Essays on Colonisation

What was the Basis of the East India Trading Company’s Interest in India?

The East India Trading Company (hereafter referred to as the EIC) had two purposes in creating an economic foothold in the vast continent of India. First, and perhaps most important, was the fact that Britain was lagging behind the rest of Europe when it came to trade – despite their control of the seas (which, incidentally, interested Indian rulers almost as much as India interested the EIC), they were losing economic control to countries like the Netherlands and the Portuguese. While the Dutch, at least, had already established their own market in India, EIC agents hoped that they would be ...

What are the three types of drinking water advisories? According to the research/media/First Nations, what are the main reasons why so many First Nations are under drinking water advisories? The three types of drinking water advisories are: Boil Water Advisories/Orders (BWAs/BWOs), Do Not Consume Advisories/Orders (DNCAs/DNCOs), also called Do Not Drink Advisories/Orders (DNDAs/DNDOs), and Do Not Use Advisories/Orders (DNUAs/DNUOs). Water advisories can be caused by such reasons as problems with the water system like low pressure, bad pipe connections, improper filtration and insufficient disinfection from bacteria, and also precautionary measures. In order to provide First Nations with clean water, ...

Introduction

Globalization and modernization refer to the influence that modern nations have on non-developed or traditional nations and societies. At times, these influences result from direct contact, such as the opening of a Western corporate office or manufacturing plant in an underdeveloped nation. Other times, the influences can be indirect, such as the transmission of Western cultural values to non-Western societies through mediums such as television, literature, and goods shipped to local areas. Globalization and modernization can have both positive and negative impacts on the cultural practices of non-Western societies, and deciphering the impact of these influences can involve a complex analysis. ...

When considering what effects the development of the sugar industry in the British Caribbean had on the structure of society during the 17th century, it becomes apparent that there are various important factors involved that contribute to both the political and economic institutions of the Caribbean. These factors include not only the state of the industry itself, and the effects of its growth upon the social structure of the Caribbean islands that were held by the British. These changes had lasting effects upon the underlying institutions of the cultures that lived there. There were various impacts that had a ...

Australia, being both a country and a continent, is home to different races of mankind. And among the white people that we have known as the common faces of Australians today, Indigenous or Aboriginal people also occupy a space. Aboriginal people were the primary inhabitants of Australia before its colonization in late 1700s by the European mariners (Australian Government, 2008:web). Up until this day, Australian Indigenous population is struggling very hard to preserve the culture they once established. Nowadays, Indigenous people of Australia, closely adhering to their culture, are the modern faces of poverty and discrimination in the land they once considered ...

Wole Soyinka’s Death and the Kings Horseman

Prior to the European invasion in Africa, Africans had varied ways of life under their cultural setting. Some communities had formalised types of governments which were being ruled by kings while other communities had no centralised government. They practiced their own religion and had their own economic structures which comprised of skilled artists who could make masks sculptures, statutes of wood, bronze and gold, hunters and gatherers and also farmers. However, during colonisation, the African people’s way of life was subjected to numerous external changes that left traces in how we nowadays think and act. The imposition of ...

Q1. Stanner's assessment of the Dreaming is the aboriginal idea of a communal afterlife, which is eternal and ongoing. Human beings have 'souls,' as do every other living creature; these lifeforms help to create a complicated system that leads back to the Totemic Spirit Beings that exist within the Dreaming, forming the Creation. I believe that it can most certainly be described as a dualism, due to the fact that the Dreaming exists both before and after the individual life; it inhabits both flesh and spirit, and blends the physical and spiritual worlds together. Peterson, N. 1976. ‘The Natural and ...

Mississauga in Ontario, Canada is a modern city whose slogan proudly declares “Leading today for tomorrow” (Mississauga.ca, 2011) indicating that it is an evolving, metropolis-like city with an enthusiasm for moving with the times. However, Mississauga has an extremely rich history including the Mississauga People who lived in the area between around 1701 and 1800 after many migrated to live on the north shore of Lake Ontario (Oakville). In short, it was not always the ultra-modern metropolis that it is today: two to three hundred years ago, Mississauga was teeming with indigenous people living a simple life. These people were known ...