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    In Colonial Latin America‚ the conversion of indigenous people to Catholicism took off in 1493. Catholicism was the religion of choice because the Europeans conquering Latin America were from the parts of Europe that practiced Catholicism such as Spain‚ Belgium and Portugal. The rise of Catholicism would enter England as well with Queen Mary’s reign from 1553-1558. However‚ Spain had a larger role in sending missionaries to Colonial Latin America than England. England is referenced to provide prospective

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    As individuals migrated to the modern day United States‚ many obstacles would stand in their way. Trade and exchange played the most important element in shaping the Colonial America’s‚ and I will argue just that in this paper. It’s without a doubt that trade has and always will be something that people can’t live without. Archaeologists have traced early signs of trade as far back as 15‚000 years ago. The concept of trade can change the whole complexity of a society. So many factors were involved

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    the Aboriginals have been fighting for the survival of their culture. The Aboriginals haven been take in and dominated to bring them in line with an idealistic European society. These themes have been put forward by Jack Davis in his stage play‚ No Sugar‚ the story of an Aboriginal family’s fight for survival during the Great Depression years. In communicating the racist and unfriendly attitudes of the leading white ideology towards‚ for example‚ discrimination and adjustment‚ Davis constructs

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    S. History 121 The Impact of the French and Indian War on Colonial America The French and Indian war was fought between Great Britain and France from 1754 to 1763. Also known as the Seven Year’s War‚ this confrontation eventually erupted into an all out worldwide conflict. Its effects were not only immediate but long term. Although the colonies were not directly tied to the war‚ it greatly impacted them as well as modern America. The war was primarily fought along the colonies separating

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    allows him ot critically assess and comment on the motives behind government decisions such as the moving of indigenous people from the Government Well Aboriginal Reserve in Northam to Moore River. Example Jack Davis shows this to be true in no sugar when Jimmy said ”Whole town knows why we’re goin”.”Coz wetjalas in this town don’t want us ‘ere’.” Jimmy’s identity and survival are built on outward protest but other members of his family find more subtle forms of protest. Therefore‚ this whole

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    No Sugar No Sugar (1986)‚ a play exploring the treatment of Aboriginal people in the 1930’s‚ was written by Jack Davis‚ an Aboriginal Western Australian who grew up in Yarloop and the Moore River Settlement. No Sugar is told from the point of view of an Aboriginal family who are coerced into living at an Aboriginal reserve because the white people in their community didn’t like them living close to them. The authority at the settlement are very abusive creating conflict between the Millimurra family

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    Sugar Studying sugar may seem like an ineffective way to approach the Caribbean’s rise to a globalized economy. It is quite the contrary‚ sugar rose to be an extremely popular and profitable staple for the international food economy. It grew to play a major role in what we know of today as the global food market. Sugar started developing immense popularity around the 1960’s due to colonial slavery‚ the industrialization of a global economy‚ and an increase in tea consumption. Sugar was introduced

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    No Sugar shows us a range of responses adopted by Aboriginal people toward white authority. Discuss.­ The play No Sugar by Jack Davis which is set in the 1930’s‚ explores and evaluates the way Aborigines were treated unjustly and how they responded to this treatment. Jack Davis presents to us the Milimurra family who are essentially the main characters in the play. They are the minority group fighting against the discriminations laid upon on them by white authorities. Without a doubt‚ Davis positions

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    novelty of life in the tropics/ to the novelty of large-scale sugar production? And to the novelty of slave labor?” Summary: Dunn’s book chronicles the settling and early growth of the first 3 generations of British colonists in the Caribbean islands. From a modest attempt to grow North American staples tobacco and cotton‚ largely with white indentures and their own labor‚ the islands quickly turned‚ with Dutch assistance‚ into great sugar plantations with large numbers of African slave labor and

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    Is Sugar the New Tobacco? Americans consume around 100 pounds of sugar per year. The daily consumption of sugar has increased worldwide by 46% in the last 30 years (“Sugar”). The Netflix film “Sugar Coated” shows what people have been ignoring over the years about sugar. "As obesity‚ diabetes‚ and heart disease rates skyrocket and doctors treat the first generation of children suffering from fatty liver disease‚ the sugar industry is under siege‚” (“Sugar”). This means that more diseases are

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