Haida

You feel the cool breeze as winter recedes in the beautiful Alaskan Yukon. As you stand in the breeze you think, “this is the most beautiful place in the world”. Everyone who has visited Alaska has said the same thing, and even the most strict critics have admitted to its splendor. Alaska is an amazing place the history, landscape, wildlife, and the many things to do will show you that Alaska truly is a place of wonder and majesty. Historians still do not know when and how people began to live…

abusing Tilikum constantly. This resulting in an aggressive, sad future for Tilikum. SeaLand was forcibly closed because a 20 year old trauber slipped and fell into the small pool where the whales performed. Once she was in, (“Tilikum, Nootka IV, and Haida II dragged and repeatedly submerged her until she drowned, despite other trainers' efforts to rescue her.”…

Paris stands at the entrance to the crypt. He performs a ritual for Juliet. The sun shines down upon the field. The sky is cloudless, a few trees line the area around the crypt. The crypt, a solid concrete building with a slab blocking the door, is now covered in vines and flowers. A single statue of a bird sat at the entrance and a sign hangs on the entrance. Off in the distance, Romeo and his servant walk towards the scene. Paris, in tears, is ushered into the trees by his servant as Romeo…

Emily Carr is one of Canada’s most well known painters but, there was more to her. Emily Carr was born on December thirteenth 1871 in Victoria, British Columbia (Neering, p. 3). Her parents died in her early teenage years (Neering, p. 8) and in 1890, Carr studied art in San Francisco for five years (Neering, p. 12). When she returned to Victoria at twenty- four years old, she taught children’s art classes in a barn studio (Neering, p. 17). Later, in 1899 she travelled to England to study art at…

I also like it because, it's kind of easy to remember. some negative things about my first name is that people don't know how to pronounce, so they always say it wrong. Some people say, “Id, Haiddie, or even Haida.” Sometimes it gets annoying when they don't say it right. I understand it's kinda hard, but there is no h in my name it’s a first not h. The good things about my last name are that the way you right it is the way you write it. I also like it because…

difference which would tell us a story about their culture. Art is a type of storytelling that we look at and interpret rather than listen to. Through art, we are able to interpret perspectives of other cultures. In Liberal Education, Bruce discussed how Haida art includes specific designs and techniques, such as continuous flowing lines, outlines of animals, long circular shapes (ovoids) and u-forms. The design and material used in and for the art tell a story about the culture. We can use the…

Who colonized America? This is a debated topic in history by all historians. It is said that Native Americans from Asia were the first to migrate west to North America. What some Americans don’t understand are the small societies that make up the Native American people. These societies were much less complex than societies today, but nonetheless they had culture. Throughout modern day Canada, America, and Mexico hundreds of North American tribes resided. These were the first people to discover…

and then others use these places for education reasons, to observe these exotic animals behavior or how they do certain actions since zoos are a more reachable source where you can view with your own eyes and opinions than taking someone’s word on these animals on T.V. or paying tons of money just to get their research, although zoos may be a good source to observe the conditions of these animals, these animals as well act much different due to being held in captivity, which Captive Animals…

A Park of Hurt Imagine living in a bathtub filled with harmful substances, no companions or family to socialize with and having to endure violence every day. As people are reading this, twenty-six killer whales are imprisoned at four SeaWorld parks as victims of their fulsome treatment. Many visitors of SeaWorld are incognizant to the reality behind the Shamu show. The amusement park hides behind a mask of care and benevolence, but truthfully it is an abusement park. SeaWorld does not and never…

Education through Assimilation After the American Civil War, why did the American government feel the need to place Indian children of the Pacific Northwest in government run schools in order to make these native children fit into the American society? In the essay “Assimilation through Education: Indian Boarding Schools in the Pacific Northwest” by Carolyn Marr, she described the educational plight of Indian children from the 1880’s to the 1920’s. The United States government felt that…