POCAHONTAS: Native American Stereotypes in a Disney Movie 1. ... We will particularly examine how Disney portrays the Native Americans in the movie and whether stereotypes are used. ... Particular attention will be given to the images of Native American women. ... For the purpose of this paper, the storyline of Pocahontas needs to be compared to the actual facts of the Native American girl's life and her encounter with white society. ... Her son, who was raised by an uncle in England, returned to his mother's land, where he made his fortune growing tobacco. ...

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Soon, Europeans and Native Americans were at arms almost constantly. ... Obviously, Native Americans were captured by the Europeans and were sold into slavery. ... The earliest known record of African and Native American contact was in April of 1502 (Halliburton). ... In some areas, Native Americans eventually began to absorb the white European culture. ... The 1809 census taken by Colonel Return J. ...

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The Native Americans refer to him as "The Ancient One". ... It states that ownership or control of Native American human remains or objects shall be given to lineal descendents of the Native American or Indian tribe on whose land such objects or remains were discovered or Indian tribe which has the closest cultural affiliation and states a claim for such remains or objects to the study of the remains. (3) A coalition of five Native American tribes claim Kennewick Man as an ancestor and have requested that his bones be returned for proper burial under NAGRPA. (4) In response to this claim sever...

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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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The outer circle, which includes countries where English is not the native tongue but used as an additional language and is important for historical reasons or plays a part in the nation's institutions, either as an official language or otherwise. ... In his 1985 paper, Quirk points out that "The relatively narrow range of purposes for which the non-native needs to use English (even in ESL countries) is arguably well catered for by a single monochrome standard form that looks as good on paper as it sound in speech" (Quirk 1985: 8). To support his argument he also tells the story of Indira...

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However, many nations took advantage of their colonies by exporting natural resources without providing economic return for most of the people. ... This increase of jobs for the natives of South America definitely helped these people economically. ... The large amounts of Slaves brought into South America changed life greatly for the native people. ... Another distinct faction of the native's lives that changed because of imperialism was the specific jobs of the family. ... But the primary responsibilities of Native wives were in the home. ...

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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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The Crown wanted the Maori to give the right to purchase their land in return for their own property being guaranteed to them and having the same rights as any of the British migrants. ... When I explained to him that my Queen had become his also, and that she and her Governor were now chiefs over him as well as over me, he became very agitated and repeatedly spoke of following Williams in order to return the blanket an upbraid him for the deception. ... "May I ask your Excellency whether it is you opinion that these natives understand the articles of the treaty which they are now called ...

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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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When he returned to Portugal as King John in 1822 his son Pedro was proclaimed emperor of Brazil. ... Tens of thousands of Native Americans, including whole tribes, were killed off by European diseases to which the people had no immunity. ... The native people of Brazil lived in the forests and along the rivers, hunting, fishing, and gathering fruits and nuts. When the Portuguese arrived early in the sixth-tenth century, it is estimated that there were between one and two million native Amerindian people. ... The people of Brazil come from essentially three main cultural backgrounds: these are...

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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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Term Paper "The Effects of Residential Schooling (Industrializing) on the Aboriginal People's rooting from the aspect of colonization and western religion at its helm. The residential school system acted as a method to reshape the future of the Aboriginal culture. " Since the earliest contact...

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A quarter of a century ago, a new wound was inflicted to add to the insult of the Native American people. ... He has become the ultimate symbol representing Native American suppression. ... At the time the BIA schools had the reputation of attempting to integrate their students into the white culture, attempting to erase their memories of their Native American culture. ... Shortly after the symbolic Alcatraz takeover by other Natives, Peltier and others laid claim to surplus government land, Fort Lawton, near Seattle. ... After the air seemed to have cleared Peltier's group return...

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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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Winona LaDuke tells of more than 1,000 tailings and slag piles from uranium mines dumped in Native American Din land (3). ... This act put the South under military rule by Union officers and forced seceded states to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment to return to the Union (507). ... The South returned to the new discrimination called Jim Crow, backed by the infamous 1896 Supreme Court decision in Plessy vs. ...

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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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Consider these common circumstances: the more adroit a Filipino is in English tongue, the more he or she is regarded intelligent; Filipino folks are more proud of their children the earlier they know how to speak coherent English; salespersons are more attentive to their English speaking customers than those who they could have understood better in native dialect; speaking in native tongue is considered "baduy- specially in formal events; we laugh at mispronunciations equating it with overall ignorance of the speaker and are overcritical over grammatical errors of Filipinos than those of forei...

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Native English speakers and speakers of another language have the opportunity to acquire proficiency in a second language while continuing to develop their native language skills. Students serve as native-speaker role models for their peers. ... Although not geared for the creation and maintenance of bilingualism, these programs still are far more academically sound than the current return to immersion. ...

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