Northern Territory

Nelson Mandela once said, “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner” (Mandela). This quote signifies everything wrong with the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. The Israelis and Palestinians have barely worked with each other, so they have not been able to make peace and they choose to remain enemies. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict had been on and off for 100 years. After World War II, six million Jews were killed, and the remaining…

Biography My Grandpa Harmen Vriend was born on June 30th 1941 in Holland. At the age of 5 he was forced to move to Canada with his family because the Germans were looking for his father Peter Vriend. That was a big problem because often when the Germans captured the Dutch they would put them to work and died oe were near death because of i . As a child my Grandpa was told that "Canada was the land of milk and honey ".Which means that there was an abundance of supplies like food, housing and…

Separatism. Irish Nationalists were rebelling against the British, since they had control over the land. The Irish Nationalists (resorted to terrorist tactics when acting out against the British and Protestants (White 126). Not only did the British rule Northern Ireland, but Protestants were the majority of the population in the north. The Protestants favored staying under British rule. The Catholics did not agree with this, but did not have a voice since they were not the majority. The…

miles apart.” Things such as burned stones are common ancient monuments. The first that settled in the ancient land were said to be hunters and gathers making it a, “hunter-gatherer tribe; any larger and they exhaust the resources in their immediate territory; any smaller and their breeding group is too small to survive for many generations.” Later as time went on another group of people soon came along known as the Vikings. They understood the economic benefit from using the rivers and sea…

Shane Koyczan is a Canadian writer and poet that has made many amazing spoken word poems. He was born on May 22nd, 1976 in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories; and is currently a member of the spoken word poem group, Tons of Fun University. After high school Koyczan attended college at Okanagan University, Canada, where he studied creative writing. But, following the suggestion of his writing professor, he began to study poetry instead. Now 41, Shane Koyczan has become an amazing poet, author…

Head of State would remain the King, with a Governor-General as his representative in Dublin. Various office-holders, including parliamentarians, would have to take an oath of loyalty to the Crown and three ports in the south would remain British territory, creating imperial security of the two separate states. For the Irish, although this treaty did not gain them full sovereignty it was a start point for many . In January 1922, the Irish Free State was established as a state…

Nocturnal singers are usually unmated males and is more common on full moons (All About Birds). Mockingbirds can sing more than four hundred different song types: songs are usually a medley of mimicked phrases (Janssen, Tessen, and Kennedy, 260). Northern Mockingbirds sing from February to August and September to November. Males have two types of songs one for spring and one for fall, the females sings when the male is gone (All About Birds). Mockingbirds give off alarm calls the louder it gets…

John Lackland, was born either in late 1166 or early 1167 at the Tower of London. He was the youngest son of Eleanor of Aquitaine and King Henry II, the latter controlling a ‘territory that stretched from the pyrenees in the south of France to the very borders of Scotland’. His father held considerable claims of territories at the time, and was part of a Royal House known as the Angevins. Due to the size of his controlled lands, they collectively became known of the Angevin Empire, and King…

Quebec is one of Canada’s largest and most populated territories and plays a very significant role in french history. Quebec makes up the territory that was founded by early french settlers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Quebec was also referred to as New France. Quebec's official language is French, its government is a constitutional monarchy. Quebec is located in eastern Canada and borders just north of the United States of America. Quebec's total area is 595,391 square miles. It makes up…

however, interferes with who actually has access to the Arctic making it almost a war. Most commonly power is divided and shared amongst the territories surrounding as long as this is done on a peaceful basis, all sovereign states have the right to allocate their powers to political units within their borders. And within the borders of the Canadian Arctic, the northern Canadian population has completely accepted the government’s…