Lower Canada Rebellion

government, this is known as a revolt. For example, Nat Turner was a African American slave who started a revolt. He and his followers killed 60 white people including women, men, and children. During the Rebellion, 315 people died in total including slaves and people from the white descent. Rebellions are often caused to express your feelings toward something. In the reading, The Underground Railroad for Kids by Mary Cay Carson, it shows the Revolt that started with Nat Turner. I think that…

What is rebellion? The definition of rebellion is an action or process of resisting authority, control, or convention. In the civil rights movement, there are a lot of historical events that happen that shows people rebelling for a cause. For example Rosa Parks-New Spread and the Boycott of buses. For example in the book Red Rising when Eo and Darrow went up on the surface they got caught by the sliver Eo wanted Darrow to stand his ground. Like Rosa Parks Eo wanted to “break the changes”. The…

there too. After the French and Indian war, the British took over Canada. Even though the British did a good job of unifying the dominion, there was a huge group of French and English. Rebellions broke out because of the cultural difference of the English and French. The Red River Rebellion broke out between the upper and lower regions of Canada. The upper region was led by Mackenzie and the lower region was led by…

The War of 1812 was a military conflict between Great Britain and the United States that was fought from 1812 to 1815. Canada became involved due to the fact that they were a colony of Great Britain at the time and Canada had been invaded on multiple occasions by the United States. The war began because of conflict between Great Britain and the United States when Great Britain adopted economic sanctions that restricted American trade. Britain also infuriated the Americans when the HMS Geurriere…

What fosters Canadian nationalism or at the very least- makes Canadians want to remain Canadian? Is it our unanimous love for hockey, our patronage of French and English or our role in the world? Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the 15th Prime Minister of Canada, writes in his book Federalism, Nationalism and Reason that ‘will’ rather than the aforementioned factors of geography, common language, common culture is the most critical to the ‘foundation of the nation’. He furthers his point by comparing…

British parliament has a two house system. This bicameral structure includes a house of lords and a house of commons. The house of lords is made out of people who inherited the position or were elected by the monarch and prime minister, while the House of Commons consists of members elected by the people. The house of lords has very small influence in the British government. The most useful action they can perform is to delay a law brought up by the house commons. It is delayed for up to a year,…

Rhetorical Analysis of “The Hurting Heroes of 9/11 ” In the article “The Hurting Heroes of 9/11” (Sept. 16, 2016), Leah McGrath Goodman claims that those who helped with the rescue of the 9/11 attacks continue to die even 15 years after the attacks happened. Goodman supports the claim by using statistics and actual people who helped with the rescue of 9/11 who have some health issues that they are suffering over the last 15 years. Goodman has written this article in order to inform readers of…

Case study 1 Apocalypse and the influence of 9/11 on the apocalyptic movies Apocalypses have always been in people their heads, the thought of the end of the world has been and still is really popular in the film industry. Bendle says “Apocalypses are one of the oldest narrative forms, and they have informed some of the most imaginative and terrifying imagery in cultural history” (Bendle, 2005). In the years before 9/11 the apocalypse movies, books and magazines have been a great and widely…

A Multi-Media Assessment of “Portraits of Grief” by The New York Times Question 1: The focus of “Portraits of Grief” by The New York Times focuses on the different reactions of family members for those that had died in the September 11th, 2001 attack on the Twin Towers. The article focuses on “revisiting” the families and re-evaluating the personal lives of those that had died in the attacks. This presentation is meant as a memorial for those that died on 9/11. Question 2: There were two…

911 is the one phone number, aside from 867-5309, every American knows by heart. Americans are taught from an early age when there is a crisis they can call 911 and the emergency service responders will be there to help them. However, many problems can affect a dispatcher’s ability to do their job which can end in disaster for the person on the other end of the line. The 911 dispatch centers, also known as public safety answering points or PSAPs do their best, but sometimes these obstacles…