Indigenous peoples of Oceania

the government is doing everything they can to protect it. Deforestation is a serious issue in the rainforest and it’s causing the environment around it to change at a rapid pace. The precious trees are being burnt to the ground or chopped down so people can have farm land and meet the demand of lumber. The documentary explains that up to eighty percent of the deforestation is illegal and the government is doing what they can to give the rainforest a fighting chance at survival. It goes on to…

Families still suffer from loss in different ways, there is still conflict within families, and there certainly is a major aspect of being an outsider as more and more people immigrate to Australia. From the techniques Gow has chosen to use, he has been able to communicate these messages of confit, loss and being outsider. Although some allusions are timeless and worked well within the play, others are historical and are…

A review of “The original sin of white privilege” Margaret Wente’s article from The Globe and Mail that published on May 27, 2017, “The original sin of white privilege,” successfully informs people about the information of white privilege in Canada. Wente seems to be disagreeing with white privilege curriculum and providing some information implies that the white privilege curriculum is outdated, confusing, and unnecessary. Although author Margaret Wente focus on the group of reader, provides…

The exclusion of Indigenous people from the nations constitution took place in the early nineteenth century. Henry Parkes the premier of the colony of New South Wales called for all six Australian colonies to unite and create a great national government for ALL of Australia. Parkes initiated a constitution based on common racial and British custom on which this nation was supposedly founded. Throughout her speech “Indigenous Exceptionalism and the Constitutional ‘Race Power’ Marcia Langton…

view, I feel refugees have the right to come to Australia to seek safety. Throughout the sections "The Boat People of 1881”, The Abuse of Innocence","Wongs, Whites and Reffos" and "The Big Lie”, Mungo McCullum uses strong points and persuasive techniques to shift the views of his readers. I feel Mungo uses strong points and writing technique throughout his book. The opening "The Boat People of 1881" provides the history of the British fleet arriving in Australia for the first time. Mungo shows…

sport and pay a significant amount for doing so (Lindsey et al. 2007). Zimbabwe's Communal Areas Management Program for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE) is a point in case, demonstrating that ecotourism when combined with trophy hunting can generate sufficient resources for communities surrounding wildlife reserves. The logic behind CAMPFIRE is very simple and straightforward: people conserve what they value. Some believe that biodiversity should be conserved for its intrinsic value, but the…

T. S. Eliot, a essayist, once said, “The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence” (“Four Quartets by Eliot”). The British have colonized Canada from 1763 to 1867, which greatly impacted the lives of both countries. During this period of colonization it sparked various unique personal experiences and perspectives for the Canadians and British. With that context, how do differing perspectives help us to understand the British colonization…

manifest destiny. Then, farmers started to move in and take hunting ground land from the metis and turned it into cropland. After, Louis Riel stepped in to the picture and told them that this was unlawful. Louis Riel was a political leader of the metis people of the Canadian prairies, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a Canadian politician. He was born on October 22, 1844 in Red River Colony and died on November 16, 1885 in Regina. His wife’s name was Marguerite Monet. He had two…

Who has the right to shape a culture’s identity? Should people of a certain culture decide for themselves what they are, or do the opinions’ of outsiders determine this? Throughout history, a bit of both has occurred. Ethnography is when someone outside of a culture writes about that culture. Occasionally, someone from within a culture that has had an ethnography written about them will disagree and write an autoethnography in response, stating what they see their own culture as. The…

assimilation project. In particular, he notes how gregarious tensions are being challenged and resolved in the cultural arena with the conception of Créolité. Its proponents argue that "Antilleans are the product of a constant interaction of conceptions and people from all over the world, not some hermetically sealed local culture" (p. 70). Beriss believes the impact of conceptions such as Créolité among the Antilleans in France could, along with the cultural impact of the much more immensely…