Fanon's Three Stages Related To The Indigenous People Of Chiapas
.... sought by colonialism
was to drive into the natives' heads the idea that if the settlers were to
leave, they would at once fall back into barbarism, degradation, and
bestiality."(Fanon 211) The colonizers, believing the natives were
savages that needed enlightenment, forced European culture upon them. The
Europeans believed that to assimilate the natives to European culture was
to help them progress. Therefore, to return to the old ways would have
been regressing. When the natives objected to the forced assimilation, the
colonizers smothered the rebellious efforts with stronger, more lethal
weapons. Fanon compares the colonize .....
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The Holocaust
.... a secret message telling the Jews that it was a bad
place, where they die.
In class from the notes I learned that, World-wide depression had
many Germans out of work, and they were hungry. Because of that, the
Germans elected Hitler, as Chancellor of Germany in 1933. That year,
Hitler began a boycott of Jewish business. The Jews lost their jobs in
government and public services. Jewish children got segregated form school.
All Jewish people received a curfew. Hitler blamed the Depression on the
Jews, and they became scapegoats. In 1935 laws were pasted saying that
Jews were no longer citizens, and that marriage between Jew .....
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Japanese Canadians During World War II
.... RCMP and provincial police immediately followed prearranged plans and
began interning approximately forty Japanese nationals whom they suspected
of having subversive intentions. All the Japanese Canadians had special
identification that is different then general Canadians. The Royal Canadian
Navy began rounding up the fishing boats operated by Japanese Canadians.
On 9 January 1942, as the Ottawa conference recommended removing 'all male
Japanese and other enemy aliens between the ages of 16 and 50' from coastal
areas to reduce the likelihood of sabotage. Tragedy began.
Most of Japanese Canadians forced the leave coast line. .....
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Tennyson As A Victorian
.... are not governed by
the same laws." He further says that "these two nations were the richest
and poorest." It was a time when the rich were rich, and the poor people
were poor. The poor or lower class of people went hungry and half naked
throughout most of their lives. Life and death went hand in hand; wealth
and poverty stood side by side; repletion and starvation laid them down
together.
Such rapid change in industry destroyed jobs as it provided new ones.
The population shifted and left thousands housed in urban slums with bad
water, no sanitation, and little food. The depression left whole factories
unemployed, and .....
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The Titanic
.... people had dinner at a huge restaurant on deck D (Titanic, p.2). It
was 92 ft. wide and 114 ft. long. (Titanic, p.2) . The restaurant sat about
500 people (Titanic, p.2). There were a few other places to have dinner on
the boat, even a real French restuarant called, "Cafe Parisien" (Titanic,
p.2). During the day many rich people went to the Lounge at the Promenade
deck, the walls were similar to the ones at Versailles Castle near Paris,
it was truly magnificent. Next to this was the Georgian reading and
writing room for women and next to that was the Smoking room for men. The
Titanic had a sense of space and openess (Tit .....
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The Torture Of The Kuwaitis By The Iraqis
.... of policy, reasoning
that the wealth of the 19th province was needed elsewhere in greater Iraq."
(Strasser 36) Iraqis showed no mercy when it came to looting. "The city
the Iraqis left behind appeared to have been worked over by a huge army of
drunken teenage vandals. They stole everything they could, from air
conditioners to cigarettes, in a citywide smash and grab." (Kelly 22) No
reasoning can make what Iraq did right the torment the Kuwaitis endured is
unnerving.
Very little escaped the Iraqis, "What the Iraqis could not steal,
they destroyed, in an astonishingly savage and thorough rampage." (Kelly
22) Not even the .....
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Truth And Consequences: Taking Advantage Of The Loser Of WWI
.... aim for long lasting peace by basing their treaty on the
Fourteen Points, Clemenceau, George, and Orlando drew up a treaty that
would cause Germany to go into a nation-wide depression and suffer for a
whole generation. This treaty became known as the Treaty of Versailles.
In looking at the treaty, one would think that the writers were
completely biased against Germany... and they would be right. Because
France, Great Britain, and Italy were the three main countries involved in
the creation of the Traety of Versailles, they used every minute detail of
the treaty to work to their advantage. The only positive detail of the
treaty .....
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The History Of The Peace In Rome, The Pax Romana
.... the concrete formed the backbone
of Rome's bold architecture. This material was then covered with a costly
material, usually marble, to look more decorative. This was used around
the city and people claimed that it looked as if it were the world capital,
for which of course we are.
The last important contribution to the Pax Romana Augustus made was
setting up the civil service. This service was open to anybody of all
ranks. The civil service took care of Rome's grain supply, road repairs,
the postal system, and all the other work of running the empire. Even the
former slaves worked hard to find many of the highest .....
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The Holocaust: The Devaluing Of Human Life
.... they had to go with the Soldiers or be
killed. And because they Nazis took everything that they were looking
forward away.
Another place that the Nazi Soldiers devalued the Jewish people's
lives is when they senselessly executed millions of Jewish people with out
any reason. First they killed the people that could no longer perform the
work that the soldiers have given them. These were generally the elderly
and the sick Jewish people. By committing this violent act the Nazi
Soldiers devalued the Jewish people's lives. The soldiers took something,
lives, that were not theirs and killed these innocent people.
The Nazi also .....
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The Punic Wars 264 BC -- 146 BC
.... did not. Also the Romans did not have a navy. When
the Romans finally started a navy, this reflected in their fighting. For
many years the Carthaginian people were more successful. This is because
they were under the power of Hamilcar. On March 10, 241 BC this would all
change, at the battle of Aegates Island. The Romans beat the Carthaginians
so bad, they appealed for peace. Many things came out of this war. One was
that Rome learned how to conduct a war on a huge scale. The Senate learned
to finance a war, how to find men for the army, how to find supplies, and
how to build fleets. These are just a few things the Romans learn .....
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The Pyramids Of Egypt
.... go at
will. It was found that the Egyptian people actually liked working on the
pyramids. Many youths would travel down the Nile to work on the pyramids
so that they could see the great city of Memphis.
Furniture and riches not to mention body parts of the dead king
were buried with him in the pyramid, so that in the afterlife the king
would be able to have all the comforts that he had in his life. Wives and
people of high standing in the king's court were buried beside his tomb
when they died. The queens pyramid was always much smaller than the kings.
The other wives and attendants tombs were built beside the king's .....
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Canada In WWI
.... Europe and in
Canada. Increased demand caused inflation on products in Canada to
skyrocket, as prices on most products nearly doubled. The workers wages
went up as well, but they didn't keep up with the inflationary prices.
Workers therefore had to do with less. During this time the government
expenditures on the war were enormous. The war was costing Canadians a
million dollars per day. For a country of only eight million this was an
extremely large burden. In order to raise funds, the government introduced
income tax, and sales tax and luxury tax. They also borrowed money from the
people through Victory Bonds.
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