Canadian literature Essays

  • The Influence Of Literature In Canadian Literature

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    Literature reflects life‟ - this was true in the sense that a poet or writer, in composing a literary work, was very often inspired and influenced by some of his/ her own experiences and social surroundings. Literature was a term used to describe written or spoken material. The term was most commonly used to refer to words of the creative imagination including works of Poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction. Literature was one of the fine arts like music and painting. It was, fundamentals, an

  • Stereotyping In Canadian Literature

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    country that were hidden in plain sight via specific literary devices such as imagery, conflict, and irony. These same devices were used to convey more mild blending of cultures as well. This blending of cultures eventually became a prominent theme in Canadian writing. Using imagery to convey the theme of cultural blending allows the reader to be more immersed into a piece of

  • Susanna Moodie and Copway

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    the travel documented in the biography. However, both describe environment and wilderness in distinctive ways that affect their way of presentating Canadian nature. Moodie describes the environment as an area with wide and stormy seas and chilly blasts with wintry storms. The male speaker also fears the dark forests because he plainly says it (Canadian Poetry 1). It is also evident that what Moodie expected is not what she encounters since she states that her first day’s experience ends without much

  • The Beginnings of a National Literary Tradition

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    The Beginnings of a National Literary Tradition Canadians throughout their history have been concerned over the status of their national literature. One of the major problems facing early Canadian writers was that the language and poetic conventions that they had inherited from the Old World were inadequate for the new scenery and conditions in which they now found themselves. Writers such as Susanna Moodie, Samuel Hearne, and Oliver Goldsmith were what I would consider "Immigrant" authors

  • Janise Acoose: Stereotypes Of Indigenous Women In Canadian Literature

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    Saskatchewan and lectures at the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College. Acoose writes a very powerful and impressive book, she deconstructs stereotypical images of Indigenous women in popular Canadian? literature, exposing the underlying racism and sexism. Exposing “literature”as an institution of a Euro-Canadian nation shaped by white, Christian patriarchy, Acoose calls attention to its projections of Indigenous women as Indian princesses, easy squaws, suffering helpless victims and tawny temptresses

  • indo-canadians

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    catalyst for gang related violence and crime, especially in the Indo-Canadian community. However, there is not enough documented evidence explaining why violence is so prominent amongst Indo-Canadian youth. Although there is not enough evidence accumulated by researchers on this topic, based on research that I have gathered about other minorities involved in gang related violence, I will show that there is a tendency for Indo-Canadians to follow the same pattern as other minorities who become involved

  • Multiculturalism In Canada

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    searching for a better life, the population naturally becomes more diverse. This has, in turn, spun a great debate over multiculturalism. Some of the issues under fire are the political state's policies concerning multiculturalism, the attitudes of Canadians around these policies, immigration, the global market, and a central point is the education and how to present the material in a way so as to offend the least amount of people. There are many variations on these themes as will be discussed in this

  • Pierre Elliot Trudeau

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    Pierre Elliot Trudeau Published in 1968, Federalism and the French Canadians is an ideological anthology featuring a series of essays written by Pierre Elliot Trudeau during his time spent with the Federal Liberal party of Canada. The emphasis of the book deals with the problems and conflicts facing the country during the Duplessis regime in Quebec. While Trudeau stresses his adamant convictions on Anglophone/Francophone relations and struggles for equality in a confederated land, he also elaborates

  • Hellen Nellie Mcclung: A Canadian Feminist

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    Hellen Nellie McClung: A Canadian Feminist Helen "Nellie" Laetitia Mooney was born October 20, 1873 in a log cabin on Garafraxa Road, two kilometers from Chatsworth, Ontario. She and her family moved to Manitoba when she was six years old. One of Nellie's best influences was her mother. Her family's influence was no doubt the reason she became an activist. Her mother thought that every child had the right to an education, and her whole family encouraged her to learn all she could. (9, Wright) Nellie

  • Nonbelief as Support for Atheism

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    Nonbelief as Support for Atheism The Canadian philosopher J.L. Schellenberg has recently put forward an argument for atheism based on the idea that God is supposed to be perfectly loving and so would not permit people to be deprived of awareness of his existence. If such a deity were to exist, then, he would do something to reveal his existence clearly to people, thereby causing them to become theists. Thus, the fact that there are so many non-theists in the world becomes good reason to deny the

