I love and honor my country. I feel a serve of duty to this country that has been my home since birth. As I turn the pages of our country’s history, those who have spoken out and fought against those who have threatened our country’s security and ideals inspire me. Our forefathers had dreams of a nation with liberty and justice for all. They gave all they had, every ounce of strength, to make that dream a reality.
The stance of education reform and curriculum examination is clearly echoed through “Arts of the Contact Zone” by Mary Louise Pratt as well as throughout “Lies My Teacher Told Me” by James W. Loewen. The possibilities of positive effects resulting from changes to either of these aspects of learning are outlined within these works, but no attention is paid to the cost that may occur. The cost I’m referring to of course is the affect that extended knowledge could have on the traditions that take place in a large percentage of homes across America. Despite the evident need for improvement in the current education system, we need to consider a solution that provides the most improvement with the least amount of social distortion. Although a large percentage of holidays commonly practiced show some form of historical inaccuracy, I will primarily focus on the tradition
One of the major reasons the Native Americans were affected by the European exploration was because the Europeans spread small pox and many other diseases to the Native Americans. Since the Natives have never been exposed to diseases they had no resistance and most of them died out. Also the Europeans threat was very direct to the natives. To the Natives, Europeans were becoming a threat deeper and deeper by seizing their lands, clearing forests, driving away many of there wild game (which tribes depended on food) and letting their livestock run loose to destroy the natives crops. The Native Americans started becoming less and less powerful towards the Europeans, there population was small to begin with and with the epidemics diseases and the land and food shortages, they were almost wiped out of there population.
In my opinion, making someone a hero doesn’t always make him that much more interesting. So as you can see I am for Loewens argument that heroification is a bad practice because it doesn’t show all the sides and actions done by a person. American history textbook authors should show all aspects of a person and not just the good parts. Not everyone is perfect and they should be their imperfectness should be
The finial reason why colonist of Jamestown died so quickly was because of settler skills. DOC C shows that in the original settlers they lacked in many major categories. One of those main categories is that there were not enough doctors. There were also not enough laborers either which caused all the work not to get done. In conclusion the reason why most of the settlers died was because of the environment.
In particular, Section 2, freedom of expression, does not state specifically the degree to which it can be used. Meanwhile, it is mentioned in Section 15 (1) that every citizen has the right to equal protection from discrimination before and under the law; Zundel violates this section of the Charter since he was allowed to publish a book based on his personal prejudice and attack on an identifiable group. Similarly, Keegstra, an Alberta high school teacher, denied the existence of the Holocaust and promoted his ideas to the classroom; but unlike Zundel, he was denied his freedom of expression even though Zundel was just as discriminatory towards the Jews. This is an example of the inconsistencies with a liberal view of the Charter- Section 2 most notably- and so, with a more conservative view, certain limits would be placed on the individual's rights to eliminate ambiguity, confusion, and contradictions in the law as much as possible; this in turn will give people a clearer understanding as to how far they can use these rights to defend themselves so that there is no abuse of rights. Not only that, but similar cases will also be treated equally.
The Japanese military success with the bombing of Pearl Harbor was obviously of great importance to the United States but helping our allies defeat Hitler took precedence after Winston Churchill asked the president Franklin D. Roosevelt for support in defeating Hitler. With so much division in the world at the time the U.S wanted to make sure ally relationships didn't crumble. With the instability in
Yet natives never had a word in their treatment nor anyway written record of the Columbian Exchange. The arrival of the Europeans had hurt the natives for their benefits and gave little in return for their great gain because of an exchange of horses and small pox for valuable foods to increase a population. The vast majority of Indian casualties occurred not as a result of hard labor or deliberate destruction but because of contagious diseases that the Europeans transmitted to the Indians (doc 6). The Europeans unknowingly had a secret weapon that would help them conquer the new world my reaching the natives population and killing much of the population. The arrival of the Europeans gave the natives smallpox, which weakened the natives and made it easier for the conquistadores to take over what was left.
It is time for radical change in this country. I have described why he would be the perfect president and I hope that once the people see these qualities that they too will agree. Josh Thompson has a vision for where this nation should be, and I strongly agree with him. With his financial ideas, his education and his ideas for our future along with his independence from political parties he will lead this nation to the correct
Along with specific recommendations on how to make amends, the commission will address a larger, more important issue: making sure that due process is not stampeded again. Exclusion from the law causes deep and lasting personal harm. Many of the Japanese-American internees were able to speak of their pain and bitterness only at the prompting of their children, who were raised during the decades when the civil rights movements vastly enlarged our understanding of democracy. Poignantly, Dr. Oda explained why it had taken so long: "I did not want my children to feel the burden of shame and feelings of rejection by their fellow Americans. I wanted them to feel that in spite of what was done to us, this was still the best place in the world to