First Things First

It was my first time working with my new Robotics team since I had changed schools after sophomore year. Immediately after the event Recycle Rush was announced at FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition) Kick Offs, discussions and ideas started flowing. Several students collected in the school auditorium started sharing their ideas. “Have arms that can move the totes,” suggested one kid. I decided to voice my idea and proposed a lift mechanism on a robot with Mecanum drive terrain, as Mecanum drive…

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…

people in an area. In order to colonize the Indian act has formed. This act impacted and the residential schools impacted the first nations and continue to affect them today too. This act has made the first nation people now live without love and has also unable them to love. Including this, this is also a reason a lot of first nation…

institutions were invented with the idea of killing the Indian in the child and assimilating the first nation people of Canada into caucasian society. The schools were implementing religion and the white man's ways into their lives and aid them become like the rest of society in the eyes of the government. What no would foresee would be the deaths of children, the abuse the starvation and much more of the first nation people who had done nothing but been here before the Europeans arrived. The…

In all of the documents, there are different things that are written on each and every one of them, but the one thing that they have in common is that each event lead to the spread of Islam. In the first document which was document A, the paragraph mostly talks about the war of the Muslims and the Greeks. According to the text, “The battle that they fought at the al-Yarmuk was one of the fiercest and bloodiest kinds. In this battle 24,000 Muslims took part. By Allah’s help, some 70,000 of…

By Bridgelynn Adams How has Canada Maintained a diverse cultural identity? First, there was the fur trade. This happened around 1545-1750. It could be known as an early colony of Canada. (A colony is a territory that is under control by another country) The fur trade helped create relations between the natives. (This is because they give them something to sell therefore they get stuff back) Did you know that this was extremely popular at style in Europe in the 1600´s. Everyone wanted one. Then…

The First Crusade and How it Effected Today The First Crusade of nine effected the future without even knowing it. The Crusades were religious battles. Had the Crusades not happened many things that happen today, would not. One example is the impact the Crusades had in European expansion. If the First Crusade had not happened then the other eight would not have occurred either. If none of these had occurred the world would be a much different place. The First Crusade began in 1096 and…

When people are asked to describe Canada, usually the first thing that comes to mind are words like “polite” or “kind.” People tend to forget the way certain people have been or are treated based only the colour of their skin. Inequalities have existed in Canada persistently and still exist today. Major examples of inequalities in Canadian history is the treatment of First Nations people and the treatment of Chinese-Canadians. These are only a couple of the millions of examples of discrimination…

and Sugar Falls we can see two different stories about the experience of first nation childs in these schools. Loneliness and discrimination are powerful themes in these two stories. In The Secret Path the theme of loneliness is demonstrated through the image were Chain, a first nation kid uses 6 matches while escaping from a residential school. When one sees this image believes that when Chain was escaping the only thing that he had with him were the matches, which represent how everything can…

I will be giving a brief summary of Curve lake first nation; Curve Lake First Nation people are the Mississaugas of the great Anishnaabeg nation. The traditional language spoken by the Anishnaabeg was Anishinaabemowin. The name Anishnaabeg a name made from two parts. The first part of anishaw, which means “spontaneous”. The second part inauawese, which means “human-body”. This together translates to mean “spontaneous man”. The Anishnaabeg did not use a written alphabet. All teaching was done…