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Overview of Female Writers from the Post Colonial Era

In six pages this research paper considers post colonial women writers in a discussion of Rosario Ferre's 'The Youngest Doll' and ...

Igbo Culture, the British, and Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

of hot yam which its mother puts in its palm" (Achebe 47). In other words, Achebe portrayal of African culture has more nuance t...

Things Fall Apart Examines Colonialism

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is in many ways both an indictment of colonial England's arrogance and ignorance about African c...

Slave's Life

In seven pages this research paper examines how various texts depict colonial and antebellum South's slave life. Five sources are...

British Colonialism and Oroonoko by Aphra Behn

In a paper consisting of five pages this paper discusses how structural differentation patterns including status of social class, ...

Two Decades of India Under Colonial Rule

The generation of 1920 through 1940 marked the end of British colonial rule in India. This paper deals with the independence movem...

Spanish and English Approaches to Colonial Slavery

Spain and Portugal were the first nations to reach the shores of the "New World". Their arrival preceded that of other major colo...

Great Britain's Colonial Power Losses

In five pages this paper examines how Great Britain's colonial power was lost in this case study comparison of the mutinies in Aus...

Capitalism and Its Origins in Imperialism

In ten pages this paper asserts that modern capitalism can be traced back to imperialist empires with the French and British colon...

An Examination of Pocahontas

met John Smith in 1608 and between that time and the time she married another gentleman in 1614, she was kidnapped and raped by th...

Jean Rouch's 1954 Film Les Maitres Fous

Accra's Hauka community during colonial rule as depicted in Les Maitres Fous by director Jean Rouch is the focus of this paper con...

Colonial Latin America and Social Hierarchies

imperialism of the past 500 years. Social Hierarchy The social histories of nations throughout Latin America provide important i...

West Africa, West Central Africa, and Slavery's Consequences

names which come up when talking about slavery. These coastal areas certainly seemed to suffer. A larger chunk of Africa suffered ...

Colonial Art of John Singleton Copley

the people in the portraits are from particular backgrounds. Of course, one may speculate that anyone who commissioned an artist ...

1560 to 1890 European Dominance

process several centuries before. We can argue that one of the first influences was the development of the use of gunpowder and h...

The Impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade on the American Colonies

to develop a work force among Native Americans and white immigrants. Colonists, finding that Africans were cheap and relatively im...

David Weber/Barbaros

A 3 page book review on David Weber's text Barbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment. This comprehensive t...

North American English Colonial Societies

became so dependent on the Indians that they took to raiding them; the Algonquin chief, Powhatan, decided to starve them out, and ...

Octavio Paz: Perspective of the Colonial Period

how the peasantry had a long history of such struggles and were not new to such fights whereas "the workers lacked not only the mo...

Colonial Culture

he is not Dutch. He is only really being given the education as an outward sign of respect and acceptance. Even though he proves t...

America (1600-1774): The Land of Opportunity?

hopes and expectations which constantly supported and carried them through all the hardships with patience and resignation. Let us...

Colonial Women’s Public Role and Legal Status

formal education or technical training, women would be hired. The obvious vocational choices were extensions of their housekeepin...

Family Life in the American Colonies

(Demos, 2000, p. But this common kitchen tool was also "used by conjurers magicians in obscure ceremonies of fortune-telling" in t...

Historical Anthropology Questions

A 9 page paper that answers three questions about historical anthropology. Topics include evolution of social cultural change, col...

Colonial Women of Latin America

Because of this, the family changed from being the focus of both production and consumption toward a paradigm in which it was simp...

Poverty Articles by Paul Collier and David Dollar and David Slater and Morag Bell Reviewed

if we look at where the aid is going is currently giving the greatest poverty relief to the South East Asian area and the least to...

1750 to 1790 Colonial America and the Adoption of 'Revolutionary Habits'

operating "mills, tanneries, blacksmith shops, forges, and other community services in connection with their plantation enterprise...

African American Education Throughout History

years later, in 1775, Ben Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery (Socialist Equality Party, 1997)....

First Canadian Settlers

morning activities were done with the use of candles for the most part, though some likely had oil lanterns as well. Any candles t...

Strong Colonial Frontier Establishment

grow and produce goods they found themselves with great products worthy of selling overseas. In addition, the East Coast was a coa...