Totem pole

One hundred or so years ago, many believed that assimilation of First Nations in Canada was a good policy. No one was aware about the horrid conditions of residential schools at the time. 93,000 residential school students are still alive today. They are the limited survivors of a cultural genocide that many did not even realize had occurred in Canada until very recently. The last residential school did not close until 1996, and to this very day Indigenous society is taut with corruption as a…

Christina Causey HIS 101 Research Paper 18 February 2015 Life in Mesopotamia Mesopotamia life cannot be compared to the life in Rome or Greece because of the distinguishing differences. Mesopotamia could not be considered to live a unified and sophisticated way of life. In 4500 BCE, through that rise of the city, people of Mesopotamia did however live their lives in comparable ways. Value was placed on the written word by the people of Mesopotamia. The scribes appeared to be infatuated…

A lot of work goes into putting together a marching band show. The band has to learn and memorize all of the music while paying attention to dynamics, time signatures, and tempos. On top of all of this music, a band has to learn over forty different formations to march to on the field. Before any of this can happen there must be practice. We learn how to march at the beginning and we learn how to play our instruments early on. High school is similar to learning a marching band show. I started…

There was definitely money to be made and White colonists were not going to look anywhere else, but their slaves. It became a status symbol for many wealthy, and aristocratic families to own slaves. It elevated their position in the totem pole of very elitist politics. It’s easy for us to look back and make judgements about the past and say who was right or wrong. The purpose of this piece is not to label past events as good or bad. It is to elaborate and explain in detail the facts as…

Every second grader has gone to the zoo to see lions and tigers in their cages and learned about what they eat and a few interesting facts about the animals. What the second graders do not think about is how the animals got to the zoo and what a day in the life of a zoo animal really consists of. No American could ever imagine living in solitary confinement in any situation other than being punished for a crime in jail, so what makes that different for animals? They did not commit crimes,…

Fantasy, in comparison to a lot of other genres of literature, takes a great deal of work. It requires the creator to build a world from the ground up and make it believable. The Lord of the Rings is a shining example of a fantasy world done right, with Tolkien’s fantastic setting and characters. However, what is most intriguing about the world that Tolkien has created is not the many fantastic races he created. What is fascinating is how he wrote the race that the reader is most familiar with,…

Being established that early on allowed the Legion to find it’s niche plant it’s roots and do nothing but flourish from there. At the local level they have posts, which there are a lot of them throughout every state. A post is the lowest on the totem pole as far as national, state, and local levels are concerned. Posts are established to conduct business matters, raising money, and for hanging out such as a bar. They cover the wartime’s of World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War,…

Vivian Winters is the kind of person you find yourself unable to resent. She’s tall, pretty, and sugar-sweet. She’s also whip-smart and business savvy, and a blog she started in secret her freshman year has morphed into a business making her thousands a month – it’s exactly the sort of success you’d begrudge a person less likable than her, though I doubt she’d have found it, had she been less personable. Obviously, she’s not a flawless human, but she’s a thoroughly good person. Having lived with…

On an early August morning before the break of dawn no one would have suspected that Nat Turner would be leading a slave uprising. He entered his master’s home in Southampton, Virginia killing five of the family members from his plantation. This uprising would soon become the famous rebellion known as the Nat Turner Rebellion. This rebellion, which Tuner thought of as a sign from God would raise southerner’s fears and change attitudes towards slavery. Nat Turner was born into slavery in the…

“Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.” - Benito Mussolini. A dictatorship is the absolute control of a country in governance by one individual, formally known as a dictator. Absolute control of Italy, with the formation of a totalitarian state is a perfect example of dictatorial power. Benito Mussolini was appointed the 27th prime minister of italy in 1923, and by 1925, he named himself dictator, and implemented fascism into the new…