Category: Heritage

  • My Haitian Heritages Influences on My Worldview

    Culture is a factor that significantly influences peoples behavior, perspective, views, and even outcomes in life and cannot be avoided. It is usually passed from generation to generation, from parents to children, and is interrelated with the concepts of ethnicity and society. Yet, culture does not stay unchanged; instead, it is constantly experiencing external impacts…

  • Tourism and Heritage Management

    Introduction Over the past century, tourism has been one of the most fast-growing industries and is essential to the visitor economy. Heritage attractions constitute one of the reasons for the increasing popularity of tourism. In general, heritage attractions are points of interest, referring to exhibitions, museums, traditional sites, and other places of historical or cultural…

  • The Legacy of Emmett Till: The Power of Imagery in Media

    Table of Contents The Legacy of Emmett Till The Legacy of George Floyd Conclusion Works Cited The media plays an indispensable role in the spread of information to people around the world with the purpose of entertaining, educating, or informing. Therefore, how such information is presented to the intended audience matters significantly if the message…

  • Campus Heritage Preservation Value and Rating

    Morgan State University is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning, initially designed to accommodate students of black heritage in the United States. Located in Baltimore, Maryland, the university was founded in 1867 as the Centenary Biblical Institute before changing its name to Morgan College in honor of Reverent Lyttleton Morgan (Seney, 2011). Since…

  • Legacy Leverage, Urbanism and City Renewal in Sydney and London

    It is imperative to note that temporary occasions in cities act as opportunities to leverage legacy within the existing neighborhoods and communities. Notably, the legacy is perceived to cause long-term effects on the environment within host cities (Bramwell 1997, p.169). Therefore, the concept of legacy has been perceived to be meaningful in contemporary events due…

  • Native Americans and Navajo Heritage

    History of the Native Americans Settlement in small separate groups Spread across the territory of America Struggle with colonizers for survival Participation in various military conflicts (Kiel, 2016) Victims of genocide and extermination Obtaining the right of autonomy History of the Navajo Heritage Migration from the northern regions Independence from the Spanish colonialists Settlement in…

  • Native Americans and Apache Heritage

    A brief history of the Native American group 15th century  the arrival of European colonizers Continuous violent conflicts with the colonizers August 1, 1758  first Indian reservation established Diseases such as smallpox and measles Slavery forced relocation to spark further conflicts 1911 onwards  continuous non-violent efforts for equality (Native American timeline of…

  • European Americans and Jewish Heritage

    A Brief History of the Cultural Group Offering Europeans to Immigrate The immigration of colonials Undergoing examinations on the Ellis Island The second wave of immigration (Shi & Tindall, 2016) The migration of East-European peoples Populating the East-Coast American territories A Brief History of the Socio-Cultural Group Inhabiting the USA in the 1700s Racial issues…

  • Asian Americans and Japanese Heritage

    A Brief History of the Cultural Group Early Asian immigrants arrived in the 1830s The first wave of Asian immigrants The population of Hawaii (Tanaka, 2014) The exclusion period The elimination of exclusion criteria Populating the West-Coast American territories A Brief History of the Socio-Cultural Group Immigration to Hawaii The movement of contract laborers The…

  • Indigenous Cultures: Issue of Heritage & Ownership

    Introduction Indigenous people, also known as First people or Aboriginal people, are the first owners or caretakers of a certain area, region, or even a continent. They inhabited the place before it was discovered, occupied, or colonized by other nations. One may readily imagine that intrusion does not allow for peaceful cohabitation, especially given that…