...This paper will outline the contributions William Lyon Mackenzie King made as the Tenth Prime Minister of Canada. The historical impact his leadership had on the evolutionary process and growth of a nation; additionally the paper will examine how Canada benefited and the negative implications by William Lyon Mackenzie King’s decisions while in power. The goal of this research paper is to enlighten the reader why Canada precociously went through 22 years multiple periods of transition and evolution. King worked diligently throughout his academic life. He earned five university degrees including an M.A in political economy and earned his L.L.B his educational prowess helped gained essential skills he would use later in life. King worked for Politicians...
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...The Life of Alice Munro Research Paper By: Devansha Jiles July 8, 2013 Devansha Jiles July 8, 2013 Eng. 102- Walker Research Paper Life of Alice Munro Who is Alice Munro? Alice Munro who was born Alice Anne Laidlaw, in Wingham, Ontario, July 10, 1931( Bright and Struthers) author of many works, as well as a mother of three, and a loving wife. Munro is considered to be a Canadian contemporary writer; however she only has one novel titled Lives of Girls and Women published in 1971. Alice not explicitly political or feminist writer, nor does she write autobiography. However, her stories are largely concerned with the struggle between rebellion and respectability (Bright and Struthers). Alice Munro mainly wrote short stories and they reflected deeply with where she grew up. Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, Canada. She attended the University of Western Ontario and after two years she left school and moved to Vancouver, British Columbia (Bio Channel Website). Munro has written fiction since 1950. When Munro moved to Vancouver she opened her own bookstore called Munro’s Books, and the appearance of Munro’s first collection of stories. Munro’s first marriage ended in 1972 which prompted her to move back to Ontario and where she eventually retuned to the University of Western Ontario, this time as the writer-in-residence. Munro married again in 1976 to Gerald Fremlin (Duffy). Munro had three daughters Sheila, Catherine, and Jenny were born 1953, 1955, and 1957 respectively;...
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...Kong Protest 5 Use of Social Media During the Quebec Student Strikes in 2012 6 Social Media in 2015 Political Campaigns & Using Technology to Increase Voter Turnout 8 Conclusion : Does social media actually affect political participation Yes or No. 11 Appendix A 12 Appendix B 13 References 14 Introduction Social media is a part of the lives of the majority of the population today. Developed countries and developing countries alike have a variety of uses and applications that aid in day-to-day activities and communications. In this paper, we focus on the use of social media and the effects it has on political participation. We will look at popular social media sites including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, and explore how their evolution is affecting political participation. Using the historical examples of Arab Spring, the Hong Kong protest of 2014, the Quebec student strikes of 2012, and the recent Canadian Federal Election, we will highlight the importance of social media and its uses to influence and encourage political participation during each event. Evolution of social media since 2000 The expansion of the Internet during the 21st century, as well as the development and spread of mobile phone technology, has enabled and promoted the unprecedented growth of social media, generally considered to be any web-based or mobile communications technology that allows the creation and exchange of user-generated content (Kaplan, 2010).In this project, we will...
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...person incorporates the feelings of stress in his work, using the stress as a driving force to ultimately complete a task that is initially daunting. Stressors are the sources or causes of stress. These include physical, emotional, intellectual, social, economic and spiritual factors (Girdano, et al., 1997). Stress Management is the ability to reduce stress arousal or to cope competently with stressors. The paper aims to identify the different stessors within the household and explain, in depth, how these factors affect the family dynamics. By the end of the research, the proponents aim to provide several coping methods appropriate for the types of stress families are experiencing. We have identified verious stressors of parents and children among less-fortunate families. Stressors of parents include financial metters which may involve basic necessities and their children’s school expenses. Those parents who are employed and with multiple jobs might also have stress problems. Children may also be contributors of stress to parents especially when they exhibit rebellion, tantrums, sibling rivalries and failure to help in household chores. Children themselves also have stressors, which...
