The United Nations was initially created as a security institution that is designed to establish peace and security in the post-world war two world. ... This proposal won the Canadian minister a Nobel Peace Prize, furthermore showing how peacekeeping has improved Canada's international weight. ... When Canada suggested the UNEF and went against the British and the French, the Brits felt betrayed by Canada. On the other hand Canada's contribution to the create of the UNEF which opposed Britain's actions expresses Canada's independence from Great Britain, which had only be ...

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This has not been the case in Canada. ... In Jeffrey Simpson's book, The Friendly Dictatorship, the author reveals that "only 61 per cent of eligible Canadians bothered to vote in 2000, the lowest turnout by far since the Second World War" "(Simpson, 144). ... Party preferences seem to be divided across Canada. The Canadian Alliance garners most support in the West, as opposed to Atlantic Canada where the NDP and the Progressive Conservatives have marked their territory. ... Italy's elections, however, run under a PR system and the "Christian Democrats have dominated all of the 51...

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It is much better to be the "nice guy" or the "place of pasta and pizza" than to be the jerk or the war mongering state. In the case of nationalism; identity is usually generated the same way, tough countries are full of mountains and natural disasters and war whereas peaceful countries might be known more for food or culture. It is in these foods, cultures, wars and mountains that people forge a national identity for themselves. ... Most Canadians know lacrosse became the national sport of Canada. ... Hockey made the jump from Canadian hockey legend to Canadian legend. ...

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From the mid-1950s to the late 1970s, there was an emerging women's movement in Canada which was known as "second-wave feminism." ... Doris Anderson's experiences as a working mother are representative of the lives of women during the second-wave feminism period in Canadian history. ... Throughout Canada today, both men and women have the rights to paternity and maternity leaves. ... Anderson compares the service that women provide a country when they give birth to a child with the service that men give in war, stating that upon returning from war, men are treated with respect and g...

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The North America Continent was not the main battlefield of the Seven Years' War, yet the aftermath of the war had significantly altered the situation in the British colonies on the continent. ... An all-out independent war spreading over the entire North American Continent seemed predictable because the habitants, early French settlers in Canada, were from Britain's archenemy France; nevertheless, the Province of Quebec did not rise up against Britain. ... Both the First and Second Continental Congresses addressed several "letters to the inhabitants of Canada" which urged ...

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There are many important issues, which face the world today, issues like war, gun control, censorship, and even genetically engineered food. With all the modern scientific advances we are making today, especially in Canada, there are positive effects as well as negative effects. ... However, through proper regulations, constant testing by independent research firms and, government controls, genetically altered foods can and will be a continuing trend for Canada and the world. ... Canada is usually a few years behind the US in terms of allowing new products onto the market. ...

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The base of this report is the automotive manufacturing industry in Canada. ... First off, the average age in Canada is getting higher. ... By 2011 the median age of Canadians will be over 40, while more than 34% of the population will be over 50, clearly indicating the graying of Canada. ... Income growth in Canada is also currently very good. ... Opportunity The average workweek in Canada has been getting longer. ...

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In consequence to those developments, French and Scottish fur traders, referred to as Canadian traders, established independent firms in Montreal and expanded their business west of the Great Lakes. The Canadian traders became so influential in the Canadian inland fur trade that the HBC "upland" territory and the rivers which led to the forts "was cut off from its usual channel." By 1773, the HBC decided to take action by moving westward as a countermeasure to the growing numbers of Canadian traders. ... The Métis originated from independent Canadian fur traders who...

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Internationaly the European situation was a stressor, the Great War had only just ended and the revolution in Russia was still occurring. The situation at home had been altered by the war experience. ... Growing industrial unrest particularly in western Canada provided an additional reason for the Anglo-Canadians to demand greater control of the alien community. ... Economic and social pressures pent up by the war were now being released into society. The example of the Russian Revolution, the brave new worlds and peaceful utopias of wartime oratory and idealism, had bred in many an unquest...

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The Davin report, in which Nicholas Flood Davin performed a report on industrial schools in the United States to establish the same type of the school systems in Canada, started the ball rolling, in many senses, for establishing Canada's Residential School System. ... Mary's Mission in BC ) and was largely influenced by Canada's missionary experience with various religious organizations. ... A when time when European settlers were being urged to come to Canada to set up a white society, the rule of religious missionaries and Christianity as it driving force. ... As a part of tho...

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An example of this was when the elites in government decided it was deaf to the rule of law, when the elites in government imposed its will on parliament through non-electoral methods during WW2 when Japanese-Canadians were put into internment camps. ... President Roosevelt signed the "Executive Order No. 9102, establishing the War Relocation Authority-and " without a murmur of dissent," (Institute for Historical Review) Japanese-Canadians were shipped away to internment camps that resembled the Nazi-concentrations camps... " The 23 000 Japanese living on the West coast of Canada, three fou...

