Colony Case Studies Samples For Students

In chapter three of A People's History of the United States, author Howard Zinn makes it clear that the socioeconomic conditions of colonial America were anything but democratic. Zinn paints a picture of Indian uprisings, negro revolts, and white servant rebellions that betray our conventional understanding of the earliest events of American history.
At the beginning of the Revolutionary War in the 1770s, the colonies were highly-divided. Aristocratic, white landholders owned most of the wealth while poor whites, negro slaves, and Indians comprised the majority of the American populace. While the white elites usually had the backing of England ...

Ancient Egypt The Egyptian applies symbolic art that is highly developed to depict a complicated realistic mixture. Symbolism plays a part in establishing order. The hierarchical scale of a drawing depicts the importance in the society.
Cartouche: This is an oval with a horizontal line in one end to depict a royal name. A cartouche replaces the earlier serekh. It uses the horizontal line for the name to fit.
Gothe style The French in 12 A.D apply this style of medieval art that encompasses sophistication due to the use of figurative, illumination of manuscripts, and fresco.
St. Denis, Laon, Notre Dame, ...

Colony collapse disorder refers to a phenomenon which entails a sharp, unusual decline in the number of bees in a colony. This phenomenon has raised great concerns in the USA in the recent past given that honey bees are a significant part of the US economy. Honey bees are involved in pollination therefore contributing to about one third of the US diet. Several causes have been identified as triggers of the phenomenon; most of which are under investigation. Among the causes identified are: genetically modified foods, pathogens, pesticides and antibiotics. Pesticides in particular are deemed to be a leading cause since pesticides such as ...

Human Geographical Factors and Social Systems

Human Geography is defined as the activities of human beings and its impact on the society and the earth in general. Human geography is a key indicator and pointer that can and has been used to explain trends in societies and communities. According to Jared Diamond, societies and how they rise and collapse can be linked to a number of human geographic factors which influences the way societies are ran and can be analyzed. This is mainly due to the fact that society is based on livelihood and a reliance on the environment. Thus, human geography identifies these collective ...

Recent Developments in World Trade

Need for Export Markets
According to Prime Minister Ferry, industrial France needs outlets or markets to export their products and colonies provide the most effective market for selling French goods. Major French industries such as textiles need more outlets for economic growth. Neighboring countries such as Germany had started to implement trade barriers and the United States had implemented protectionist policies, further increasing the need for new markets for French goods. In addition, the industrialized nations had started to push their products into the French markets. Overall, the markets for French goods were shrinking, both and abroad and colonies ...

Kotter and Rathgeber, in their simple fable, Our Iceberg is Melting, described a scenario which involves leading through change. The authors’ fable has a lot of lessons for leaders who wish to lead successful organisational changes. According to Kotter and Rathgeber, successful organisational change requires a step by step approach. The authors suggested an eight-step procedure for leading organisational change. The authors used a colony of penguins as the characters in their fable. The Penguins, unknowingly, employed the eight-step procedure to implement a successful change. According to the authors, a challenge which is well-handled can lead one to prosperity ...

Abstract

The Crown and Waikato Tainui has been having conflicting standards in the management of the Waikato River. The report is basically giving details on the background of the different stands that each team has pertaining the river and how the conflict resolution was approached.
Tainui believes that the river lies in their ancestral land and that the Crown has not right interfering with the management of the river and its resources. This initiated the need for a deed settlement between the two parties. The deed settlement was signed in august 2008 and this brought the genesis of shared management ...

REDD+ in Kenya

Introduction

The prevalence of deforestation and massive degradation of forests from around the world are considered as one among the primary root of global warming. According to reports, the destruction of forests accounts for about 15 percent of greenhouse gas emissions that occur globally (Forest, 2015), and it was found that deforestation are generally caused by factors that motivate people to clear the forests (Chakravarty, 2012). As a means to combat the problem on global emissions, the REDD+ was created with the goal to reduce the impact of the environmental degradation as well as to foster activities ...

The abolition of the slave trade in Britain between 1750 and1920

Historians agree that changes in the Atlantic world contributed to the abolition of the British slavery between 1750 and 1920. Modern historians treat slavery with the consideration of the capitalist world, which include its tassel and in classical ruins that played a critical role in European education. Hochschild was responsible for labeling these societies. In Hochschild’s theory, the slaves practiced productive labor, and slave labor was highly significant the state and the society. Slavery was present in the key industrial societies. The prevalence of slave labor made some European states create reservoirs of people that could offer them their ...

