Essays on Native People

Immigration Issues

Immigration is such a many-sided problem that it is extremely hard to single-out the most important parts of it. Immigration hits the governments that are hosting immigrants and of course, it hits the people who give up their lives either in search for a better destiny or in hope to find peace and save themselves. In this paper, I would like to focus on this recent wave of immigration that has consumed Europe in the past few years, because of the multiple war zones that have occurred in the East of our planet. I believe that the receiving sides ...

Question 1.

The Supreme Court of New South Wales is the highest court of the state, with the unlimited civil jurisdiction. The Court has appellate and trial jurisdictions, in addition to the jurisdiction granted by specific statutes. The Court acts as a supervisor over other NSW courts and tribunals. (Supreme Court NSW) Mental Health Review Tribunal is a non-judicial tribunal established under the Mental Health Act 2007 NSW. The Tribunal has a wide authority to conduct various inquiries in the field of mental health, issue orders, hear appeals regarding the treatment of people with a mental illness. The Tribunal has the ...

Introduction

In the novel one hundred years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells the history of the Buendia family, which is the founding family of Macondo town. For many years, the town had remained secluded from the rest of the world with the only visitors it received being the gypsies who were peddlers. Moreover, José Arcadio Buendía, who was the head of this family, had impulsive personality, inquisitive, and always alienated himself from most men. In correspondence, most of his descendants inherited his character traits. After some years, the previously innocent village began creating numerous ties with other towns. ...

Imperialism is the economic relationship between two states commonly based on unequal rights and a class system. The dominating nation in the relationship often uses its economic power to oppress the people of the less dominant power thus leading to the collapse of the economy and the existing social structures. Despite the fact that imperialism brought nothing but fame and wealth to the colonial masters, some advancements like industrialization and technological advancements brought changes in some of the colonies as in the case of India during the British Raj regime. British imperialism advanced after seven years of war that ...

The Renaissance was a period in Europe that happened between the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. Most history scholars consider it as the main point of connection between the middle age and the modern history. Renaissance started in Italy, and arrived in the other European countries in the succeeding years. The period of the Renaissance was the first step towards religious revolution, commonly referred to as Protestant Reformation (Tankard, n.p). It is probably the political circumstances of the sixteenth century that led to its success in some places and failure in others. The Renaissance period was a mark of major ...

The text “Pedro Naranjo and Josephe. Testimony of Pueblo Indians” reports the declarations of Pedro Naranjo and Josephe, two Indians involved in the rebellions against Spaniards in South America during 1860 – 1861, captured by the Spanish soldiers. The text was created by Marcus in 2007, as a reproduction of the events involved in European campaigns for conquering America, the land of the Indians. It is destined to everybody who wants to understand the historical and social context of the Indian uprising against Europeans, including the ancestors of the Indians or of their conquistadores. The intention of the author is ...

Cancers of the reproductive system are life threatening and induce much suffering in patients. Women who receive screening services can reduce their chances of developing these cancers. Women who undergo screening can also benefit from early diagnosis and treatment that result in a better prognosis. However, not all cancer prevention programs targeting women are successful of which the Every Woman Matters Program is an example. Of those that are successful, there are common elements contributing to the increased service utilization of women targeted by these screening services.

The Every Woman Matters Program

The Every Woman Matters program is funded by the federal government but managed ...

The time is March 2004 and the place is Paraguay. It is there, where a group of hunter-gatherers, quite possibly one of the few willingly isolated societies in the planet, came running out of the forest in northern Paraguay, escaping from ranchers' earthmovers. The Gran Chaco forest, which means "hunting land" in the Quechua language, the language of the people, is a thinly inhabited, warm and semi-arid coastal natural area of the Río de la Plata basin, shared among Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, where it is attached to the Pantanal region. This area is often called the Chaco ...

Deborah Root’s excerpt, Conquest, Appropriation, and Cultural Difference, and Olive Senior’s Mediation on Yellow poem present the same message about the plight of native nations in Canada. Canada, formerly a British colony, is home to many native nations that have over the years been conquered, displaced, and suffered in the hands of immigrants who came into the country. Despite the feudal past that characterizes the history of these tribes, it is apparent from both the poem and the excerpt that native nations of Canada continue to be discriminated against and being taken advantage of. Both Root’s and ...

