In a country as vast and as culturally diverse as Canada, many different political opinions may be found stretched across the country. ... To represent these varying political views, Canada has four official national political parties to choose from the Liberals (who are currently in power), the Progressive Conservatives, the New Democrats, and the Reform Party. ... Over the years, the NDP has become a large force in Canadian politics, becoming an alternative to the Conservatives and Liberals. Even to the casual Canadian political observer, the NDP is generally regarded as...

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After moving to New York, Teddy decided to go into the field of politics. ... He would not be bound by the political machine and would fight for what he believed in. ... Soon afterwards, his reputation as a reformer began to build. He introduced four reform bills immediately after entering office. ... As Governor, he once again distanced himself from the political machines, the same ones that got him elected. ...

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After moving to New York, Teddy decided to go into the field of politics. ... He would not be bound by the political machine and would fight for what he believed in. ... Soon afterwards, his reputation as a reformer began to build. He introduced four reform bills immediately after entering office. ... As Governor, he once again distanced himself from the political machines, the same ones that got him elected. ...

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His first real political job was as a New York State assemblyman, 1882-1884. ... He returned to the political scene in 1888 to back President Harrison in the Midwest. ... This is one of the first times we see him change the trends of politics in the Gilded Age. ... He said in 1895, "Very many friends of the reform movement, and very many politicians of the party to which I belong, have become frightened at the issue thus raised and the great bulk of the machine leaders of the Democracy profess to be exultant as it, and to see in it a chance for securing their own return to power. ... Party lea...

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Most modern socialists are willing to accept democratic political processes and constitutional guarantees. ... Capitalists put up investment money, bought machines, hired laborers obtained raw materials, recruited managers and often lost fortunes as they sought success. ... Industrialization, a process by which human beings create machines to automatically perform productive work, was and is the most far-reaching change in human history. ... For the parts of the world that experienced this transformation, nothing in society, politics or ideology, would ever be the same. ... The wealth and ...

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There were many factors that led to this growth in business and industry like the building of many factories and the advancements in technology like new sewing machines, and new trains and railroads. ... The progressive movement was all about reforming the U.S. to make it more efficient and much more democratic. They mainly focused on three types of reforms, which were business, social, and government reforms. ... Progressivism was a political movement who felt that industrialization, immigration, and urbanization did good for the U.S. but did create business, socia...

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Throughout history, religion has had a crucial part to play in world politics. A predominantly Muslim country like Pakistan owes a lot of its political identity to the religion of Islam. In this essay "The Role of Islam in Pakistani Politics", I will begin with distinguishing between the two schools of thought which are at the forefront of Pakistani politics. ... He also brought reforms to the Muslim family law ordinance. ... Since Islam emphasizes greatly and revolves around the structure of family, the religious traditionalists were against the imposition of the reformed Family and Marria...

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Conclude this section with a description of the structure of American government [all branches] and politics at that time. ... With the new voters introduced into the population there needed to be a catchy way for candidates running for presidency to take advantage of receiving as many votes as they could, this is where the political parties came in, where earlier in the previous era there was no static political group. Political parties are groups that seek the elect candidates to public office by supplying them with a label by which they are known to the electorate. ... Interest groups ...

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During this time in Europe and especially in France, state-making the emergence of nationalism and the increase in secular political institutions transformed the European continent. ... Historians have referred to this document as one of the most significant in Western political history. # As you read the Declaration of the Rights of Men, you will see how very similar it is to our constitution and the rights that Thomas Jefferson so eloquently put to paper. The declaration helped make wealth, not birth or blood or legal privilege the foundation for social and political order in France. ...

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All that the factory owners needed was a dependable supply of labor to tend the machines. ... The factory owners at Lowell believed that machines would bring progress as well as profit. ... They increased the number of machines that each girl had to operate. ... They worked side by side, had the same interests and held similar political views. ... In the past, they had taken great pride in their handicraft skills; now machines did practically all the work, and they were reduced to the status of common laborers. ...

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He developed a program of progressive reform and asserted international leadership in building a new world order. ... Wilson advanced rapidly as a conservative young professor of political science and became president of Princeton in 1902. ... In that campaign he asserted his independence of the conservatives and of the machine that had nominated him, endorsing a progressive platform, which he pursued as governor. ... Wilson went before Congress in January 1918, to pronounce American war aims through a a series of ideas he had known as the Fourteen Points, this would establish a general as...

