Category: Canada

I live in Mentor, Ohio, a suburb about thirty-five miles east of Cleveland. It used to be all greenhouses, until a few decades ago when it began the process of commercialization, along with other neighboring cities. Big-name stores moved into town, slowly at first. After awhile, along came a shopping mall and stores such as …

leader, was born to a poor Arab family on April 28, 1937. Hussein studied law in Egypt after his attempt to assassinate the premier of Iraq, Abdul Karim Kassem, in 1959. In the summer of 1968, the Baath party returned to power and named Hussein as deputy chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council. Hussein has …

When people think of Canada and then compare itto the United States of America, they always tend to think itis similar. At least I did until I started this project. I alwaysthought that Canada was a clone or mirror of America, but Iwas wrong. About 99. 75% of the Canadian people considerice as something that …

Disgusting, absolutely disgusting. Thats how Id describe the way the United States government has treated my tribe, the Nez Perce. First the white people of this America come in and take over the land, thinking that its theirs to have, and well its not theirs and its not ours and they should respect that. Then …

Acupuncture is a Chinese medical practice that treats illness andprovides local anesthesia by the insertion of needles at predetermined sites ofthe body. Acupuncture may also follow many other forms. The word acupuncturecomes from the Latin word acus, meaning needle, and pungere, meaning puncture.The Chinese call acupuncture Chen Chiu.On doing my research over acupuncture I used …

On November 18, 1978, in a cleared-out patch of the Guyanese jungle, Reverend Jim Jones ordered the 911 members of his flock to kill themselves by drinking a cyanide potion, and they did. It seems cultists were brainwashed by this megalomaniac Jones, who had named their jungle village after himself and held them as virtual …

In response to the Royal Commission Report, the Canadian government issued a Statement of Reconciliation in 1998. In it the government acknowledged that the Canadian residential school system separated many children from their families and communities and prevented them from speaking their own languages and from learning about their own heritage and cultures. The government …