Through different paintings, Thomas Cole's Hunter's Return (1845), Asher B. ... The very year Thomas Cole made The Hunter's Return (1845) saw the United States territory grow significantly. ... In this picture, he may be giving the spectator an idea of his own feelings when he returned home. ... Mountains, woods, waterfalls and other wonders of nature, as depicted in The Hunter's Return, can symbolize the marvels of the frontier. ... There are also a few Native Americans glancing at the rapidly changing landscape that spreads below. ...

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Native Americans and Japanese Americans were both greatly affected by wartime beliefs of the 1940s. ... Many Native Americans believed they would gain respect from the nation by lending a hand in the war. The new respect could bring more rights and a better life after the war for all Native Americans. ... Native Americans were separated by law and custom from mainstream U.S. society. ... Japanese Americans were able to return home, but were still considered a lesser people. ...

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Looking closely, one sees that Kipling wrote about India all his life; almost exclusively in his youth, but many years after he returned to England for good, he was still looking back to India and reexamining the Imperial experience (Bauer xii). ... In the hot dry location where they lived, Kim's skin was "burned black as any native. ... He used native vocabulary throughout the story. ... But even then he did not see himself as a native. ... The native view of white men is shown in many ways: 'But this i...

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When the fog clears, the ship is attacked by an unseen band of natives, who fire arrows from the safety of the forest. The African helmsman is killed before Marlow frightens the natives away with the ship's steam whistle. ... Kurtz speaks to them, and the natives disappear into the woods. ... A beautiful native woman, apparently Kurtz's mistress, appears on the shore and stares out at the ship. ... Marlow stops him and convinces him to return to the ship. ...

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Native American Voices The book of Genesis V.S. ... The Spiritual legacy The Native Americans have had great riches in human and spiritual resources. ... During the early contacts between the Europeans and the Native Americans, the Europeans found the Indians either a brutal uncivilized savage or as a naive child. ...

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As the white men on the steamboat grab their guns and return fire, Kurtz' black helmsman continues to try to steer the boat through shallow, treacherous water. ... Kurtz, whose station overflows with ivory, has built his own army of natives who view h! ... As Kurtz utters his first words to Marlow, "I am glad," natives again gather at the river's edge. ... ew sound their horn to scare the natives. ... Returning to London, tired and sick, Marlow guards Kurtz' package diligently. ...

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Marlow says this as he views the body left hanging on the limb of a tree after the native took his own life. Marlow assumes that the native killed himself because he could not deal with life in as harsh as a setting as the Congo is. ... He is then able to return back to the light setting of civilization. ...

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There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding, a sense of lugubrious drollery in the sight; and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was a camp of natives - he called them enemies! ... The next incident that leaves a great impression on Marlow takes place at the outer station when he encounters African natives for the first time. ... It is clear that Marlow already sides with the natives. ... He feels annoyed at his white companion, the personification of a weak and greedy colonial, and at the same time he feels that the native drums that are heard sometime...

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In return, they imported porcelain, silk, bronze gongs, beeswax, hardwood, rice, cotton and semi-precious stones. ... They could own property and marry at will, but they had to render service to the maharlikas and timawas in return for the protection given them. ... The parents, in return, supported and protected their children. ...

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With the quincentennial of Columbus's "discovery" of America upon us, it now is, perhaps more than ever, an appropriate time to reevaluate the actions of the European explorers who subjugated the Native American peoples and their civilizations. ... Surely many of these soldiers were extremely cruel and intolerant of the native populations. ... The first two gave the Spanish title to Columbus's discoveries and any other non-Christian western lands discovered as long as the native populations were converted to Christianity. ...

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They also met friendly native Indians. ... They reported back to Queen Elizabeth and Raleigh about the friendly natives and other riches that were available in this new land. ... Near the end of August 1585, Grenville returned to England for more supplies. ... Governor Lane and his men explored the island, but Lane caused problems with the native Indians. ... Lane's reports on his return to England reiterated how poor the site had been. ...

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Against this turbulent background, the British were free to ply their trade as they wished, selling silver and devices like clocks and firearms in return for cotton, spices, silk, indigo, jewels and opium. ...

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KFC has found long ago that Chinese people want the site down and eat with utensils or perhaps Western sticks instead of just having a simple fast- sustenance and return to work (Chinaabout, 2013). 3.2 KFC′s overall marketing strategies The original items of KFC are chicken with homemade side plates, wraps, plates of mixed greens and burgers. ... "Really, we are continually searching for unknown relish which sutaible Chinese clients and we discovered some native sustenance is very likeable and favoured by Chinese individuals. ... Furthermore, he additionally noticed that in some minority na...

