In each of the stories the characters are tested with difficulties such as racism, prejudice, death, or love affairs. These novels show how deeply treasured the American/Canadian dream really is and how much of a struggle it can be to pursue it. Cather’s style of writing is based on her personal experiences with the world. In My Antonia she portrayed
"Why Establish This Paper?" is a great title for the editorial written by Mary Ann Shadd Cary. It was published in the second issue of her newspaper, the Provincial Freeman (March 25, 1854). The editorial is about the need in Canada for her newspaper and she uses many persuasive tactics to prove her point. Cary uses emotional and logical appeal, among other persuasive devices, throughout the piece to convince the reader that this particular newspaper is important.
“We ask you in justice to those noble women who have already answered the call by giving their sons, husbands, or sweethearts to the cause—is it reasonable or fair that you should keep your men-folk from doing their duty?”.... [2] The women are basically trying to convince the women to send their beloved to war. __________ [1]Janet Lunn, Christopher Moore, “The Story of Canada” (1994): 222-225 [2]City of Toronto, “I
A In her essay “Newfoundlandese, If You Please,” Diane Mooney argues that different areas in Newfoundland have different dialects of the English language. She believes that different dialects are associated with the mother tongue of the descendants. She also believes that different dialects are related to different religious backgrounds of the region. Mooney introduces her argument with a personal account of her experience living in Newfoundland. She introduces the concept of language evolution into dialects and demonstrates this by discussing the different dialects found in Newfoundland by geographic area.
People with alternate cultures, other than the most popular for a given region are always viewed differently. Mustafa writes that she is seen as a Muslim radical or a fundamentalist, she is seen as an immigrant although she is a Canadian born and raised citizen. She writes, “Strangers speak to me in a loud, slow English and often appear to be playing charades.”, her fellow countrymen and women see her as an immigrant because of her alternate culture. Watt-Cloutier is an activist for her Inuit people, and is fighting hard for them. Depending on what side of the argument you sit on,
Historian Alan Gordon begins an informative essay on Jacques Cartier, the “Discoverer of Canada,” with the intriguing statement that this sixteenth century French explorer was “really a nineteenth-century figure”[1]. The author then proceeds to explain this extraordinary statement by describing how Cartier was virtually unknown to Canadians prior to the nineteenth century, which is when Cartier himself was “discovered,” so to speak, by the historians of that era. After a rather exhaustive introduction, Gordon states his premise quite deep in to the essay, which is that he “...will attempt to show how historical heroes are used for political ends”[2]. This is an evocative approach, which Gordon
A Rhetorical Analysis of ‘Canada’s “Genocide”: Thousands Taken from Their Homes Need Help’ Published in Maclean’s magazine in 1999, Michael Downey’s short but grave narrative essay Canada’s “Genocide”: Thousands Taken from Their Homes Need Help depicts an agonizing account of the Sixties Scoop adoptions. By opening his essay with the tragic but later successful example of Carla Williams’ life, Downey introduces the forceful system that prevailed in the late 1960s. This presentation serves as the foreshadowing of the evidences used to support his main idea that the forced adoption within the native communities caused individual and cultural tragedy, along with the belief that they can prosper beyond the tragedy of the past. By supplying several
The analysis of the text from Arakin’s book, the 2nd course How we kept Mother’s Day 1. Let us begin with analysis of the text. The discourse pattern should be characterized first as a completed story by a well – known Canadian writer Steven Leacock. As far as we know, this writer is famous for such works as “Nonsense Novels”, “Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town”, “My Remarkable Uncle” and others. 2.
There are many things, words, or people that may try and define Canada and its political culture between the 1990's and present, but to be truly honest one must come to the conclusion that unless you intend to write more than a few measly sentences, you may not even come close. Now when many people try to describe the political culture of Canada they think of three things that have shaped the politics of our nation recently, the separatist movement in Quebec, the emergence of conservatism in the west, and the blow the Liberals have taken due to the emergence of the Sponsorship scandal and the Gomery inquiry. These three things, all encompassed into a single nation of politics is what shapes our nation today, and maybe even defines the term of Canadian political culture. Since the days when the first English - French confrontation happened in the recently discovered Canada, political culture in Quebec has always been different from the rest of the country. The French-Canadians have always been looking for and perhaps maybe pushing towards a separate and sovereign country of their own.
Born: November 18, 1939 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Canadian author, novelist, poet and cultural activist One of Canada's best-known writers, Margaret Atwood is an internationally famous novelist, poet, and critic. She is also committed to positive change in our way of life. Early freedom Margaret Eleanor Atwood was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in 1939. She moved with her family to Sault Ste. Marie, Canada, in 1945 and to Toronto, Canada, in 1946.