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The English and Native Americans. An interesting point in the essay was how both cultures ultimately have different views on value and respect. The Native Americans were willing to help a stranger they have never met before, whereas the white people were more concerned about how much money the stranger had before they even considered…

Land, to many of us, is a topographic point of growing and development. When the Pakeha, or white adult male, saw the fertile land of New Zealand, he saw chance and investing to do more money. But did the Pakeha truly cognize what land is to those who live as though their land is everything…

The most interesting information that I read in this book was how all women no matter their race wanted their rights because they worked like a man if not harder and did men’s jobs sporadically throughout history. This was interesting because even though women proved themselves over and over and still men refused to recognize…

Villains aren’t always just found in the stories we pass down from generation to generation. They can be found in everyday life throughout history from all across the globe. But what makes someone a villain? The definition of villain is someone that is blamed for a particular evil or difficulty (Webster). Hernan Cortes fits this…

The Presidential election of 1972 had two strong candidates,President Richard Nixon and George McGovern. There were many issueswhich had a great deal of importance to the election. The Vietnam war andthe stability of the economy at the time were two main factors. The electionended in one the largest political scandals in U.S. history, being theWatergatebreak-in,…

The foundation myths of three kingdoms have a profound impact on the study of Korea’s history. If we delve deeper into the legendary histories, we can see that Goguryeo’s founder Dongmyeong wang (Jumong) has significant connections with another ancient kingdom in North-east Asia called Buyeo, which later became a hostile country to Goguryeo. According to…

It is rather a daunting task to sort out the way the kingdom of Nkhamanga was organised. The contrasting views by historians give testimony to this. There are those historians who contend that Chikulamayembe exercised both political and economic influence in vast kingdom that stretched from Dwangwa to the south to Songwe River in the…

“History Stephen said, ‘is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake” (James Joyce, Ulyssess). Is history a ‘nightmare’ and, if so, is it possible to awake? History has been represented by some as a triumphal march. As a progressive, unlinear, emancipating process. Fukyama, for instance, has heralded liberal democracy as the ‘end of…

Itallbegan in1932 In 1932 Ole Kirk Kristiansen, a Danish joiner and carpenter, began making wooden toys . The business he established later passed from father to son, and today the founder’s grandson, Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, and his children own the LeGO Group . In 1958 Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, son of Ole Kirk Kristiansen, made what…

Toyota was started in 1933 as a division of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works devoted to the production of automobiles under the direction of the founder’s son, Kiichiro Toyoda. [36] Its first vehicles were the A1 passenger car and the G1 in 1935. The Toyota Motor Co. was established as an independent company in 1937. In…