Oh Canada! An Interpretation

Changing Roles and Perspectives

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For this blog assignment, I would like you to research and summarize one of the state or governing activities, such as The Royal Proclamation 1763, the Indian Act 1876, Immigration Act 1910, or the Multiculturalism Act 1989 – you choose the legislation or policy or commission you find most interesting. Write a blog about your findings and in your conclusion comment on whether or not your findings support Coleman’s argument about the project of white civility. –Dr. Erika Paterson For this assignment, I’ve decided to focus on Japanese Canadian Internment, which…read more

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Affects of Orality

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1] In his article, “Godzilla vs. Post-Colonial,” King discusses Robinson’s collection of stories. King explains that while the stories are written in English, “the patterns, metaphors, structures as well as the themes and characters come primarily from oral literature.” More than this, Robinson, he says “develops what we might want to call an oral syntax that defeats reader’s efforts to read the stories silently to themselves, a syntax that encourages readers to read aloud” and in so doing, “recreating at once the storyteller and the performance” (186). Read “Coyote Makes a Deal…read more

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The Importance of Dialogue

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We began this unit by discussing assumptions and differences that we carry into our class. In “First Contact as Spiritual Performance,” Lutz makes an assumption about his readers (Lutz, “First Contact” 32). What do you make of this reading? Am I being fair when I point to this assumption? If so, is Lutz being fair when he makes this assumption?   In Lutz’s essay “First Contact as Spiritual Performance” he describes a “cycle of confusion” which existed or even continues to exist due to a language barrier (Lutz 30). Lutz definitely speaks to…read more

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2:1b Establishing Home

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I really enjoyed reading everyone’s concept of ‘home’ this week! Many were touching as well as interesting and I appreciate how honest and open everyone has been! A recurring theme which is present in most of my peers’ blogs as well as my own post on the looseness of the word, is the concept that ‘Home’ is where one establishes it to be based on a variance of reason, justifications- whatever one may call it. Coming from outside the country (more like way across the globe), it was very interesting to…read more

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So This is Where I Know is Home.

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Am I able to tell you about my home? I am very fortunate to call the beautiful ‘garden city’, Singapore, home. There is low crime, immense wealth- perhaps utopia, Singapore is one of the most advanced cities in Asia, boasting countless skyscrapers and high standards of living. And yet, what does that say about my sense of belonging? Undergoing constant and rapid change, the place I was born in and the place I look at from Vancouver, now, is so different. The park I used to play at is now the home…read more

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