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America's imperialist tendencies already were manifested in the subjugation of various Native American tribes and a key piece of legislation that would help determine US foreign policy for years to come and have repercussions to this day. ... When Costa Rica declared war on Nicaragua, Walker found that much of the native population had rebelled to join the Costa Ricans and suddenly found him outnumbered. In a second Battle of Rivas, Costa Rican and native Nicaraguan forces under the command of Costa Rican president Juan Rafael Mora routed Walker's disillusioned and disorganized merce...

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A quick laundry list of the minorities in the United States being under-represented might read as such: African-Americans, Women, Black Women, Hispanics, Gays and Lesbians, Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders, Indians (Native Americans). ... The Senate's fair-skinned minority population stayed at three: Hawaii's Daniel Akaka, a native Hawaiian; Daniel Inouye, an American of Japanese descent; and Colorado's Ben Nighthorse Campbell, a Native American of the Northern Cheyenne tribe. ...

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A true Anarchist: The Life of Emma Goldman Introduction To explain how Anarchism influenced everyday life for Jews in Amerika and especially the citizens of New York's Lower East Side, the ideas and visions of Anarchism's leaders must be thoroughly analyzed. To this end I would like to out...

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The Colour Purple Chapter 1 The first few pages begin Walker's narrative of the life of Celie, a fourteen-year-old black girl who lives with her dying mother and her sister, Nettie. Her stepfather, Alfonso, is portrayed as the villain of the narrative, first demanding sex from Celie's sick mo...

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Sacred Texts: Native traditions have been preserved as an oral tradition, not in written form. ... Afterlife: In general, Native religions have no precise belief about life after death. ... Renewal Celebrations: The Sun Dance amongst the Plains Natives is perceived as a replay of the original creation. ... It is sometimes used to educate the youth in Native traditions. ... Native religions do not have corresponding ancient revered persons in their background. ...

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For these reasons, the 1863 New Zealand Settlement Act, and soon afterward, the Native Land Courts were established, both of which ignored Maori rights. This deeply upset the Tuhoe tribe who had fought tirelessly to put an end to the land confiscations and surveying as brought about by the Native Land Court. ... The Native Land Courts and land confiscations, and more importantly the Urewera 1896 Act were major sources of grievance to Rua and the rest of the Tuhoe tribe, and thus a significant factor of Rua's resistance during the First World War. The First World War gave Rua the platfor...

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Introduction The Middle Passage is the crossing of the Ocean from Africa to America of African people, who passed from the state of liberty to the state of slavery, and took place between the XVI and XIX centuries. They were captured from the tribes situated on Africa's West Coast: Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Congo, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Senegal, etc. and they were shipped in the southern area of North America (Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida). The Diaspora gives birth to a new human being: the African American, who links together the African and the Ame...

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In 1843 after spending his childhood in Quebec where his parents had returned to live and following an attempt at being a seminarian, Louis Riel Pere returned to settle in the West, the country where he was born. ... Everything seemed to indicate a return to a state of calm, but that wasn't the case. ... He returned to St. ... After an absence of fifteen years, he was returning to Canada. These years had strongly marked him, for, exiled from his native land and pursued by bounty hunters, he had suffered a nervous breakdown. ...

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Children of minority groups have been thought various subjects in their native tongues. ... Prior to Proposition 227, California's programs for immigrant students included English as a Second Language, in which students were taught the English language for part of the day, and bilingual education, in which students took classes taught in their native tongues until their English improved. ... "The Unz initiative calls for one year of courses taught in English, with an emphasis on learning the language; a system that many fear is a return to a past when children were sometimes punished fo...

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Music had always been a primary component of black South Africa's extended fight against racial desegregation and when the white colonial government instituted the Native Lands Act of 1913, forcing the black peasantry off its own farms and reapportioning less than 15 percent of the country's land to over 80 percent of its native population, the band Caluza's "Silusapho Lwase Afrika (We Are The Children of Africa)" was adopted as an early anthem of the ANC due to its passionate chorus. ...

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The natives do not rob the group of their possessions as yet. Mortally disappointed by Hawkeye's absence, they question Duncan in French. Magua translates in broken English after Duncan entreats him to do so. Duncan tells him that Hawkeye and the Mohicans have escaped. The savages scream in ...

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He finally returned to Ireland in 407 AD. ... He returned to his family but had a vision in which he described "The voice of the Irish" calling to him, so he returned to Ireland in 461 and set about converting the country to Christianity. ...

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