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The Chinese had a great influence over the Vietnamese's way of life, including their educational, social, and political systems. Chinese political and social institutions were introduced. ... In Vietnam, the Chinese influence was actually used to some extent in political institutions. ... For several hundred years, Vietnamese political and social institutions continued to be based on Chinese models. 6. ... Most Vietnamese did not develop a strong sense of participation in the political process. ...

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Environmental problems are to be considered as a world problem, as opposed to national problems, for pollution affects the whole world indiscriminately, regardless of political boundaries. This is perhaps the most problematic aspect of this issue, for the solution depends on the coordination and cooperation of all major governments, regardless of political differences. ... This quote best addresses the problem of international cooperation, for if the problem of pollution has no political boundary, the solution against pollution should be independent of nationality. ... Through the Agrarian Ref...

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There were many problems; both political and economic, facing the Soviet Union in 1928 and the decision to launch the five-year plans must have been influenced in part by these. ... However, the economic reasons were secondary to the political needs of the communism. ... Before and throughout the five-year plans Stalin's propaganda machine created an image of Stalin following the Leninist' path, ridiculing the rightists who were bringing back capitalism' whilst further damaging the leftist world-wide revolution' for being irresponsible and unpatriotic. ...

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South Africa's economic performance in the 1980s and the early 1990s was severely hampered by a poor political environment and the deteriorating terms of trade. ... The second principal factor to hasten economic decline in the 1980s was the political environment. Four decades of apartheid racial policies had heightened conflict between the white government and the disenfranchised majority, as well as between business and labour, as avenues for political expression were sought. ... By 1986 most countries had imposed trade and financial sanctions as a result of the slow rate of genuine po...

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The engineer explained all about the machine and even let Ford fire the engine and run it. ... Although he yearned to go to Detroit and work in the machine shops, Ford stayed on the farm helping the family until he was seventeen. ... Fancying himself a political pundit and all-around sage, he allowed himself to be drawn into national and even world affairs. ...

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One cannot understand the problematics of gender violence solely by referring to the relationship of power or authority between man and women. Rather one needs to consider the problem by relating it to the specific social formation. In this context, the role played by the state, both its coercive an...

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Through much of history, the strength of a nation has been determined by the strength of its leader. Despite the appearance of holding power, leader's often are undermined by their own subjects as the case of Emperor Hirohito of Japan. It is true that during his reign Japan has seen a territorial...

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During the 1990s, literature on the international political economy was dominated by the idea of globalization. ... Whether or not such developments are good or bad is a topic of ongoing political debate. ... Similarly, the nineteenth century proved to be an era of increased international commerce, triggered by the industrial revolution but, in the 1930s, this economic expansion was reversed as political turmoil created the Great Depression. ... In being able to choose how much liberalization to allow, governments are responding to a variety of factors and politics. ... From a political perspe...

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Have any of the American media's real problems "increasing corporate concentration, diminishing public service, and the narrowing spectrum of political discussion "attracted a fraction of the attention devoted to this tedious grievance? ... For decades, nobody with the slightest interest in politics has been able to avoid the right's ranting about "liberal bias."" ... The mainstream newspapers that sit atop Coulter's fictional leftist "propaganda machine- all treated Slander quite gently. ... Cohen deftly dismisses her manufaturing of sham outrage for personal gain and...

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At the end of the Second World War, many political and international changes came about. ... Furniture, dishwashers, and washing machines were innovative, popular items that helped ease the drudgery of household chores. ... Political activist and poet Alan Ginsberg showed anger and idealism in his esoteric works. ... At first his parents insisted he study political science. ...

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Don Quixote TIME: In the spring of 1580 in Spain. However bookkeeping was a complicated and arduous procedure and Don Miguel Cervantes was twice imprisoned for owing money to the treasury from a shortage in his accounts. Cervantes disagrees whether or not the Seville prison was the proper place to begin writing Don Quixote. Each act is about a two days journey with each scene taking place in the morning, afternoon, and night. PLACE: La Mancha, Spain. ...

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What Shamanism Is By the Silver Circle Shaman (pronounced SHAH-maan) is a word from the language of the Tungus people of Siberia. A Shaman is a man or woman who enters an altered state of consciousness at will. The Shaman does this to contact and utilize an ordinarily hidden reality to acquire knowledge, power and to help others. The Shaman usually has at least one or more spirits in his or her personal service. The trance or "ecstatic" state of consciousness the Shaman enters can be termed as the Shamanistic State of Consciousness (SSC). ...

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