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Personal History In my family I have my father my Mother

Personal History In my family I have my father my mother and two younger brothers At the start of this course I came in with very little to no knowledge about the land's we have resided on As Haig Brown 2009 states if we take seriously anyone s responsibility to consider whose traditional land they dwell in we might begin with ourselves p 4 To start both of my parents came to Canada from Seoul South Korea at a young age They both lived in Toronto Ontario in which they have resided on the traditional territory of the Ojibway and the Mississauga s of the New Credit My family and I have lived in the city of London Ontario ever since I was born Together we have resided on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg which includes the Ojibwe Odawa and Pottawatami Nations Haudenosaunee also known as the Iroquois people or Six Nations which includes Mohawk Oneida Cayuga Onondaga Seneca and Tuscorora and the Attawandaron Neutral peoples This territory is covered by the Upper Canada Treaties To my knowledge my family and I have not used or benefitted from treaty rights In my past and present time of residing on this land I have never thought extensively about having connections to land and place 



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Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator is one of the best known pharaohs of Egypt

Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator is one of the best known pharaohs of Egypt but she was never entirely Egyptian Cleopatra was born around 70 69 B C E to an Egyptian mother and a father of Greek descendant making her almost equally Greek as she is Egyptian Her mother who was said to be her husband s half sister died a decade later Her father the pharaoh titled her co ruler only to perish sometime afterward forcing her to marry her brother Being the child of a pharaoh Cleopatra was born into a wealthy family She learned at a young age to read and write Egyptian However as she grew up she knew more than eight languages A conflict in Egypt cause Cleopatra to flee giving up her throne She had four siblings but later murdered three to keep her throne After marrying her brother Cleopatra continued to be co ruler but Ptolemy XIII advisor s acted against her which induced her to leave Egypt She raised an army of her own and fought against her brother with the help of Julius Caesar She charmed Caesar to shift sides which aided her to win back her throne Ptolemy fled Alexandria and was later murdered After Caesar declared Cleopatra and her little brother the throne in Egypt he remained in Egypt Cleopatra who was now Caesar's lover gave birth to his child in 47 B C E 



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