Since 1914, women have made impeccable advancements in political, social, and economic aspects in Canada as seen through involvements in World War 1, gain of gender equality and participation in politics. ... Several years after, with the help of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, women were able to advance more in both the economic and social aspect. ... The Royal commission included recommendations on updating the legislative system as well as addressing critical issues for women such as poverty, family law and the need for a federal representative for women ("The Royal Commi...

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The issues dealt with being anything affecting the participating members or anything that affected world peace. ... by way of global economic and social needs as a method to avoid conflict. ... The general assembly debates rarely resolve any issues it is left to quiet negotiations to solve most matters but if a stalemate occurs the issue is sent to the floor. ... The third Organ of the UN is The Economic and Social Council under the overall authority of the Secretary General. ... Other bodies keep watch on such issues as social development, status of women, crime prevention and five regiona...

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Therefore, efforts on solving regional issues in Africa become a crucial part of promoting the world peace. ... Secondly, the UN helps reduce the social inequality to some extent like food crisis, recourse allocation and education. ... In all, social equality had been improved with the works of the UN. ... Moreover, the UN also considered that reducing social inequality is one of their fundamental works. ... Above all, global issues like AIDS and protecting children attracted the UN's attention as well. ...

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He helped Canada through many different issues such as, economic, war, and cultural problems. ... Mackenzie King started out as Canada's first deputy minister of labour in 1900, allowing him to grow stronger as a politician and focus on manufacturing issues and industrial relations in Canada. ... By adding and creating many social programs and policies, Canada became more structured. ... This program, including many other social programs was made to help people get back to the way their lives were before the war began. ... All these social programs and policies had benefits to Canadians a...

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Life in America after World War II was immersed in social and political turmoil. ... However, many of these stereotypes were shattered when there were drastic social changes. ... Dylan paved the way for popular songs to discuss political and social unrest. ... Songs like "Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall- - written about the Cuban Missile Crisis - and "Masters of War- - condemning political leader's pugnacious tactics - brought to the forefront the political and social issues occurring (Szatmary). Many women heard this music, and were motivated to join against the issues at hand. ...

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In 1945, Britain was faced with the task of rebuilding their nation in the aftermath of World War II and in order to strengthen the economy and ease social unrest, many issues had to be addressed for the first time in British history. ... "The war years which thus transformed social attitudes and social expectations also witnessed, further evidence that this war was not to be fought on the battlefield alone." ... Social values had now changed. ... This raised awareness of the social divide and extent of poverty to the middle classes. ... Housing had become the major domestic issue during Worl...

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Nixon used a budget device to make military spending look less with social security. ... Women's Rights was a large issue to revive equality and feminist ideology. ... Their message was able to reach millions of people and was able to get peace with social justice. ... Many social plans are passed, including environmental decay issues, racial prejudice, rebuilding of the public sectors, and defending the right of labor. ... Poverty drops from 23% to 11% taking care of the much-ignored issue. ...

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Francis wife, Julia, addresses the importance of her social status in the town. The need of Julia to be at the top of the social ladder is shown when "she went through her morning mail with real anxiety, looking for invitations, and she usually found some, but she was insatiable and if she had gone out seven nights a week, it would not have cured her of a reflective lookThe look of someone who hears distant music-for she would always suppose there was a more brilliant party somewhere else." She expresses her disregard for the actions of Francis when she states, "I've worked...

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This was a bad news for the countries because after the war they needed money but this caused less trade, which lead to less production which lead to less money and more social and political problems. ... Also as economist john Maynard Keynes saw, the Paris peace Treaties lacked an economic focus, and instead concentrated on other issues. ... Despite the obvious importance of the previous points, it is clear that one main issue influenced events through the 1920s that of the allied war debs. ... However, while the economic effects of the Paris peace Treaties were undoubtedly important, perhaps...

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Even though they were blamed for the issues of modern weapons and pollution, they became much more known in these time periods. ... The expansion of the field in other countries helps to show the social change of engineering. ... Socially, the field of engineering has only increased and is opening to more and more windows of the world. ... Not only has it changed from a social aspect, but also from a communications aspect. ... Change in the field has been spotted in the social aspects of the country. ...

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As nationalism is a function of social cohesion, theorists like Durkheim would argue the more cohesive we are as a society, the better we are likely to function agreeably. ... "A nation can be maintained only if, between the State and the individual, there is intercalated a whole series of secondary groups near enough to the individuals to attract them strongly in their sphere of action and drag them in this way, into the general torrent of social life" (Durkheim 1964: 28). ... Identity: Postmodern theorists argue that individuals no longer have an innate self or a fixed identity from w...

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This paper explores the deeper physical, social and psychological effects of war on the children and whether they can ever return to living a normal life. ... The social effects of war on children are so longstanding that they prevent children from returning to their families and schools. ... Children lose the opportunity for education and social skills (Barbara). ... Separation can have a devastating social and physical impact on the childs life (Unaccompanied Children). ... This issue must become important to both childrens rights advocates as well as all of those involved in conflict prev...

