Settler colonialism

live there. “The Chesapeake area, where the tobacco-producing colonies of Virginia for cheap labor, receive about 120,000 settlers, most of whom landed before 1660. New England attracted 21,000 emigrants, nearly all of them arriving before 1640. In the second part of the seventeenth century, the Middle Colonies (New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) attracted about 23,000 settlers. Although the arrivals to New England and the Middle Colonies…

A common theme that occurs in prosperous societies is the inclination to expand their influence. During the late 1750’s, the Americans colonies shared this inclination largely because of rapid population growth, which force them to excavate westwards in order accommodated new life. Sponsored by the Ohio Company, this relocation enraged the French because it was invading their territory, which supplied them with resources for their incredibly profitable fur trade. Furthermore, compiled with the…

When I finished reading Treaties: Negotiations and Rights by Tamara Starblanket, the first thing that I thought was that treaty was not going to work. It was not going to work, because when these two nations came together, before they even met, their ideals were different. The Crown thought that they already had sovereignty over their lands and were just granting the Aboriginal Peoples certain rights. The Crown thought that they already had control and rule of the lands. While the Aboriginal…

The Orange Sun, Bioethics and Praxis of Systemic Annihilation in Kaine Agary’s Yellow Yellow ABSTRACT From the quasi-oral form, African Literature has cascaded through systemic phases in less than two hundred years of contact with the Western written form. It has migrated from that dark romance portrayed by western writers to contemporariness of self-reappraisal. The primary inclination of these texts has been the ultimate question. What have we achieved with our independence? The unsavoury…

The novel series, “The Leatherstocking Tales,” written by James Fenimore Cooper is based on various conflicts about Nathaniel Bumppo, also known as Hawkeye. Hawkeye finds it difficult to combine the colonial and frontier cultures, allowing his true character to take place and become evident. He uses his ordinary skills that every hero has, bringing along Chingachgook and Uncas. Hawkeye expresses the significant ways of an American hero through his moral code, generosity, and resourcefulness.…

Property Valuation Challenges in the Case of Selected African Countries Real property valuation has importance not only for developing countries but also for developed countries so as to increase the socio economic development of the community. In relation to Real Property valuation in Africa countries, valuation becomes interlinked and multi-dimensional in nature. The major challenges of valuation in African countries include absence or poor valuation education and training, absence of…

Food, Power, and Resistance in the Andes: Exploring Quechua Verbal and Visual Narratives is a study by Alison Krogel that analyzes the food-landscapes that are present in different Andean art forms. She states that “This book is about the relationship between food, cooks, and power in the Andes. More precisely, it explores the ways in which indigenous female cooks use their roles as food preparers, marketers, or purveyors to access otherwise elusive socioeconomic (and sometimes political) power…

I will be discussing Collier and Gunning’s article, Why has Africa grown slowly? In the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and Mazrui, Ali article Democracide: Who killed democracy in Africa? In Collier and Gunning’s paper, Why has Africa grown slowly? I will explain how domestic-destiny and external-destiny are blamed as two of the four reasons for Africa’s poor economic performance. Also, explaining the difference between domestic-destiny and external-destiny and which one Collier states is…

From the very start, Leslie Silko’s novel Ceremony features quite a prominent cultural discrepancy between westerners and the Indigenous people. As the novel unfolds, this discrepancy continues to grow in a seemingly exponential manner, where through the characters’ words and actions, white people continually commit numerous forms of aggressions against indigenous people. Given that both Tayo and Silko have in some ways experienced living in two different worlds, it's absolutely essential to the…

The Shadow Lines discusses the effects of fear on memory, the connection between the past and the present in narrator’s own identity, the life story of an Indian boy there and in London. The crucial and historical events like communal riots of 1963-64 in Dhaka, World War II, Partition of India, and Swadeshi Movement that occurred in 1980s are recalled by the narrator and these memories traumatize the narrator. The aspect of cosmopolitanism is found in the character of Ila. The protagonist is…