Multiculturalism

Definition:
1. the policy or practice of giving equal attention or representation to the cultural needs and contributions of all the groups in a society: special emphasis may be given to minority groups underrepresented in the past, as through bilingual education. (source: http://www.yourdictionary.com/multiculturalism)
2. the policy of maintaining a diversity of ethnic cultures within a community. (source: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/multiculturalism)
Explanation:
In my own words I think multiculturalism means to allow people to practice their own culture. The religion a person chooses should be free of choice and the groups in society should support the culture and they get treated equally. Also social and educational programs should encourage interest in many types of cultures and societies not just one main culture.
Metaphor:

Multiculturalism is like a pot of soup. You add all the vegetables etc and mix it together which is like adding all the cultures and mixing them in society and it turns out really good because of the variety of different vegetables. In society it is better with a mix of cultures because it is not just one set culture there is variety.

Commodities

Definitions:
1. A commodity is a good for which there is demand, but which is supplied without qualitative differentiation across a market. (Wikipedia)
2. A physical substance, such as food, grains, and metals, which is interchangeable with another product of the same type, and which investors buy or sell, usually through futures contracts. The priceof the commodity is subject to supply and demand. Risk is actually the reason exchange trading of the basic agricultural products began. For example, a farmer risks the cost of producing a product ready for market at sometime in the futurebecause he doesn't know what the selling price will be.(http://www.investorwords.com/975/commodity.html)
Explanation:

In my own words a commodity is something that is in pretty high demand that everyone wants that hasn't been really prices or anything just what you think it is worth. Your natural response pretty much.

Metaphor
If someone has a pair of keys and you want them you have to figure out what those keys are worth to you and so I might say they are worth 20 bananas. Then I will tell that person how much I would pay for it. Then he would tell me how much he thinks it is worth and then we would bargain.

Slave Trade

Definitions:
1.The business of buying and selling people for profit. (wikianswers)
2.Traffic in slaves; especially in Black Africans transported to America in the 16th to 19th centuriest
(http://www.thefreedictionary.com/slave+trade)
Explanation:

The violent kidnapping of colored people to use as labour workers in hard working conditions to make profit. The black Africans were transported over seas to America.
Metaphor:
Any movie that features white people sailing off to the Third World to capture something living and carry it back to the West for exploitation is going to be seen as a metaphor for colonialism and racism. A good example of this is the movie King Kong. They captured the giant gorilla and took him back to their country to exploit him and make a profit off of him.

Colonialism

Definitions
1. Colonialism is the establishment, maintenance, acquisition and expansion of colonies in one territory by people from another territory. Colonialism is a process whereby sovereignty over the colony is claimed by the metropole and the social structure, government, andeconomics of the colony are changed by colonists - people from the metropole. Colonialism is a set of unequal relationships: between the metropole and the colony, and between the colonists and the indigenous population. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism)
2.A political-economic phenomenon whereby various European nations explored, conquered, settled, and exploited large areas of the world. (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/126237/colonialism-Western)
Explanation:
A policy where a nation maintains control over foreign dependencies
Metaphor
Colonialism is like being a parent or a boss. The Mom or dad take care of the kids and own what the kids have. The boss owns the buisness and the workers help the boss, but the boss is still in control.

Mercantilism

Definitions
1. from the 16th to the 19th centuries, a system of government-sponsored international business ventures designed to make European monarchs rich.
2. an economic theory that holds the prosperity of a state as dependent upon its supply of capital, that the global volume of international trade is "unchangeable," and that one party may benefit only at the expense of another. -wikipedia.org
Explanation
When one country starts to benefit due to when another country has expenses.
Metaphor
Mercantilism is like monopoly. Everyone wants to own the most land and money, and likes when the other players have to pay them more money and start to go bankrupt. they are gaining from others expenses.

Indian Act

Definitions 1. a band of indians for whose use and benefit the common, lands, the legal title too which is vested in her majesty, have been set apart before , after september 4, 1951. http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/I-5/page-1.html
2. is the principal federal statute dealing with INDIAN status, local government management or reserve land and communal monies. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0003975
Explanation
Indian act is an act of when the indians started losing thier land to people and to be able to get thier land the government had to offer funds like payments from the government and still be able to use thier land.

Indians use to live off their own pay and work but now they live off the government which is way better then working for themselves because they made money by getting rid of thier land and still get payments from our government.
Click onthis link for more explanation on the Indian Act

Communism

Definitions
1. Communism is a sociopolitical movement that aims for a classless and stateless society structured upon common ownership of the means of production, free access to articles of consumption, and the end of wage labor and private property in the means of production and real estate. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism)
2. A planned economical system in which government owns all means of production and all people work for government-owned and government-run enterprises.
Explanation:
So pretty much its a system where the government owns everything, and everyone gets paid the same =].
Metaphor:
Communism is like the Smurfs. They all look and dress the same, except one who has a beard and dressed in Red, who would be the government.