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Kill the Indian, and Save the Man” with this view the project of boarding schools started in 1870. In that time, and while Americans were still at war with the native population, The Indian boarding schools were a war plan to kill the Indian “spirit” on the native American’s new generations. What ensures the survival of any nation, is the transmission of the element of its specific cultural identity, tradition, and moeurs from generation to another. Boarding schools were implemented to achieve…

Derek Alton Walcott was born in the Caribbean island paradise of Saint Lucia in the small port city of Castries on January 23, 1930 (Grimes). His work was strongly influenced by this Caribbean setting, the beauty of it, and the historical context of colonialism (Grimes; Campbell). Specifically, he explored themes of cultural chauvinism, political inequity, and ethnicity. He refused to accept the false Black/White dichotomy of race in the Caribbean, centralizing ethnicity in his work, he himself…

In Chapter 4 of the book The Devil’s Teeth by Susan Casey, tell tales of her official venture to the Farallon island where she was granted a pass by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s manager. Throughout the chapter, Casey shares her great experience with her travel to the island and its’ inevitable weather and crucial transport from the boat to shore. Casey conveys her knowledge about the different kinds of birds and other creatures on the island. And her daunting experience with ghost-like and…

Identity determines the qualities and beliefs that distinguish or identify a person or thing. Going back into Canadian history, the children of the Indigenous community were taken from their families and placed in residential schools where they were forced to follow Christian traditions, forbidden to practice their own. As years went by, the Indigenous children adapted to the culture of the ‘white man’ country, forgetting where they came from and leaving their roots behind. Joseph Boyden uses…

Are Bacon’s actions justified and is it right? Many historians believe Bacon’s Rebellion was unjustified and wrong, but many other historians believe his actions are benevolent. Bacon’s attack on the Natives is correct because the government was neglecting the citizens, teaching Natives the use of firearms, and the Natives stealing major crops from the citizens. Bacon played a major part in history, especially in the year of 1676 when Bacon’s Rebellion started. The rebellion started out by the…

When Europeans first began to step outside and explore beyond their homelands they referred everyone they encountered on their way as 'barbarians'. The term barbarian existed several thousand years back. The Greeks and the Romans used it to signify a person who is uncivilized and did not belong to their culture. In fact they had enslaved all barbarians. These encounters with other societies in far off lands, led to a curious need for the Europeans to interpret the origins and nature of these…

search for new opportunities; jobs, a place to live, among others. I have never understand how we, the people that immigrate to all over the world can mistreat our own neighbors because of the color of their skin. We have Chinese immigrants, Europeans, Puerto Ricans and many immigrants from Venezuela who we welcome and offer jobs to. This is one of the things that makes feel embarrass about the island I was born in. When I first came to America I pictured a place where people’s dreams come…

“Given the fact that there’s plenty of blame to go around for slavery — plenty of blame to go around among African and Arab states, plenty of blame to go around among Western states — I think we’re better to look forward, and not point fingers backward,” Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State, mentions on NBC. The controversial debate of the United States Federal Government paying reparations to African Americans has been going on for countless years. Reparations, according to Merriam…

Minorities are racist. Not towards other races, rather to one another. They take the views placed upon themselves, enhanced them and when others do not live up to the stereotypical expectation, they are seen as traitorous .Sherman Alexie writes a multitude of texts which all showcase how people in a minority group, in this case Native Americans, as well as individuals outside of that minority, all take part in oppressive actions. Someone who is not within the minority believes they have this…

The political scene of the 1970’s was set for something drastic to occur on the front of foreign policy. Time and time again, clumsy dealings with foreign policy set America up for mishap. The government created a standard of disappointment and the lack of trust people felt for the government was astonishing. Broken promises became a theme, and ineffective administration became an expectation. Taken Hostage by David Farber plays through the set up of the Iranian-Hostage Crisis and the many…