Poverty if described as the lack of something can have many dimensions and factors such as economic, political, geographic and cultural. Poverty as a concept is relative and an understanding of poverty changes form one region to another. However, the economic definition of poverty is what has been generally accepted by everyone as it is something that can be measured and dealt with. Academic interest in poverty has also been polarized with development scholars and post-development taking opposing stands on how poverty has come to be defined. Poverty thus has been defined generally as the lack of something whether material ...

Introduction

The bituminous sand that is found in Alberta, Canada is a key resource to Canada. It has played a key role in the development of the country. The mining industry in Canada has played a key role in the economic development of Canada. It has been discovered that nearly approximately 10 percent of oil is considered to be economically recoverable with the use of technologies that are currently being developed. With this, Canada is ranked the third in oil energy reserves after Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela. It is estimated that oil sands will account for approximately 25% of oil liquid supply in ...

‘Instructor’s name’

‘Subject’ European colonial influences on African culture in Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” and Achebe’s “Civil Peace Imperial powers employ different methods to control the nations ruled by them. Apart from force, they also use various ideological means as an indirect mode of attaining control over the colonized nation. Sometimes more than military prowess, ideological instruments makes the people of the colonies accept the power of the ruling imperialist nation, and make them receptive to the domination inflicted on them. Some of the ideological instruments include religion, literature, and education, and these instruments were used to ...

Members of missionary orders spearheaded the churches’ evangelization of Native Americans in the 16th century. Who were these missionaries? Whose side were they on European or the American original peoples and why? Elaborate and provide examples. In the 16th century, there were a number of missionaries who spearheaded the churches’ evangelization of Native Americans. The time of the age of exploration, the Europeans realized that there are many people with different cultures especially in America. This is what caused missionaries to be sent in order to spread Christianity. Most the missionaries were sent by some of the countries that ...

Shakespeare exhibits his keen sense of society in The Tempest, where he portrays the troubling nature—as well as the consequences—of colonial expansion. Shakespeare participates in the condemnation of colonialism, exposing the potential for mental destruction and inhumanity beyond measure when a colonizer deems himself superior to the colonized. Furthermore, he reveals the need to reexamine our history and rid ourselves of residual guilt. The aftermath of remorse and disappointment causes us to suppress memories of our colonial past, “often deluded and unsuccessful in [our] attempts to disown the burdens of [our] colonial inheritance” (Ghandi 4). Shakespeare’s play ...

When the theme of hospitality is talked about in Odyssey, it shows different sides of the people that are visiting them. The strangers that arrive might be either harmless or at the same time very dangerous. Due to the unknown nature of the strangers then the native people should stay prepared for trouble from these strangers. They must also treat them appropriately as they might also be bringing the native people good news on things that they have been seeking. Hospitality in Odyssey is, therefore, magnificent at the same time being very cautious to strangers who visit. Most ...

Indian Horse

This paper looks at the work of Richard Wagamese in his book Indian Horse. It looks at the importance of hockey and the challenges that young native men face while playing the game. Hockey had a positive impact on soul’s life. Initially, Richard was a drug addict and nearly died from his last drug intake. Richard ends up in a treatment facility for his drug problem, and remains reluctant to take his medications seriously at the facility. Richard feels that the people around him do not understand his feelings. Deep in him, he was searching for peace. Richard tells his story ...

Chinua Achebe, in the famous novel, Things Fall Apart, goes on to delve deep into the culture of two different communities through the story of the life of the protagonist, Okonkwo, who is a heroic character of his village in Nigeria. The protagonist is an acclaimed man who has three wives and many children. He is someone who has shown his valor and warlike skills for which he is known among all. The character has a tragic flaw, nonetheless, that leads to his ultimate downfall. He is obsessed not to reveal any sign of emotion or weakness to people. However, ...

The Spanish set out to colonize with the aim of mining gold and silver; this made them enslave the native people to work in the mines extracting the precious metals. Upon their arrival, they found the native people surviving on hunting and gathering while others were farming along the rivers. The first colonization of the southwest began with the discovery of silver in Zacatecas and establishment of the mine in the same place. With time, the Spanish brought about their language, religion and customs, doing away with the culture that they found in Southwest. A regional culture came about ...

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Robinson Crusoe

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The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe (1660 – 1731) .

Social and Diversity Issues

including Logical Human Reactions to Incentives and Penalties with Examples from the Book and Personal Examples CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 2. THE STORY 3. THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS NOVEL IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 4. THE AUTHOR, DANIEL DEFOE (1660 - 1731) 5. THE IMPORTANT COMPONENTS OF THE NOVEL - The Title - The Plot - The Narrator, Robinson Crusoe - The Use of Imagery - The Setting - The ...

