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Milton/Big Chief Elizabeth

Englands first efforts at colonization is also related to what may be considered to be the books principal flaw, which is an overl...

Concepts in Short Stories

cases from the point of view that the person on trial is guilty. There is no presumption of innocence until proven guilty-he start...

A Foucaultian View of Kafka's The Penal Colony

Kafka story in respect to Foucaults ideas. II. Foucaults Conception of Law First, it is important to note that Foucault was ...

Tobacco Industry

any number of physical ailments, including halitosis and lockjaw throughout Europe (ASH, 2006; Randall, 1999). Sir Frances Drake ...

Popularity of French Children’s Songs in French Colonies

Haiti and the Caribbean Islands may appear to be non-French by skin tone and speech, they are still cultures that are likely more ...

North American English Colonial Societies

became so dependent on the Indians that they took to raiding them; the Algonquin chief, Powhatan, decided to starve them out, and ...

“Antz” & Emile Durkheim

labor. Rather than being totally dependent on custom, these societies are held together primarily through mutual obligation betwee...

A History of Values and Attitudes in America

et al, 2000). And the settlers brought diseases with them against which the Indians had no defense, wiping them out in large numbe...

Community Health Project/Diabetes Among Hispanics

in the US. Likewise, diabetes-associated nephropathy, a progressive disorder of the kidney, is the leading cause of end stage rena...

Daily Life during the Seven Years War in North America

going in different directions. I suspect we brought much of the prejudice with us from England. But there is no denying that the "...

Policing in Hong Kong under the Chinese

The writer discusses the way in which policing in Hong Kong has changed since the colony was transferred back to Chinese control. ...

Challenges in the Founding of Plymouth

them and speaking in broken English (Cline). Samost carried an empty quiver and two arrows, one with a tip and without, which is a...

Trial of Anne Hutchinson

he refers t the bible study meetings that Hutchinson has been conducting in her home to be a "thing not tolerable nor comely in th...

Price: “Love and Hate in Jamestown”

had no particular skills (Price). Price notes that Wingfield arrived in Virginia accompanied by a number of servants and a haughty...

Northern and Southern Colonies

this fact they often grew on small plots, traded with the Natives in the beginning, and essentially remained in close knit familie...

Colonialism's Effect on Anthropology

"Day after day, minute to minute, Tutsi by Tutsi: all across Rwanda, they worked" (Gourevitch, 1998; p. 18), the sole purpose of t...

Colonial Women’s Public Role and Legal Status

formal education or technical training, women would be hired. The obvious vocational choices were extensions of their housekeepin...

Views on South African Slavery

This research paper/essay addresses the view of historian Robert Shell on the nature of slavery in South Africa's Cape Colony and ...

Mary of Plymouth by James Otis

This book review pertains to a book authored by Otis in 1910, which is designed to appeal to young readers and provide them with a...

Overview of the Spanish Armada

In five pages this paper examines the Spanish Armada in an overview that includes its defeat and the impact upon the English, Sp...

Puritan Dilemma of John Winthrop

In six pages this essay discusses John Winthrop's story as presented by Edmund Morgan in a consideration of the Puritan dilemma an...

Massachusetts Bay Colony and Puritanism

In five pages this paper examines the Massachusetts Bay Colony of the 17th century and the religious influence exerted by Puritani...

Modern Americans' and Native Americans' Rites of Passage

In seven pages this paper compares the contemporary American teenager with Tukuna, Okrika, and Okiek Native American counterparts ...

Life and Georgia Colonial Influence of James Oglethorpe

In six pages this paper discusses Georgia colony founder James Oglethorpe in a consideration of his life as a soldier and philanth...

Pilgrim Separatists and William Bradford

officials such as bishops and archbishops" (Carroll and Noble, 30). Nor was there just one group of dissenters. The Presbyterians...

Reviewing Closing of the American Mind Closing of the American Mind / Book Review

In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom decries the lapse of teaching of traditional American values in American universi...

The History of California Native Americans Prior to 1900

of peoples in the area, as settlements were logically more concentrated around water. Members of all groups were particularly dev...

'King Leopold's Ghost' by Adam Hochschild

In this paper consisting of five pages the King's search for a Belgian colony is discussed along with the fear that overtaking Asi...

Virginia and Massachusetts Were Opposites in Colonial America

Indian can come near thereabouts but he is presently seen. ... here is belonging to the town six goats, about fifty hogs and pigs,...

The People Under Colonialism

Colonialism has profound effects, both on the indigenous peoples and upon those who would create colonies. This paper defines term...