  • Identity Crisis in Canadian Film

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    Identity Crisis in Canadian Film Much has been written about the ways in which Canada's state as a nation is, as Peter Harcourt writes, "described" and hence, "imagined" (Harcourt, "The Canadian Nation -- An Unfinished Text", 6) through the cultural products that it produces. Harcourt's terms are justifiably elusive. The familiar concept of "Canadian culture", and hence Canadian cinema, within critical terminology is essentially based on the principle that the ideology of a national identity

  • Photosynthesis Lab Report

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    Investigating Photosynthesis in Canadian Pondweed Aim The aim of the investigation is find out what factors affect the rate of photosynthesis. Photosynthesis should not occur if one of the limiting factors is not present. Plan ==== The factors affecting photosynthesis are: Light - This will affect photosynthesis because it is one of the limiting factors. Without light photosynthesis can't take place as it is the energy source. Temperature

  • The Daily Life of Civil War Soldiers

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    HIS SEX LIFE! The Soldier Himself Just who was the Civil War soldier? Nearly seventy-five percent of the soldiers in the two armies were American born. Immigrants joined the ranks as well, particularly the Irish and the Germans. English, Canadians, Scandinavians, French, Italians, Hispanics, African Americans, Native Americans and Hungarians also enlisted. Many of the American born soldiers’ families were only recent comers to the U.S. and had close ties with their native roots. This diversity

  • The Challenge of Maintaining Quebecois Culture

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    Quebec is hardly in such a bad state. The data outlined in the article assessed the degree of American influence over Canadian and Quebecois cultural industry and the demand of Quebecois programming by the Francophone people, thus allowing the readers to make their own assumptions about the apparent threat to Quebec's culture. Tremblay also discusses whether Quebecois and Canadian cultural industries - such as "broadcast programming and production and film and video" - should enter the Free Trade

  • Canadian Involvement in the Suez Crisis

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    Canadian Involvement in the Suez Crisis Eleven years after the second world war, a crisis occurred which had the potential to escalate into a third world war. Hostilities ran high and the background causes that prompted this crisis contained the same fundamentals as were seen in the first and second world wars. Those being militarism, alliances, imperialism and nationalism; wrought by those countries that had an interest in the Suez Canal and the Arab states. In the world of superpowers in conflict

  • The Wrongful Conviction of Canadian, Guy Paul Morin

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    The Wrongful Conviction of Canadian, Guy Paul Morin On January 23, 1995 Guy Paul Morin was exonerated of a first-degree murder conviction of Christine Jessop, ten years after his arrest and two lengthy criminal trials. This is a case where the justice system failed at all levels and has left the Ontario courts asking how it happened. On October 3, 1984 nine year old Christine Jessop was abducted from her home in Queensville, Ontario. Her body was found three months later, fifty five kilometers

  • D-Day and War

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    were less successful than the first division. On Juno beach, the Canadian forces landed first. Their first wave suffered a loss of fifty percent of their casualties. It was the highest of any of the five Doom's day battles excluding Omaha beach. By the end of Doom's day, fourteen thousand Canadians had been successfully landed. They penetrated further into France then any other allied force. Between Juno and Sword beaches the Canadians did most of their counter attacks on Germany. The fiftieth division

  • Racial Discrimination in Obasan and Itsuka by Jow Kogawa

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    caused many terrible and tragic events in history such as the holocaust, slavery, and among them is the evacuation and relocation of Japanese Canadians during World War II. In the novels ¡®Obasan¡¯ and ¡®Itsuka¡¯ by Joy Kogawa, the main protagonist Naomi and her family go through the mistreatment and racial discrimination, which occurred to all Japanese Canadians during World War II. Obasan, which focuses on the past, and Itsuka, which focuses on the present, are novels that are similarly based around

  • The Shipbuilder

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    are to some people. Jaanus and Jukka create most of this controversy. Jaanus and Jukka are brothers who are born in Finland. Jukka move's out of Finland and he becomes a Canadian, in name, in body and in soul. Jaanus relocates to Canada several years later, but he's different. When Jaanus moves to Canada he doesn't become a Canadian. He is a Finn living in Canada. His body is in Canada but his name, and his soul still belong to Finland. When Jaanus first enters the play he insists that his name is

  • Two Rivers

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    Green Bay they would run into a small town known as Two Rivers. Two rivers is located on the coast of Lake Michigan. Two Rivers is surrounded on three sides by the majestic Lake Michigan. Not far from Two Rivers is its sister city Manitowoc. French Canadians as well as the Chippewa Indians founded two Rivers. The Chippewa Indians called the area Neshotah that means “a junction of 2 rivers”, since the twin rivers join together before entering Lake Michigan. The Chippewa Indians also named the twin rivers