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...was to enter into conventional agreements. Hence, Beginning 1701, the British Crown engaged in a series of treaties to promote a peaceful coexistence between the First Nations and non-first nation’s people.the decision to get into such treaties was reached after the numerous Aborigines nations initially waged a series of attacks on the few settlers in the region (Miller, 2000). The argument behind the treaties was that the government would use the Aborigines land in exchange for food materials and other exclusives. The signing of the treaties had several implications. (Miller, 2009). Firstly, the Europeans would have access to the interior lands for their trade activities. This would in turn enhance the European influence in the Canadian region. Similarly, since the treaties sought to have the government as land custodians, they allowed the federal government, which was mainly run by the Europeans to have a bigger...
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... Psych 125 Academic Procrastination and Academic Achievement Nowadays, procrastination has been a common phenomenon happening in our daily lives. This practice can be observe almost everywhere, in our home, at work, in different fields and especially at school. In this fast-paced era where everything seems to be moving quite rapidly. Some people find it difficult to manage their tasks and so they tend to result to procrastination. This practice can be observe most commonly in schools or universities especially on college students where the student needs to manage their time between tasks. Like studying for multiple tests, completing their assignments, reviewing for future quizzes, completing their term papers and projects and doing extracurricular activities which will determine their academic achievement or academic performance. Yet, students still engage themselves in delaying their tasks. This widespread phenomenon is also known as procrastination. Academic Procrastination According to Solomon and Rothlum (1984) The term procrastination is defined as the act of needlessly delaying tasks to the point of experiencing subjective discomfort or putting off that which is necessary to reach some goal. Furthermore, Popoola (2005) stated that procrastination has an internal and external negative effect. The internal negative effects of procrastination includes tension, regret and self-blame. While external negative effects of procrastination include...
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...adolescents their emotions are more complex at this age than any other age. The reason why is mainly they are going through puberty and have hormones that are going all over the place. Adolescence is often characterized as a time of emotional turbulence, hormonal changes, and teen rebellion against parents (Cooley, 2012). Most adolescents start having mixed emotions about their clothes, who they hang out with, and many more things in life. Emotions are defined as an instinctual, reflexive, or automatic reasoning (Cooley, 2012). When an adolescent experiences an emotion it involves a cognitive appraisal of a situation and subsequently appraisal influenced by their emotional experience. Emotions provide important social cue information, recalling experience and how to respond in social interactions. Emotions have three domains: Experience, Arousal, and Expression (Lanteigne, 2012). This is when adolescents learn to be more adaptive at managing their emotions to achieve social goals and masking emotional expression. For western popular culture adolescents emotions based on gender differences are widely held. Learning to express emotions is the key feature of healthy social emotional development (Chaplin, 2012). This paper is going to talk about the adolescents and their emotions and what roles that partake in everyday life for them. Explaining what affects the different roles in each gender as well. Emotions are a source of information and basis for judgment and action relevant to social...
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...The Role of the Militia in Today’s Canadian Forces Jack English | September 2011 Strategic Studies Working Group Papers The Role of the Militia in Today’s Canadian Forces ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lt. Col.-Dr. John A. English retired from the Canadian army in 1993 with 37 years service in the King’s Own Calgary Regiment, the Queen’s Own Rifles, and Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. Educated at Royal Roads and the Royal Military College, he went on leave without pay to attain an MA in history from Duke University in 1964. He graduated from Canadian Forces Staff College in 1972, attained an MA in war studies from RMC in 1980, and a Ph.D. from Queen’s University in 1989. During his career he served as a NATO war plans officer, Chief of Tactics of the Combat Training Centre, instructor at the Canadian Land Forces Command and Staff College, and curriculum director of the National Defence College. He is the author of A Perspective on Infantry republished in paperback as On Infantry (Praeger, 1984), The Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign: A Study of Failure in High Command (Praeger, 1991), Marching through Chaos: The Descent of Armies in Theory and Practice (Praeger, 1996), Lament for an Army: The Decline of Canadian Military Professionalism (Irwin, 1998), Patton’s Peers: The Forgotten Allied Field Army Commanders of the Western Front 1944-45 (Stackpole, 2009), and Surrender Invites Death: Fighting the Waffen SS in Normandy (Stackpole, 2011). He is also co-author of...
