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They had also wanted to get them signed by the aboriginals to get ownership over the lands. That is why the Federal government wanted the Aboriginal Peoples to sign the treaty to take their lands and have power and control over the lands giving the First Nations People only some lands (reserves) to have bands live on and to have the start oif assimulation. The government wanted supreme power and control over the lands to have more European settlers come in, to mine on the land, and to build…

Doctor Faustus is a play by Christopher Marlowe. It was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe’s death and at least ten years after the first performance of the play. Doctor Faustus is the story of a man coming to grief by his unbridled thirst for knowledge and power which leads him to his final damnation. It is a play of deep questions concerning morality, religion and man’s relationship to both. This play actually feeds the desire of the supernatural beliefs of the Elizabethan…

to school and learned poetry, history, Greek and Latin. At the age of 18, Shakespeare was required to marry a woman named Anne Hathaway. She was twenty six years old when she found out that she was 3 months pregnant. William and Anne had there first child on May 26, 1583 who they named Susanna. They also had twins Judith and Hamnet on February 2, 1985, but sadly Hamnet died at the…

Q1. Do you agree with the first two sentences? • Is liberty desirable in itself? Are we really all just Libertarians at heart? The first statement is more correct than the second. The essence of liberty is that Individuals are the ultimate minority in society and should be protected, people have rights to themselves and to the benefits of their labour. According to Thesurus.com antonyms of liberty include denial, prohibition, refusal, imprisonment and incarceration. There is a word for when…

However, they do not work the same way in all his plays. Jealousy, in King Lear, seems very different than in Othello. If someone closely takes a look at the very beginning of King Lear, jealousy can be found between two brothers, Edmund and Edgar. First of all, Edmund is jealous because he is a bastard son of Gloucester. He thinks that he will be abandoned from all the assets and power that Gloucester has. Shakespeare reveals the social point of view according to this matter. For instance, even…

by Housing First About 564,708 people in the U.S. were homeless in 2016 during a national survey. The U.S. has not always had such a big problem with the statistics of people going homeless. In the recent years, many states have realized what a nation-wide problem this is becoming. Many states have been working towards getting homelessness reduced. For example, the state of Utah has been making incredible progress in reducing homelessness by going through a program called Housing First, which…

The legacy of residential school has enabled and limited an entire generation of Indigenous people from being able to effectively pass down information that is integral to their culture. Due to this fact, it has become imperative that other forums of information sharing are developed, in order to support and share what information is left of indigenous culture. However, at the same time, this new forum that is developed must show full respect for Indigenous culture and tradition, while properly…

The ultimate goal of colonization was to assimilate and integrate Indigenous people into Canadian society. As a result, there wouldn’t be any Aboriginal culture left in Canada. Acts such as the British North American Act was set out to break their culture and identity apart. 1 This process of colonization has not only affected the Indigenous people of Canada, but also Canada as a whole. Therefore, Canadians are working together to fix these problems by reconciliation. The reconciliation efforts…

William Shakespeare’s plays cover a variety of genres, each offering timeless perspectives that cause them to be performed generation after generation. Only one of these plays is often refused to be performed, on account of its potential antisemitism. Few of Shakespeare’s characters have the infamy of Shylock from the play The Merchant of Venice. Shylock is a Jewish character written as a stereotype: a secretive Jewish merchant running illegal money lending schemes in the city of Venice. Shylock…

covenants, negotiated between two nations to extend and strengthen their kinship bonds, Dr. Miller contends the Canadian government simply saw the Numbered Treaties as contracts for acquiring territory. The first incarnation of treaties Dr. Miller described were commercial compacts. Dating back to first contact, these were necessary for the survival of early Europeans. The treaties relied on ceremonies such as pipe smoking to develop and renew kinship relations with the newcomers. The second…