Protectorate

Geopolitics has an important effect on society and imperialism in certain countries such as Africa. Geopolitics is also the reason why some rulers go to war with other countries and try to take their land. For example, Napoleon decided to invade Russia so he could control India, which was under British rule. One of the main causes for imperialism was that the British had a financial interest in Africa and the Suez Canal. Geopolitics significantly influenced Napoleon’s conquest of Russia to gain…

Ethos/Pathos/Logos Analysis: Maus Throughout the graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegelman, a plethora of the rhetorical appeals, ethos, pathos, and logos, are demonstrated. Ethos is established via things like credibility of the speaker; Pathos is displayed through things like appealing to the audience’s emotions, hopes, fears, or prejudices; Logos is shown through things like clear, rational ideas, facts and citations. All of those ways to show the rhetorical appeals can be found in Maus. While…

Jim Henson is the greatest puppeteer of all time, creating movies and television shows such as Sesame Street, The Muppets Show, and Fraggle Rock. Henson is known for the manipulating inanimate objects to speak and move for his own personal cause, this case entertainment. There is, however, an even greater puppeteer then the late Jim Henson. Great Britain (and other European powers) conquered the continent of Africa during the early 1900’s to strip the land of its natural resources and…

1. The state of Kasanje was Portugal’s primary slave exporter and it encountered numerous problems when slave trade was abolished. Kasanje was left with a large problem after the abolishing of slavery and that was an excess amount of slaves. Kasanje’s true significance was displaying how Africa and Europe both experienced economic success from slavery. 2. Banyans were Indian bankers that followed Sayyid Said. They traveled to East Africa; there they met many conflicts. Arabs largely dominated…

Setting: In the 1950’s, in the years preceding the independence of the country then-known as Colonial and Protectorate of Nigeria, a colony of the British Empire, a battle between the cultures of the local past and the foreign future had been fought for many years now. The predominantly Christian south of the country, mixed with the African culture that survived the invasion of the British, and the own-made traditions of each tribe, made sure that the battle would be a long one. As seen in the…

The Vienna Coronation Gospels was created before the year, ca. 800. It is an illuminated manuscript hand-written by the scribes and miniaturists at Charlemagne’s court in Aachen. The Coronation Gospels contains four full page evangelist portraits. These images are richly illuminated with each page being written on purple dyed parchment in gold and silver ink. These elements are indicative of Roman Imperial culture, both in the attention to luxury and in colour scheme. It is in this way that the…

much land as possible. During the 1930’s Japanese military forces conducted many large invasions in the bigger parts of China. It didn’t take long for Japan to have almost full control of Indochina which was a federation of French colonies and protectorates in South East Asia. By 1941 they had almost full control. Japan entered the Second World War with a bang,…

“If there is something in these utterances more than youthful inexperience, more than a lack of factual knowledge, what is it? Quite simply it is the desire -- one might indeed say the need -- in Western psychology to set Africa up as a foil to Europe, as a place of negations at once remote and vaguely familiar, in comparison with which Europe 's own state of spiritual grace will be manifest. This need is not new; which should relieve us all of considerable responsibility and perhaps make us…

The Ottoman Empire was one of the flourishing empires in Middle East in the period between from 1299 and 1924. The Ottoman Empire overextended from Southwest Asia to Europe and Northern Africa, hence it was a significant trading route (Alderson 20). Several diverse ethnic groups and religious groups settled in the empire. Ottomans Empire flourished until the time the First World War began. Nevertheless, just as any other empire, the Ottoman Empire was meant to collapse t some point. This can be…

In the period from the Tokugawa era to the post-WWII era, Japanese society saw a dramatic shift in the prevalence of Japanese militarism and the existence of the traditional Japanese war mentality. Deeply rooted in samurai culture, Japanese militarism served as a foundation for Japanese society throughout the Tokugawa era; the class system gave way to a ‘warrior-elite’ class that dominated the social hierarchy. This pervasive warrior-dominated culture persisted into the Meiji period. Japanese…