Native Hawaiian

The Absolutely Diary of a Part-Time Indian In The Absolutely Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie Junio, is a kid in high school who was born with medical problems and gets bullied often because of it. He lives on a Spokane Indian Reservation next to the town Rearden, where he later goes to an all white school. Junior tries to stay positive as he is rejected by his people and classmates. When someone is “straddling two worlds” they have to go “back and forth between the fringes of”…

For the past 7 million years, humans have found methods of survival. From the beginning of the human race, until agriculture is discovered and introduced, hunting, gathering, and scavenging was the only viable strategy of getting food (Weisdorf, 2005). These methods have evolved over time as either food supplies increased, decreased or disappeared. There wasn't a choice but to adapt to their surroundings to survive. From the beginning until about 10,000 years ago, hunting and gathering appeared…

Division, Degradation, and Determination It is amazing. The amount in which America has changed is truly great. Over the past 100 years of this nation’s history, culture and the way in which society acts as a whole has evolved drastically. Without a doubt, the story of “Battle Royal” displays this fact very well. The author, Ralph Ellison, tactfully uses artful wording and vividly makes his writing come alive to captivate his readers. The main character in his story is a young African…

The Beale Ciphers have been around for over one hundred years and only the second one has been solved. The Beale Ciphers are a set of three Cipher texts that were made by Thomas J. Beale later to be published by an unnamed friend. According to the story, Beale was chosen to be the leader of a group of thirty men going on a buffalo hunt. They were surprised to find that they had stumbled on a huge gold and silver mine. They mined for 18 months while hunting moose before they decided to head back.…

18th and 19th century writings about castaways give insight into how the British viewed the natives that were encountered during colonization of new lands. To help explain the British world understanding, I will be referencing the Narrative of the capture, sufferings, and miraculous escape of Mrs. Eliza Fraser, a true story of a woman who is shipwrecked in Queensland, Australia, in 1836. From this text, along with analysis from Lynette Russel, we can see the British held the view that there was…

The institution of the United States can be first traced back to the interactions between Christopher Columbus and the settlement of the natives. This voyage soon led to the European colonization of the United States. Later in history, July 4th of 1776, America declared its independence. Every since America’s declaration of Independence, it has become the world’s #1 economic, political, social, industrial and liberal power. Some may argue that the United States isn’t a country, but instead a…

At this point in time, race is something that is unescapable. When a child is born race is one of the first things implicated onto them. The classification and separation of different people has been around since the early expeditions of the Indian Ocean region and has become more prevalent and advanced as time has gone on. In the book, Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting by Vijay Prashad he focuses specifically on “the peoples who claim the heritage of the continents of Asia and Africa” (Prashad, x)…

Civil Disobedience –Martin Luther King. Jr & Mahands Karamchand Gandhi Eddie Li Tianjin Foreign Languages School Introduction For hundreds of years since the prevail of human civilizations, no matter in eastern or western countries, citizens were and are always trying to pursue a more democratic society. Since then, regional conflicts and battles had been raised in European and North America in the past two centuries, millions of people got injured or dead during the war time. However, civil…

Colonialism is the imperial expansions with political, economic and military forces. Colonialism in 19th century is a period of territorial expansion which mainly led by European powers. In the late 19th century, because of the developed transportation, globalization grew fast. So far, it became a movement of people, information, goods, services, culture, and politics in world wide range. There are lots of similarities and differences between these two terms. While both Colonialism and…

also suggests that colonialism is typically a consequence of imperialism. In the Invention of Africa, Mudimbe suggests that there are three complementary hypotheses about colonial organization. The domination of physical space, the reformation of natives’ minds, and the integration of local economic histories into the Western perspective. The complementary projects constitute…