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    The Dependency of the Netsilik People’s New World Culture The culture in the northern regions of Canada was dominated by the Netsilik people until in the mid 20th century when the Canadian government gave the Netsilik people housing materials and created schools and churches. This allowed the Canadian government to introduce western ideals and a basic economy into there civilization creating a modernized community. The creation of this modernized community completely flipped the Netsilik…

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    Eugenics! Oh what a great movement. In residential schools, us religious teachers are very strong believers in Christianity. We would like to make everyone believe in our faith and believe in god. God is someone whom we are very close to. One of our main plans in the residential schools is to bring in any aboriginal child and convert them to Christianity. We did not want them to learn about any other faith or culture. We believe Christianity is the most important religion. To prevent any…

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    The Making of the Knights Templar “Like going on pilgrimage, to which they were often likened, crusading was an act of Christian love and piety that compensated for and paid the penalties earned by sin” (Richard Abels, par. 1). During the Medieval Time Period, the Christians would take pilgrimage to the Holy City of Jerusalem until it became increasingly dangerous as the Muslim Wars of Expansion threated the Holy City of Jerusalem. This sparked the Crusades: a series of Holy Wars where the…

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    Inuit Environment

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    The Inuit are part of a wide group modernly called Eskimos. Scattered throughout the Arctic region, they occupy parts Canada, Greenland, and the Alaskan coast. They originated in in Western Alaska starting around 1000 A.D., and slowly expanded outwards. The Inuit have been around for a large span of time, and still exist today. With regards to the characteristics their society, the capacity for the presence of peace and violence is evaluated through ethnographic, archaeological, and…

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    Discovering One’s Ability to Forgive In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, forgiveness is manifested as a motif throughout the play. Shakespeare illustrates that the ability to rise above and reconcile with others can lead to inner peace, through the character of Prospero. As the play begins, the mood is dark, consistent with the turmoil Prospero experiences as he plans to seek vengeance against his rivals. However, his state of mind begins to shift when his spirit helper, Ariel, proclaims that…

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    There is a reason that in 2018, two-hundred and two years later since Shakespeare's death, that we continue to read his playwrights. One thing that separates Shakespeare from other writers is his way to create a story full of different themes that remains to be timeless and relevant in today’s society. King Lear is one of Shakespeare's plays that illustrates how good his use of themes is. One of the major themes is the power that corrupts the characters, which plays an extensive role throughout…

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    Julius Caesar

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    In Julius Caesar they’re plenty of supernatural signs portrayed in nature. Shakespeare was an ecstatic character, he wrote many plays including Julius Caesar. Not only did Shakespeare write plays but he also wrote sonnets and ballads as well. A lot of Shakespeare’s characters were based on the Elizabethan Era and the ancient romans. Shakespeare wrote plays about tragedies, comedies, romance and more. However one thing that is always consistent in his plays is the supernatural and how it played…

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    First Crusaders

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    This research paper will describe the first few Crusades and how they happened.The Crusades were a series of many battles caused by different religions fighting over their differences.In these battles, the religions fought to try to make their religion the superior religion and bring the other religions down.The sides of these battles consisted of Muslims, Jews, and Christians.Many things happened in each Crusade including the capturing of Jerusalem, the fall of the county Edessa, the treaty of…

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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…

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    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.…

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