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  • Columbus An Imperialist
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    Was Columbus an Imperialist On October 12, 1492, Admiral Colon landed on a tropical Caribbean island. Finding this island was purely accidental. Colon had originally set out to find a shorter route to China and instead discovered the New World. If the purpose of Colon's voyage was not seeking out to dominate another country (definition of imperialism) but to find a shorter route to China, then how could he be considered an imperialist While he didn't set out as an imperialist, some of his action...
  • Historians Account
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    The novel, Black Robe, by Brian Moore is a story about a young Jesuit priest sent into the wilds to convert a remote tribe of Huron Indians before the oncoming winter closes his window of opportunity to reach them. The reader is shown what everyday life is like in a long since past world when the Indian still roamed and controlled the Americas. Despite its fictional nature, Black Robe provides us with further insight into this time than primary source documents of the day. The story begins in co...
  • Indian Girl Turns To Nature
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    It was approaching dusk as the conspicuous line of dark vans entered the reservation. These vehicles served the purpose of furnishing transportation for about 30 members of a Cleveland area youth group, whose mission was 'to bring good news to the badlands'; . In short, the group was ministering to the Indian children of the Pine Ridge Reservation, which was in close vicinity to the natural wonder found in the foothills of 'the badlands'; . The trip became a tradition for my church and I travele...
  • Several Characteristics Of Ramanujan's Poetry
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    Nissim Ezekiel (December 24 1924 - January 9, 2004) was a poet, playwright and art critic. He was considered the foremost Indian writer in English English-language of his time. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Books by Nissim Ezekiel 4 Some of his well-known poems Early life Ezekiel was born in Bombay (now Mumbai Mumbai). Ezekiel's father was a botany professor and his mother, principal of her own school. He belonged to Mumbai's small 'Bene Israel' Jewish community. In 1947, Ezekiel did his Mast...
  • Indian And Western Cultures
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    A couple of years ago, I had invited my best friend Je nene, to attend an Indian wedding. I thought it might be fun for her to experience the different foods, clothing, personalities, and religious beliefs that were particular to my culture. Later on that evening she had pulled me to the side and told me that the culture that she was raised in was completely different from mine. She was raised in New York all of her life and she had never experienced such a distinct culture. At that time I told ...
  • Black Robes
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    "Black Robe" - Movie Review "Black Robe" is a movie that tells the story of the first contacts between the Huron Indians of Quebec and the Jesuit missionaries from France who came to convert them to Catholicism, but ended up delivering the Indians into the hands of their enemies. The Jesuits saw the "Savages", as they called them, as souls to be saved. The natives saw the Black Robes, as they called them, as destroyers and "demons" threatening the gods and sorceries, which ordered their lives. O...
  • Shows Natty Before His Death
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    "Go my children; remember the just chief of the palefaces, and clear your own tracks from briers!" (The Prairie; pg. 123) The trapper, Natty Bumppo, is remembered as one of the greatest chief of all palefaces. He is represented as the good and bad of both cultures, which shows more concern for others than him. Natty, was a skilled warrior that no matter what the consequences were he was up for a challenge. In addition to Natty, he was a symbol to both the white and red skins. By the end of Natty...
  • Social Roles Of The Indian Culture
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    This paper will review some of the recent literature on the culture of India. This is an important culture to study, because India's population of more than 900 million makes it one of the most heavily populated countries of the world. India is also important to study because it possesses one of the world's oldest surviving cultures. In addition, there have long been ties between India and the nations of the West. Beyond these considerations, Indian culture is fascinating to study because it is ...
  • Sanctity Of The Indians Culture And People
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    In the modern world we are bombarded by others' teachings. Being constantly surrounded by the ideas of computers, televisions and books we are influenced, we are shaped. We accept what we " ve been told and avoid discovering the truth because we know no better, and it's safer. Too often "We fail to step outside of that safe sanctuary defined by what other's wish us to know". 1 If the general population of the United States of America were asked what they knew of the Indians, common replies would...
  • Keeper'n Me Red Road
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    Everyone receives guidance from the many people they encounter throughout life. Probably most people have also been a guide for someone else somewhere along the way. The concept of the guide in Richard Wagamese's Keeper'n Me is more than just someone who gives guidance, its someone who also uses storytelling and the teaching of traditions to help guide. Passing on traditions or a certain way of life is a very important aspect of guiding someone of the Ojibway culture in this novel. The Ojibway p...