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...OVERSEAS CHINESE TABLE INTRODUCTION: Defining overseas Chinese 4 UNDERSTANDING OVERSEAS CHINESE A. History and cultural background 1. Southeast Asia 2. North America 3. Europe 4. Chinatowns B. The reasons for immigrating abroad 1. Political reasons 2. Economic and social reasons C. Current status 1. Population distribution 2. Southeast Asia a. The overseas Chinese’s paradox b. The Indonesian case 3. The United States 4. Europe BUSINESS WORLD OF CHINESE A. Rise of Global Chinese Companies & Huaqiao B. Regional Analysis 1. Asia 2. The United States 3. Europe C. Size of Chinese Capital Worldwide SUCCESS OF OVERSEAS CHINESE A. The Business Style B. The Downside of their Business Style THE CHANGES IN THE OVERSEAS CHINSESE SOCIETY A. Old and New Generation: How are they Different? B. The New Business of the New Generation C. The New Trend in the Chinese Immigration CONCLUSION A. Future Outlook of the Hua Qiao B. The opportunity to work with Overseas Chinese: WCEC 2005 in Seoul Introduction Defining overseas Chinese Overseas Chinese are ethnic Chinese people who live outside of China. China, in this usage, may refer to Greater China including territory currently administered by the rival governments of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China as per traditional definitions of the term prior to the Chinese civil war, or only to the People's Republic of China by some quarters. In addition, the government of the Republic of China granted residents...
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...people she met (mainly the Anglo-Irish gentry) are as ambivalent as her now infamous reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses. But Woolf’s response to Ireland, and more particularly to Irish writing is only part of the story. As a contemporary, how was Woolf read in Ireland, if she was read at all, and what, if any, impact has she had on Irish writing? For the contemplation of “Virginia Woolf in Ireland,” both as a traveler and a reader of Irish culture, politics and literature, and as someone to be read through her various publications, provokes a proliferation of research possibilities about both writer and country. In this essay I wish to sketch out a preliminary map of these possibilities, showing some of the potentially complex and intriguing routes that require further exploration, in relation to Woolf studies, in particular the European Reception of Woolf, and in relation to Ireland and its own literary history. So the paper is divided into three sections: briefly, Virginia Woolf literally in Ireland, reading Virginia Woolf in Ireland from the 1920s on, and three Irish women reading Woolf–Elizabeth Bowen, Mary Lavin and Edna O’Brien.1 Woolf’s interest in Ireland before and after her visit there is evident from her diaries, letters and fiction. Her concern and knowledge about Irish affairs2 emerges most forcefully in the novel The Years, where, as Jane Marcus points out, “The theme of the search for ‘justice and liberty,’ first expressed by...
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...CHAPTER 7 DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL Deviance 171 Social Policy and Social Control: Illicit Drug Use in Canada and Worldwide 193 What Is Deviance? 171 Explaining Deviance 175 Social Control 182 Conformity and Obedience 182 Informal and Formal Social Control Law and Society 186 Crime 185 187 Types of Crime 188 Crime Statistics 190 The Issue 193 The Setting 193 Sociological Insights 193 Policy Initiatives 193 Boxes RESEARCH IN ACTION: Street Kids 183 sOCIOLOGY IN THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY: Singapore: A Nation of Campaigns 186 TAKING SOCIOLOGY TO WORK: Holly Johnson, Chief of Research, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Statistics Canada 192 Cigarette smoking has become stigmatized in Canada. This newspaper advertisement, sponsored by Health Canada, reverses the typical advertising strategy of equating smoking with sexiness. 169 H eidi Fleiss was in her late twenties when she was arrested for operating a call girl service. At the time, her pediatrician father had reacted flippantly, “I guess I didn’t do such a good job on Heidi after all.” Later, he would be convicted of conspiring to hide profits from his daughter’s call girl ring. Fleiss had dropped out of school when she was sixteen and established a liaison with a playboyfinancier who gave her a Rolls-Royce for her twenty-first birthday. In her early twenties, Fleiss interned in the world of prostitution by working for Madame Alex (Elizabeth Adams)...