Fur trade had a significant influence on the transcontinental relationship between Europe and America. This connection has changed basic principles of life and religion of the Native people, and even their living conditions have modified. It was also the first step in the creation of the stable economic system of the future USA and Canada. With the growth of the fur trade, some new ways of their development have defined. Fur trade excited the investigation of the vast spaces of the new homeland. Fur trade was a necessity or vitally important task for colonists, so it took a great part of ...

The story of Pocahontas and the English explorer John Smith is one of the central stories told about the colonization of the United States. Despite the many other instances of contact between colonizers and the native people living in what we now know as North America, this one has persisted, has been represented in many movies and is carefully studied in history classroom. The story touches about the central themes of colonization, but goes beyond the history of it by giving a narrative story of two people, one from England, the other native to The New World. These characters give ...

Oil and Gas Exploration in the Ecuadorian Amazon Forest

Town/City Abstract There is a projected 3.8 million cubic meters of oil connected pollution in the Ecuadorian Amazon forest .From 1964 to 1992 Texaco, currently owned by Chevron, extracted oil from reservoirs beneath the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador and not carefully discarded the drilling solids as well as liquids connected to oil extraction in pitfall through the forest. Furthermore, Texaco’s processing plants pumped the wastewater into the local water systems. The slapdash dumping of about 18 billion gallons of wastewater as well as 17 million gallons of waste oil has yet to be correctly assessed and hundreds ...

The James Bay Cree region covers the coast and the drainage systems of Hudson Bay in Canada. It extends from James Bay’s section of Lac Guillaume-Delisle to the Rupert’s Bay. The number of people occupying the area is approximately 12, 000 people. The whole region is under the Quebec government. There are the Coasters (Wiinibeyk Iiyuu) and in land people (Nuuchcimiihc Iiyuu) who are the main occupants of the region. They anciently depended on maritime sea mammals and fur trade for survival respectively. The inland Cree were also small-scale hunters who were in organized groups targeting the ...

Latin American countries had adopted capitalism as an economic system that arose from the industrialized Europe and the more developed United Sates. However, capitalism did not solve the societal problems of many Latin American societies. Instead, capitalism created a society where a group of elites controlled the state and the economy of many Latin American countries. Even with the rapid economic development that many Latin American countries experienced in 19th century, economic development was not witnessed among the lower middle class and the peasant farmers. Abject poverty was still a feature of a large percentage of the Latin American populace. The urban poor ...

Imagine being in a wilderness, in an alien place, life all around you, life going on unhindered. Despite the abundance around you, you still can’t find something to feed on, cheer you or relate to. It is like the unlikely situation where all over sudden, your friends quit speaking in a language you understand. You can no longer understand what they say, nor can they you. The world can become a very lonely place in such circumstances; when you fail to fit, not of your own doing, but a cruel mix of fate and circumstances. This is the predicament that most ...

This particular book is seen as a bold step towards discovering science and its related issues from the point of view of the indigenous American and other native people from the various walks of life in the this northern Hemisphere(Cajete 14) . Native science traces its origin from well established and deep philosophical views. This particular philosophy usually touches on the correct relationship with the natural setup of the world which is usually passed through unswerving and direct contact with the landscape and also by way of social and ritual situations that enable members of a society to learn vital ...

This particular book is seen as a bold step towards discovering science and its related issues from the point of view of the indigenous American and other native people from the various walks of life in the this northern Hemisphere(Cajete 14) . Native science traces its origin from well established and deep philosophical views. This particular philosophy usually touches on the correct relationship with the natural setup of the world which is usually passed through unswerving and direct contact with the landscape and also by way of social and ritual situations that enable members of a society to learn vital ...

Introduction.

Born in Genoa in 1451 between August and October, Christopher Columbus started going to the sea at a teenage stage. He travelled extensively making Portugal his area. He tried to gain royal patronage to no avail for Indies enterprise. During his time in the sea, he made other 2 voyages to the new territories and in the long run he was defeated and humiliated along the way. He was indeed great navigator, but failed in matters regarding administration and management. The study below shows his history in two historian’s perspectives.

A summary of the history of Columbus by Howard Zinn in “A People’s History of the United States”

In the treatment of individuals who are referred to ...

Introduction

The First and Second World Wars led to very many changes in Europe and the world in general. After the war, the six nations, which include Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg, based on the Schuman plan decided to sign a treaty that would help them run their industries of coal and steel under a common management. This decision was reached with a view of ensuring that no member country could on their own make weapons of war and turn against each other as had been witnessed in the past. The aboriginal/indigenous people of Canada also participated in the wars ...

