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    Founding Nations Canada was not founded by two nations. Canada was founded by many different cultures. When Canada started‚ I feel as if there were four different lifestyles and cultures that started Canada’s traditions and lifestyles. One of the main founding nations of Canada is the French. The French people of Quebec specifically. This French community led a different lifestyle and had a different culture and from the French Acadians. The French speaking people of Quebec lived out their lives

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    1. Discuss the fate of the indigenous populations of the United States‚ Canada and Latin America. How did their fate relate to the sense of mission in each area? During the 19th and early 20th centuries‚ many of the indigenous people were treated unfairly and no respect was given for either them or their land. Many of these natives were forced off their land and left homeless because industries wanted to use the land for industrial purposes. In places like the United States‚ the government would

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    Case Study #1 The trading of goods and technologies between imperial governments and indigenous nations consists of both positive and negative outcomes. In Canada‚ the fur trade was of significance due to the advanced technology brought by the Europeans to the natives. They brought goods such as axes‚ wool‚ tobacco pipes‚ flintlock muskets‚ and an assortment of knives in exchange for furs. The aboriginals began to utilize the European goods for the reason that the technology was incomparable to

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    What Makes A Nation‚ A Nation? No nation can exist forever. So what makes a nation‚ a nation? Milan Kundera’s essay‚ “A Nation Which Cannot Take Itself for Granted” examines this significant question. Published in June 1967‚ Kundera‚ a reformed Czechoslovakian communist writer‚ explores the sphere of culture and optimism of the Czech nation during the period of de-Stalinization in Eastern Europe. “The existence of the Czech nation has never been a matter to be taken for granted and

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    Condition of First Nation toward Education Every part of the world has indigenous people whose rights have been deprived. In the beginning‚ they have free access of the land they inhabit and possess all valuable resources within it but after a contact with European and/or American colonization‚ they struggle to live freely because of the self-centered actions of these colonizers. One of these indigenous people are the first people of Canada‚ or most commonly referred as First Nations and/or Aboriginals

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    Name: Suzanne Claveau Date: October 10‚ 2012 Author: Marie Battiste Title: ‘’ Indigenous Knowledge and Pedagogy in First Nations Education A Literature Review with Recommendations.’’ Marie Battiste‚ director of the Apamuwek Institute‚ in partnership with the Canadian Government

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    What Is A Nation?

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    What is a Nation? The concept of a nation refers to a socially constructed and politically organized grouping of a people‚ or ethnic group‚ within a self-governing physical boundary. Historically‚ the concept of a nation in its modern understanding has been distorted to further it from its original definition. Evidence of such distortion exists in our present society‚ and has continued through common conflation of definitions between a nation and other similar social groupings. This essay will attempt

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    Imagined nation

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    him ‘A nation is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members‚ meet them‚ or even hear of them‚ yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion’. There are different factors in society that help to define the common features of a nation such as history‚ territory‚ language‚ government and laws‚ symbols or habits. Those factors can be analysed to obtain what are the common features that define the United Kingdom as a nation. This

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    respond to the argument that a state cannot survive without nationalism. For the purpose of this essay‚ two elements of nationalism are used. The first element states that nationalism maintains the similarity of culture as the basic social bond in the members of the nation1. The second element states that the state has legitimate rights to sovereign rule of a nation. The factors that result from the three elements of nationalism that contributes to the survival of the state are equality within people in

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    Students are the wealth of the Nation First of all‚ we have to know that "Nation" is a country considered as group of people living in certain territory under one government. Secondly‚ we have to know "Building nation wealth" means not a brickwork construction but development. Students are vital organs of nation. They are future citizens‚ who can become "Nation’s most needed" categories i.e. producers‚ protectors‚ philosophers‚ Businessman‚ scientists etc who are behind the reason for country’s

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