...Thanksgiving is a traditional annual celebration and it is celebrated on the United States and Canada. In the United States is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November and in Canada is celebrated on the second Monday of October. Generally during this holiday people gather around a table with family and friends to celebrate this day. Thanksgiving has a different meaning for some people, but for most of them is synonymous of huge meals, parades, football match and spending quality time with the beloved ones. This holiday is not only about cooking delicious dishes and spending time with family but also is a reminder of being thankful for all the blessings in our lives. More than half of American families celebrate thanksgiving. History The Thanksgiving Day had its origins in a mixture of European and aboriginal traditions. Both cultures had their own different way of celebrating the harvest day, but when the Europeans came to America for the first time; they brought their own tradition better known as the harvest festival which celebrates the end of their journey as well as the good harvest of the year. Despite the origins of Thanksgiving Day, this holiday is similar in Canada and the United States but everyone celebrates it in their own way. The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621; where a group of 102 people (the pilgrims) from England arrived to the new world. They found a village called Plymouth. As the winter came along and diseases struck the village the...
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...Thanksgiving Introduction Thanksgiving is a traditional annual celebration and it is celebrated on the United States and Canada. In the United States is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November and in Canada is celebrated on the second Monday of October. Generally during this holiday people gather around a table with family and friends to celebrate this day. Thanksgiving has a different meaning for some people, but for most of them is synonymous of huge meals, parades, football match and spending quality time with the beloved ones. This holiday is not only about cooking delicious dishes and spending time with family but also is a reminder of being thankful for all the blessings in our lives. More than half of American families celebrate thanksgiving. History The Thanksgiving Day had its origins in a mixture of European and aboriginal traditions. Both cultures had their own different way of celebrating the harvest day, but when the Europeans came to America for the first time; they brought their own tradition better known as the harvest festival which celebrates the end of their journey as well as the good harvest of the year. Despite the origins of Thanksgiving Day, this holiday is similar in Canada and the United States but everyone celebrates it in their own way. The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621; where a group of 102 people (the pilgrims) from England arrived to the new world. They found a village called Plymouth. As the winter came along and diseases...
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...The Five Geographic Elements of Canada The name “Canada” is derived from the First Nation’s word “Kanata” meaning land or village (-Wikipedia Name of Canada). Canada is colossal, it is the second largest country on earth and the most substantial in North America (-World Atlas). This vast, frigid northern country has a population of 34,834,841 people. Canada has been independently governed since 1867. The Canadian flag is white with a large red maple leaf in the center. The capital city of Canada is Ottawa, which contains 1.208 million citizens. Together Canada and Alaska make up the upper portion of North America. The primary languages in Canada are English and French. (- CIA World Factbook) Geography accounts for a sizable section of Canada’s...
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...to be the Swedish culture as clearer defined under Identifying and Explaining my Roots culture and get more in depth of the differences or even possible similarities of each nation, Sweden and Canada. I shall also try to show as to why internationally Swedes is associated with brand names such as IKEA and VOLVO and why it is that these household names are a part of the Swedish culture Throughout the analyze I shall get insight if there are any Swedish holidays I would like to see implemented in Canada, and/or is there any Canadian holidays I felt that I missed throughout my years in Sweden? Is there any group or maybe a special gathering for Swedish immigrants in Toronto? How has the years in Sweden affected my possibility to adapt in Canada? Am I required to assimilate by means of giving up my Swedish identity and culture in order to fit in? What is the lifestyle of, and how are people from Sweden adapting in Canada? What are the stereotypes Swedish people have of Canadians and vice versa, and is it founded? Is it necessary to assimilate or can one live with both diversities side by side and integrated? These are some of the questions I am going to address, sometimes from personal experience but also based on facts. [Title Here, up to 12 Words, on One to Two Lines] Born in Canada and migrated to Sweden at the age of six, I have had an opportunity to be a part of a culture with traditions that differ considerably to that of the Canadian due...
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...Canada, NHL ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Introduction: Canada is a country in the northern part of the continent of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometers. Canada has 36 million inhabitants and Canada’s capital is Ottawa. Canada is a hockey country and the National Hockey League is very big in Canada. Canada is a hockey country, where everyone loves hockey and the best player in Canada right now is Sidney Crosby who plays in the Canadian national team and the Pittsburgh Penguins (NHL). National Hockey Team is the best hockey league in the world and every hockey players dream is to play in the NHL. ------------------------------------------------- Background: NHL was founded in 1917 in the Canadian Montreal, Quebec, after the representative of the National Hockey Association (NHA) had been set. NHL contained just four member clubs, but has since that expanded through several expansions to the 30 teams which is playing in the league from the 2000-01. Seven of the clubs come from Canada, while the remaining 23 are from the United States. The teams play 82 games of the regular season between October and April to determine which 16 clubs (eight from the Eastern Conference and eight of the Western Conference) playing playoff between April and June and have the chance to win the Stanley Cup. The prize was donated...