The indigenous people of California consisted of different tribes of Native Americans accounting for about 1/3 of the total Native Americans in the United States. On the eve of European colonization, the indigenous people of California were hunter-gatherers and practiced different forms of fire-stick farming and forest gardening in the land’s diverse ecology (forests, wetlands, grassland and mixed woodlands) to ensure medicine and food plants continued to thrive (Starr, 2007, p. 5-12). These people were clearly blessed with spectacular natural beauty and astonishing human diversity leading to a wide range of similarities and difference. The Native people in the ...

A synthesis

A synthesis Pretext The United States of America is a more than a nation. Millions of aspiring businessmen, engineers, doctors, students and others visit America every year with a dream to settle and make a great living. Similarly, Spanish immigrants have been living in America for several past decades; their population and significance in the business culture of the nation is increasing day by day. Naturally, there is a clash of languages when immigrants have to deal with English rather than Espanol (Spanish). This synthesis essay deals with the very issue of bilingualism and its effects on certain classes of people in America. ...

On the day that the apostolic twelve were to depart from Spain to the Americas, the Franciscan Friars received orders from Francisco de Los Angeles. The orders instructed to evangelize to all, however as they evangelized, an importance to maintaining respect and continuing peaceful Spanish values was raised. Regardless, the Friars’ instructions became law to the natives in the New World. And so, on the Franciscan Friars arrival to the New World, the Spaniards spread their religion. This was a path they believed created martyrdom where missionaries worked for God and in every activity they participated they let God do ...

Chapter 10: What is the ethics behind our ideologies?

The case study on Chapter 10 questions an individual responsibility on the pretext of business to what it might bring in terms of political and military interest overseas. Mr. Dan was acting carefully in exporting non military products to Turkey. He has just been appointed as the new export manager and he was wary about Aishagu Import-Export Trading Company, a Turkish company. It surprised him that the owner of this Turkish company happened to be a college classmate and dorm mate, Mr. Mustafa. He suddenly remembered the political intent of this guy and wondered if the exports are being used to ...

Native people can be defined as those ethnic groups with historical ties to other groups that were in an area long before the colonization which preserves a degree of from the conventional. All over the world these people were involved in different artworks as this paper will explore. When exploring the provided sites, one thing is clear that there is a big difference in the artwork of early native peoples. The first involves knowing the difference between the African statue and Native American statue. African statues are very significant symbols and assumed to be an integral part of their culture. On ...

God’s Wrath and Love: Snow

Long ago time ago, mankind had a very cordial relationship with God. During that time, there were no seasons; women and their families spent at least four hours per day communicating with God. This was the trend all over the nation. God was respected, feared, worshipped and adored by mankind because he was the sole provider of everything. The world was a great place to be because human beings also lived in harmony and love. Cases of immorality and other social evils were unheard of at that time.1

However, as time went on, there came foreign people into the land of ...

Thesis Statement: Immigration and its socio-economic impact on any country. The paper will further support that immigration is good for any country and its economy.

Immigration is an act of leaving one’s own country and rushing towards another country in search of money, sources and other amenities. It has always been a matter of discussion in many countries for a number of reasons. The roots of immigration are related to the development, urbanization and globalization. The need of money to fulfill the immigrant’s requirements of life is the basic cause behind the act of immigration. Usually people of poor ...

Jamaica is a country located in the Caribbean Island which was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1494(Wilson, 2004, p.6). The country enjoys a diverse population of about 2.9 million people. This country is known by many a cultural hub of the culture of Rastafarianism, named after King Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, and the art of reggae music. However, the richness of the Jamaica moves from the mere notion of Rastafarianism and the art of reggae music. This paper intends to support the fact that the Jamaican culture is rich in diverse by exploring the heritage, history, food and other fundamental facets ...

Mississauga in Ontario, Canada is a modern city whose slogan proudly declares “Leading today for tomorrow” (Mississauga.ca, 2011) indicating that it is an evolving, metropolis-like city with an enthusiasm for moving with the times. However, Mississauga has an extremely rich history including the Mississauga People who lived in the area between around 1701 and 1800 after many migrated to live on the north shore of Lake Ontario (Oakville). In short, it was not always the ultra-modern metropolis that it is today: two to three hundred years ago, Mississauga was teeming with indigenous people living a simple life. These people were known ...