  • Published Literature By American Indian People
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    LC: In The Third Woman, you have written, 'It is my greatest but probably futile hope that someday those of us who are ethnic minorities will not be segregated in the literature of America". Will you elaborate on that ROSE: Well, anywhere in America, if you take a university-level course on American history or American literature, particularly in literature and the arts, it only has the literature and the arts that are produced by Americans of European heritage, even then largely Northern Europe...
  • Indian Cultures
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    Marcus Mc Caleb HUM 290 Comparative Cultures September 20, 2000 On the Rez by Ian Frazier When signing up for this course I thought I would discuss and learn about many different cultures and compare them. However, I did not know that the main concentration of this course would be talking about my culture. My mother is American Black and my father, whom I very seldom speak to, is African American and half Native American. Being so distant in relationship with my father I have never had the chanc...
  • View Of The Modern Indian Culture
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    "James Luna, A Native American Man", is an insightful, cut the bullshit, view of the modern Indian culture. I identify with Luna's viewpoints as I have seen many of the situations he describes with his art to be true to life. I have spent a lot of time in Northern Canada fishing with my brother and father. The areas we visit are predominantly Indian reservations. Having spent quite a bit of time getting to know these types of towns and people, I have grown aware of some of the many problems that...
  • Indians On The Reservation
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    The novel 'Reservation Blues' does not describe or deal with real Indians. The real Native Americans were forever destroyed by the government the second that they set foot upon the makeshift reservation. That very second saw the perish of all the age-long values and traditions that, before that moment, defined, raised, and watched over every Indian boy and girl, every Indian husband and wife, and every Indian father and mother. The U.S. government easily and nonviolently accomplished what the ar...
  • 1 Million Asian Indians In America
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    SUBJECT = SOCIOLOGY All Human beings live in what for them is a Multicultural world, in which they are aware of different sets of others to whom different cultural attributions must be made, and of different cultures of which they are aware and expected to operate. W.H. Wood enough. TITLE = MULTICULTURALISM The term Multiculturalism has recently come into usage to describe a society characterized by a diversity of cultures. Religion, language, customs, traditions, and values are some of the comp...
  • White's Belief Of The Indians Belief
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    Today, certain themes are shared by both cultures: "New World version of the theme of descent, ascent, and salvation is the way by which the tropical hell of jungle and jungle Indians is so clearly opposed to the terrestrial paradise of the highlands above. The imagery proper to each realm, as well as the cycle of death and rebirth connecting them, reappear persistently down through the ages-as we shall see in curing visions of poor white colonists, Indians, and Capuchin missionaries in the twen...
  • Aspect Of Indian Culture Naipaul
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    An Area of Criticism Naipaul's visit to India was the first time he returned to his roots and had a chance to examine his heritage. He writes of his journey and experiences in An Area of Darkness in great detail, at times seemingly mocking the Indian culture to a great degree. The extent of his criticism goes beyond mere ridicule, but points out severe problems at the core of Indian society. Through humor, Naipaul sustains his audience in amusement and causes the readers to open their eyes to a ...
  • Earliest Asian Indian Immigrants To North America
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    Their homeland has the second largest population in the world, yet in America they form one of our smallest minorities. Americans were influenced by their beliefs long before the first immigrants arrived, and an important interchange of ideas has continued to the present day. Although many came to America as early as the turn of the century, they were denied citizenship until a congressional act granted it in 1946. Now they are students and teachers in our universities; they are artists and writ...
  • Leadership Styles And Management Processes
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    112 Silver Prayaas Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomenon on earth. Burns (1978) remarks. The problem arises not only in understanding the operation of the theory but even in its definition Leadership is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon to which organizational and psychological research has been applied. A macro-level comparison of business organizations in India vis-a vis those of successful countries like Japan, America, Germany, France and Korea provide ce...
  • Traditional Arranged Marriages
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    I've never had sex in India, the country where I was born and spent most of my first eighteen years. I've had impatient kisses in the shadows of whale-backed ambassador cars, and I've necked in the bucket seats of crowded movie theaters in Hyderabad, the city in southern India where I was born. But that was a long time ago, when I was young and na " ive and India was a conservative, closed nation, where "love marriage" was a dirty term and riotous Valentine's Day celebrations were still a genera...

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