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It would take three years and drastic changes in "the gentlemanly art of war- for Great Britain to achieve victory. ... Ignoring the ultimatum, the British maintained their positions and at 17:00 on the 11th of October war was declared. The fighting for the next three years of the war was characterized by three distinct phases of battles and styles of warfare. ... As the Boers took the initiative in the opening days of the war, they had great success against the outnumbered British. ... New Zealand also came to the call of the Queen with six thousand four hundred troops sent and Canada had the...

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America's Revolutionary War is a subject that engenders perpetual curiosity. By any sensible reckoning, Britain should have won the war. ... Losing the war was inconceivable, and outright impossible. ... The surrender of Cornwallis effectively ended the war. ... When England lost the war, political and military leaders found themselves on the wrong side of history. ...

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Mistry was born in India, a member of the Parsi community, and immigrated to Canada in 1975. ... In 1975 he immigrated to Canada, working in a bank to support himself while studying English and philosophy at the University of Toronto, where he received a second bachelor's degree in 1984. ... After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. ... But why does Mistry depend on India as a metaphor when he has lived in Canada for nearly tw...

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Mistry was born in India, a member of the Parsi community, and immigrated to Canada in 1975. ... In 1975 he immigrated to Canada, working in a bank to support himself while studying English and philosophy at the University of Toronto, where he received a second bachelor's degree in 1984. ... After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. ... But why does Mistry depend on India as a metaphor when he has lived in Canada for nearly tw...

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Another major opposition to increased border security is the additional requirement to travel to and from Canada requiring a Passport. In the past, travel between the United States and Canada was easy due to the fact that all a United States citizen had to provide was a birth certificate. Many industries were also opposed to the increased border security between Canada and the United States because it slowed down delivery time on shipments of parts. ... Arizona did not think the federal government was doing enough to combat the problem and enforce the laws that are on the books and took matter...

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Dubois explains this perfectly when he stated: "One ever feels his two-ness, -am American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strengths alone keeps it from being torn asunder......

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Historians estimate that Francoists executed at least 150,000 during and after the war. ... The Spanish Civil War continues to shape people's lives. At the time, too, people recognised the significance of the war. ... On the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War Mussolini failed to keep his promise of immediate aid. ... On the outbreak of the war Spain had the world's fourth largest reserves of gold. ...

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Itoh, Sumitomo, Marubeni, Mitsubishi, Ford, Exxon, Shell, and Nissno Iwai ) totaled $1,000 billion - nearly twice as large as Canada's GNP. The combined profits of the ten most profitable transnationals (IBM, Ford, Exxon, Dow, AT&T, General Electric, DuPont, General Motors, Shell, British Telecom ) at $40 billion equaled Iraq's entire GNP in the year before the Gulf War. ...

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The period of World-Wide Globalization really began with the World War II, when all the continents were involved in the procedure of world dividing. After the war, the world began to globalize around great poles: USSR and USA, each of which strived to globalize many states and nations within its ideological and living spheres. By the end of the cold war the global social area collapsed instead, the west pole area extended and increased. ...

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The cause of "friendly fire " is attributed to the confusion inherent in warfare, commonly referred to as the "fog of war." ... Vitamin D deficiency might create the "fog of war " by interfering with normal development and function of the immune system " (Jankosky, Deussing, Gibson & Haverkos, 2012). ...

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The last 30 years before World War one was the great age of the railways. ... Since the last war there has been a shift from rail to road transport. ... After the first world war in the UK it's availability rose with tour operators offering very cheap Transatlantic tour packages with a ticket from Scotland to Canada only costing 50 pounds . ...

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History Coursework - World War One 1) Sources A, B and C are war recruitment posters published by various governments with the aim of influencing more people to volunteer for armed service in the war. ... The posters themselves being of an accusatory nature, demanding from the reader "What did you do in the war?" ... The initial surge towards war led to mass recruitment as source D suggests, however, recruitment was not equal, the majority being from either South East, or from the North, over 50% coming from these regions over the whole length of the war. ... Surprise attacks were th...

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A true Anarchist: The Life of Emma Goldman Introduction To explain how Anarchism influenced everyday life for Jews in Amerika and especially the citizens of New York's Lower East Side, the ideas and visions of Anarchism's leaders must be thoroughly analyzed. To this end I would like to outline the lives of two of Anarchism's most important spokespeople who greatly influenced the Anarchist movement in America - Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. The reason why I chose these two people - especially Emma Goldman - is to be found in the extraordinary impression their liv...

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In the 1980's, Canada was the victim of several terrorist attacks carried out by Armenian and Sikh extremists, including a bombing of an Air India flight originating in Toronto, which exploded off the coast of Ireland, killing 329 people. ... Radical Islamic organizations have declared a holy war, Jihad, in order to bring the Arab world together and take their place as a world power. ... First, terrorism is an inexpensive alternative to fighting a war, while still spreading their ideology and advancing their political agenda. ... All this is done while exposing the terrorist to minimal ri...

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