the impact of his policies. MacDonald’s character describes important historical…

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    Essay On Aboriginal Youth

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    and overall societal structures are based on a colonial perspective, Harold Johnson offers an Aboriginal outlook on how First Nations people have lived and struggled under a colonialist Canada. In his book Two Families: Treaties and Government, Johnson examines several issues faced by Aboriginal people today and how a colonial system still contributes to the despair of many First Nations people in Canada. One of those issues Johnson discusses is the negative implications for many Aboriginal…

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