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This poses the question; why would the Canadian government impose the death of numerous Canadians in a War that was far from being a Canadian issue? This essay will demonstrate how many factors explain Canadian involvement in Afghanistan, by relating to issues such as National Security, Global alliances and power within the international system. ... Firstly, realism (in the context of International Relations) is defined as prioritizing security and national interest without necessarily making social reconstructions and morals an important factor in their decision making. ... From a realist per...

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This double perspective (the horrors of war and its social role in global politics) haunts us today in a world where the possibility of nuclear war threatens to spell the end of civilisation. ... Secondly, the social structure of the two superpowers, the United States and the former Soviet bloc are relatively stable. ... In the past, a precondition for hegemonic war in many cases has been the coalescence of political, economic, and ideological issues. ... In such situations, compromise in one issue area becomes increasingly difficult because of its linkage to other issue areas. ... Especial...

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The next day, at the urging of Hitler, Hindenburg issued an emergency decree for the protection of the people and the State which stated: "Restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press; on the rights of assembly and association; and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications and warrants for house searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed" (Hosch, 2007). ... The NSDAP abolished the Social Dem...

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In the Muqaddimah, he points out the importance of civilization by saying over and over that "human social organization is something necessary" (Khaldun, p. 202). ... The New York Times issued an article titled, "North Korea's Real Lessons for Iran" on April 10th, 2015. ... As they developed their way of life, different groups of people came to be connected and began forming a social system around them. ... In his work, Khaldun also addressed that the importance of having political leadership in a social organization. According to Khaldun, "people in any social or...

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They carry an underlying pathos, confirming that they have flaws and carry issues with them that create a character that is far from perfect. ... Because people became skeptical of society after witnessing such drastic social turmoil, they began to partake in their own questionable behavior. ... In addition, the rise of anti-heroes can be credited to various social and political events throughout the 20th century. ... In 1963, Stan Lee introduced the world to the "X-Men" series, whose characters were a direct reflection of the social unrest at the time. ... Thus, the anti-hero became...

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Players earned their places on the team based solely on athletic prowess, not social standing. ... The baseball boom of the early twentieth century built upon the game's simple charms of exercise and communal celebration, adding the psychological and social complexities of vicarious play: civic pride, role models, and hero worship. ... Although many men are far apart in life, baseball is one thing that manages to unite many, regardless of their social or economic differences. ...

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Leuchtenburg, Roosevelt as portrayed as a man of great inspiration and ambition, but his social dreams that helped the mental state of the nation didn't bring that much success to reformation programs. ... The issues of the Depression were dealt with a change in attitude, an overhaul in the economy, the New Deal, WWII, and a combination of good and bad ideas. ... Programs like welfare and social security, which still exist today, come from the New Deal. "The Social Security Act of 1935 created America's first national system of old-age pensions, though one that was based on regre...

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It was a time of great transition; the existing social order was being questioned. ... As suggested when the play was written, the issues were preoccupying the thinking people in society were pretty much the same in 1912. ... As we have previously mentioned, the Birling's represent the old view of selfish capitalism- they were "blind" and learned nothing- they are dinosaurs, Gerald is the new face of capitalism- A slight social conscience but still basically selfish and profit motivated. Sheila and Eric represent the new vision for the future, embodied in socialism, which appears to say "...

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Social groups that felt excluded from the television version of the American dream creating the social conflicts for the future. The Peril is conformity and exclusion that ultimately divides the country makes the government less efficient and every issue therefore becomes controversial which creates prejudices in some cases. ... These massive social changes that occurred in the 1950's modeled very much how we live our daily lives every day in America as whole , creating the perception of Americans being all the same, being lazy and watching television all day, being highly materialistic....

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Latin America After world War II until the 1980's, many Latin American leaders installed reforms to deal with new demanding issues in their country. ... The lack of attention by the U.S. to the pressing social. political and economic problems in Latin America would prove costly to the U.S. ... One of the first situations faced by the U.S. was Guatemala, lead by the soldier, and president of Guatemala, Jacobo (1951-54) whose nationalistic economic and social reforms singled out groups of conservative landowners, and conservative elements in the army, and U.S. companies stationed in Guate...

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Probably the most well known act that Roosevelt created during the depression was the Social Security Act. ... The Social Security Act, almost certainly the most relevant act Roosevelt proposed, is still debated today. ... The topic was a major issue in the last presidential election as presidential hopeful Al Gore presented his plan to keep it going until 2054 and George W. Bush, the winner of the election, outlook on Social Security seemed and still seems unclear as he has proposed a major tax cut, taking money from the government that keep programs like Social Security running, and giving...

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Scholars, activists and the commercial use of the global village, and promote global issues. Transnational social movements, movements, and the role of participants in trying to influence policy and national and international organizations, have been more and more. ... Personal issues are concerned with national and international community, and these institutions can be resolved, rather than hinder a level of any language problem, the nation...This is just a preview of the article. ...

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Black leaders such as Martin Luther King challenged the American spending, saying that they were neglecting the more pressing social issues, such as racism, social security and many other internal affairs that were bothering America at the time. ... Vital money that should have been used to renovate America's social ills (such as poverty and racism etc) was being used for the war. ...

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