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    Why would anyone want to go through the trouble of colonizing? The English had such motives that compelled them to leave their motherland. It was for the reasons of seeking freedom, seeing there was nothing in Britain for them, and success accessed by other nations. England set up strict rules and laws. Those who sought a bit of adventure naturally took off. Others were motivated to find religious freedom. Lord Baltimore set up Maryland for the sake of his fellow Catholics. Since England was primarily

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    The English and the French have different methods of colonizing in the Americas, but they all have the same goals. Both the English and the French have different motivations for establishing a colony in the Americas. In addition, both the English and the French have a hard time to maintain their establishments due to the lack of support given from their mother country. Without the American Indian’s help, the English and French will never be able to become successful in establishing a colony in the

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    understandable for a person persuading others of an action, to inflate the outcome of that action in the hopes that they will agree to participate. The Hakluyt cousins had persuasion down to a science and when they released their writings about colonization, they did more than just persuade. The Hakluyt’s brothers proclaimed outcomes that to humans in the 21st Century appear to be solely unrealistic wishes. With their statements about the undiscovered riches or the flourishing trade to be established

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    confronted with hybridity, and the role of the literary canon in European colonisation. In The Empire Writes Back (Ashcroft, et al.), the term ‘post-colonial’ is defined as covering “all the culture affected by the imperial process from the moment of colonization to the present day”. Post-colonial theory, then, provides an insight into the complicated power dynamic that occurs between the coloniser and the colonised, and, at its simplest, responds to colonialism with emphasis on the effects, both positive

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    their colonization efforts were extremely different. Although they had many differences they often used similar tactics in order to reach their goals. The differences include the two nations different reasoning to explore the New World, their relationship with the Natives, and the types of governments that they attempted to set up. Although some of these differences might not seem as if they are very important, they helped one nation do you better than the other one when it came to colonization efforts

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    104 men landed in Virginia in 1607 at a place they named Jamestown. This was the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Thirteen years later, 102 settlers aboard the Mayflower landed in Massachusetts at a place they named Plymouth. With these two colonies, English settlement in North America was born. Jamestown offered anchorage and a good defensive position. Warm climate and fertile soil allowed large plantations to prosper. Plymouth provided good anchorage and an excellent harbor

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    1. The main contours of English Colonization in the 17th century were Protestant motives to strike Catholicism, along with solving England’s social crisis. With the rumors of the Spanish Empire’s atrocities reaching England, one motive to colonize the America’s was to strike the Catholics, and save the natives from captivity (Foner 51). This shows an interesting aspect of the English Colonization: the English allowed their people to go colonize just to strike the opposing religious country. Along

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    Thus, the true intentions of colonization as expressed by Conrad are that it is for selfish purposes and looks to exploit rather than help the natives. This novel is slightly different to other books that have the theme of colonisation. Unlike Chinua Achebe in Things Fall Apart, Conrad

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    investing in my solution of colonizing other planets which will help decrease overpopulation. III. Credibility statement: Researching solutions for overpopulation over the past month has extended my knowledge on the topic and proven to me that planet colonization is the best solution out there. IV. Thesis Statement: The United Nations could save humankind as we know it by understanding, finding a solution, and knowing who else has worked on the solution to decrease overpopulation. Body Paragraphs: I

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    In a two dimensional shape, a centre is point that is equidistant from all edges of a shape. Hence, without the edges, a centre cannot be determined. The idea of centre is used to depict colonisation where a coloniser becomes a centre to the margin that the colonised are made into. The idea of the centre was not only geographical, but also, political and social. The centre is geographically where the ruler(s) resides. Politically, centre is the entity with which/whom, power rests. Socially, the

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