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...MEDIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION STUDY GUIDE NO LOGO BRANDS, GLOBALIZATION, RESISTANCE WRITTEN BY JEREMY EARP & DANIELLE DEVEREAUX Challenging media CONTENTS NO LOGO BRANDS, GLOBALIZATION, RESISTANCE NOTE TO TEACHERS.............................................................................................................................................................................pg. 03 THE MEDIA LITERACY CIRCLE OF EMPOWERMENT....................................................................................................................04 OVERVIEW.........................................................................................................................................................................................................05 PRE-VIEWING EXERCISES..........................................................................................................................................................................06 INTRODUCTION Key Points..........................................................................................................................................................................................................07 Questions for Discussion & Writing.....................................................................................................................................................07 NO SPACE: BRANDED WORLD Key Points......................................................................................
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...What about Violence in Movies? Manabu Ozawa from Japan |[pic] | | |PHOTO BY THOMAS PETERS | | |"Action movies with violence take heat from adults who blame | | |them for real life violence because they are closer to reality | | |than other movies." | | "The question whether movie violence should be regulated or not is a difficult and complicated matter." Although many people criticize violent movies, if there is a movie which does not contain sex and violence, who will go to see that movie? Most major movies, such as "Lethal Weapon", "Die Hard", and "Independence Day", were really popular in spite of the fact that the "good guy" killed more people than the "bad guy" did. In my opinion, Hollywood tends to produce few kinds of movies--action, panic, love story, and comedy. Whenever I watch a movie or a video, there is at least one murder in each movie. The biggest number of deaths are in the panic movies, in my opinion. Action movies with violence take heat from adults who blame them for real life violence because they are closer to reality than other movies. For example, in "Natural Born Killers" we can see around 50 deaths, whereas in "Independence Day" thousands of people die. In both movies, tons of people are killed, though the ways to kill are different. The big difference between them is about reality. |[pic] ...
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...ORGANIZATION SCIENCE Vol. 2, No. 4, November 1991 Printed in U.S.A. ILLUSIONS AND OTHER GAMES: A TRIFOCAL VIEW OF ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS* PATRICIA BRADSHAW-CAMBALL AND VICTOR V. MURRAY York University, 4700 Keele Street, North York, Ontario, Canada Despite recent and growing interest in organizational politics, conceptual thought in this area tends to be dominated by a single theoretical perspective. In this paper we describe and contrast three views of organizational politics (functionalist, interpretive and radical) according to their differing structures, processes and outcomes. Each view, or lens, directs attention to some aspects of politics and away from others, and each has strengths and weaknesses embedded in it. In order to assess whether multiple perspectives on politics can be fruitfully applied simultaneously, we describe and analyze a case of a hospital administration engaged in budgeting games and illusion making. The data for the case were collected using naturalistic inquiry and multiple methods including structured and unstructured interviews, review of documents, observation of meetings and casual interaction facilitated by frequent visits over a ten-month period. The case revolves around the hospital administrators' attempts to deal with what they termed a "disastrous deficit" and the most serious financial situation in the hospital's history. Strategies for dealing with the funding agency and board of directors included the management...
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...Text Set Introduction Jeff Utegg After reading The Giver and The Hunger Games, we were set out on the task to find a common theme. In an ideal situation, teachers would be able to embellish on these young adult books by supporting them with supplemental sources. Through the use of newspaper articles, magazines, picture books, videos, trailers and clips, and electronics our tenth grade English class will explore and discover the theme; dystopia paired with defiance. Dystopia literally means “ bad uptopia”. According to the MerriamWebster dictionary, dystopia is defined as “an imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives”. Unlike utopia, where a society is perceived to be a perfect place to reside, dystopia differs in that what is “perfect” often causes an undesirable place to live. Having students be able to understand these complex themes in addition to the “on the surface” themes that exist within this young adult literature would ensure a deeper meaning/understanding of the text for them. In addition, being able to present the idea to students in a multitude of facets helps to differentiate learning for students. Also, students are able to gain a better understanding of what dystopia really means when they see it being used in multiple different contexts. This particular English 10 class is a cotaught class of twentyfive including six students with disabilities. There are two students with autism, three with multiple disorders and one student with ...
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