US Influence and a Caribbean Post-Colonial State

Colonial and post-colonial aspects of Australian identity.

Since the 1988 Bicentennial and the 2001 centenary of federation celebrations colonial images have flourished in Australia, highlighting the roles of convicts and free settlers during early colonization. Old sites, such as Port Arthur have been re-invigorated, and in 2004 Tasmanians celebrated the bicentenary of 'white' settlement. However, social scientists have given little attention to the r...

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...

Developing the state of a nation in a post-colonial world: A review essay

(Post)Colonial Diplomacy in Canada

Although the colonial ideology often masks the fact, diplomacy has been a major part of the colonial encounter. In Canada, diplomacy in its many guises has been carried out between the colonizing Europeans and EuroCanadians since first contact between them. This diplomacy can be immediately broken up into at least two distinct periods: pre-colonial and colonial diplomacy. The first is marked by...

In search of colonial identity in the Caribbean

The identity of any human can be specified by using, singly or in combination, many different universal criteria, e.g. sex, age, religion. However, in the modern, political world human beings are automatically identified with a country, and national identity is generally established by place of birth or place of residence. Very strongly tied to the feature place has been the feature race, so mu...