The Homework Help Thread

[pritnep]

Your welcome. The joys of school/work foruming. ;)

As for your knew questions I have no idea and I would only be searching blind.

[ali52]

Hi could somebody please beta my English Short Story. Its One and ahalf pages long and I have really bad grammar/puntiuation (-see) So i was wondering if someone could change all of my mistakes becuase its due on Friday

[flyingwithoutwings]

I'll do it, just PM me and I'll see what I can do!

xo

[shiningaurora]

I just remembered this thread existed. I have been researching for this task for at least 10 hours already, so any help is GREATLY appreciated.

Basically, the task is:

Choose a primary source which relates to colonization in the period between 1450 and 1850. It may be pictorial or verbal.

Use your source as the basis of a talk of 1-2 minutes, in which you explain to the class the effects of colonization on the people concerned.

I have chosen to do Canada's colonization by the French. Problems so far are:

-Can't find a primary source

-Can't find the year which Canada was colonized. Sites only mention the exact dates of the colonization of Quebec and Montreal. It just says that Canada was colonized in the 17th and 18th century.

-Can't find any effects.

Any help would be greatly appreaciated. Thanks in advance.

[Guevara01]

From Wikipedia: Canada and the Great Lakes

After its failed attempt at a colony in the 1540s, for a time France limited its colonial interests in what would become Canada to fishing in the Grand Banks off the coast of Newfoundland. By the beginning of the 17th century, however, the French had become very interested in the fur trade, and this led them to push inland to better trade with American Indian tribes. French interest in the area began with the founding of Tadoussac in 1599. In 1603, Samuel de Champlain made his first trip to North America on a fur trading expedition. Champlain would prove instrumental in creating New France. In 1608, he created a fur trading post that would grow into the city of Quebec, a settlement that later became the capital of French North America. At Quebec, Champlain forged alliances between France and the Huron and Ottawa against their traditional enemies, the Iroquois. Champlain and other French traders then continued exploring North America, using the birch bark canoe to move quickly across the Great Lakes and their tributary rivers. By 1634, French explorer Jean Nicolet had pushed as far west as present-day Wisconsin.

Although the French claimed a large territory in Canada and the Great Lakes region, actual settlement of the area was limited. For example, Ville Marie (the present Montreal), after existing 10 years had a mere 50 or so inhabitants. In 1653, one hundred recruits bolstered and saved the small colony which would have been abandoned had the recruitment efforts not been successful.[2] New France had just over 3,000 European settlers in 1666. The colony had grown slowly because France had emphasized the fur trade, which required the assistance of local tribes, and not colonization. In 1663, when Louis XIV declared New France a royal colony, this strategy began to change. He immediately sent ships containing 775 women (les filles du roi) to become wives for the French colonists serving in the fur trade posts; a large majority of settlers had been male prior to this. In ten years, New France's population more than doubled, to 7,000 inhabitants. It reached 15,000 in 1689, and 85,000 by 1754. Even so, throughout its history New France's population was dwarfed by that of the Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain.

In the wake of the French traders and voyageurs came several French Jesuits who attempted to Christianize many native groups through the establishment of missions, such as Sainte-Marie among the Hurons. In the meantime, French Huguenots established self-governing colonies beyond the control of the French state: for example, Huguenot refugees founded New Paltz, New York in the 1660s, part of a large Huguenot migration to the nominally Dutch New Netherland. These Huguenots, led by Louis Dubois, formed an early self-governing unit called the duzine, made treaties with the local Native Americans to purchase land from the Hudson River to the mountains, and otherwise prospered even after the English took control of the Hudson River and New York. (The village today boasts the oldest street in the United States with its original stone houses).

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Source: Map of New France made by Samuel de Champlain on 1612

Hope it helps xx

[shiningaurora]

Thank you so much for that.

I've looked through practically every single site. The map is exactly what I'm looking for.

But I'm still short of effects of the colonisation. I'm still about half a minute short. Any more help would be greatly appreciated.

Argh, now just the actually 'speaking' left. I hate speeches with passion.

[Guevara01]

I've never actually studied this lol, but you could talk about some of the current affects - the language, the division of British and French Canada, the religion, immigration patterns.

Here is a page I found: MultiCultural Canada - A History

Hope all goes well xx

[Zetti]

Does anyone have any information Disraeli?

[shiningaurora]

I've never actually studied this lol, but you could talk about some of the current affects - the language, the division of British and French Canada, the religion, immigration patterns.

Here is a page I found: MultiCultural Canada - A History

Hope all goes well xx

Hoe come I mever came across this website before?

But thanks for your help. That website was very handy. xD

[Eli]

Anyone from Estonia here willing to answer a few questions for me?

I have an English presentation on Wednesday, about English used in other countries. I chose Estonia, and I'm trying to find out a few things about English education over there.

So if anyone could please answer a few questions for me I would be forever thankful. Also, if you're really awesome, add me on msn so I can ask you some more questions!

1. How is English taught in Estonian schools? When do you start learning English? How is your classes, do you read, write, talk or listen to English being spoken?

2. Do you get a lot of Englisg through the media or are the TV shows etc. dubbed or with voiceover?

3. Would you say that there are any particular things Estonians have more problems getting right in English? Like pronounciation, spelling or grammar? And if yes, do you think there are any particular reasons for that?

4. Do you tend to "borrow" words from English also when speaking Estonian? Do you use random English words in regular sentences, and if yes, can you give an examples?

5. Do the average Estonian person speak English well in your opinion?

6. Do you think it's important to speak and understand English?

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to help!