Lower Canada Rebellion

A common theme throughout the history of the world is conflict between two or more groups of cultures or ethnicities. Within Canada, much of the tension from past conflicts is arguably still present in today’s societies between Canadians of French and English descent. An example of this conflict lies around the concept of conscription being present in Canada during World War I. Conscription in World War I strengthened existing tensions from military volunteer rates and separated nationalistic…

Canadian is a multicultural and cosmopolitan country. Chinese Canadian has a large population. They are the third largest ethnic group in Canada, approximately 1.5 million.4 The history of Chinese Canadian was complicated. The first Chinese landed in Canada from 200 years ago. At first, Chinese immigrants were unwelcome. They were isolated physically, socially and culturally from Canadian society. 1They were treated differently and unfairly compared to other ethnic groups. For example, while…

However, the British fur trading companies in Canada still kept operating trading posts in the Ojibwe land of northern Wisconsin and Minnesota until 1815 (Ojibwe History 2014). The United States started to gain concern as the British influence continued to grow within the region and similar to other…

adopted the present day name for the party during the Fourth Congress. The success of communism in Vietnam can be contributed to the country’s colonization under French. When France claimed Vietnam, they introduced the country to European culture, as well as to Communism. Which is an ideology originating in Europe. Then “by forcing the Viet Minh government to lead national resistance against colonialism, the French inadvertently helped the Communists acquire much-needed legitimacy.” However,…

Steven (pseudonym) is a first grader at Dog Branch Elementary School (DBES) in Dundalk, MD. Steven entered Dog Branch E.S. in April of his Kindergarten year from the Baltimore City Public School system. In first grade, Steven is in a general education classroom and receives small group instruction for both reading and math. I completed and analyzed five different assessments to identify Steven’s strengths and weaknesses. Letter Name Word Study Assessment The purpose of this assessment is to…

September 11th, 2010 will always be remembered as the tragic event heard around the world. It was the day terrorists invaded American airplanes in order to create multiple attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, New York. These attacks took the lives of about 2,500 people, including 230 civilians that were aboard the airplane that crashed in Virginia. These attacks will be in our hearts forever, the effects have prolonged the America throughout history to this day. 9/11 caused more…

must find a balance between what we want to do and what other people expect of us" (page 417). Giovanni used specific stylistic devices in the poems and those devices contribute to the message of the poems. The stylistic devices include using only lower case letters, the lack of punctuations, there's symbolism, imagery, figurative language, tone, and theme. To start with, breaking down "Legacies" (page 418), the poem was written in only lowercase letters with the lack of punctuation line in…

When you get older you don’t remember a lot of things from your childhood. Even the most important events from your childhood like when your first tooth fell out or when you learned to ride a bike. I don't know why we sometimes can’t remember these key events in our lives but I do remember one thing: When I first learned to read. My mom didn't like reading as well as my dad, cousins, and grandma unless you count her daily bible scriptures she read. Despite the fact that my mom didn’t enjoy…

The Fraser Valley contains the eastern part of the Lower Mainland of British Columbia (BC) and extends from Abbotsford and Mission to Hope. It has a mild climate with warm summers and mild winters, which is prior to produce apple crop (Climate Action Initiative, 2015; A Guide to BC’s Agriculture Resources, 2014). Apples are one of the most valuable edible horticulture crops in BC. BC produces 21% of apple in Canada (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 2013). About 2% of BC apples are grown in the…

The incident that occurred on September 11, 2001 has proposed many theories and ideas to what exactly happened. The video we watched introduced many different theories of the people who studied the event in depth and of some people who actually endured and experienced the event first hand. The ethos in the video are the theories and credibility given to them produced by the Italian directors or the people who studied the attack and what they think actually caused certain things that occurred…