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…with the Indians that already inhabited this land. The U.S. Government decided they had three choices: they could assimilate, segregate, or eliminate the American Plains Indians. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown chronicles the events that took place between…

…was again, as he stood up he heard the sounds of metal clanging. He poked out his head of what looked like a pit. What was that sound? He thought to himself but before he could take notice of what he heard he glimpsed flickering lights frolicing in the darkness…

…Perces to acts of desperation and the band fled towards Canada and freedom with two large forces following them close behind. Bibliography Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, by Dee Brown…

…Helen Garner, in her short story collection, My Hard Heart, uses a wide variety of different narrative perspectives. Each type of narration is closely linked with, and special to, the story or experience being told. Susan Hosking, describes Garners…

…campaigner Pierre Trudeau a ‘renewed federalism’ . The Parti Quebecois lost the sovereignty association move but the separatist threat was still alive. Quebec was very much at the heart of the referendum. When the Constitution act of 1982 was proclaimed…

…A TALE OF TWO HEARTS While an artist uses a variety of colors and brushes to create a portrait, Charlotte Bronte used contrasting characters and their vivid personalities to create a masterpiece of her own. In her novel Jane Eyre, Bronte uses…

…It has been asked if it is fair to consider the Middle Ages as “the Dark Ages” or was it only a continuation of trends that were long underway by the time the Renaissance occurred. Can we say there was no true political expansion? Would we…

…The Light and Dark Throughout time, dating back to the witch era and the Salem witch trials, good and evil has been a topic on many peoples minds. Back in Salem and other medieval places, the burning of witches was normal practice. However they did…

…        'Darkness' is a word which is at the same time both dreadful and evocative. This is the one word Lord Byron chooses as the title for his poem. It is a fitting description of Byron's chilling, but powerful, poem, 'Darkness…

…, of the position in respect to society that was indicated by it--on the mind of Hester Prynne herself was powerful and peculiar. All the light and foliage of her character had been withered up by this red-hot brand, and had long ago fallen away... The darkness…