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actor as the villain is the film The Last Airbender, directed by M Night Shyamalan. The film is based on the popular show Avatar: The Last Airbender, where it follows main characters Aang, Sokka, and Katara - none of whom were white, but mixes of Inuit and Southeast Asian culture. The villain of the series, Zuko, was cast incorrectly even if he was someone of colour (Deepti). There are times where in the past Hollywood has cast a POC in a main role; normally this is someone who is black and…

Indigenous communities across Canada have their own distinct cultures, customs, and languages. Despite being unique, the communities share some of the unpleasant struggles they had to cope with. Before European contact, the communities were self-sustaining and healthy, comprised of members who were confident in their position in society. However, that did not last as with contact came struggle for the indigenous communities. Today, society still seem to be ignoring the pain that many, if not all…

Memories of our teachers are usually a stark binary— either good or bad. However, regardless of being either positive or negative recollections, these stories influence our self-image as children, shape us as learners, and stay with us into adulthood. Carl Jung offers insight into the memory of teachers, he says when "one looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings . . . warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and…

Chloe Duke 10/10/15 Ak Studies My memory of the Spanish Influenza Epidemic in Alaska is very vivid in my mind. I remember hearing about it first happening in the lower 48. To be more specific in Boston and then how it spread the flu to Philadelphia all spreading from shipyard to shipyard, boat to boat, person to person. On September 17, a ship docked at the Puget Sound Naval Station, which is near Seattle, Washington, where longshoremen loaded steamships that happened to be bound for…

Henry Hudson was a great English explorer, he was born in 1570 and died in 1611. We do not know much about his early life. From his first voyage as captain of a ship in 1607, we began to know Henry Hudson. Given his talent for navigation, it is assumed that he probably worked on other ships before being appointed commander of a single ship. We also know he was married to a woman named Katherine and he had three sons with her called Richard, Olivier and John. His character remains elusive but…

Andrew Heywood ENG 1101 Larson August 24, 2015 Climate Change and the Arctic Earth is a self-sustaining system that is built to cleanse and rehabilitate its own environment. Due to our interactions with the environment, producing mass amounts of greenhouse gases and releasing chemical waste, we are slowly tearing the Earth apart faster than it can repair itself. One effect this has created is climate change. Climate change has caused much of Earth’s environment to degrade, the Arctic being the…

dependent on a low level of thought. For the Thai, thinking, or questioning, diminishes happiness. Weiner sees devalued thought and a go-with-the-flow mentality create a form of happiness for the Thai, similar to contentment. Weiner compares this with Inuit…

In her article, “Apocalypse and Ecotopia: Narratives in Global Climate Change Disclosure” Janet Fiskio claims that in order to perceive the Anthropocene entirely “we need to examine the aesthetic and narrative modes expressed through cultural productions for their relationships to the dimensions of race, gender, class, ability [,] and nation” (p. 13). As Fiskio suggests, narratives play a substantial role in highlighting how the social factors are crucial in bringing forth the awareness about…

Canadian Seal Hunt played a prominent role in exposing the cruelty involved in fashion industry production. The photo, taken in 1969 by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, was a catalyst that provoked outrage and boycotts of fur products in Canada. The group joined forces with a wide spectrum of animal welfare groups in order to protest the unregulated slaughter of baby seals by Newfoundland and Labrador fishermen. The image in question depicts a seal hunter wielding a club to a baby seal…

Time is very subjective in terms of how we experience it. To a bored student time can seem endless and the clock ticks away, second by second each taking a lifetime, as we grow older time passes by more and more quickly to the point that find that fond memories that feel as if they were yesterday were days, months , even years ago. Not only is the perception of time divergent for different people, it also evolves as we do, as our lives and situations change so does our view of time. It is based…