During the early years of colonization and exploration in North America and Africa, many New World "collided" and brought to each other many new things, both good and bad. ... Occasionally they burned sections of land in the wilderness for better hunting area, but other than that they provided no threat to its well being. ... The Europeans believed that humans had domination over the land. ... Also, the ill treatment of the Native Americans by the land hungry Europeans virtually wiped out their civilization. ...

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In telling this story, Hochschild does a wonderful job of giving detailed descriptions, especially of the colorful individuals involved, both good and bad. ... Stanley's other tasks consisted of purchasing as much land as he was able to obtain, he was also instructed to, " place successively under suzerainty as soon as possible and without losing one minute, all the chiefs from the mouth of Congo tot he Stanley falls- (p.70) Now I know that all of this must sound pretty bad but it's imperative that I continue, because this is the least of the tasks Stanley fulfilled. He was also sent...

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While he could never change the fact that he was indeed African American, what he wanted basically was what all the other African Americans who trudged the land like him desired and that was a sense of belonging and respect in their person. ... It usually has to take something really great for the Anglo-Saxons to show any form of interest in the lives of these people who share the same land. ... As Jacobs said, "slavery is bad for men, but it is far more terrible for women" (Jacobs, 1861). ...

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This observation is especially important to Douglass because it further enabled him for the opportunity to manipulate his way out of the oppressions of the slaveholding religion of the land. ... Douglass writes: "What I have said respecting and against religion, I mean strictly to apply to the slaveholding religion of this land, and with no possible reference to Christianity proper; for, between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference- so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other...

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Moving on, she is associated with foreignness after being branded by Brocklehurst as 'this girl, this child, the native of a Christian land' who is 'worse than many a little heathen who says its prayers to Brahma and kneels before Juggernaut'. ... This 'presence of oppression' is key in showing that the role of colonialism is almost for use as cannon fodder in mocking the British aristocracy, as though it is a given that the 'dark races' are bad and to compare one with them is insulting at the very least. ...

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Since the British could not enslave their own people, they imported African labor to work the land [ CITATION Bio15 l 1033 ]. ... However, the play still encourages viewers in the future to attempt to break out and redefine the female's place in society whether the outcomes be good or bad. ...

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