Introduction

The case study oscillates around a decision by the then Israel prime minister, Ariel Sharon, to undertake a disengagement of Israelites from Palestine in December 2003. The project would involve evacuating Jews from the Gaza strip, a project that would entail a combination of skills and the use of force at some point to force the evacuatees out of the Gaza. Colonel Yaron was requested to volunteer as the project manager, and his main job was to find suitable troops and offer them adequate training so as to carry out the project successfully. Particularly, he was supposed to familiarize ...

Question 1.

The Supreme Court of New South Wales is the highest court of the state, with the unlimited civil jurisdiction. The Court has appellate and trial jurisdictions, in addition to the jurisdiction granted by specific statutes. The Court acts as a supervisor over other NSW courts and tribunals. (Supreme Court NSW)
Mental Health Review Tribunal is a non-judicial tribunal established under the Mental Health Act 2007 NSW. The Tribunal has a wide authority to conduct various inquiries in the field of mental health, issue orders, hear appeals regarding the treatment of people with a mental illness. The Tribunal has the ...

Question 1. The Article

“Clarity on Honey Bee Collapse?” is an article which tackles about the possible explanation on why honey bee colonies are rapidly decreasing.

Question 2. Type of Source

The source is a scholarly article in traditional print source. It is supported by scientific evidences and the article is under the provisions of a scientific journal. Moreover, it is featured in a science book; therefore, the source is highly credible (Purdue Online Writing Lab).

Question 3. Varroa destructor

a. Varroa destructor is a mite of the class Arachnida. Further classification states that it belongs to the subclass Acari (Bug Guide).
b. The source for the answer in (a) can be ...

Section A

- What is your student identification number?
- How many Indigenous nations are there in Canada?
There are twelve nations: Great Basin, California, Great Plains, Northeastern Woodlands, South West, South East, Mesoamerica, Circum-Caribbean, Eastern Subarctic, Northwest Coast, Western Subartic and Arctic.
- How many Indigenous language families exist in Canada?
There are close to 75 indigenous languages, but according to Norrls (104), up to 2008, there were sixteen selected aboriginal languages. They include Cree, Ojibway, Innu-aimun, Algonquin, Ml’kmaq, Blackfoot, Malecite, Dene, Dogrib, Carrior, Satish, Gitksan, Nisga’a, Mohawk, Iroquoian and Haida.

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- How many indigenous ...

Federalism as a system of government in the United States of America is one democratic governance. It ensures that power is vested in the people, as opposed to a central government and the political structure that come with it. Federalism has played a great role in the economic development of the Union. It is believed that it is in America that one would find the most stable democracy in the whole world. So below is a case study of three states with distinctive types of federal governments within them.

California State Government

California is among the few states that practice direct democracy in the United States ...

Since early 1990s, there have been issues relating to water problems, conflicts, and compromises over water. Projects have been established to make appropriate documents relating the issues, problems and solutions to the west conflicts and settlements over water. This research currently will offer on various ways the government handling the problem of water rights of Native Americans tribes in Arizona. These tribes include the Hopi, Navajo, and the Pima tribes in Arizona. The group participates on Federal Negotiation team as activities intensify and more progress made for these teams. Thus, it is the drive of this project to digitize ...

Environmental Studies

Deutsche Bank of Germany is a globally powerful banking and financial institution. It has been recognized in both the financial and the environmental sectors for environmentally positive actions. The eco-friendly activities include both internal and external ‘green’ actions. The Deutsche Bank’s mission statement claims that the goal of the company is to find long term financial solutions for everyone who needs financial services.
“The bank competes to be the leading global provider of financial solutions, creating lasting value for its clients, shareholders, people and the communities in which it operates.” (Mission Statement, Deutsche Bank, 2013)
Deutsche Bank ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story “Babylon Revisited” is the tale of Charlie Wales, who might have been a cautionary figure for Fitzgerald’s own life. Wales and his wife, Helen, used to drink excessively and get in dramatic, drawn-out fights. They had a daughter together, named Honoria. One night in 1929, during the heady days of the Jazz Age that preceded the arrival of the Great Depression, they had had a particularly awful fight, and Charlie ended up locking his wife out in the snowy night, and she became sick and died from exposure. The daughter, Honoria, ended up with Helen’s ...