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colonizing Canada, I am guilty The tears come My heart breaks and tells me that this is all wrong and I grieve some more. I grieve for my brothers and sisters of the First Nations Their history is a culture that uses a rolling tongue that remembers everything and unites a community by the careful telling of the journeys of the First Nations since the birth of the world. Every word Every moment Every feeling Every truth Everything that is theirs, they remember including the pain…

In the play “Richard the Third”, Richard, the Duke of Gloucester is clearly identified as malicious as he rises to power to king through corruption. One of the members of the Lancaster royal family, Richmond, on the other hand fights for justice in England. Richard and Richmond’s speeches addressed to their respective troops before the battle illustrates distinctive qualities of their personality. Through their diction, the characters true colors as well as their motives are revealed as.…

A standout amongst the most special things about the play Hamlet (with Hamlet playing the principle character) is the path connections between the primary and lesser characters have not transformed from Shakespeare's chance period in which he composed this play to the current issues of today. The character Hamlet relates through independence of self to others in the play and Shakespeare utilizes this disarray of self and nature therefore guaranteeing numerous sorts of perusers who can identify…

Louis Riel was the leader of the Metis, and he tried to preserve the rights and culture in their homelands in the Northwest came progressively under the Canadian sphere of influence. He also was a Canadian Politician and founder of Manitoba. He was born on October 22 1844 and die on November 16 1885 because he was guilty of murder or high treason for Thomas Scott. The Manitoba Act, which was given royal assent on May 12 1870, when the Province of Manitoba was welcomed to Canada and…

Nature is not a mere theme in William Shakespeare's King Lear; it is the foundation of the entire play. The concept of nature is articulated throughout the whole play but the only natural occurrence (pertaining to earth's atmosphere) happens towards the end of act two (2) scene four (4): a storm [and a tempest]. At this moment in the play, Lear, Goneril and Regan are in Gloucester’s castle. In this scene, the three (3) are in the midst of a feud and Lear goes into a rage (pursuant to the 'divine…

Week 10: Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls, Inuit Perspectives I found myself very relieved to finally discuss the murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls in Canada, a topic that receives devastatingly little attention in the mainstream media. When thinking about this journal article, I automatically knew that I wanted to contribute to Metis artist Jaime Black’s (2014) REDress project, which was started as a way to build attention to the realities of the missing and…

was baptised on April 26, 1564 and died on April 23, 1616 he was 52 when he died. Shakespeare should be taught in the ninth grade curriculum because he is relatable/ relevant, he has global influence, and he is the greatest writer of all time. First, shakespeare is relatable/ relevant. “Shakespeare understood the human condition like nobody else.” he understands what people go through such as love and war. “But shakespeare is beautiful shakespeare is life glimpsed through the cut glass of…

Love is an inherently powerful emotion. It is consuming, influential, and passionate. It can also easily blur one’s morals and judgments. Because of this, love is often time used as a shortcoming for characters in tragic literary works. In the play King Lear, Shakespeare utilizes the theme of blindness in the beginning as a metaphor for the “blindness” Lear and Gloucester have regarding their children, and then uses it as a crux for Gloucester when the nobleman goes from being metaphorically…

Literature aids in the understanding of ideas, beliefs and ideologies from a context different to our own. William Shakespeare’s dramatic tragedy, Macbeth, published in 1606, follows the tale of a once noble man named Macbeth, who, influenced by his hamartia, became the catalyst for disrupting the natural balance of the universe. Macbeth is a text which relates to the contextual beliefs and ideologies of the Early Modern Period and whilst the text endorses those beliefs it also challenges the…

Jay Patel Mr. Foster English 102 9 October 2015 Life and Death: Hamlet’s Perspective Before William Shakespeare’s time, other playwrights created plays that were about life and death. The multiple deaths of characters in a play were apparently very entertaining to watch even though it was not funny at all. William Shakespeare was a renowned playwright that really connected to the audience’s heart. His well-known plays have mostly been about sorrow and death. For example, Romeo and Juliet. They…