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traced the shape of modern Moroccan identity. Undoubtedly, the French colonialism is one of the most threat of Moroccan identity. They tried hard to separate Morocco into two entities to serve their colonial ambitions, in addition to the economic reasons and the exploitation of wealth, the French colonial intention was blurring Moroccan identity. However, Stuart Hall distinguished between two kinds of cultural identities, which we adapt to the Moroccan case.  Collective Identity vs Unstable Identity:

Passing the mile marker of informing me that Norfolk was right around the corner, filled me with the anticipation of so much happiness, but a little bit of nervousness too. I was on my way to visit Julia, one of my best friends for the longest time. Driving down the bumpy highway, I thought back to some of my fondest memories with her, including playing on a fallen, rotten tree and pretending to have a chocolate shop with the mud from rain. As little girls, we would dress up and making singing videos

Revolutions are often characterized under two dominant schools of thought, either the structural or the cultural viewpoint. The structural approach favors causes that are of inherent forces in the system of sovereign nations, whilst the cultural view favors individuals actions and ideas as rudimentary to revolution. Skocpol and Trimberger’s essay Revolutions: A Structural Analysis modernizes the ideas of Karl Marx and reconciles them with the modern revolutions that have occurred to form a new viewpoint;

Crime and punishment in Wendake communities and in New France was completely different, as the Wendat people based their legal system on reparations and preserving the community while New France’s legal system was based on religion and terror. According to records kept by French Catholic missionaries, the Wendat legal system emphasized compensation for crimes and prioritized social cohesion as opposed to individual punishment. For example, when someone was murdered, the family of the perpetrator

Indirect rule is a system that was put into place by imperialist who did not have the manpower to rule a country by force. It is an ingenious system that allowed countries to come into Africa and impose their rules and influences over the natives without fully taking over. According to W. R. Cocker, Sir Fredrick Lugard was given the position of High Commissioner in Northern Nigeria. His objective was to bring Nigeria under British rule. This was no easy task because the native population outnumbered

Napoleon became a hero in France because when he was only nine years of age he was sent to military school. Now he finished his schooling at only 16 and became a lieutenant in the artillery. Napoleon joined the army when the Revolution Broke out. October 1795 royalist rebels marched on the National Convention, Napoleon was told to defend the delegates by a government officer. He greeted them with a connonade and as they rushed in they were confused and panicked and Napoleon was hailed and became

Politics of Exclusion in Colonial Southeast Asia. Ann Laura Stoler & Race and the Education of Desire, Fauoult’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things. Ann Laura Stoler Introduction We will be presenting two essays by Ann Laura Stoler. The first essay, “Race and the Education of Desire”, Foucault’s history of sexuality discusses class, race and desire in terms of family and state regulations which are identified as the moral [bourgeois] code in the colonial context of Indochina

During the late 18th century, France was divided into two different social classes of people.  One, were the first and second estate who were very wealthy and yielded political power.  They consisted of the clergy, nobles, and royalty.  The rest of the population of France, the 97%, were poor common people that had poverty and high tax imposed on them, and they were known as the third estate.  The third estate wanted democracy, and the first and second estate wanted a monarchy, which caused the French

Pre-Modern Colonial America In The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Gordan S. Wood creates an in-depth analysis of why colonial America could be classified as a pre-modern society. He presents a thorough argument for how hierarchal trends and patriarchal dependency of the colonists emphasized the more traditional culture of the early Americans. The colonists had created a society in which there was a deep prevalence for British customs, such as, reverence for the king, the inheritance of land

On June 2010 Bart Weetjens shared with his audience how he trains rats to sniff out land mines. Land mines still exists in 70 developing countries today. Land mines do tremendous harm to the people of these countries because they are denied access to their homes. It could also so cause serious bodily harm as well as psychological duress, and even worse, death. No one knows exactly hominy land mines still exists in the world, but what we do know is that they are killing innocent civilians. Weediness