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...Although Christmas and Thanksgiving are both holidays, they both have many similarities and differences. Around Thanksgiving and Christmas, most families remain so busy that their memories of these two holidays tend to blend together. These two holidays are so similar, but yet so different at the same time, both Thanksgiving and Christmas are time of giving thanks, merriments, gift exchange and family reunion but the clear differences are there purposes are not the same. It is a time where family comes together that haven’t been around the whole year. Christmas differs from Thanksgiving in food, decorations, and family tradition. During Christmas, there is a lot of running around to do. Usually, weeks before Christmas, families get together and go out and buy Christmas gifts. They also go out and buy Christmas trees, decorations, wrapping paper, and food that is going to be cooked the night before Christmas. Days before Christmas, the families gets the gift and wrap them to put under the Christmas tree. When decorating the Christmas tree you usually put your lights on which are usually red and green. You also put ornaments which could be Christmas balls or hand crafted ornaments. At the end of decorating the tree, the traditional topping for the tree is an angel or a star. The night before Christmas families gather together to make milk and cookies for Santa. The food that is usually prepared for Christmas is ham, macaroni, collard greens...
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...Black Friday is the annual shopping holiday that occurs on the Friday following Thanksgiving. It is mostly a shopping ritual to those people living in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Black Friday is a significant day to many retail stores because it is referred to as the start of the Christmas or holiday shopping season. The origin of the popular Black Friday dates back to before 1961, in Philadelphia, where it was formally used to describe the heavy vehicle and pedestrian traffic. It was always seen as extremely disruptive to the Philadelphia Police Department and always transpired on the day after Thanksgiving and thus the name Black Friday came about. As the years passed, an alternative reasoning for the title came to be known which denoted that retailers traditionally functioned at a financial loss recognized as, “in the red” from the months January to November. “Black Friday” therefore signifies the point at which retailers finally start to return a profit, “in the black”. Over the years more and more stores have begun opening at extremely early hours to help consumers get a jump-start on the sales. Some retailers have even started the trend of opening up at midnight. The Black Friday craze is tremendously popular, so popular in fact, that many incidents including violence has been seen in some cities in the past. We wanted to research if Black Friday should be considered a ritual. Our research process included secondary and primary sources. Our primary sources were...
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...outline with occasional chalk cliffs. The rivers in Britain are of little value as waterways. The longest are the Severn, the Thames, the Clyde and the Bristol Avon. There are a lot of lakes in the UK for example in the Lake District in the northern part of England but the most famous lake is Loch Ness in Scotland. Great Britain is rich in coal, iron ore and oil. Such crops as wheat, sugar-beet, potatoes and others are grown in this country. The main cities are London, Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast. The geography of the USA. The United States of America is the fourth largest country in the world after Russia, China and Canada. It occupies the southern part of North America and stretches from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean. The USA borders on Canada in the north and on Mexico in the south. The south-eastern coast of the country is washed by the Gulf of Mexico. The USA has sea borders with Russia and Cuba. The USA is made up of 50 states and the District of Columbia where the capital of the country, Washington, is situated....
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...nobody can take away from us. Love brings on another close like a family on Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, and even at school. Love is the most important thing to survive, the 3 things that I need to survive in life are, great place to live, basketball and family. Family is an essential part of life. Families provide all members with security. When hurt or ‘in trouble we tend to turn to our family for comfort and support. For me family will always be their for you through thick and thin, famous or not. One quote from the book Tuesdays with Morrie is This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.” To me this means that The love and excitement that we receive from our family cannot compare to money and fame, All that glitz and glamour. Basketball for me is everything. Love, joy, excitement, and pleasure. "The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game." The Basketball court is honestly the only place I have to get all my anger or frustrations out. For me living here in Canada is a blessing, I have so much freedom and my own rights. I know Other countries such...
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...still do not understand, I will put it in a sentence for you. “He was smart, but his constant procrastination led him to be late with almost every assignment.” According to Joseph Ferrari, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at De Paul University in Chicago, twenty percent of people identify themselves as chronic procrastinators. For them procrastination is a lifestyle. It cuts across every aspect of their life. They do not pay bills on time. They miss birthday parties and other important activities. They get bad grades in class. They file income tax returns late. They leave their Thanksgiving dinner shopping until the night before thanksgiving. They are always a day late and a dollar short. Theres more than one flavor of procrastination. People procrastinate for different reasons. According to Timothy Pychyl, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at Carleton University in Ottawa Canada, he identifies three basic types of procrastinators: * arousal types or thrill seekers, who wait to the last minute for the euphoric rush * Avoiders, who may be avoiding fear of failure or even fear of success, but in either case are very concerned with what others think of them; they would rather have others think they lack effort than ability. * Decisional procrastinators, who...
