Nova Scotia

In Hugh Maclennan’s Barometer Rising, the author uses the time differently. He is working his way to the story which is the explosion that happened in Halifax on the Harbor. He uses his 304 pages to described the six days before the explosion. The reader knows that the explosion will happen eventually, but the lasting of events before is unbearable. MacLennan uses temporal markers in his novel to situate us through his novel. He uses weekdays and hours to put the reader into context. For the…

The concept of humanity is quite broad. However, it has its different perspectives, although it can be narrowed down to human beings as a collective along with their character and cooperation. With two literary works ‘The Book of Negroes’ and ‘A Raisin in the Sun’, both having the perspectives of institutionalized racism and religion with one having an implicit bias and the other having an explicit bias, these literary works generate an understanding of humanity and afford greater insight into…

HOW SHOULD ONE APPROACH ABORIGINAL LITERATURES? Abstract The paper helps the readers in understanding of Aboriginal issues. It increases the readers’ awareness and understanding of the history, cultures, world views, and contributions of Indigenous peoples in Canada. It enables the readers examine the history, the diversity of cultural, linguistic, racial, and religious of groups of First Nations peoples in Canada, and it exhorts the readers to prepare themselves to live harmoniously in a…

The colonization of English was strong in the beginnings of America. The government that was formed with an English base, because the founders came from and were educated in English schools. Family farms were developed to help support the community and towns, and on the edge of the sea was where they had established a seaport to trade the livestock abundance. Anglo-American colonies established political and judicial structures for men to hold and serve in upper house of legislature. Each…

Is the policy of giving methadone to drug addicts a good one? For those unfamiliar with methadone treatment allow me elaborate. According to Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, methadone is a synthetic opioid created in a lab and is commonly prescribed for treatment of opiate addictions. Individuals addicted to “heroin, oxycodone and hydromorphone” receive daily doses of methadone to alleviate withdrawal symptoms. CAMH expert’s rationalized the use of methadone as minimizing the risks…

Imperialism and colonization has impacted aboriginal people politically,socialy and economically. The long history of contact between Europeans and Aboriginal people had a devastating impact on Aboriginal people, both, positively and negatively. For example the Aboriginal people were not included in the discussions that led into the creation of Canada. A number of treaties were signed between Aboriginal nations and Canadian governments for North America. Between the French…

In December 16th 1773 a group of Bostonians «Sons of Liberty» disguised a large tea shipment. The losses of 10000 pounds are equivalent to 4 million dollars today. In response to this the British government closed the the port of Boston and required the colony to repay all of the losses.This has a major affect, because Boston’s colony was one of the biggest on as well. The British government enacted five legislative acts, also known as the Coercive Acts. Those acts were intended to restore…

Language is meant to bring people together. To allow peoples to share ideas, to cultivate ideas; To make humanity equal to God. In the biblical tale of “The Tower of Babel”, the ability of humanity to speak one language allowed them to be closer to God, to achieve a God-like status, but in the end humanity was struck down and cursed to speak a plethora of languages, dividing us so we could never threaten that primordial power. But for a tool which once, supposedly, allowed to us to reach God,…

The Revolutionary era took place from 1763-1789. There were many significant African Americans during this time period. James Armistead was a slave of William Armistead in New Kent County, Virginia, volunteered to spy for the Continental army commander General Lafayette. James soon became a servant to British general Lord Cornwallis, who asked him to spy on the Americans. As a double agent, James gave unimportant information to Cornwallis, while keeping Lafayette informed about British troop…

Background Information Life at Cape Breton University in Sydney is full of opportunity, diversity, and excellence in the academic field. The university has the largest population of international students out of the eleven universities located in Nova Scotia. Saint Mary’s University is second to CBU in terms of the population of international students. The rising number of students is contributed by the fact that there is high demand for higher education and consequently graduates in the labor…