Canada is a country built on immigration‚ mainly British at first‚ but from all over the world afterwards. Chinese immigration to Canada dates back to the period of the gold rush when they were recruited to mine. In the 1880’s‚ the Chinese population increased after Canada joined the confederation and extra labour was required to build a cross-country railway. Due to the poor economy in China‚ many Chinese were willing to migrate and work for low wages. The Canadian government seized this opportunity
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In “A Thousand Pieces of Gold†Polly had many homes. First she lived in China with her family. Her family is poor so she fears that she is going to lose her home. When she gets sold she loses her home and her family. She wants to escape from the bandits and run back home‚ but she can’t escape. Then she get’s bought and sent to the United States. She still thinks her home is back in China and she plans to gather gold and use it to buy her way back there. She meets Jim‚ who
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Prejudice is among the top reasons for man’s injustice towards one another. An example of this type of hatred was during the Holocaust. As written by Abba Eban in the essay titled The Eichmann Trial in Retrospect‚ "He who cannot remember the past is doomed to repeat it". In saying so‚ memory is essential in today’s society. Knowing historical events which took place many generations ago is an asset for any individual‚ enabling one to distinguish between what’s right and wrong. "Man is the only animal
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Charles Manson: Serial Murderer? Serial Killers Does the definition of a serial murderer only encompass one who commits the act or is the definition able to be enlarged to include one who leads others to commit murder? A jury in 1971 decided that‚ yes a person can lead others to commit heinous murders and be labeled a serial killer. Such person is Charles Manson. A serial murderer according to Steve Egger is a murderer that commits two or more murders for reasons that differ from
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In this essay we will compare the RSC stage version of Macbeth with the film version by Polanski. We shall look especially at the characterisation of Macbeth‚ Lady Macbeth and the witches; Stagecraft of the setting‚ the dagger‚ darkness and light‚ and the devices of death on stage and soliloquies. Shakespeare often found his ideas for his plays in historical sources. He did not follow his sources closely; however‚ he took the most important parts‚ and sometimes added new material to make his
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Films serve as an effective medium for educating their audience members. For historical events such as the Holocaust‚ films carry the immense potential to assure that the memory of horrifying systematic brutality inflicted on certain populations and the memory of the horrors these victims’ experienced live on. Films are instrumental in assimilating the remembrance of genocides like the Holocaust into public and popular consciousness. With the pivotal influence that these films harness‚
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the Game” becomes more than a young girl’s success at playing chess when juxtaposed against the humility of immigrant life in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Cultural tradition‚ physical surroundings and the game of chess are all elements of the physical and social setting which contribute to the meaning of the story. The story takes place in Chinatown‚ San Francisco. This is where the main character‚ Waverly Place Jong‚ lives with her family. The physical setting reflects the coexistence of
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be examined in contemporary feature films. According to Frederic Jameson there are three different types of mode rétro that characterise postmodernism. Chinatown depicts the past‚ Star Wars shows us an imagined future while Body Heat echoes earlier films (Jameson‚ p.23). Jameson says that postmodern films are selective in what they show. Chinatown for example doesn’t accurately depict the entirety of the 1930s but only what it wants the viewer to know about the 30s. Jameson calls these films nostalgia
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Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrated from Hong Kong to Brooklyn with nothing but a few suitcases. Struggling to survive in the “Big Apple”‚ Kim realizes she needs to take matters into her own hands. An exceptional schoolgirl in the day and a Chinatown sweatshop worker at night‚ Kimberley had to conceal the harder realities- like the staggering degrees of poverty‚ the weight of her family’s future lying on her shoulders‚ or her love for a factory boy who has no ambition or talent- Kimberley learns
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