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...CANADA Cultural resume Customs and courtesies Greetings Greeting in Canada in mostly a firm handshake, direct eye contact and a sincere smile, the French Canadians friends greet each other with a light kiss on one cheek or both. Visiting and gift giving It is typical to give gifts on Christmas and birthday, and gifts are opened at the moment when they are received. It is considered a good moral to take a box of good chocolate, flowers of a bottle of wine when invited over for dinner. In Quebec sending flowers in advance of the dinner party is a proper protocol and if you are to give wine, it should be the best quality you can afford. It is not good to give white lilies because they are used in funerals, and cash or money is not considered a good present. Eating Canadian have relatively relaxed and informal table manners except for Quebec which shows more formality. The guest waits to be shown where to seat. Hostess begins the eating, and the guest is to follow after the hostess. One is not to raise their elbows on the table. It is acceptable to leave small amounts of food at the end of the meal. In formal situations, the host gives the first toast. Gestures It is respectful to take off sunglasses or hat when speaking with someone. French Canadians use thumbs up to mean okay. The "okay" sign made by index finger and thumb means "zero". In Quebec,...
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...Canada is a beautiful place to live because there are a variety of geographical regions. As a Canadian citizen an important question to address is what aspects of canadian society contribute to the well-being of all Canadian citizens making Canada a great country to live in? The four most important aspects of Canadian society are healthcare and medicine the natural environment, multiculturalism and the rights and freedoms of people. With the practice of healthcare and medicine, it will provide treatment for illness and injury in peoples communities. The healthcare system provides Canadian citizen with free healthcare all across Canada. The roles and responsibilities for the healthcare is that the services are shared between the provincial and...
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...------------------------------------------------- College History... Ladies College Colombo was founded as a self supporting institution in 1900 by Liiian Nixon from Ireland and Ms Elizabeth Whitney from Canada at the behest of the Church Missionary Society. The history of the school is woven round the seven principals of the college who were responsible for its founding, expansion and ethos. There is no doubt it was due to their Christian faith and commitment that Ladies College grew from a rented bungalow in Slave Island with two students to what it is today... Quoting Ladies' College 1900-2000 Several issues fascinated us. …… How a Christian Missionary school like Ladies’ College, established in 1900 within a colonial ethos, adapted itself to the social, cultural, and economic changes that were ushered in with independence in 1947? How did the school come to terms with the subsequent shifts in educational policy by successive governments especially during the second half of the last century? How did the school cope with such dramatic changes and do so while still remaining geared to the national system of education? How did Ladies’ College not only survive for a period of a hundred years, but grow from strength to strength? Lilian Nixon BA Cert. Ed Principal (1900 - 1914). | At Ladies' College Cheltenham Lilian Nixon came under the influence of its famous Principal Dorothea Beale who brought to the realm of women’s education a vision and determination that had...
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...Last Saturday I got in my first duck hunt of the season with Bill Davidson of the Santa Fe Club near Gustine. We tried our usual afternoon shoot as us old duck hunters find it difficult to get out at 5 a.m. anymore. This was the day before the Sunday storm, but it remained clear and calm. We found it slow between shots but managed to come out with six ducks between the two of us. Averages at the public shooting areas in the Los Banos Complex still remained relatively low, despite the weekend weather. It may take a big freeze in the Klamath/Tule Lake area to get the migration moving. Avid hunter Bob King, of Sonora, is getting in some of his favorite sport since retiring as a school teacher. He recently returned from an annual trip to North Dakota to visit and hunt with his Godfather who just turned 90. The weather was fickle. One morning the temperature was 10-degrees and a day or two later a balmy 65-degrees. They filled their deer tags within the first three days and then did some pheasant hunting which was very successful. They tried for geese, but found that most of the migration was still in Canada. Bob did, however, bag a blue goose, a bird that is not often seen in Central California. Wildlife officials describe...
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...You are an HR practitioner in a medium-sized company that will soon be hiring 20 summer interns. You have been directed to provide a 1500-word briefing for all line managers outlining the legal obligations that your company has to these new employees. Write a memo that outlines the most important legal requirement that managers must know about when hiring and managing these employees. You may wish to make specific reference to your jurisdiction’s laws addressing employment standards, occupational health and safety, and human rights. * Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act * Managers must make sure that they comply with this act’s ten principles in regard to maintaining the standards for privacy. According to this act, the human resource department and the company are responsible for safeguarding the privacy of employees. According to this Act, employer can barely keep anything from an employee. Employers are allowed to gather information about employees such as performance, attendance, and possibility of advancement. * Employee Standards Legislation: * There are minimum standards that employers are required to meet * Human rights employment standards in Ontario: * Protects people in Ontario from employment discrimination * The protected grounds of discrimination in employment in Ontario are: race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion or religious creed, age (18 and over), sex (including...
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